The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-18
PRO s p &c L US
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. G.
EpwIN HERIor Enron.

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. G.
EDWIN HERor EDITOR
ME subscriber proposes, soon his sub
IL scripuon list, now IN progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, b.
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted 10 the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such Is will not interfere with those OF
any other publication now in existence at the
South. Ihevery other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably edited
and well Quoted Journals. The interests OF
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissoubly connected, have, as yel, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly To the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record other joint progress.
With the general diffusion Of practical education
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on Il more permanent basis,
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportonably elevated and
improved. 1t 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 be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaiion--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
cals, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books
and expose, in all their deformity and dupcity
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long b een 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, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, those which most decidedly practical
and best adapted to the active business of life.
Essays on all subjects connected with Education
Reviews OF all School Books and literary works
pubis! ed at the South-Repors of Teachers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
erary Societes-and Of the progress of law, med l.
ical, military and free schools at the South--wll
constitute the main features of this division of the
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all other
branches of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article Of do
mestic consumption or use, among us-and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Aus-bringing
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs IT,
achievements, and rewards Of merit received a,
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays or
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress. ~
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will con
tain 4S' pages, octave, b-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or IL
copies for S5-payabie at the end cfAe roi,tme, or
in proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, lS}
cents, and less by the quantity The insertion o
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each num-
Der, will make 1t the interest of those concerned in
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "ThE HOME JOURNAL" will max
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way Of none, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be TO promote the interests of al-recognzing 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.