The southern press., 1851-10-28
u X O S p Il G II u S
PR o S p ECT us
of THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL,
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, S. c.
EpwN HER,or Enron

10 DC Pu0HShed ta Charleston, y. {.
EDwm HERior, EDIroR.
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
n scrpuon list, now in progress, will warran
me undertaking, TO publish in this city, ,
MoNTHLY Journal, exclusively devoted 10 IN,
advancement of The above objects Its scope and
design are such will not interfere with those OF
any other publication now in existence at thu
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edite
and welconducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, whic
are indissoiubiy connected, have, as YET, no spe
cial organ, devoted ainly to the advocacy o
their clalms and the record oftheir Joint progress
with the general diffusion of practical edurati,
among The people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed Il more permanent basis
ana The condition ofthe working classes, in eyery
or"heh "i enterprise, proportionabIy elevated ant
improved. IL is in accordance with these views.
that the undersigned submits, with confidence 10
the consideration of those who feel interested in
oo'h or either OF these great causes, Il plan by
winch their interests can be made Identical d
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wI'iimeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state The principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaion-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.
'cals, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents. and their School Books
ana expose, IN all their deformity and duplicity,
the pernlcious doctrines Of Abolition and ostility
10 the South, which they have so long been per
mitted to lnstl into the minds of our children
VIII De the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
partment OF the work. and, for this purpose, the
Editor with The assistance of ready contributors,
haG Gn., AM Ca, A
all due merit to other systems Of education il will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote more es
pecially, those which are most decidedly pracfico,
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticr
reviews Of all School Books and literary work
publish ed at the South--Reporls of Teach err,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Coleg
and School Exhibitions, aud addresses before | L
airy Socletles--and of the progress of law 10 cd
zeal, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features Of this division ca ts
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, as well as all ether
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 Arts--bringng
INTO notice the names qualifications and localities
or our own mechanics and amateurs IT, eir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. Ii will also contain ossays or
all topics connected with these matters; Report,
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and stalstica
facts relating to their progress.
Each number of the HoME JOURNAL will cor
tain 4S pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers aud others at 50 per annum, or
copies for a-zpayabis at hs end of The poi,,nt OF
IN proportion, on the delivery o. numbers, ls;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices OF new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make II the interest of those concernediI il
them TO secure as many copies as possible, forcir
culatlon among their friends and patrc1s
Beyond this; "TEr HOAX JoyssAL Twill make
no pEomisss OF prelensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, It's legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote The interests of all-recognizing no
party, IN education or politics, but the party OF
the South, IL will seek TO preserve the Union o,
the South, by developing her resources and stm
ulating the industry of her people,
April II, lS5l-lf