The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-03-20
PROSPECTUS
Or THE
MIRROR,
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Volume the Seventh.
RTO voIum of the NEw-YoRK Mirror was even
LIN begun under such favourable auspices as the
present. For the last few months our subscriptions
list has increased with rapidity altogether unex
ampled in the history of this periodical. Our
friends are more numerous, our resources more
ample and our exertiOns to render the Mirror one
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ofliterature andthe fine arts, shall be as ugfGgg-
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Our old correspondents Will continue to furnish
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reresting to the general reader; and new writers
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home we have a list of nearly two hundred con-
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