The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-08
PROSP ECTUS
or THE SFh1
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charieston, s. C.
EDWIN HrRIor. Enron.

VI HDOCA1AON AMI DOmE6TlC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN CAariesson, s. C.
EDWIN HERIor, Enron.
VvNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, BI
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 ably-edted
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissoluby connected, have, ~ yet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy Of
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practlcal educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent baais
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably 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, a plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent Trusting that the object
wll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will BE- con-
Quoted. gis
To advocate, strictly and exclusively Southern
Educafion-the encouragement Of our own Liter .
airy Institutions, and the publication of Southern
oSHoot DVOhby cultcO, pTlntcO anu circulated IN
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no.
tce 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 dupcity,
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to instil into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
pnrtment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors.
has abundant facilities at hand. " lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecally, those which are most decidedly practica.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
| Essays on all subjects connected with EducateY
Reviews OF all School Books and literary work.
published at the South-Reports of Teacters
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIleg
erary Societies-and 9th progress oflaw IN cd
zeal, military and free schools at the Soutt- vii.
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 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
VI oui oWU ucCUdDtCS anu amateurs: LE 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 HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at ~ per nnnum, or
copies for Sl5-payabie al the end Of the poi,me, or
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, Is!
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertionc
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, will make 1t the interest of those concerned ir
them to secure as many copies possible for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TtE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for composition with any, and standing in
the way of none, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all--recognzing 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 10. lS5l-tf