Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-06-08
THE NEW MIRROR
OF Literature ami the Fine Arts.
G. p. MORRIS AND n. p. WILLIS
EDITOR

Good as the Mirror hns hitherto been
(good enough TO prosper) we have edited
il as the Israeltes built the walls OF Jeru.
salem with the best hand otherwise EN-
ployed. The beginnings Of all enterPris.
es are difficult-more especially begin
nings 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 PubIica.
tons. One by one, Ito change the fgure,)
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 studdlng
sails allow and a-loft with the wind dead
ait, full and steady. OF course she will
now 60 along "tciM 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 a spicy hash
of the remainder, CLEANING 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 ont
lines of the worlds going round--but we
shall do just what the newspapers have
left undone--fill up the outine--,ell you
"some more" Gas the children say)-put
in the lights and shadows OF the picture
done by newspapers in the rough. II IA
what we have tried to do in our "Letters
10 the National In,elligencer," and as our
brother editors seem 10 think We have
succeeded, we will, Gas we discontinued
that correspondence in April,) in rather
more ddsting and lighter rein, resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror.
A secret for your ear dear reader--by
selling the plate o. each number 70, half
,rhat it is porth, you get the reading for
nothing! Each plate is worth shilling
to put in an album-and the whole Mir
ror costs but sixpence! So it is in fact,
for nothing that you get sixteen pages Of
the literature that we can procure for you,
including descriptions of the things OF
the town that are seldom described and
best worth describing. OF course we can
only afjrd this BY very small profits on
very large circulation, and ten thousand
subscribers are Lut the turn Of the tide.
The next ten thousand Unto which We arc
now feeling our way,) will be the first
move Of the rising tide tina, oyerruns into
our pockets.
We KEEP an eye in the hack of our
head TO see if any boty is likely TO over
take us land 10 Try their trick before they
come along.side) and we keep a look o.f
on both sides from the salient balconies Of
our imagination) for any stray breeze Of
novelty for which it is possible to trim
sail. And to show you our hand little
I'VE have begged Qike Eoius,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for
If nothing overhaul US We
shall try our speed by and BY, with sky
scrapers and ADJUST TO amuse the read
er, and show our regard for his respecta.
BILE sixpence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake
to say, shall be, from this date, Of twice
The excellence lat Ieast) Of those hereto
fore given. Experience and enquiry,
with a little more money! make more
Inference in this branch of our business
han OF most others.
Nora BRNE--Subscribc in all cases.
If you wish to serve us--do your By
.ErrER TO OURSELVES. The Postmasters
will forward free of expense.
P. s. As to our EXTRAS, they are, to
he Booksellers, what the "manna" must
rave been TO the Jew Bakers. You don't
iced coaxing to help yourselves to any
hing 80 cheap and 80 heavenly. Take
What has fallen, and be sure that more
caves, crisp and satisfying, are baking in
he clouds.
TERMS-7'hree Ds1ldfs per annxm,
n Advance.
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 freel
MORRIS, WILLIS, Il Go.
Editors and Proprietors.