The southern press., 1851-08-30
p X o s. PECTUS
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DomEsrIc INDUSTRY.
10 be published IN Charleston, s. C..
EDwIN Hrp,or Ep,ro,
PR SPECTUS s
EDwIN HERIor, EDIroR.


YNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sui
- scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this citv. Bu
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 the
advancement Of the above objects. It's scope and
oesign are such ss 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 nbly-edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as YET, no spe
ciai organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
,neir claims and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion Of praciical educate,
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 ~
both or either of these great causes, a plan bv
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wilismeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which il will be con-
ducted T.'-- n, 80
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
EduGa'ion--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
icals, Colleges and Schools, at the South-to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books.
ana expose, IN all their deformity and duplicty,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and lostiIitv
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instiI into the minds of our children
VIII 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
ah que merit to other systems Of education, it will
N Ir,r
pecialy, those which are most decidedly procfica:
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educntifr
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo.k
published at the South-Reports of Teach ervs
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
ana ochooi Exhibtlons, and addresses before itI
erary Soceties-and OF the progress oflaw IN ed
lcaI, military and free schools at the South viii
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, M as well as all ether
branches Of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
meStc consumption use, among us-and of
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs IN mechanism and the fine .Arts-brineine
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs: N cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
pu"'~ S~Hioitsuus. IL VIII also contain ESSAYS
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statisticd
facts relating to their progress. rn1 t1
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to Subscribers and others at g. per annum, or
copies for S5-pnyabie al the end Of the poi,lns, or
IN proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, Ie;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
'ul notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
per, will make the interest of those concerned r
hem to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
'u'ation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TLE HomE JOURNAL " will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
the way of none, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of al--recoenizing no
party, IN education or politics. but the party of
the South, u will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and stm
uating the industry Of her people.
April 10, lS5I-ff