The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-11
One Hundred Thousand Daily.
From the New York Daily News, June A.

from the New York Daily News, June A.
II our cotemporaries in this city, even the
most stately and dignifed Of them, could boast
of a circulation SO immense as that OF the
Evening News, they would-well, they aooaad
boast OF il, and boast necessarily. We are con-
tent to realize the fact that our journal, one IN
London, and one in Paris excepted, has larger
circulation than any daily newspaper IN the
world. We now allude to that fact: not vaunt-
ingly, but simply for the purpose Of explaining
to the public the causes Of this remarkable sue
cess Of an enterprise in journalism in the first
wear adding few weeks-of its inaug
We call it remarkable, and the public will
admit that the term is o modest one /: IT our
SUCCESS were not based upon the simplest
business rules, and the application to them
OF the plainest common sense, we snouia can
started the Daily News as an evening one
cent paper. Before that time largely circu-
lated newspapers were those that had been
established and had won their popu-
larity before the invention OF the mag
netic telegraph. and the news published
by them, excepting that of local ma
ture was received by mail during the
night and was given fresh to the pubic the
following morning. The evening journals
were. therefore, then comparatively useless as
channels of general information. But the tele-
graph has caused complete revolution in the
system of journalism. The evening journals
now give the news Ct to-day; the morning
Journals give the news Of yesterday. The
mission OF morning journalism has been ful.
filed; the evening journals assume the task OF
translating to the public the words OF the
iiphtnine long hours before the dethroned
monarchs Of tie press are prepared to enter
upon their nightly toll.
or this revolution we took advantage, but
with a full appreciation Of the value Of other
elements of success-untiring vigilance, in
domitable industry, enterprise, energy and in
telligent working OF all the details and machi-
merry Of o w1de-awake newspaper. WITH the
goal in view and the path, difficult but distinct
ly traced, before us, we commenced the race.
The Quick and vigorous mind OF the American
public at once caught the idea, and recognized
in it the accomplishment of the one thing IN
Journalism that they most needed. They saw
at once that we had embarked upon an
errand Of exceeding value to them, and that
we we're equal to the task. Our several edl-
tions. with extras intervening on extraordinary
occasions, supply them with intelllg OF every
event Of interest that occ RS during the day,
witnin an hour. after the event has taken place.
In ever, instance when an event was IN anucl-
patton and it's result anxiously awaited, that
result has been printed in our columns, and the
naper put in circulation on the street In ad-
vance Of all other journals. We announced
the acauittal of President johnson thirteen
minutes after the vote was taken we mean IN
our paper, not simply on our bulletin board.
So it has been with every occurrence OF I'M
portance; in every case we have been trst IN
the field, almost like o reflected lash OF the
iiebtning that conveyed the news. these are
facts that tell in journalism and SO, after all,
il is no wonder that the circulation of the
Evening News is over one hundred thousand
copies daily.