The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-01-01
CHI A r T. E S TON .
FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY /, 1869.
The News and the New Year.

When The News, fifteen months ago,
| passed into the hands of it's present pro-
| prietors, we determined to make it, if money
and work could do so, the cheapest and best
newspaper ever published in South Caro-
lima. To accomplish this result we have
labored with unfagging energy and zeal,
and in the steady increase of our advertis-
ing and subscription we discern marked
evidence that the public appreciate our en-
terprise and mean to give it their support.
We begin the New Year with larger total 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 eschewed useless
political disquisitions, and will never be,
in the future, political or party journal
Bound 10 the fortunes of no CLIQUE or
coterie, free from the sha ckles worn by
eringing euitors for public or private spat-
}ronage,p owing blihA allegiance to ne class,
but recognizing honesty and merit wherever
we find them, we shall strive to make this
newspaper the bold and outspeken cham
pion of the rights aud interests of the
whole people of South Carolina.
During the coming year 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 well as timely hints con-
cerning the best sites for the establishment
Of new industrial enterprises.
The farmer and planter will find in THE
News all the new processes which NAV be
discovered from time to time, in relation
to general farming, the order of 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 The News shall be excelled bv
no journal in the South in the promptitude
and accuracy Of its commercial and financial
reports, in the fullness of its telegraphic
intelligence, and in the variety and fresh
ness Of its general news department.
In the family circle THE News should be
always welcome; for in addition to the reg
ular and entertaining letters of our fashion
correspondents and the piquant character
of our miscellaneous reading, we would saw
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-
venient form the latest and m ost interesting
intelligence from all quarters Of the globe;
but The NEWS will be eminently o 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---the whole State-and
| direct its cbiefest solicitude to the diffusion
Of State news, to obtaining and publishing
all information which bears upon the pros
poets Of our people, and to the untiring ad-
vocacy OF every measure which will i'm
prove the condition and develope 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 done some
good in instilfing oheery spirit into the
hearts Of the people, and we are content to
find our own reward---be it early or late
in the coordinate and enduring prosperity
which must follow TIE News as the epsstIe