Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-06-09
$4,000 SUBSCRIBERS.
PHILADELPHIA MIRROR.

THE splendid patronage awarded to the
- Philadelphia Saturday Courier, indu-
ces the editors to commence the publica-
ton, under the above title, ola quarto edi-
ton Of their popular Journal so long
known as the largest Family Newspaper
in the United States, with list Of near
TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND SUB
SCRIBERS. The new. feature recently
introduce ed of furnishing their readers with
new books oftbe best literature ofthe day,
having proved so eminently successful,
the plan will be continued. Six volumes
of the celebrated writings Of Captain Mar
ryatt, and sxty-ive Of Mr. Brooks vaIua-
bic Letters from Europe, have already
been published without interfering with
its news and miscellaneous reading. The
Courier is the largest and cheapest family
newspaper ever issued in this country,
containing articles in Literature, Science,
and Arts; Internal Improvement; Agri-
culture; in short every variety of topics
usually introduced into public Journal
Giving full accounts Of sales, markets, and
news ofthe latest dates.
1t is published the low price of So
For this small sum subscribers get valua-
bic and entertaining matter, each week
enough to Gil common book of 200 pa
ges, and equal to So volumes Year, and
! which is estimated to be read, weekly,
by at least two, hundred thousand people,
scattered in all parts of the country, from
Maine to Florida, and from the sea board
to the lakes. The paper has been now
so long established as to render it too well
known to require an extended prospectus,
the publishers, therefore, will do no more
than refer to the two leading daily political
papers of opposite politics. The Pennsyl-
vanian says-"The Saturday Courier is
the largest, and one Of the best family
NEWSPAPERS in the Union;" the other, the
Inquirer and Daily Courier, says, 1T is
the largest journa! published in Philadel-
ph;a, and one Of the very best in the L.
States" The New-York Star soys-
"ve know of nothing more liberal on the
part of the editors, and no means more
efficacious to draw out the dormant talents
of our country, than their unexampIed
liberality in offering literary prizes"
The Albany Mercury of March 10th
1886, says, 1.-The Saturday Courier, is de-
cidedIy the best Family Newspaper ever
published in this or any other country
and its value is duly appreciated BY the
public, if may Judge from its vast cir
cuIation, which exceeds $4,000 per week
Its contents are agreeably varied, ana each
number contains more really valuable
. reading matter than is published in ;
i week in any daily paper IN the Unlon.~
Its mammoth dimensions enable its enter
prising proprietors, Messrs. Wood0art
&. Clarke, of PhiIadel phia, to re-puhllsl
in its columns, 10 the course ola year
several of the most interesting new work
that issue from the British press; whicl
cannot fail to give to it a permanent inter
II est, and render it worthy of preservation
To meet the wishes, therefore, of such Q
their subscribers as desire to have thei
numbers bound, they have determined O
issuing an edition Of the Courier in tn
quarto form, which will render it muc
N more convenient for reading when It
bound in volume, and thus greatly en-
nance its value"
THE QUARTO EDITION.
u Under the title of the Ph1tGdeLPAa
Mirror, will commence with the publlc'
ton Of this Prize Tale, to which was
warded the prize ofS1Oo, written by Mis-
Leslie, editor ofthe splendid Annual f