Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-08-14
TIE NEW MIRROR
OF Literature and the Fine Arts.
g. p NORRIS AND N p. WILLIS
EDITORS.

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Good as the Mirror has hitherto been
good enough 10 prosper) we have edited
it as the Israelites built the walls of Jeru-
salem the best hand otherwise en-
lployed. The beginnings Of all enlerprs-
es are difficult more especially Begin
lnings without capital---and the attention
of one editor has been occupied with the
management Of the machinery now in
regular operation, while the other till the
concern should be prosperous, was com.
Ipelled to labor diligently for other publica-
lions. One by one, Ito change the figure, }
these hindering barnacles have been
washed off our keel by going mere "a.
4 pidly ahead, and with the beginning Of
the third volume, BOTH EDITORS will be
1 EXTREMELY AND EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED
TO THE MIRROR, --equal TO setting sludding
sails allow and a-loft with the wind dead
alt, full and steady. OF course she will
now 60 along ",rith a bone IA ter mouth"
Las they say Of a craft with the foam on
her cut.water.
We live in the middle Of this somewhat
inhabited island of Manhattan, and see
most that is worth seeing, and hear most
that is worth hearing. After the news
papers have had their pick Of the news,
we have trick Of making spicy hash
of the remainder, cleaning a many choice
hit by the way, which had been overlooked
or sighted, and we undertake, hereby, to
keep the Mirror up TO The tines. Every
body reads newspapers and gets the out
lines of the worlds going round--bu, we
shall do just what the newspapers have
left. undone--fill up the outlne--lel you
"some more" (as the children say)-put
in the lights and shadows OF the picture
done by newspapers in the rough. Ii is
what we have tried TO do in our "Letters
TO the National Intelligencer," and as our
brother editors seem TO think we have
succeeded, we will, Gas we discontinued
that correspondence in April,) in rather a
more ddshiag and lighter rein, resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror
A secret for your ear dear reader--6y
selling the plate Of each number 10, half
rhat 1t is north, you get the reading for
nothing! Each plate is worth shilling
to put in an album-and the whole Mir |
ror costs but sixpence! So it is in fact,
for nothing that you get sixteen pages of
the literature that we can procure for you,
including descriptions of the things OF
the town that are seldom described and
best worth describing. Of course we can
only afford this by very small profits on a
very large circulation, and ten thousand
are but the turn of the tide.
The next ten thousand Onto which we are
now feeling our way,) will be the first
move of the rising tide that overruns into
our pockets.
We keep an eye in the back of our
head to see if any body is likely to over
take us (and 10 try their trick before they
come along side) and we keep look out
on both sides (rom the salient balconies Of
our imagination) for any stray breeze Of
novelty for which it is possible to trim
sail. And to show you our hand little
1--WE have begged Qike Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for
competition. If nothing overhaul US we
shall try our speed by and by, with sky
scrapers and ADJUST TO amuse the read
err, and show our regard Tor his respecta.
BILE sixpence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake
to say, shall be, from this date, of twice
the excellence lat least of those hereto.
fore given. Experience and enquiry,
with little more money! make more
difference in this branch of our business
than of most others.
Nora BENE--Subscribe in all cases,
Gf you wish to servo us--do you0 BY
LETTER TO OURSELVES. The Posimasters
will forward free of expense. -
P. S. AS to our Extras, they are, TO
the Booksellers, what the "manna" must
have been to the Jew Bakers. You don't
need coaxing to help yourselves to any
thing SO cheap and so heavenly. Take
what has fallen, and be sure that more
loaves, crisp and satisfying, are baking in
the clouds.
TERMS-Three Dollars per annum,
in Gdrance.
The first number of the new wear will
be issued on the 9th day of April next -
The work is sent by mail 70 all parts Of
the country. Address postage free)
MORRIS, WILLIS, & co,
Editors and Proprietors.
II.