The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-13
s. GRISWOLD e. CO.
PROSP ECTUS
THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. c.

Il.
To be published in Charleston, S. c.
EDWIN HERIoT, EpIToR.
HNEIE subscriber proposes as soon as his sub
Il scnpnon list, now IN progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, BIZ
Monthly JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
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-couducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssolubly connected, have as yet, no spe-
cal 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 must
naturally be placed on n more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proporionably 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, plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which twill 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
|
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 perncious doctrines of Abolition ard ostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
| mtted to nstil into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
parment 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 educaton it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more
pecially, those which most decidedly praciica.
and best adapted to the active business of lif,
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-ld
published at the South--Reporls of Teachers
| Conventions, or extracts from them--of Coleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before IT
| erary SocetIes-and Of the progress Of law med
cal, military and free schools at the South vh
constitute the main features Of this division ca. Ia
| work -
| The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
| tended notices Of the progress of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MsNurAcruREs, as well as all ether
branches OF indus,ry--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-brinsing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs II cir
public exhibitions II will also contain essays on
all topics connected with theee matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statisticot
facts relating TO their progress.
Each number of the HOWE JOURNAL will con
tain 48 pages, octave, bi-monthIy, and furnishef
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, orlD
copies for Si5--pdyabie al the end Of the volume,
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, Isl
cents, and less by the quantity The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest Of those concerned
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TtE HOWE JOURNAL" viii max Q
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, it will seek to preserve the Union Of
the South by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry Of her people.
i April 10, l85l-,f