The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-28
"A 1JGW vOLU1GA.
THE NEW MIRROR
G.. P. NORRIS & Mp. WILLIS.
LITERATURE IND THE FIVE APTS.
Ed ED BY

G. P. NORRIS & N. ?. WILLIS.
Each numJere0ntatas beautiful steel engraving. J
GOOD as the Mirror has hitherto been
w (good enough TO prdsper) we have edited
it as the lsraeliles built The walls OF Jerusa-
lem with the best hand Otherwise employ
ed. The beginnings Of all enterprises are
dlfficult-more especially beginnings with
out capital-and the attention of one editor
has been occupied with the management OF
the machinery now in regular operation,
while the other, I'LL the concern should be
prosperous,wa compelled to labor diligently
Tor other publications. One by one 10
change the fgure) these hindering barnacles
have been washed off our keel by going
more rapidly ahead, and, with the beginning
of the third volume, both editors will be
entirely and Exclusively devoted TO the
Mirror, equal 10 setting studding sails a.
low and a'loit, with the wind dead aft, full
and steady. OF course she will now 90
along saith q bone in her month"; as
they say OF 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. Alter the newspapers have
had their pick of the news we have ricI,
OF making spicy bash Of the remainder,
Cleaning many choice bit, by the way.
which had been overlooked or sliyhted) and
we undertake, hereby, TO keep the readers
OF the Mirror up TO The times. Everybody
reads newspapers and gets the outline Of
the worlds going round - but we shall do |
just what the newspapers leave undone-
ill up the outline - tell you "some more"
Gas 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 Intelli- |
gencer," and as our brother editors seem TO !
think we have succeeded, we will, Gas we |
discontinue that correspondence in ApriI) |
an rather q more Idshing and lighter vein,
resume these metropolitan sketches in Tue (
Mirror.
A secret for your ear, dear reader:-Bv
selling the plate Of each number for hair
aohdt II as 1oo'th, you gel the reading for
noth1Rg! Each plate is worth shilling.
To put IN an album 100 and the whole Mirror
costs but sispence! So it is, in fact, for
nothing that you get sixteen pages Of the
best literature iibat we can procure for you,
including descriptions about town that are
seldomest described and best worth describ-
ing. OF course we can only afford this By
very small profits on very large crcula>
ton, and ten thousand disorders are but
the turn of the tide. The next ten thou.
sand 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 buck Of our head to
see If any body is likely to overtdke US land to
try their trick before they come alongside, y and
we Keep a lookout on 10th sides (from the sal
lent balconies OF our imaginatlon) for any stray
breezes of novelty for which il is possible to
trim sail. And-lo show you our hand little
we have bagged (ke Eolus,) breeze or two
which we shall reserve awhile for competition.
II nothing overhaul US, we shall try our speed
by and by, with kyscrapers and all just to
amuse the reader, and show our regard for his
respectable siXpence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake to say,
shall be, from this date, of twice the excellence
Cat leasD of those heretofore given. Expert
ence and inquiry, with little more money!
make more difference in the lettering of this
branch of our business than of most others.
NORA BENE.- Subscribe, in all cases, (if YOU
wish to serve us-dO your By letter to ourselves.
The Post Master will forward it free of expense.
T.. ). AS to our Extras, they are, to book
Sellers what the "manna" must have been to
the Jew bakers, You don't need coaxins TO helm
yourselves 10 anything so cheap and heavenly
Take what has fallen. and be sure that more
caves, crisp and satisfying, are baking in the
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The first sumber of the new year will be issued s
n the sixth day of April next. The work is q
ent by mail to all parts of the country. Address,
postage free,) MORRIS, WILLIS s. CO. lib
Editors and Proprietors, 4 Ann St. N, Y.