The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-18
PRO SPECTUS
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL

VI IDUCAliON AMI JOME6TiC INDUSTRY.
To be published ~ Charleston, S. C. $1,000.
EDWIN HERror, EDlroR ANi'
TNHE subscriber PROPOSES, az soon a. his sub
u scripton list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, a BIZ
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 tbs
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design such will not interfere with those Of
any other publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department Of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-sdited
and well con Quoted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssoubly competed. have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy Of
their claims, and ths record ofthsif joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical sducatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
| naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working Glasses, in every
branch Of enterprise, ProPortionably elevated and
improved II is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests car be made Identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
willmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. .{4bAi
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education--the encouragement of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication of Southern
i
the Southern States--to bring into prominent no.
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icals, Colleges and Schools, At the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines OF Abolition and kos&i]itv
to the South. which they have so long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds of our CHILDREN
will be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
partment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of edncaton it will
be the aim Of this Journal to promote, more o.
pecially, those which are most decidedly prsct;ea.
and best adapted to the active business Of life Y
Essays on all subjects connected with Educatica
Reviews Of all School Books and literary w0.ln
published at the South--Reports of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
erary Societies-and Of the progress oflaw m Cd
cal, military and free schools at the South --wiL
constitute the main features Of this division C. Re
work. E~
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of rHE- M EcHANIc
ARrs AND MANUFACTURER, as well as all ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
| mesuc consumption or use, among us--and of
| new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
| signs in mechanism and the fine Arts--bringing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs: II cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received ut
public exhibitions. Il will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statiaftce
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME Journal will cor
tain 40 pages, octave, bi-montily, and furnishe,
to subscribers and others Mt 80 per unnum, or
copies for $l5pnyabie at the snd Of The reiume or
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 49,
CENTS and less by the u,,a nfitv The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C.. in each nun
Der, will make il the interest Of those concerned in
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons. iasalii
Beyond this, CITE HOME JounNAL" will max e
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for composition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of all--recognzing no
party, in education or politics. but the party of
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
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