The southern press., 1851-09-04
PROS ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
10 be published in Charleston, s. C.
EDWIN HERIor Enron
PR o s Pee TU s

EDWIN HERIoT, EDIroR.
YUNliE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scrpuon list, now IN progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, aBi
MosTnLy JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 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 ably-ed
and well-conducted Journals. The interests OF
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are Indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
ciai organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educano
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionaby 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, 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-
ducted
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.
ice all literary undertakings, Books and Period
cals, Colleges and Schools, Mt the South-to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, in all their deformi,y and dupcity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and fosty
10 the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to inst into the minds of our children
VIII be the constant and uDceasng 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 er-
pecally, those which are most decidedly p7acficn..
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.
publishe ed at the South--Rspors of Teach ersi !
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before II.
erary Societies-and ofthe progress ofIaw ~ cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutt-w
constitute the main features of this division c. ts
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 indnstry--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 ~ mechanism and the fine Arts--bringng
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs IT, cir
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 statssic,l
facts relating to their progress.
Each number OF the IIomg JOURNAL will cor
tam As pages, octave, bi-montiy, and furnishec
to subscribers and others at So per annum, or
copies for S'5-payabie at The end Of the poiune, OF
IN proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Ie5,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
fu'I notices of new enterprises, &c, in each mum
ber, will make IT the interest of those concerned I
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TLE HomE JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way fnone, its legitimate syhere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all-recognizing no
party, IN education or politics, but the party of
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and stm
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, 1S5l-tf