The southern press., 1851-07-26
PROSP ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in CharIeston, S. C..
EDWIN HERior, EpIroa.
PR o SPEC TU 8

EDWIN HERioT, EDIroR.
IYNHE subscriber proposes, soon an his sub j.
n scripuon list, now In progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, 81
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
advancement Of the above objects It's scope and
design are such ss will not interfere with those of
any other publication now in existencs at the
South. In every other department Of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edted
and well rducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, az vel no spe
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their clams and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practlcaI educutio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on a more permanent basis
and the condition oflhe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proponionaby elevated and
improved. 1t 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-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
t.ducation-the encouragement of our own Liter
ary Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
ochoo BOOKS, edited, printed and 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 dir
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, IN all their deformty and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and fostily
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted to iDstil 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. " lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education it win
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly praetica.
and best adapted to the active business of lifs
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticp
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo~ks
published at the South-Reports of Teackers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Coles
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before It
erary Soceties-and Of the progress O flaw m cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutt-wi
constitute the main features of this division c. ia
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as we'll 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-brngine
into notice the names qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs: III cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received al
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain ESSAYS ON
all topics connected with these matters; Report,
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HoME JOURNAL will cor
tain 40 pages, octave, bi-monthIy, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at SO per annum, or
copies for $5-pnyabis at the end of the pofme, or
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, Ies
cents, and less by. the quantity The insertion o
full notices Of new enterprises, &C.. in each nun
Der, will make ii the interest of those in
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culat'on among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE 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 a-recognizine no
party, in education or politics. but the party of
me SOUTH u Will seek TO preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and stin,
uating the industry of her people
April l2. IS5I--tf