The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-03-26
A NEW VOLUME
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS.

l. III
EDITED BY c. P. Moaals AND N. p. WILLIS.
Each number contains a beautiful steel engravngD
GOOD as the Mirror has hitherto been good
" enough to prospeI) we have edited II as me is,
,,e,;tes built the walls of Jerusaem-with the best
hand otherwise employed The beginnings Of oil EN-
teforises are difiicut-more especially beginnings
without capital and the attention Of one editor has
been occupied with the management OF the machinery
now in regular operation, while the other I'll the con
csn should be prosperous, was compelled TO laooI
diligently for other publicaiO ions One by one TO
change the fgure) these hindeing barnacies have
been washed OF keel by going more rapidly ahead
and with the beginning Of the third volume, BOTH
EDITORS will be ENTIRELY and EXCLUSIVELY DEVOTED
to the MRRoa,-equal to setting s'udding sails allow
and s-loft with the wind dead aft full and steady
or course she will now go along ~ih bone in her
mou kr-as they say of craft with the foam on her
cut-wstsr
We i've in the middle of this someu hat inhabited
.iand OF Manhattan, and most that Id worth see
inp and hear most that is worth hearing, After the
newspapers have had their pick of the news, have
trick of making a spicy hash of the remainder,
CLEANING many choice bit, by this way, which had
been overlooked slighed) and we undertake, here
by to keep the readers Of the Mirror up 10 the times
Everybody reads newspapers and gets the outline OF the
worlds going round-but we shall do just what the
newspapers leave undone-till up the outline-tell
you "some more," las The children say)-put in the
lights and shadows of the picture done by newsPa-
pers in the rough II is what We have tried 10 do IL
our Letters 10 the National lnteligencer," and as
our brother editors TO think we have succeeded
We will, Gas we discontinue that correspondence in
April in rather more dashing and lighter rein, resume
these metropolitan sketches in the Mirror
secret for your ear, dear reader by selling the
plate Of each number for ha ,chat IL is north, you get
the reading for nothing Each plate is worth shl-
ling to put in an abum-and the whole Mirror costs
but sixpence So it is in fact for nothing that you
sivfa IF he heat "a
procure for YOU including the things about town that
are ssldomost described and best worth describing
OF course we 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 we are 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 II any
body is likely to overtake (and to try their trick
before they come along side) and we keep look out
both sides from the salient balconies of our ina
ginaton) for any stray breezes of novelty for which
Il is poss BILE to trim sail And---to show you our
hand ittle-we have bagged like Eous,) breeze
or two which we shall reserve awhile for competi-
ton. II nothing overhaul u.s. we shall try speed
by and by with sky -scrapers and ADJUST to amuse
the reader, and show our regard for his respectable
sixpeDce.
Our plates by the way we undertake to say, shall
be, from this date, of twice the excellence (at least
Of those heretofore given. Experience and inquiry,
("ith little more money! make more difference
IN the lettering Of this branch Of our business than
Of most others.
Nora BEsr Subscribe, in all cases, (if you wish
to serve us-do you BY LETTER TO OURSELVES The
Postmaster will forward II 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 coaying to help yourselves TO
spYthng 80 cheap and heavenly. Take what has fall
en- and be sure that more oayes crisp and satisfying,
are baking In the clouds.
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 g. co.
Editors and Proprietors, No. 4, Ann street
march eft