The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-10
Z X 0 s 2 T. c T U s
PROSPE CTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C..
Gown HERIor Enron

Gown HERIoT, EDIroR.
TVNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
u scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, BI
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 welconducted Journals The interests OF
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as vet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
Their claims, and the record ofther Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatlc
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus,
naturally be placed on Il more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportonably elevated and
improved. IL is IN accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration Of those who feel interested i'm
both or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can 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
Education-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
tlce 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 dupIicity
the pernicous doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been 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
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peclally, those which most decidedly practica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
| Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticr
Reviews of all School Books and literary wo-ly
published at the South-Reporis Of Teach ersy
| Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before il:
erary Societies-and OF the progress flaw, IN ed
ical, military and free schools at the South vii
constitute the main features Of this division c. re-
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 mdustry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production of every article of do
mesuc consumption or use, among us-and of
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs In mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
INTO notice the names, qualifications and localities
OF our own mechanics and amateurs IT, cir
| achievements, and rewards of merit received at
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all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and stalistica
facts relating to their progress.
| Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will COR
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to Subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for $l5payabie at the end Of the poine, or
in proportion, on the delivery of numbers, 49,
cents, and less by the quantity The insertion c
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest of those concerned r
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, ''TLE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim viii
be to promote the interests of al--recognzing no
party, in education or politics, but the party of
the South, 1t will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry Of her people.
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