The southern press., 1851-08-04
PROSPEC TU s
PROSP ECTUS
Or THE tis.a,lgr
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DoMEsTIc INDUSTRY.
TO be published il CharJsston, s. C.
EDwfN HInyor Eo,rop

10 De p1t0ttShed ~ ChGrteSfON, $. g.
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.
YNHE subscriber proposes, az soon az his sub
- 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. Its scope and
design are such rs 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-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, us yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther Joint progress
With the general diffusion of pracical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on a moro permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working casses, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionably elevated and
improved. II IL 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
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
ary Institutions, and the publication of Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
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 pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have 80 long been per-
mitted to instil 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
all due merit to other systems Of educaton it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
peciay, those which are most decids sdly praetica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaficr
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-kJ
published at the South-Reports Of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Fit.
erary Societes-and OF the progress o flaw N cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutt-wiL
constitute the main features of this division ca ts
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well az all other
branches Of industry-of Factories and Work.
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mesuc consumption or use, among us-and of
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringne
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 JounNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthIy, and furnished.
to Subscribers and others at 81 per annum, or
copies for Sl5-poyabie at The end ofkhe roi.ne, or
IN proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 1s;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, will make il the interest of those concerned IT,
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TIE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, its 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, 1t will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulating the industry Of her people.
April ~, 1851-tf