The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-10
PROS ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HEnIor. EplroR.

40 DC published ta Charleston, 3. &.
EDWIN HERlor, EpIroR.
'UNfiE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
n scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, 10 publish in this city, a
MoNTHLY JoUREAL, exclusively devoted 10 the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such will 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-edite
ana weli-con Quoted Journals. The interests o.
southern Education and Home Industry, which
ote 'hn'ssoluoly connected, have, yet, no spe-
car organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
ug c'ahs' and the record ftheir joint progress
WIN The general diffusion of practical Educate
among me people, their industrial prosperity mus
DC p'aced on more permanent basis
ana lhe condition the working classes In every
branch OF enterprise, proportionablv elevated ana
improved III is IN accordance with these views
that the Undersigned submits with confidence IN
the consideration of those who feel Interested I'm
both or either OF these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made identical IA
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaion-the encouragement Of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States--to bring into prominent no-
uce 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 ostly
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instiI into the minds of our children
VIII 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 education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which most decidedly pracfica.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educatiev
reviews OF all School Books and literary work
published at the Souih--Reporls of Teachers
conventions, or extracts from them--Of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before [ il
cary Socleties-and Of the progress oflaw N ed
icai military and free schools at the Soutt vii
constitute the main features of this division c.. ia
work
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work.
Shops Tor 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 Arls--bringing
INTO notice the names. qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs /: III cir
public exhibitions 1t will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and Statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for S!5-paynbie al the end of the volume, on
IN proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, ls;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
tu'l notices OF new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest ofthose concerned r
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TEE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or Pretensions. Not entering the
lisls Tor competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of all-recognizine ne
party, in education politics, but the party OF
the South, 1t will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people
April IL, lS5I-if