The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-29
A NEW VOLU Me
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EpIrEp by G.. =, MORRIS AND n. p WILLIE

LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.
EDITED BY G.. =. MoRRis AND n. p. WILLIS.
Each numb,r contains beautiful steel engraving
~ GOD as the Mirror has hitherto been good
VI enough to prosper) We have edited it as the Is
raeiics built the walls Of Jerusalcm-with the bes,
hand otherwise employed. The beginnir IS of all
,eIpriscs are dAicult--more especially beginnings
without capital-and the attention If editor has
been occupied with The management Of the machinery
in regular operation, while the other, ill the
Germ should he prosperous, was compelled TO labor
diligently for other pubiica ions. One by one TO
change the laure) these hnjering barnacles have
been washed Of our keel by gong rapidly ahead,
and, with the beginning OF the third volume BoTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
to the MrRRoR,-equai to setting sludding sails allow
and s-Ioft with the wind dead aft, foil and steady.
OF course she will now go along ruth bone in her
uh'-as they say of craft with the foam her
cut-water.
We live in the middle of this some bal inhabited
bland Of -Manhatan, and SEE most that ia worth
ing, and hear most that Is worth hearing After the
newspapers have had their pick of the news have
trek Of making spicy hash Of the remainder,
Cleaning many choice BIT, by the way, which had
been overlooked slighted) aud undertake, here
by to keep the readers of he Mirror up 10 the times
Every body reads newspapers and gets The outline IL the
words going ruuad-but we shah do just what the
newspapers leave unJone-6il up the outline-te
you "some more" Gas the children say)-pui in the
lights and shadows of the picture done by newspa-
pers in the Rough. 1t Is what have tried TO do in
our Letters 10 the National Inelligencer" and as
our brother editors seem TO think We have succeeded
Ne will, Gas we discontinue that correspondence in
Apri) in rather dashing and lighter pein resume
these metropolitan sketches in The Mirror.
secret for your ear, dear reader by selling the
plate Of each number for hoB ,ohot IL is north you get
The reading for nothing! Each plate is worth a shIl-
ling, to ut in an aIbum-and the whole Mirror costs
but sxpence So it is, in fact, for nothing that yor
get sixteen pages of the best literature that can
procure for you including the things about town that
saldomo~t described and best worth describing -
or course we 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 feeling our
way will be the first Of the rising tide that
oyerruns into our pockets.
We keep an eye in The back Of head TO see il any
body is likely to overtake land TO try their trick
before they come along side,) and kep look out
on both s,d,s from the salient balconies Of INA
glnatoH) Tor any stray breezcs OF novelty for which
It is poss BILE to trim sail And--to show you our
hand little we have bagged, like Eolus,) breeze
or two which We shall reserve awhile for COMPETE
ton. II nothing overhaul us, we shall try speed
by and by with sky.scrspers and ADJUST to ambse
the reader and show our regard for his respectable
sxpence.
Our plates by the way, undertake to say, shall
be- from this date Of twice the excellence lat lcas)
of those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry
with little more money make more difference
in the bettefng Of this branch Of business than
OF most others.
Nora BEsg Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
TO serve us-do you ny LETTER TO OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward it free Of expense.
L. S.-As to our EXTRAS, they are, to booksellers,
what the "manna" must have been TO the Jew ba
kers You don't need coasing to help yourselves TO
anything so cheap and heavenly Take what has fall
en- and be sure that more loaves, crisp and satisfying,
are baking in the clouds.
Terms THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, in
ADVANCE.
The frat number Of the new year will he issued on
the sixth day Of April next The work is sent by
mail TO all parts OF the country. Address postage
frce) NORRIS, WILLIS & co
Editors and Proprie,ors, No. 4, Ann street.
march 26-tf