The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-14
PR OSP ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
10 be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EnvIN Hruror En.rop q

EDWIN HERIoT, EDITOR.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sui
- scrpuon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this CITY, abb.
MoNrHLY JouRNAI, exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such RS 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-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssoubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record other joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatio
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, proportonabIy 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-
Quoted.
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.
tice 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 duplicty,
the pernicous doctrines Of Abolition 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 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. While awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
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peciay, those which are most decidedly practca.
and best adapted to the active business of life
| Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
| Reviews Of all School Books and literary work.
published at the South--Reporis Of Teach err
Conventions, or extracts from them-of ColIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before IT.
erary Societes-and OF the progress FLAW m ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- viii
constitute the main features Of this division c. Ia
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
AIRS 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
of our own mechanics and amateurs: their
| achievements, and rewards of merit received at
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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 81 per annum, or
copies for Sl5-payabe at The end Of the volume, or
| in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers 1871
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each num
Der, will make IL the interest of those concerned ir
them TO secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, "TsE HonE JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone,t 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 stim
ulatng the industry of her people.
/ April 10, IS5I--tf