The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-19

clorcd that their glory was departed; but they
are now rcconcled to the news tate OF things.
They send in the morning 10 the various OH
ces. or to q large central shop In their own
trade for the copies they want; but the even
in9 papers arc sent to them in flying carts. so
far rs know them, the news venders are
respectable body. AT their annual dinner
some of the leading literary men are almost
sure to he present, and to speak. Cnarles
Dickens is the chairman OF their society,"
PUBLISHING.
Every inch Of spare brick wall or n9aru,ns'
even an old gate post, or iron pliiar IN holuo,i;
| is hired. Men oil business have discovered
that nothing can be done on q large scale Win,
out advertising, but they are not contcnteu
With the ncwsriapers alone. The theory is.
that the eve is it last 50 wcarcd by perpetual
seeing certain huge words before II, tnat at
last the mind begins to act, ana me opJect VI
The Byobdi.nagan announcement is answered..
But this. too is all in one or TWO hands. Kali
way arches. the insidcs of omnibuses, tho
cabins OF the river steamers, all boarulnSs
where building works are going on, and the
thousand and one surfaces which great city
like this possesses are contracted Tor, ano iet
out again III feet or inches to advertisers.
America certainly has nothing to learn from
England in this The best bills l have ever
seen on the London walls were printed, |
found on inquiry, in America. They depicted
some ''thrilling" scenes in circus, ana the
flight of the Imagination and the proporllons
of the figures, far exceeded the achievements
of the English printers. The newspaper, 81 now
cXpend large sums in this crusade, the Times
being the only one which despises II.
THE CIRCULATION OF THE LONDON PRESS.
The Times is believed TO still circulate aOollt
sixty thousand copies daily, selling them to
the trade at two pence half penny each. Inc
Daily Telegraph announces in blue letters, 1lFc
feet long. on the walls, that it has "thc largest
circulation in the world" The actual sale ls
from one hundred and twenty thousand 10 one
hundred and forty thousand daily. The stand
ard, which advcrtiscs each week ABOVE us
leading article its average daily circulation dtl
rinm the previous week, shows total 0! ABOUT
one hundred ami twenty thousands; bnS ihls m
cludeS tho Evening Standard. inc NUMBERS siv
en- arc the numbers printed, Wnlch Is very uli-
fercnt thing from the numbers sold. me
Daily News. which started at o penny recently,
and which has not got all its machinery IN per-
feet gear. has sold about fifty thousand each
day, and its proprietorS are saDSuine that IL
will be at the head before many months nave
passed The Morning and Evening Slar setl
together about $1,000 daily. The Morning
Post (hlgh priccdj scarcely reaches 1000 day;
the Morning Advertiser, 5000; The Express,
evening paper, the property OF INC Dally
Ncws,j is about l5,e!1; the Pail Mall Ga
zettc, IL, 900, ami the Globe 500.
There is no really we'll written weekly paper
in London selling at penny. All the papers
of that price are of an inferior character, and
mechanics. They reach, however, large num-
bers in the amount Of their sale; Paper;
which you have never heard ofin Chicago sell
some 200, 600 weekly. The papers which are
read by the ruling classes tior the want OF
better phrase, are all tivepcncc or siXpcnce
each. Uf the number, the richest is the So
turday Review. doubt, however, II lhe Sa-
tur(lay Review ever reaches sale Of 10000
copies. The Spectator averages probably
1000.