The southern press., 1851-04-25
PROSP ECTUS
oF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERioT, EDITOR

To be published in Charle leston, S. C..
EDWIN HERIoT, EpiroR.
VENHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scrptlon list, now IN progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, b.
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 the
advancement OF the above objects Its scope and
design are such ID will not interfere with those Of
any other publication now in existence ut the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edited
and well ducted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndlssolubly connected have, as yel, no spe-
clal organ, devoted n ainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress.
With the general diffusion Of praclical education
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, plan by
which their interests can be made Identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their approbation 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
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no
tce 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 duplicity
the pernicious 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-
parment 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 will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly practical
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Education
Reviews Of all School Books and literary works
publis.e ed at the South--Reports Of Teachers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
egary SOcieties-and OF the progress of law, med
ical, military and free schools at the Soulh-wiIl
constitute the main features of this division of the
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well all other
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 Arls--bringing
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics aud amateurs: H. cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t viii also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress. T.,
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will con
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-mon,hly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at So per annum, or 10
copies for Sl5-payabic al The end fe volume, or.
IN proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Is,
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each num-
Der, will make the interest Of those concerned in
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, "TfE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, Its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of fall--recognizng no
party, in education 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.
April IL, lS5l--tf