The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-03

PROSPEC
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
or EDUCATION AND Domestic lsDusrRY.
To Be Published ia Chariesso", s. c..

To DC published ia Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HERIor, EpIroa.
rIVHE subscriber proposes soon as his saL
ii scrption list, IN progress. VIII warrant
the undertaking, to publish, IN this city, 81
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope ahe
design such will not interfere with those OF
any other publication in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are we'll supplied with ably-edte
and well-conducted Journals. The interests o.
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssolubly connected. have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, aud the record ofthelr joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatlc
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed more permanent basis
and the condition oflhe working classes, IN every
branch Of enterprise, proportionably elevated ana
improved. Ii 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, plan by
which their interests can be made identical ID
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wiIlsmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which 1t will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaion--the encouragement OF our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated IN
the SoulHcTn ctdtcS--to DrlHy lutO prominent uu"
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 pernicous 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 unceaslng 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 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 Educate :
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
published at the South-Reports of TeacEer
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before l. it
erary Societes-and Of the progress ofaw, IL ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- I'll
constitute the main features of this division c. K,
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex
tended notices Of the progress of THE MEcHAKI
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all othe
, branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
nestle consumption or use, among us--and o
new inventions, improvements, models, and de
signs in mechanism and the fine Arls--brDgin,
into notice the names, qualifications and localitie
: of our own mechanics and amateurs thei
!, public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays OF
all topics connected with these matters; Report
? Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistica
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor.
! tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnishes
" to subscribers and others at ~ per annum, or
copies for $l5-payabie at the end Of the poue OF
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 10
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
h them to many copies possible, for Gil
" culation among their friends and patrons.
= Beyond this, "TKE HOME JoURNAL" will max
r no promises pretensions. Not entering tn
II lists for competition with any and standing
the way Of none its legitimate sphere and aim wi
be to promote the interests of all--recognzing I
is party, in EDUCATION politics, but the party
m the South, it will seek to preserve the Union
2, the South, by developing her resources and sti
uating the industry Of her people.
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