The southern press., 1851-09-03
PROSP ECTUS
0y THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
To be published ia Charleston, s.. C.
EDWIN HERior, EprroR. f roI

EDWIN HERioT, EDITOR. tl.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
u scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, In this city, BI
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
advancement OF the above Objects Ita SCOPE and
design are such as 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 y-edted
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, az yet, no spe-
ciai organ, devoted mainly TO the advocacy of
their claIms and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion Of bracilcal educatic
among ihe people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proporioHably elevated and
improved. II il in accordance with these views
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, 10
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wilNmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. M tff
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.
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 deformty and duplcity !,
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have SO long been per-
miited to instil into the minds of children
VIII be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
partment Of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor with the assistance Of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities al hand. While awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the aim Of this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially those which are most decidedly practica.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo'H
published at the South-Repors of Teacher
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Coeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before its
cary Societies-and OF the progress flaw N ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutt- vii
constitute the main features of this division c. ts
work r
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MANurAcTuREs, as well as ali ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work.
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestic consumption 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
of our own mechanics and amateurs IT. cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essays OH
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and stalistc,l
facts relating to their progress. A
Each number Of the HoME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-montLly, and furnished
TO subscribers and others at So per annum, or
copies for S5-payabie at the end of the roiuns. or
IN proportion, on the delivery of numbers, Ie,
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 concerned r
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
cuoton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "ThL HomE JOURNAL will make
no promises or pretsnsions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way Of none, it's legitimate sphere and aim win
be to promote the interests Of all--recognizng no
party, in education politics, but the party Of
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, IS51-tf