The southern press., 1851-11-26
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE .. f.. $780,.
HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
-. EDWIN HERIor, EpIToR.

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
..-. EDWIN HERIor, EDIToR. 3D."
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub.
IL scrlpton list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish in this city, a
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such Is 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-edite
and well-con Quoted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted nainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of PRACTICAL educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportonably elevated anQ
improved 1t is in accordance with these views,
that the unders igned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, plan by
which their interests can be made identical d
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wlllmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educafion-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.
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period.
cals, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, in all their deformty and duplcity,
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mtted to instil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim Of this de-
mar ms af he ". nd for he
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. WI 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 are most decidedly practica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
publish ed at the South-Reports of Teach erss
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before l it
e!ary Societes-and OF the progress @ Law n cd
ical, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features of this division c. Es
work. .. "...
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFAcrUREs, as well as all other
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
nestle 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: IT, cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. Ii will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistica
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain az pages, octave, pI-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for 5-Payabie al The end oftae roiume, OF
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Is;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertionc
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make il the interest Of those concernediL
them to secure many copies as possible for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TEE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way Of none its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of nll-recognizing nc
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.
April -, lS5l-tf