The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-11
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be Published IL, Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HERIor, EDiroR

| 40 DC published ia Charleston, D. L.
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
n scnpton list, now in progress, will warrant
me undertaking, 10 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 ably-edite
and we-eonducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
WIN the general diffusion of practical educatio
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed more permanent basis
ana the condition ofthe working classes, in every
oranch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated ano
improved. IL is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, TO
the consideration of those who feel interested i'm
ooth or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made Identical nd
mutually dependent Trusting that the object
wiil'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educatlon-the encouragement of our own Liter
airy 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,
and expose, IN all their deformity and duplicity.
the pernlcous 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-
partment 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 il will
be the aim OF this Journal TO promote, more es-
peclally, those which most decidedly practica,
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educate
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
puhlis ed at the South-Reports of Teach ersS
Conventions, or extracts from them-of CoIlee
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before It
e airy Societies-and Of the progress @ law N ed
zeal, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features Of this division G.. ls
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT viii 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
nestle consumption or 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 our own mechanics and amateurs: III cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain ESSAYS or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statsticu
facts relating to their progress,
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will co.,
tam "a pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to Subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
oopies for : 5-payabie at The end of the uoi,ime O,
IN proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, IS;
cents, and less by the quantity. The Insertion
full notices OF new entsrprisss, &C., In each nun
Der, will make IL the Interest Of those concernedr
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, ''TrE HOME JOURNAL ,,wil max
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists Tor compelIuop with any, and standing in
the way ofnpne, ITS Legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests af a--recognizing no
party, 10 education or politics, but the party OF
the South, 1t will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people
April 10, lS5l-tf