The southern press., 1851-06-28
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, S. C.
Enwfu Hrptor En,rou


OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIoT, EDITOR.
INtiE subscriber proposes, soon as his SUBJ
Il scriphon 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 aby-edted
and well-conducted 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 oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practical educatc
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, proportonably 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
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 il will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education-the encouragement OF our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF ofSouthern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern Ststes-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 defornty and duplicity
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
TO the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted 10 instil into the minds Of our 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 at hand. While awarding
all due merit TO other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote more es-
pecislly, those which most decidedly prnctica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary wo-lo
published at the South--Reports of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Il
erary Societies--cnd Of the progress o flaw, n Sd
icaI military and free schools at the South wik
constitute the main features Of this division c. Ia
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARrs AND MAsUrAcrUREs, as well as all ether
branches Of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production OF every article of do
mestic consumption or use, among us-and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts--bripeinp
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: their
achievements, and rewards Of merit rec>fved Al
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essavs on
all topics connected with these matters: Reports
OF Southern Industrial Instituted. and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JouRNAL will cor
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at S2 per anpum. or
copies for S,5-paynbie at the end Of ks pol,le or
IN proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 1e;
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 concernedu
'hem to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culat'on among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TnE Homs JounsAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for compettion with any, and standing in
the way ofnone. its legitimate sphers and ann will
be to promote the interests Of aI--recognizing no
party, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South, il will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and st'm-
ulating the industry of her people. sss
April 10, 165l-tf