Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-12-04
THE NEW MIRROR
Of Literature ana the Fine Arts.
G. P. NORRIS AND n. P. WILLIS
EDITOR

Good as the Mirror has hitherto been
(good enough 10 prosper) we have edited
II as the Israeliles bull the walls OF Jeru'
salem-wlth the best hand otherwise en-
ploy ed. The beginnings Of all enterprls.
es are ditficuII-more especially begin
nings without capltal-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 he prosperous, was com
PEELED to labor diligently TOR other pubica.
items. One by one, Ito change The figure,
these hinderng barnacles 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,--equdl 10 setting sIudding
sails low and a-IoIt with the wind dead
ait, full and steady. OF course she will.
now 20 along "piM bone an her mouth"
-as they say of craft with the foam on
her cut.water.
We live in The middle of this somewhlt
inhabited island Of Manhattan, End see
mos! that is worth seeing, and hear most
that is worth hearing. Alter 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 Sighted and we undertake, hereby, to
keep the Mirror up to tie times. Every
body reads newspapers and gets the ont
lines of The worlds going Found--bul we
shall do just what the newspapers have
left undone--fill up the outIne--eIl you
"Some more" las the children say)-put
in the lights and shadows OF the picture
done by newspapers in the rough. Ii Is
what we have tried TO do in our "Leler.
10 the National lnleIigencer," and as our
brother editors seem TO think we have
succeeded, We will, las we discontinued
hat correspondence in ApriI,) in rather a
more ddShing and lighter rein, resume
hese metropolitan sketches in The Mirror |
A secret for your ear dear rcadel--6y |
ceiling the plate of each number TO, haB |
chat it is north, you get The rcadiag for
lothang! Each plate is worth a shilling
o put in an album-and the whole Mir
or costs but sixpence! So it is in fact,
or nothing that you get sixteen pages of
he literature that we can procure for you,
descriptions OF the things OF
he town that are seldom described and
est worth describing. OF course we can
My afford this by very small profits on a
cry large circulation, and ten thousand
lbscrlberS are Lut The turn of the llde.
he next ten thousand (uto which We are
ow feeling our way,) will be the first {
love of the rising tide that overruns into {
Ir pockets.
We keep an eye in the back of our
cad TO see if any body is likely TO over
Ike us (and 10 try their tick before they
ONE along-side) and we keep look ont
n both sides Qrom the salient balconies of
nr imaginalion) for any stray breeze Of
ovelty Tor which it is possible to trim
all. And to show you our hand lille
we have begged (ke Eolns,) a breeze
r two which we shall reserve awhile Tor
ompelition. If nothing overhaul US we
hall try our speed by and by, with sky
crapers and all--jus, to amuse The read
+, and show our regard Tor his respecta.
10 siXpence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake
} say, shall be, from this date, of twice
ne excellence (at IeasD Of those hereto
ore given. Experience and enquiry,
with little more money! make more
iference in this branch Of our business
han OF most others.
Nora BENE--Subscrbe in all cases,
if you wish to serve us--do youO BY
ETTER TO OURSELVES. The Postmaslers
I'LL forward free Of expense.
P. S. As TO our EXTRAS, they are, TO
he Booksellers, what the "manna" must
ave been TO the Jew Bakers. You don't
eed coaXing 10 help yourselves to any
hing so cheap and so heavenly. Take
'hat has fallen, and he sure that more
'aves, crisp and satisfying, are baking in
he clouds.
TERMS-7hree Dollars per annum,
. ddrdnce.
The first number of the new year will
e issued on The 9Th day of April next -
he work is sent by mail to all parts OF
ne country. Address postage free)
MORRIS, WILLIS, & co,
Editors and Proprietors.
No. 4, Ann Street.