Independent Democrat., 1844-08-21
THE NEW MIRROR
Of Literature and the Fine Arts.
! p. NORRIS AND N. P. WILLIS
EDITORS.

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| Good as the Mirror has hitherto been
| (good enough to prosper) we have edited
it as the Israelites built the walls of Jeru-
salem-with the best hand otherwise EN-.
Iployed: The beginnings Of all enierpris.
es are dificult-more especially begin
fnings 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
PEELED to labor diligently for other publica.
tions. One by one, Ito change the figure
these hindering barnacles have been
washed off our keel by going more ra-
pidly ahead, and with the beginning Of
the third volume, both EDITORS will be
EXTREMELY AND EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED
TO THE MIRROR, ,--equal to setting studding
sails allow and a-loft with the wind dead
aft, full and steady. OF course she will
now 60 along "srih a bone in her mouth"
--as they say of craft with the foam on
her cut.water.
We live in the middle of this somewhat
inhabited island of Manhattan, end 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, (gleaning a-many choice
bit by the way, which had been overlooked
or Sighted J and we undertake, hereby, to
keep the Mirror up to the times. Every
body reads newspapers and gets the out
lines of the worlds going ronnd--but we
shall do just what the newspapers have
left undone--fill up the outline--tell you
"some more" (as the children say)-pu,
in the lights and shadows Of the picture
done by newspapers in the rough. II is
what we have tried 10 do in our "Ietters
10 the National Intelligencer," and as our
brother editors seem 10 think we have
succeeded, we will, Gas we discontinued
that correspondence in April, } in rather
more ddShiag and lighter rein, resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
A secret for your ear dear reader--by
selling the plate of each number 70, halfI
rhat it is ,oorth, you get The reading for
nothing! Each plate is worth a shilling
to put in an album-and the whole Mir
ror costs but sixpence! So 1t is in fact,
for nothing that you get sixteen pages Of
the literature that we can procure for you,
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
very large circulation, and ten thousand
are but the turn of the tide.
The next ten thousand Unto which we are
low feeling our way,) will be the first
move Of the rising tide thai cyerruns into y
'ur pockets.
We keep an eye in the back of our
Iead to see if any body is likely to over
AXE us (and to try their trick before they
ome along. .side) and we keep look, out
N both sides (from the salient balconies of
'ur imagination) for any stray breeze of
novelty for which it is possible to trim
ail. And to show you our hand little
I'VE have begged Qike Eolus,) breeze
n two which we shall reserve awhile for
If nothing overhaul us we
shall try our speed by and by, with sky
'crapers and ADJUST to amuse the read
sr, and show our regard for his respecta-
,le siypence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake
o say, shall be, from this date, of twice
he excellence (at leasD Of those hereto
ore given. Experience and enquiry,
with a little more money! make more
Inference in this branch of our business
han OF most others.
Nora BENE--Subscribe in all cases,
if you wish to serve us--do you2) BY
.ErTER TO OURSELVES. The Postmasters
will forward free of expense.
T. S. AS to our EXTRAS, they are, to
he Booksellers, what the "manna" must
,ave been to the Jew Bakers. You don't
iced coaxing to help yourselves to any
hing so cheap and so heavenly. Take
What has fallen, and be sure that more
caves, crisp and satisfying, are baking in
he clouds.
TERMS-Three Dollars per annum,
70 adrdnce.
The first number of the new year will
,e issued on the 9th day of April next
The work is sent by mail to all parts of
he country. Address postage free)
MORRIS, WILLIS, & co,
Editors and Proprietors,
No. a, Ann Street.
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