The southern press., 1851-10-24
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
To be published ia Charleston, S. C.
EpwIN UrRIor EpIroR

To be published ia Charleston, S. C.
EpwM HERIoT, EDIroR.
T3NHE subscriber proposes, soon as his sub
Il scrpuon 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 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 -ede
and well-conducted Journals. The interests O
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssouby connected, have, as vet no spe-
cial organ devoted mainly TO the advocacy OF
Their claims, and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educntic
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, proporionably elevated ant
improved 1t ID 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
winch their interests can be made identical d
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
Educalon-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.
ice 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 dupcity,
the perniclous doctrines of Abolition and ostiiy
TO the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds Of our children
VIII be the constant and unceaslng aim of this de-
partment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has y1,n. FAC, ,l,t,
all due merit to other systems OF education it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote more es-
pecally, those which are most decidedly practca.
and best adapted to the active business of lif.
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work
pubis! ed at the South-Reports of Teach erss
Conventions, extracts from them-of CoIIey
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before i
e. airy Societes-and of the progress O flaw ~ ed
zeal, military and free schools at the South 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 ther
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, tor the production of every article of do
mestic 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
w our oWH HtCndUlCH ana amateurs. IT,
achievements, and rewards of merit received al
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain ESSAYS or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and slatistica
facts relating TO their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-montlIy, and furnished
to subscribers and others at SO per annum, or
copies for 5-payabie al The end ofLhe poiasnle OF
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Ie;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make II the interest of those concernedir
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culatlon among their friends and patrons,
Beyond this, "Tfn Hoas JoUasAL" 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 all-recognizing NO
party, in education or 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 -, lS5l-tf