The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-28
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS
EDITED BY q. p. MoRRIs AND N. p. WILLIS.
Each Dumb,r contains beautiful steel engraving
~ 90 ID as the Mirror has hitherto been ca rod
~ enough to prospeI) We have edited il as the Is
raeliles built the walls Of Jerusalem-with the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of all en-
teTprises are dhcult-more especially beginnings
without capital-and The attention Of editor has
been occupied with the management Of the machinery
now in regular operation, while the other ill the
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other publications. One by one 90
change the tigure) these hindenng barnacles have
been washed of 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 MRRoR, to setting sudding sails allow
and a-loft with the wind dead aft full and steady
OF course she will now 90 along 'uih bone in her
mou h-as they say OF a craft with the foam on her
cut-ws'or.
We live in the middle of this some hat inhabited
island OF Manhattan, and most that is worth
ing, and hear most that is worth hearing. AteT the
newspapers have had their pick of the news, we have
trick of maxi spicy hash OF the remainder,
CLEANING many choice bit, by the way, which had
been overlooked sghted) and We undertake, here
by to keep the readers of the Mirror up 10 the fines.
Everybody reads newspapers and gets the outline If the
worlds going round-but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave undone-fll up the outine-tell
YOU some more" (as the children say)-pu in the
tights and shadows of the picture done by newspa.
pers in the rough. II is what have tried do in
our Letters 10 the National lniellgencer," and
our brother editors seem 10 think have succeeded
"e Will (as we discontinue that correspondence in
Apr) in rather dashing and lighter rein resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader by selling the
plate Of each number for haJ toha IL Is poIth, you get
The reading for nothing Each plate is worth shIl
ling, to put IN abum-and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpence So is, in fact for nothing that yoC
get sixteen pages of the best literature that
procure for you, including the things about town that
ssldomost described and best worth describing -
OF course we can 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 move Of the rising tide that
oyerruns INFO our pockets.
We Keep eye in The back Of our head 10 see if any
body is likely TO overtake land TO try their trick
before they come along -side,) and keep look oi
on both sides from the salient balconies Of our ina
ginaon) for any stray breezes of novelty for which
II is possible to trim sail And-to show you our
hand ttle-we have bagged, dixie Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. II nothing overhaul u.s. we 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, undertake to say, shall
be- from this date Of twice the excellence (at least)
Of those heretofore gwen Experience and inquiry,
with a little more money! make more difference
IN the lettering Of this branch of our business than
Of most others
Nor. BrSr Subscribe, in all cases. (if you wish
TO serve us-do your By LETTER OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward It free Of expense.
7 S.--As TO our EXTRAS, they are, to booksellers,
what the mamma must have been to the Jew ba
kers You dou't need coaxing to help yourselves TO
anything cheap and heavenly Take what has fall
en- and be that more loaves, crisp and satisfying
are baking in the clouds.
Terms-THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN
ADVANCE.
The first number Of the new 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
free) MORRIS, WILLIS & co.
Editors and Proprietors, No. 4, Ann street
march