The southern press., 1851-07-10
PRO SPECTU S
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, s. c.
EnHIN HrnInr EnIrnn

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC IHDUsTRy.
To be published IN Charleston, s. c.
EDWIN HERioT, EpIroR.
VvNIIE subscriber proposes, soon his SUBJ
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish. in this city, BIZ
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 edited
and wellcond Quoted Journals. The interests of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no sps-
cial organ, devoted anly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practicaf educntio
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on n more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionably 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
mutuu,ly dependent. Trusting that the object
will'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
ducted
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaton---the encouragement Of our own Liter
ary Institutions, and the publication of Southern
pCnooi Doohsp culteuy pfiuteu anu cHtuihscu III
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no
tce all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icas, Colleges and Schools, at the South---to die
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
| and expose, in all their deformty and duplicity,
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to inst into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim Of this de-
partmept or The work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor with the assistance Of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities at hand. W hile awarding
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 practicn.
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 Tencters
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before l II
cfary Societes--and or the progress oflaw, M cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- viii
constifuic the main features of this division ca fs
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MAnurAcTuRrs, MS well as all other
branches of ndustry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
rnestic consumption 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 own mechnDtcS anu amhleurH: tEetr
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statisticsl
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HoMr JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bimonthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
copies for $l5paynbie at The end Of the polus, or
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 1ss
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
ber, will make it the interest Of those concernedr r
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culntion among their friends and patrons
Beyond this, "TiE HoME JOURNAL will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition With my, and standing m
the way Of none. it's legitimate sphere and aim VIII
be to promote the interests Of all-recognizing no
pnrty, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South it will seek TO preserve the Union o.
the South, by developing her resources ~" sun
ulating the industry other people
April 10, 1a5l--u