The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-01
CHI A R L E S T o N
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FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 1, 1869.
The News and the New Year.


When THE NEWS, fifteen months ago,
passed into the hands of its present pro-
prietors, we determined to make it, if money
and y ork could do so, the cheapest and best
newspaper ever published in South Caro-
lima. To accomplish this result we have
labored with unaagging energy and zeal,
and in the steady increase of our advertis-
ing and subscription we discern marked
evidence that the public appreciate our en-
tsrprise and mean to give. it their support.
We begin the New Year with larger fetal cir
culation than that Of any other paper in the
Southeastern States, with about double the
circulation in Charleston of any other news
paper; and with an advertising business
second to none. These facts, while they
encourage US TO renewed efforts to make
THE NEWS still more attractive in the fu-
ture, will enable US to largely extend the
sphere Of its usefulness as live, go-ahead
and independent Southern newspaper.
This is our business position. One word
now as to our general policy.
We believe that the time is past, if there
ever was such time, when either men or
newspapers might live by politics alone
THE News in the past has cschewed useless
political disquisitions, and will never be,
in the future, political or party journal
Bound 10 the fortunes of no-ciiaJn- or
vvsv..., ..vv -.v...-. suaekles woSn by
cringing suitors for public or private "pat-
''ronage," owing blind allegiance to no class,
bu. r. recognizing honesty and merit wherever
we md them, we shall strive to make this
newspaper the bold and outspeken cham
pion of the rights and interests Of the
whole people of South Carolina.
During the coming ear THE News will give
especial attention to all subjects connected
with the commercial, manufacturing and
agricultural interests of the State. The
mill-owner and operative will find in its
columns the information they need as to
the manufacturing and mechanical position
of the State, the condition Of our mills and
factories, and their profits and system Of
management, as we'll as timely hints con-
cerning the best sites for the establishment
of new industrial enterprises.
The farmer ard planter will fud in THE
News all the new processes which may be
discovered. from :ims to time, in relation
to general farming, the order IF crops, the
introduction of new varieties of seed, and
the most advantageous use of fertilizers.
And while this attention is paid to agri-
culture and manufactures, we pledge our
selves that Tue NEWS shall be cxcelled by
no Journal in the South in the promptiiude
and accuracy of its commercial and hnaucia.
reports, in the fullness of its telegraphic
intelligence, aud in the variety and fresh
ness of its general news department.
In the family circle TIE NEWS should be
always welcome; for in addition to the reg
ular and entertaining letters ef our fashion
correspondents and the piquant character
of our miscellaneous reading, We would say
that it is our steadfast purpose to continue
to exclude carefully from our columns
every phrase which might be Objectionable
to any sister or wife in our community.
Withal we do not undertake TO reproduce
New York daily in Charleston. We shall
present to our readers in compact and con-
veniens form the latest AMI most interesting
intelligence from all quarters of the globe;
but The News will be pre-eminently local
newspaper. Not local in the sense of labor
ing for the exclusive advancement of any
city or county; but local in that it will rep
! resent the State-.he whole Statc-and
direct its chiefest solicitude 10 the diffusi on
of State news, to obtaining and publishing
al information which bears upon lie pros
poets of cur people, and to the untiring ad-
vocacy Of every measure which will i'm
prove the condition aud devclope the bound
less wealth of South Carolina. To build
up our State is the great object of our lives.
We believe that we have already doue some
good in instilling chcery spirit into the
hearts of the people, and we are content to
fnd our own reward-be it early or late
in the coordinate and enduring prosperity
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