532 A SKETCH OF PJDUCATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The followiiio; table is an indication : 



It will be seen that the census of I860 is utterly wrong. The details 

 give only two daily newspapers, with a circulation of 1,600 against a 

 circulation of 16,000 both in 1850 and 1870. 



Estimating the total issue at 8,000,000 in 1860, we find an average of 

 eleven issues per year for each inhabitant, against an average of over 

 thirty issues to each inhabitant of the United States. The total issue 

 for that year in Massachusetts reached 102,000,000, and in New York, 

 320,000,000. This means that while South Carolina thought and senti- 

 ment was expressed 8,000,000 times, that of Massachusetts was announced 

 102,000,000 times. Is there any cause for surprise at the outcome of the 

 war ? The overwhelming paper broadsides of the North were no less 

 effectual than the guns of a Farragut, in shutting out the South from 

 intercourse with, and assistance from, the rest of the world. 



During the war, papers suspended for want of patronage, want of ma- 

 terial, and want of compositors. 1865 marks a blank almost in country 

 journalism. The Courier went on, the Mercury was destroyed, and the 

 Columbia papers had gone up in smoke. A new daily was established 

 in Columbia by Julian A. Selby, who brought a bag of type on his back 

 from a neighboring town, and, with the aid of Wm. Gilmore Simms as 

 editor, founded the Phcenix. One by one the country papers resumed 

 operations, and in a year or so the number had largelv increased. Since 

 that time there has been a steady progress. Old papers have been con- 

 solidated, new ones have sprung up, and are being born every day. 



THE CHARLESTON DAILY NEWS 



of Charleston was established in August, 1865, b}^ Benjamin AVood, of 

 New York. In 1867 it changed hands, Messrs. Riordan & Dawson be- 

 coming the managers. Absorbing the Courier, it is now the only daily 

 in Charleston, and, as 



