The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-01
A NEW VOLUME
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS

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Each number contains beautiful steel engraving
( OoD as the Mirror has hitherto been (g BOD
~ enough to prospeD we have edited it as the H.
raeliIes built the walls of Jerusalemwith the best
hand otherwise employed. The beglnnirg s of all en-
teIpnses ditticult--more especially beginnings
without capital and the attention If one editor has
been occupied with the managemen of the machinery
now In regular operation while the other ill the con
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled 10 labor
diligently for other publlca ions. One by Ito
change the hgure) these hindering barnaces have
been washed off our keel by gol more rapidly ahead
and with the beginning OF the third volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
to The MlRRoR,-equa TO setting sluddng sails allow
and a-Iof with the wind dead aft foil and steady
OF course she will now go along nth u bone IN her
mouh'-as they say of craft with the foam on her
cut-waier.
We i've in the middle of this some hat inhabited
Island Of Manhattan, and most that is worth see
ing and hear most that is worth hearing. After the
newspapers have had their pick of the news, have
tck Of making a spicy hash of the remainder,
Cleaning many choice BIZ, by the way, which had
been overlooked slighted) and undertake, here
by, 10 keep the readers of the Mirror up 10 the times
Everybody reads newspapers and gets the outline # the
words going round-but we stall do iust what the
newspapers leave undone-f up the outIine-tel
you "some more, las 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 Letters o the National lnteligencern and as
We will Gas we discontinue that correspondence in
April IN rather a dlshing and lighter pein resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader - By selling the
plate Of each number for haB ,chai il is 'Oor you get
the reading for nothing Each plate IS worth a shll-
ling, 10 Iut in album-and the whole Mirror costs
but siNpence! So II 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 ssldomost described and best worth describing -
10 4 49, Ill
fits very large circulation and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn of tie tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we are now feeling our
wsy) will be the first move Of the rising tide that
oYerruns iu'o our pockets.
We keep eye IA the back Of our head TO see IL any
body IS likely to overtake land to try their trick
before they come along side, and keep look out
both ,des from the salient balconies Of our ina
gnation) for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
II is possible TO trim sail. And-to show you our
hand liulc-we have bagged, like Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton IL nothing overhaul us, shall try our speed
by and by with sky.scrapers and adjust 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 (a leas
Of those heretofore given Experience and inquiry,
with little more money make more difference
m the lettering Of this branch Of business than
OF most others
NuIA LINZ SUBJECTIVE, IN All cases, III you NlsO
TO serve us-do your BY LETTER TO OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward It free Of expense.
p S.-As TO our EXTRAs, they are, TO booksellers,
what the mama" must have been TO the Jew ba-
kers You don't need coaxing TO help yourselves to
anything 50 cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
en- and be that losyes crisp and satisfying,
are baking in the clouds.
Terms-THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN
| ADVANCE.
The first number Of the year will be issued on
the sixth day Of April next The work is sent by
mail TO all parts OF the country. Address postage
| freel NORRIS, WILLIS g. co
Editors aud Proprietors, No. 4, Ann street.
! march EST
| ID EMOVAL -BOTELER, DOM & Co have
IL removed their house furnishing stores into 4 c
large granite front thr,e-story new house opposite
/ the west end Of the Centre Market house and second
door east Of ID Claggetts dry goods store They
take this opportunity Of informing their friends and
the public IN gene al, and their old customers in pat
cuiar that they have by the concentration Of heir
stores, large stock house furnishing goods Of every
description hand, and that they will be adding "a
their stock frequently such articles the demands o
the pubic may req1ire, their object being to rende
the store no useful aud attractive. and where per
sons furnishing may be supplied with every article d
| household use
Thankful for past favors, they invite call at tbei
new establishment.
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