The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-09
PROSP ECr / $
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIOT, EpIToR.


To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIoT, EDlroR.
TTNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
IL scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, b.
MONTHLY 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-edited
and wel!.co Quoted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndssouty connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, do, oted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, aud the record oftheir joint progress.
With the general diffusion of practical education
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basis,
| and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
| branch Of enterprise, proportioDaby elevated and
| improved. 1t is in accordance with these views
! t'ei the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
/ he consideration Of those who feel interested in
boib or either of these great causes, plan by
.ich their interests can be made identical and
,lauiuaiiy dependent. Trusting that the oryec
WI neet their appreciation, he will now proceed
iosste the principles upon which 1t will be con
Quoted
10 advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
charlottesville encouragement Of our own Liter
arY institutions, and the publication OF Southern
school Books, edited, printed and circulated in
lie Southern States-to bring into prominent no.
ice all literary undertakings Books and Period
cols, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
courage Northern agents. and their School Books,
,ud expose in all their deformity and dupcity,
he perncious doctrines OF Abolition and ostty
"a the South, which they have so long cen per-
i,iilted to instil into the minds of children
will be the constant and uDceasIng aim of this de-
psrtment of the work and, for this purpose, the
4 IL. r
has abundant facilities at hand. " bile ewsrdipg
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 practical
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays all subjects connected with Education
Reviews Of all School Books and literary works
publis' ed at the South-Reports Of Teacher,
Conventions, or extracts from rhem-of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
airy Socielies--and OF the progress Of law, med
ical, military and free schools at the South--will
constitute the main features of this division of the
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
mestic consumption or use, among us-and ut
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arrs-bringing
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs: IT. cir
achiev ements, and rewards Of merit received at
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 con
tain as pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
TO subscribers and others at 81 per annum, or 10
copies for S5-paynbIs al the end ofts poiIms, or,
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 1872
cents, and less by the quantity The insertion o
full notices Of new enterprises, &c, in each num-
Der, will make t the interest of those concerned in
them to SECURE as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "ThE HOME JOURNAL" will maxi
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 all--recognizing no
party, in education 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 ~, I65l--tf