The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19
PR ECTUS
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC IspusrRy.
To be published IN Charleston, s. C.
EDWIN HERIoT, EDIroR.

VI i,DoCAi'oN AND DomEsTlC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, s. c..
EDWIN HERIoT, EDIToR.
VuNHE subscriber proposes, coon az his sub
II scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, b,
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 abIy-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cinl organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy Of
their claims, and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion of pract,cal educatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on a more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, 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. $50
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 deformity and duplicity
the perniciOus 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 and unceasing aim of this de-
partment Of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance Of ready contributors,
hal ahin dap IN k~n IA
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 practice,
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with EducatieH
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo.ls
published at the South-Reports Of Teach ere
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and school Exhibitions, and addresses before it.
erary Societies--and Of the progress @ law IN Cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk-w
CONSTITUTES the main features of this division c. 10
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well 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-bringing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
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achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t 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 JOURNAL will COR
tain 46 pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished.
to subscribers and others at % per annum, or
copies for Sl5-pdyable at the end of the volume 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 mum
Der, will make IT the interest of those concerned in
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
cuntion among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TEE HONE 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 ofall-recognizing no
party, IN education or politics, but the party of
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April ID, lS5I-N