The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1844-03-26
A NEW VOLUME. ltaa
THE NEW MIRROR

"A LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED BY g. P. MoRRIs AND N. p. WILLIS
Each number contains beautiful steel engraving
GOOD as the Mirror has hitherto been (gpod
VI enough to prospcr) we have edited it a. the Is
raeli.es built the walls Of Jerusaem-wth the best
hand otherwise employed The beginnings OF all en-
terprses are difficu---mors especially beginnings
without capital-and the attention of one editor has
boon occupied with the Of the machinery
now in regular operation while the other, ill the con
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled 10 labor
diligently for other publications. One by one ito
change the fgure) these hindering barnacles have
been washed off our keel going more rapidly ahead,
and, with the beginning of the third volume BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
TO the MRRoR,-equal to setting sudding sails allow
and a-loft with the wind dead aft full and steady
OF course she will now go along ",ch bone IN her
mouth'-as they say of craft with the foam on her
cut.watsr III r.
We live in the middle of this somewhat 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, we have
trick of making spicy hash OF the remainder,
been overlooked or slighed and undertake, here
by, to keep the readers Of the Mirror up TO The times.
Everybody reads newspapers and gets the outline Of tho
worlds going round-but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave undone--fiH up the outline-tell
you 'some more" Gas the children say)-put in the
pers in the rough. 1t Is what have tried 10 DO in
our "Letlers tho National lntelligencer" and as
brother editors seem to think we haze succeeded
We will, Gas we discontinue that correspondents in
April in rather dashing and lighter rei resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader BY selling the
plate Of each numbey for half ,ohat 1t is vortt you get
Me reading for nothing! Each plate is worth shll-
ling, to put in an abum--and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpence So il 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 seldomost described and best worth describing
OF course only afford this by very small pro.
6ts on q very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are but the turn of tue tide. The next
ten thousand Unto which we are now feeling our
way) will be the first move of the rising tide that
Overruns into our pockets.
We keep eye in the back Of our head to see If any
body likely to overtake (and to try their trick
before they come alongside,) and We keep look ou
on both sides from the salient balconies OF our ina
gnation for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
is possible to trim sail And--to show you our
hand little-we have bagged (like Eolus,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
tion If nothing overhaul US, shall try our speed
BY and by with sky-scrapers and ADJUST to amuse
the reader, and show regard for his respectable
sixpence.
Our plates by the way, we undertake to say, shall
be- from this date of twice the excellence Cat least
Of those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry,
with little more money! make more difference
in the bettsring of this branch of business than
OF most others.
Nora BKNE Subscribe, in all cases, Gf you wish
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 cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall.
en-, and be that oaves crisp and satisfying
are baking in the clouds.
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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 s. co.
Editors and Proprietors, No. 4, Ann street.
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