The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-17
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SOUTHERN HOME IOIIRNAI.

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, s. c.
kDwM HERior, EDITOR
ME subscriber proposes, AZ soon az his sub.
- scrption list, now III progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this citv. = r..
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to The
advancement Of the above objects Its scopr and
design are such - will not interfere with those Of
any ether publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
s!s 'nalssom1ly CONNECTED, have, as yet, no spec
ciai organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practlcal educato
among the people, their industrial prosperity INNS,
naturally be placed on r>germnnept 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 bv
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wiil'meet their appreciation, be 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 Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
Schoo' Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the SoutheSn States--to bring into prominent no.
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period-
icais, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books.
ana expose, in all their deformity and duplicitv
the pernicous doctrines Of Abolition and tostliiv
TO- the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted TO instll into the minds of our children
Will be the constant and unceasing aim Of this de-
Psrtment OF the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance Of ready contributors.
has abundant facilities at hand. W bile award;nr
all due merit to other systems Of ducaton. II vii;
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly practico,
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educatier
reviews or all school Books and literary wo-a
published at the South-Reports Of Teacters
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Collep
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Il
erary SocietIes-and Of the progress G law N cd.
lcal, military and free schools at the Souti- vii
the main features of this division G.. Re
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, az well as all ether
branches or 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-brinpine
INTO notice the names, qualifications and localities
or our own mechanics and amateurs: IT, cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. II 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 HONE JOURNAL will cor
tain 40 pages, octave, b-monthIy, and furnished
70 subscribers and others at ~ per nnnum, or
copies for SI5-payabie at the end ofAe rois.me. or
IN proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 49,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion q
'uil notices OF new enterprises, &c, in each nun
Der, will make ii the interest Of those concerned IN
hem to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
'uiaton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "ThE HoME JOURNAL" will make
10 promises or pretensions Not entering the
lists for composition with any, and standing in
he why ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
'e to promote the interests Of all-recoenizine no
,arty, in education or politics, but the party of
he South, II will seek to preserve the Union of
he South, by developing her resources and slim
Hating the industry of her people
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