The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-18
PR o SPEC TU S
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.

~ OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
10 be published IN Charleston, s.. C.
EDWIN HERior, EDITOR.
III ME subscriber proposes, soon as his sub
IL scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the, undertaking, TO publish, in this city, a
MONTHLY JoyRNAL, 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 well-conducted Journals. The interests O
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndissolubly 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 educatie
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be. placed on, a,more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprises proportionably elevated anG
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 nd
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
willmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. fs - ai ,et' ts' riHr ctf 1 '''i
/ To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Education--the encouragement of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication ofSouthem
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the SOUTH States--to bring into prominent no.
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period.
cals 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 lnstil into the minds of 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. W hile awarding
all due merit to other ystems Of ducation, il will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly practical.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays, on all subjects connected with Educator
--Revlews all School Books and literary work
publish ed at the South---Reporis of Teachers.
Conventions, or extracts from them---of Coeg
and School Exhibitions, andaddresses before L It
erary SoeisIies--and Of the progress oflax, D ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk
constitute the main features of this dvisionc. IA
work. o.ai,u b,,,,nt.l IA, 49,, all ia ff.t
The INpusrRIAL DERARTMENT, will embrace ex-
tended NOTICES Of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND iMAkURAcTUREs,ia as, well as all ether
branches of iDdustry--ofl Factories and Work
shops, for the production of every article Of do-
mestic consumption or use, among ps7-and OF
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
into potlce 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 or
| all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern industrial Institutes, aud statisnca
facts relating 10 their progress.
Each pnmber of the HONE JOURNAL will cor
tain 49 pages, pctayo, pl- monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others al So per anhum, or
copies for S5TTRGyablf Al ths H,,d " thf r9uup, on
in PROPORTION, onLtbe delivery o. numbers, le,
cents, and less Blythe quantity. The insertions
full notices of new enterprises, &C.. 10 each nun
Der, win make the interest Of those concerned
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
cuation among their friends and patrons. ,-,.,
Beyond this, ctr HOME JouRsAL" will make
no promises or ipretens ions. a. N ct entering thu
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, its legitimate sphere and will
be to promote the in tefests of all--recognizng nc
party in education or politics, bbt the party OF
the South lit will seek TO preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing berresources and sum
ulating the industry of her people. ',""
April ~, l85l-lf ''4'.' "''' 20, t'"'' ''''