The southern press., 1851-06-27
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, s. C..
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OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, s. C.
EDWIN HERioT, EDIroR.
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to pubshFin this city, a BIZ
MosTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design 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 y-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissoluby connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cia organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practical educatic
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, proportionably 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, a plan by
which their interests can be made Identical and
mutually dependent Trusting that the object
wlll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educeion-the encouragement OF our own Liter
ary 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
cals, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis.
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose, in all their deformity and dupIicfy,
the pernicous doctrines Of A BOLTON and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted TO instil into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and unceasDg aim Of this de-
partment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
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all due merit to other systems OF education, it will
be the aim Of this Journal to promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly practica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with EducatSE
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
published at the South-Reports Of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
erary Socieiies--and Of the progress oflaw, N cd
ical military and free schools at the Soutk--wi
constitute the main features Of this division c. ks
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MANurAcTUREs, as well as all other
branches of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
mes,ic consumption use, among us-and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-brineing
into notice the names qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs Eeir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions 1t 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 Homx JOURNAL will COR
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others ut ~ per annum, or
copies for el5pasnbt al The end Of the volume, or
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 10;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertionc
full notices Of new enterprises, &C.. in each mum
bsr, will make the interest Of those concerned in
them to secure ms many copies possible, for cir
custon among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "THE Homr JouHSAL wiIl make
no promises pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing N
the way fnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of al--recognizing no
party, in education or politics, but the party o.
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources ana ss'm-
ulating the industry fhsr people.
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