The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-14
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or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, s. c.
EDWIN HERor, EpIroR.
THE subscriber proposes. as soon as HI

| EDWIN HERior, EDITOR.
VvNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scnption list, now In progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, BIZ
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 ably edited
and well-coad Quoted 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 ofther 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 the working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated and
| improved. Ii is IN accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence TO
the consideration of those who feel interested in
BON or either OF these great causes, plan by
which their interests 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
airy Institutions, and the publication of Southern
School Books, edited printed and circulated in
the Southern States--to bring into prominent no
lice 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 duplicty,
the pernlclous doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to instll into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasing 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
n me IN thero yuta ~ al :,
be the aim OF this Journal to promote more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly practical
ana best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Education
Reviews Of all School Books and literary works
published at the South--Reporis of Teachers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
egary Societes-and Of the progress of law, med
zeal, 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 lndustry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestc consumption or use, among us-and of
new Inventions, Improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringng
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs tt cir
public exhibitions. Ii 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 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly and furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or 10
copies for $5-payabie at the end Of THE poiime, or
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 1872
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion o
full notices OF new enterprises, &c, in each num-
Der, will make ii the interest of those concerned in
them to secure many copies 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 ofnone, 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 -, I85l--tf