The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-04-13
A NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.

LiiEhA ONE AND IHE FINE AXIS
EDITED BY G.. p. MoRRIs AND N. p. WmIs.
Each number contains a beautiful steel engraving }
~ ID as the Mirror has hitherto been (gaod
" enough to prosper) we have edited it a. the Is
raeli,es built the walls Of jerusalem the best
hand otherwise employed. The beginnings of all en-
teIprises are dificult-more especially beginnings
without captal-and the attention Of editor has
been occupied with the management Of the machinery
now In regular operation, while the other, ill the con
Germ should be prosperous, was compelled to labor
diligently for other publications One by one Ito
change the fgure) these hlndering barnacles have
been washed of our keel by goiog rapidly ahead,
and, with the beginning of the third volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY devoted
to the NRRoR,equal to setting sudding sails allow
and a-oft with the wind dead aft full and steady w.
VI course she will now go along "toh bone ia her
mouth they say of a craft with the foam on her
cut-water.
We live in the middle of this some w hat inhabited
Island OF Manhattan, and see 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
trek of making spicy hash OF the remainder,
CLEANING many choice bit, by the way, which had
been overlooked slighied) and undertake, here
by, TO keep the readers Of the Mirror up 10 the fines.
Every body reads newspapers and gets The outline of the
worlds going round--but we shall do Just what the
newspapers leave undone-fll up The outline--iell
you "some more" Gas the children ssy)-put in the
lights and shadows of the picture done by newspa-
pers in the rough. 1t 10 what have tried do in
our "Leters TO the National Intelligencer," and
our brother editors seem TO think have succeeded
we will Gas we discontinue that correspondence in
Apr) in rather dashing and lighter vein resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
A secret for your ear, dear reader:-By selling the
plate Of each number for half ,ohat it is ,oorh you get
The reading for nothing! Each plate is worth a shil-
ling to put in album-and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpence So il is, in fact, for nothing that you
get sixteen pages of the best literature that can
procure for YOU including the things about town that
ssdomost described and best worth describing =
OF course 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 now feeling our
way will be the first of the rising tide that
overruns into our pockets
We keep eye in the back Of head to see il any
body is likely to overtake (and to try their trick
before they come along side) and keep look out
both sides Urom the salient balconies Of our ina
gnatloh for any stray breezes Of novelty for which
II is poss BILE to trim sail And--to show you our
hand little we have bagged like Eolus) a breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. If nothing overhaul u.s. shall try our speed
by and by with sky-scrapers and ADJUST TO amuso
the reader, and show our regard for his respectable
sixpence.
Our plates by the way we undertake to say, shall
be, from this date, of twice the excellence (at leas
OF those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry,
with little more money! make more difference
in the lettering of this branch Of our business than
Of most others.
Nora BENE Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
to serve us-d0 you BY LETTER TO OURSELVES. The
Postmaster will forward il free of expense.
7. S.-As to our EXTRAS, they are, to booksellers,
what the " mama" must have been to the Jew ba-
kers You don't need coaxng to help yourselves 10
anything so cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
en- and be that loaves, crisp and satisfying,
are baking in the clouds.
Terms-THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN
The first number of the 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 EFT.