The southern press., 1851-11-03
PROS ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
70 lie .a.lLI:.L-

/ " ApcNhiioN AMI INDUSTRY.
10 De published in Charleston, S. c.
EDWIN HERIor, EDITOR.
HNiE subscriber proposes, as his sub
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish in this CITY, a
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 -edte
and wel-conducted Journals. The interests O
Southern Education and Home Industry. wbicl
are Indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
Their CLAIMS and the record ofther joint progrtss
With the general diffusion of practical educatir
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated ano
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 ,rd
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
EducafIon-the encouragement of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
US""o' D"ohpJ SuhVuS PiifIteu ana ClTCQldteu IN
the Southern States--to bring into prominent no.
tlce all literary undertakings, Books and Period.
lcals, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, In all their deformity and duplicity
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and fostility
to the South. which they have so long been per-
mltted to lnstil into the minds of our children
VIII 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
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the ann OF this Journal to promote, more es-
peclay, those which 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 work
publsl ed at the South-Reports of Teach ersl
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before It
e.ary Soceties-and OF the progress Of law III cd
ical military and free schools at the Soutk-wl
constitute the main features of this division c. h
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 industry-=of Factories and Work
shops, tor 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--brnging
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
or our own mechanics and amateurs: IT, cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received al
public exhibitions. Ii will also contain essays or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistics
facts relating TO their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain 40 pages octave, bi-monthfy, and Furnished
to subscribers and others al 81 per annum, or
copies for 5payobie al the end Of the poiInis, OF
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, I8;
cents, and less by the quantity. The Insertions
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make 1t the interest of those concernedir
them TO secure as many copies as possbe, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TIE HONE 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-recognzing no
party, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulatng the industry of her people.
April -, lS5l-tf