The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-24
THE NEW MIRROR

. LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
| EDITED BY G. p. MoRRis AND N. p. WILLIS
! Zach numbr contains beautiful steel engraving J
~ GOD ss the Mirror has hitherto bee (g ,od
| " enough to prospeI) have edited it as The Is
| raeliies built the walls Of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of all en-
/ teIprises are dfhcul,-more especially beginnings
without captal-and the attention If one editor has
been occupied with the management mt of the machinery
now in regular operation, while the other, til the con
| Germ should be prosperous, was compelled 10 labor
diligently for other publications. One by one (to
change the hgure) these hindering barnacles have
been washed OF our Keel by going rapidly ahead
and, with the beginning OF the third volume, norm
EDITORS will he ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
to the MRRoR,--equa to setting studding sails s-low
and a-loh with the wind dead att full and steady
/ or course she will 60 along with a bone in her
mouh'-as they say ofa craft with the foam on her
cut,water,
We live in the middle Of this some hat inhabited
sland Of Manhattan, and most that is worth see.
ing, and hear most that is worth hearing. Ahcr the
newspapers have had their pick of the news We have
a trick of making spicy hash Of the remainder,
! CLEANING many choice Bit by the why, which had
been overlooked or slighed) and we undertake here
by, TO keep the readers Of the Mirror up 10 he times,
Everyb reads newspapers and gets he outline # the
worlds going round-but we shall do lust what the
newspapers leave undone-fll up the outine--tell
YOU "some more" (ss the children say)-put in the
lights and shadows Of the picture done by newspa-
pers in the rough II is what we have tried TO do in
our "Le,lers 10 the National lntellgcncern and as
| our brother editors seem to think VIC have succeeded
&c will, las we discontinue that correspondence in
ApriD in rather dashng and lighter rein resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror
secret for your ear dear reader by selling The
plat, Of zach number for haD ohdf is porh you ret
The reading for nothing Each plate is worth a sh,
ling TO put In album-and the whole Mirror costs
butsxponcel SO 1t is, in fact, for nothing that you
get sixteen pages Of the best literature that we can
procure for YOU including the things about town that
are ssdomost described and best worth describing -
OF course only afford this by very small pro-
fits on very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn OF the tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we are now feeling our
way will be the first Of the rising tide that
overruns into our pockets.
We Keep eye IN the back Of our head to see if any
body Is likely TO oyertake land TO try their trick
before they come along sde.) and VIC keep look o,u
on both SIDES Urom the salient balconies Of our ina.
gnation) for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
II IS possible to trim sail And--,o show you our
hend little we have bsgged like Eolus,) breeze
or two which shall reserve awhile for compe,i-
ton. II nothing overhaul u.s. we shall try our speed
by and by with skyscrapers and adjust to smuso
the reader, and show our regard for his respectable
sixpence.
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be, from this date, Of twice the excellence (at leat)
OF those heretofore given. Experience and inqniry
with little more money! make more difference
IN the lettering of this branch Of our business than
Of most others.
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what the mama" must have been TO the Jew ba
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ADVANCE
The FIRST number Of the new year will be issued on
The sixth day Of April next The work is sent by
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Editors and Proprietor, No. 4, Ann street
march 26-U