The southern press., 1851-10-31
PR O S p f c Il u S
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.
HN1E subscriber proposes, soon as his sub
Il scripuon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, a
MosrHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such rs 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-conducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, whicl
are indissolubly connected, have, as YET, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record ofther Joint progress
With the general diffusion Of pracical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
ana the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated anL
improved. Ii is In accordance with these views
mat The undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration OF those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, u plan by
which their interests can be made Identical nd
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will their appreciation, he will now proceed
TO state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education-the encouragement of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication of Southern
School Hooks, edited, printed and circulated in
the southern States-to bring into prominent no.
tice all literary undertakings Books and Period.
cals, Colleges aud Schools al the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, In all their deformity and duplicity
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and oslilitv
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to lnstil into the minds of our children
Will be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
partnent of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors
has abundant facilities at hand, hile awarding
all due merit TO other ayslems OF education, it will
be the aim or this Journal to promote, more es-
pecaily, those which 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
publisl ed at the South--Reports of Teach ers'
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L il
cary Societies-and OF the progress Of law ~ ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- vii
constitute the main features of this division c. h
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all other
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
meslc consumption or psa, 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. IL will also contain ESSAYS or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and statstics
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor.
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-mon,hly, and furnishe,
to subscribers and others at 81 per annum, or
copies for 5-payaile al TIE end Of The poi,iue, Oh
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, le;
cents, and less by the quantity. The nsertionc
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make IL the neres, of those concerned il
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE HomE JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, It's legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of all-recognzing no
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 stim
ulating the industry Of her people.
April 10. 1S5I-tf