The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-12
PROSP ECTUS
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
10 be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERior, EDITOR.
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon az his sub
u scrpuon list, now in progress. will warran
the undertaking, TO publish IN this city,
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO III,
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope anC
design are such Is Will not interfere with those O
any other publication now in existence at tn,
South In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably -edile
and we-con Quoted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as YET, no spe.
clal organ, devoted ainly TO the advocacy OF
their claims and the record oftheir Joint progre SO
With the general diffusion Of praclIcaI 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, proportionaby elevated ano
improved. IL Is in accordance with these views
that the unders igned 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 ID
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
Will NEE. their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state The principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
TO advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Objectionable encouragement Of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and The publication of Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern Staies-to bring into prominent no.
lice 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 deformty and duplicty
the perncious doctrines of Abolition and ostiliiy
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mtled to lnstil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and unceaslng 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 ducatiOn it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
peciay, those which are 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
pubis ed at the South-Reports of Teach ere
Conventions, or extracts from them-of ColIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
AIRY Sociees-and Of the progress @ law 10 cd
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk- vii
constitute the main features of this division C.. IL
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of tn progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all cther
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
nestle consumption or use, among us-and ri
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-brngng
into notice the names qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: H. ell
achievements, and rewards of merit received al
public exhibitions. IL sill also contain essays or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistca
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, Di-montily, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for s 5-payobe al the end Of the volume, OF
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, 10;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &c, in each nun
ber will make IL the interest of those concerned L
them to secure many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE HONE JoURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none its legitimate here and aim will
be to promote the interests of all-recognizng no
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 stim
ulating the industry of her people.
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