The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-03-21
a NEW VOLUME.
THE NEW MIRROR
LITERATURE IND THE FINE .ARTS.
EDITED BY
G. P. MORRIS & N. P. WILLIS.

(Eaeh num6ercOTtGins a beautiful steel eagravine,J
GOOD as the Mirror has hitherto been
~(good enough 10 prosper) we have edited
ii as the lsraelltes built The walls oil Jerusa.
lem the best hand otherwise empIov-
ed. The beginnings Of all enterprises are
dlflcult-more especially beginnings with
out capital the attention of one editor
has been occupied with the management of
the machinery now in regular opera,ioo,
while the other, till the concern should bs
prosperous,was compelled 10 labor diligently
Tor other publications. One by one 10
change the 6gure) these hindering barnacies
have been washed off our keel by going
more rapidly ahead and, with the beginning
OF the third volume, both editors will be
entirely and exclusively devoted 10 The
Mirror, equal to setting studdlng sails n.
low and a-lolt, with the wind dead alt. fuIl
and steady. or course she will now 90
along "aOiM q bone tn her naouthn-as
they say OF craft with the foam on her
cut-water.
We live in the middle of this somewhat
inhabited island of Manhattan, and see most
that Is worth seeing, and hear most tina, il
worth hearn ing. Alter the newspapers have
had their pick of the news, we have trick
OF making spicy nash of the remainder.
(gleanInS many choice Bit, by the way.
which had been overlooked or sliyh,edD and
we undertake, hereby, to keep the readers
oil the Mirror up 10 the times. Everybody
reads newspapers and gets the outline Of
the worlds gong round - but we Shall do
just what the newspapers leave undone-
fill up The outline - leIl you "some more,n
Gas The children say)-put in the lights and
shadows OF the picture done by newspapers
IN The rough. IL is what we have tfIed to
do IN our Letters to the National IntelI-
gencer," and as our brother editors seem 10
think we have succeeded, we will, Gas we
discontinue that correspondence in ApriI)
an rather a more flashing aud Hghtey rein,
resume these metropolitan sketches in the
Mirror.
A secret for your ear, dear reader:-R
selling The plate IF each aumber for hair
anal ~ as aoo'th, y0u get The reading for
nohing! Each plate is worth shilling.
to put IN an album - and the whole Mirror
costs but sispence! So it is, in f,ct. for
noh,ng that you get sixteen pages OF the
best literature that we can procure for Won.
including descriptions about town that are
seldomest described and best worth describ-
Ing. vi course we can ouly afford this by
very small profits on very large eircula>
non, and ten thousand subscribers are bur
the turn Of the tide. The next len thou-
sand Onto which We are now feeling our
way) will be the first move of the rising
Tide that overrlns into our pockets.
ne Heep an eye IN the back of our head TO
see II any body is likely to oyertake US (and 10
try their trick before they come along.si } and
we Keep a lookout on both sides from the sal
tent balconies of our ilnag nation) for anv straw
treezes OF novelty for which il is possible to
trim sail. And-to show you our hand little
we have bagged, (like Eo!us, } breeze or lwo
which we shall reserve awhile for connection.
II nothing overhaul US, we shall try our speed
by and by, with sky-scrapers and all - lust to
anuse me reader, and show our regard for his
respectable sixpence.
Our plates, by the way, we undertake TO say,
shd'i ne, from TINS date, OF twice the excellence
Cat lessD Of those heretofore given. Exner.
ence and inquiry, with little more money!
make more difference in the lettering of his
branch of our business than of most Others.
NoTA BENE Subscribe, in all cases, (f you
wish to serve us-dO youO By letter To ourselves.
The Post Master will forward it free of expense.
- As to our Extras they are, to book
sellers, what the "manna" must have been tn
the Jew bakers, You don't need coaxing TO helm
yourselves to anything so cheap and heavenly
Take what has fallen. and be sure that more
leaves, crisp aud satisfying, are baking in ,hs
clouds.
Terms.-$3 per nnnum, in advance.
The first sumber of the new year will be issued
on The sixth day of April next. The work is
sent ny NAL to all parts of the country. Address.
(posisge free) NORRIS, WILLIS s. co.
Editors and Propretors, Ann st. N. Y.