The southern press., 1851-08-28
.cvE PROSP ECTUS es's1'
aat OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
10 be published in Charleston, s.. C. ~
m EDWIN HERIoT, EDIroR, sG N

YNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
u scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, 10 publish, in this city, Bf
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design such ss 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 well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practlcal educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus:
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working cIaeses, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionabIy elevated and
improved. 1t Is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both OF. either Of these great causes, a plan by
which their iexerests can be made identical and
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
Education--the encouragement of our own Liter
ary 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
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 pernlcous doctrines OF Abolition and Hostility
| to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
parment OF the work; and for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. While awarding
all due merit to other systems OF education il will
be the aim OF this Journal TO promote, more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly pracfica:
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticr
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work.
publish ed at the Souih--Reports Of Teachers.
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before [ its
erary Societies--and ofthe progress ofIaw n cd
cal, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features of this division c. ts
work. ~ Ha H fe
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress of rnE MgcHANI-
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
branches of industry--of Factories and Work.
shops, for 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-brnging
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 or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HosE Journal will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 80 per nnnum, or
copies for S5-pnynbie at the end Of the roi.nn<, or
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, Iei
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in ench nun
Der, will make IL the interest of those concerned ir
ft0rs. fc
cuIr,ion among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "Trr HomE JOURNAL win make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way fnone, it's legitimate sphere and aim viii
be to promote the interests of a--recognizne no
party, IN education or politics, but the party of
the South, II viii seek TO preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry Of her people.
April 12, 1s51-tf