The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
IF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C.

Or EDUCATiOh AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HERioT, EDITOR.
TN1E subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, BIZ
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design 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 well-coI Quoted Journals. The interests Of
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 education
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed u more permanent basis,
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionaby 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, a 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 Staes--to bring into prominent
tce all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icas, Colleges and Schools, al the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books.
and expose, in all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernicous doctrines Of Abolition and lostiIiiy
to the South, which they have so long zen per-
mltted 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 a of ready nfriI,utors
has abundant facilities at hand. " bile awarding
all due merit to other systems OF education, it viii
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which mos, 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
published at the South--Reports of Teachers.
Conventions, or extracts from them--of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
erary Societes--and Of the progress of law, med
zeal, military and free schools at the South--will
constitute the main features Of this division of the
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MANUFAcTUREs, as well as 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 Arts-bringng
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs: IT, cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HOWE JOURNAL will con-
tain az pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others al 81 per annum, or 10
copies for S5-paynbie al the end fine poiims, or,
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 1872
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 many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TI HONE JOURNAL" will make
no promises or 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 all--recognzing no
party, in education politics, but the party Of
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
uloting the industry of her people.
April 10, lS5l--tf