The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-16
PROsPE CTUs
or RAG
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C..

To be published ia Charleston, S, C.
EDWIN HrRior, EDnoR.
INHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub.
- scripuon list, now In progress, will warrant
me Undertaking, TO publish, In this cav a
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement OF the above objects. It's 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 well-conducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, whic,
are lndssolubiy connected, have, as yet, no spe-
eiai organ, devoted mainly To the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record ofther JOINT progress
with the general diffusion of practical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
ana The condition ofthe working classes in every
oranch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated anC
improved IL is IN accordance with these views
That The undersigned submits, with confidence, TO
the consideration of those who feel interested in
ooth or either of these great causes, n plan by
winch their interests can be made Identical I'd
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
VIII meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaton--the encouragement of our own L tier
airy institutions, and the publication of Southern
ochooi Books, edited, printed aud circulated in
the southern States--to bring into prominent no.
uce all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icais, colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicitv
the perncIous doctrines OF BOLTON and ostility
TO the south, which they have so long been per-
united to instil into the minds of our children
VIII De The constant and unceasing aim of this de-
partment OF The work; and, for this purpose the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors
"a ba "a f.. ia.
all due merit to other systems Of education il viii
be the ann OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecaiiy, those which are 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 wo.k
publish ed at the South-Reports of Teach erss
Conventions, or extracts from them--of ColIeg
ana school Exhibitions, and addresses before L il
cary Societies-and Of the progress flaw NJ ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk-wil
constitute the main features of this division ca Ia
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestc consumption 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
of our own mechanics and amateurs. III cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received AT
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 q
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tam 4S pages, octave bl-montEly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for Sl5-payabie al The end ofthe uol,tne, on
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 II the interest of those eonoernediI
them to secure az many copies as possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE HOME JOURNAL" 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-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 regqpycea and stim
ulating the ineHgiy al .s. people.
April ~, lS5l-tf