The southern press., 1851-11-04
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THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
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TO be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERlor, EDlroR.
VNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scrlpuon list, now In progress, will warrant
The Undertaking, to publish in this city, a
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-edile
and well-conducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly TO the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated ana
improved 1t Is In accordance with these views,
mat 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 be made identical I'd
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
Educaton--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
tlce 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 duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mtted to instil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasng aim of this de-
partment of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance Of ready contributors
baa aaht fuc, han J.,,,.
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 praciica.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
publisl: ed at the South-Reports of Teach erst
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
cary Socleties-and Of the progress oflaw, m ed
lea, military and free schools at the Soutk-w 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 MANUFAcrUREs, 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--brnging
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistics
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 SO per annum, or
copies for S!5-payabie al the end of the uoi,ne, oi
in proportion, on the delivery of numbers, lS;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertiono
sull notices of new enterprises, &c, in each nun
ber, will make ii the interest of those concernedL
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
cuatcn among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TRE HOME JoURNAL" 4" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, it's legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all-recognizng nc
party, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South, 1t will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulating the industry Of her people.
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