Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-12-11
TIE NEW MIRROR
Of Literature ana the Fine Arts.
G. p. MORRIS AND N. P. WILLIS
EDITORS.

Good as the Mirror has hitherto been
(goOd enough TO prosper we have edited
II as the lsraelites built the walls OF Jeru
>alem-with the best hand otherwise en-
ploy ed. The beginnings Of all eneplls
es are difiicult-more especially beg
nings without capital-and the atlen !,
of one editor has been occupied will ia,
management of the machinery NV u
regular operation, while The other ii. n,
concern should be prosperous, was com
PEELED to labor diligently Tor other pubioa.
items. One by one, to change The figure
these hindering harnacies have been
washed off our keel BY going mere Ia
pidly ahead, and with the beginning OF
the third volume, BOTH EDITORS will be
EXTREMELY AND EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED
TO THE MIRROR, equal 10 setting sluddIng
sails allow and a-loit with the wind dead
ait, full and steady. OF course she viii
now 90 along "wih 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
mos. that is worth seeing, and hear most
that il worth hearing. After the news
papers have had their pick of the news,
we have trick Of making a spicy hash
Of the remainder, (gleaning a.many choice
hit by the way, which had been overlooked |
or slighted) 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 round--Lul we
shall DO just what the newspapers have
eft undone--fill up the outlne--tel you
some more" las the children say )-pur
n the lights and shadows Of the picture
lone by newspapers in the rough. Ii Is
\ hat we have tried TO do in our "Le,ters
o the National lateIligencer," and as our
,rother editors seem 10 think we have
ucceeded, We will, Gas we discontinued
hat correspondence in ApriI,) in rather a
'ore ddshing and lighter rein, resume
lese metropolitan sketches in The Mirror.
A secret for your ear dear reader--Jy
cling the plate of each number 70, hai
hat 1t is uorth, you get The rcading for :
Othtng! Each plato is worth shilling
| =
'r costs but sixpence! So j, is in fact,
'r nothing that you get sixteen pages Of \
'e literature that We can procure for you,
clu ling desert ptons OF the things OF
e town that are seldom described and
'st worth describing. Of course we can
lily afird this BY very small profits on u
ry large circulation, ami ten thousand
bscrIberS are lut The turn Of the rIde
he next ten thousand Qoto " hich we arc
w feeling our way,) will be the first 81
ove of the rising tide that overruns into CT
r pockets. tn
We KEEP an eye in tho back of our di
ad to see if any BODY is likely to over a.
te us land TO Try their tick before they e. e.
me along side) and we keep look out ~
both sidts Irom the salient balconies Of
r imagnalion) for any stray freeze Of
velty Tor which 1t is possible to trim
i. And to show you our hand a lille
we have begged (ike Eolus,) breeze
two which we shall reserve awhile Tor "a
mpetition, If nothing overhaul us we 70
all try our speed by aud by, with sky y
'aPeIs and alI--jus, to amuse the read. CT
and show our regard for mis- respectu. al
} siypence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake "a
cay, shall be, from this date, of twice
, excellence (at leasD of those hereto.
e given. Experience and enquiry, 60
it'll little more money! make more
ference in this branch of our business @
an OF most others. &
Nora BENE--Subscribe in all cases,
you wish to serve us--do youH) BY -
TIER TO OURSELVES. The Postmasteis
il forward free Of expense. Pi
P. S. AS to our EXTRAS, they are, to
: Booksellers, what the "manna" must
We been to the Jew Bakers. You don't
ed coaxing TO help yourselves to any I
ng so cheap and so heavenly. Take h
lat has fallen, and be sure that more "A
ives, crisp and satisfying, are baking in IN
2 clouds. as
TERMS-Thres Dollars per annun,, to
ddrdnce. Pr
The first number of the new year will
issued on the 9th day of April next -
le work is sent by mail to all parts of !.
, country. Address postage free) \
MOkiilS, WILLIS, Il GO,
Editors and Projectors.
No. 4, Ann Street c