The southern press., 1851-07-08
OSPECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EnMIN HER1nr EnIrnu

OF EbUcATioS AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
To be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EplroR.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
Il scription list, now in progress, will warrant
me undertaking, to publish, in this city, a B,-
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 weil-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on a more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionably elevated and
improved. IL 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 bv
whicb their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
willsmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. Htt4r
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educa'ion-the encouragement Of our own Liter
ary 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 duplicty,
the pernicious doctrines Of A Aboton and iostiIity
to the South, which they have go long been per-
mtted to nstil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
pnrment 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 will
be the aim Of this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which are most decidedly prnctico.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticr
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work
publisl. ed at the South--Reporis Of Teachers
Conventions, or extracts from then--of CoIIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit.
erary Soceties-and ofthe progress o law m ed.
ical, military and free schools at the South viii
constitute the main features of this division C.. ia
work
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANvrAcruREs, as well as all ether
branches Of industry--of Factories and Work.
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
mestlc consumption or use, among us--and OF
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-brinsine
into notice the names qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs. IL cir
achievements, and rewards Of merit received AZ
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters, Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes and statistics,
facts relating to their progress. aH
Each number OF the HoME JouRNA1 win cor
tain 4s pages, octave, b-monthly, and furnishet
to subscribers and others at ~ per annum, or
copies for S'5-pnysb< a As end Of the vol..,ns OF
IN propo.'ion' on the delivery o. numbers, 10:
cents, and less BY the quantity. The insertion G
fnii notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make it the interest of those concerned in
tnsm TO secure - many copies as possible, for cir
cu'st'on among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "THE HomE JouRnAL will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for composition with any, and standing in
the way of mono, ts legitimate sphere and aim will
BE- 70 promote the interests Of a---recognizDg DO
party, in education or politics, but the party OF
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South, by developing her resources and st'm'
ulating the industry Of her people
April l2, 1s51-tf