The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-16
PR OSP ECTUS
oY THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, S. C.

EDWIN HERIoT, EDITOR.
NH subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish. in this city, a Bl
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such 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 aby-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndssoubly 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 PRACTICAL educatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed a more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionaby 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 or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wi'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educnton-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.
tce all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icals, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to div
courage Northern agents, and their School Books.
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to instil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and uncensing aim of this de-
partment Of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. " lille awarding
all due merit 10 othefsystems Of education, il will
be the aim Of this Journal TO promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly pracfica.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with EducaticI
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-ls
published at the South-Repor,s Of Teackers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before I It.
erary Soceties-and OF the progress oflaw m cd
ical, military and free schools ut the Soutk-wiL
constitute the main features Of this division c. ts
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MAsUFAcTuREs, as well as all ether
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 Arls--bringing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: IT, cir
achievements and rewards Of merit received at
pubic exhibitions. III 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 HoMg JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthy, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 81 per apnum, or
copies for Sl5-payabe at the end Of the roiums, on
IN proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 49,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &c, in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest of those concernedir
them to secure as many copies as possible for cir
culstion among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "Ttr HOW 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-recognzlng 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
ulsting the industry of bar people.
April IL, 185l--tf