The southern press., 1851-06-25
PROSP ECT.US
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIoT EDITOR

To be published in Chariesion, S. c.
EDWIN HERIoT, EDIToR.
FUNIE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
II scription 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 rs will not interfere with those of
| any other publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We well supplied with abIy-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
indssolubly 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 educatlo
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, proportionabIy elevated and
improved. IL 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 car be made identical and
mutually dependent Trusting that the object
willmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educetion--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
icas, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
| and expose, in all their deformity and duplicty,
the pernicious doctrines OF Abolition and hostility
to the South which they have SO long been per-
mitted 10 ipst 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. W hile awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which most decidedly practice,
and bes, adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on oil subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary work.
published at the Sou,h-Repors of Tencters
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Co|eg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before 1t
ernry Societes--and sf the progress oflaw ,m cd
cal, military and free schools at the Sou,t viii
constitute the main features of this division c, ks
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT viii embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARrs AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all other
branches Of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestic 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
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. IL 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 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at ~ per annum, or
copies for Sl5-pnyabie al the end cf ths volume, or
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, lss
cents, and less by the quantity. Ths insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each NUM-
Der, will make il the interest Of those concerned in
them to many copies as possible, for cir
culstion among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TnE Homr JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competiton with any, and standing in
the way Of none it's legitimate sphere and aim Will
be to promote the interests Of fal--recogpizing 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 st'ri-
ulating the industry of her people.
April II, l05l-n