The southern press., 1851-11-06
PRO S TU S
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL

OOO tlNN HO)ME JOURNAL b
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EDrroR.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scripton 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 abIy-edite
and weil-eon Quoted Journals. The interests
Southern Education and Home Industry, whicl
are indssoluby connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clal 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. 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 I'D
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wili'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
TO state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educution-the encouragement Of our own Liter
ary Institutions, and the publication ofSouthern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no.
hce all literary undertakings, Books and Period.
icas, 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-
mltted to instil into the minds Of our children
uucea iDUa Ofth d.
pnrtment OF the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance Of ready contributors
has abundant facilities at hand. hile awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it win
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly practica.
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-Reports of Teach ers.
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before I It
erary Societies--and Of the progress oflaw n cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- vii
constitute the main features of this division Ca ks
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, 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
nc" iuNO"loho, improvements, mOuSlH, anu de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs IT, cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received at
public exhibitions. Ii will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistlcs
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnishe,
to subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
copies for 5-payabis at the end of the pof,ms, ,oi
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 10;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make ii the interest of those concerned r
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "THE HOME JouRNAL" I" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all-recognizng no
party, in education politics, but the party OF
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources und stim
ulating the industry of her people.
April IL, l85l-tf