The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-16
PR osPECTUs
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL


OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC IrDusrHy.
TO be published IN Charleston, s. C..
EuwIN HERIor. EDlroR
TIME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
| - scripuon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, a BIZ
Mo'~nLr JoURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such Is will not interfere with those of
ony other publication now in existence at the
South. In every other department. Of Periodical
Literature, We are we'll supplied with abIy-cdited
and weil'cofducyed Journals. The interests OF
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndissolubly connected. have, AZ yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted Gainly TO ths advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion or practlcai educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on u more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionxbly elevated and
improved. II is in accordance with thsse views.
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, q plan by
which their interests cal be made identical and
mutually dependent Trusting that the object
willmeet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. aH @f S6E aasat
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educafion--the encouragement Of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern StUes--to bring into prominent no.
| 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 dupicity
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and tostiy =
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-
psrtment 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-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly practice,
and best adapted to the active business of Nfs
Essays on all subjects connected with EducatieE
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo.hs
published at the South--Reports of Teach ers
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and school Exhibitions, and addresses before I it,
erary Societes-and Of the progress Law IN ed.
cal, military and free schools at the South viii.
constitute the main features of this division c. ts
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress Of THE MECHANIC
AIRS AND MANUFACTURES, as we'll as all ether
branches Of industry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestc 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 q,
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain ESSAYS on
all topics connected with these matters; Report,
of Southern Industrial Institutes and statistcv
! facts relating to their progress.
| Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthIy, and Furnished
| to subscribers and others at ~ per annum, or
copies for $i5-pdyabie at the end Of the roluue, OF
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, IeS
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, will make the interest of those concerned in
them to secure az many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, eth 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 will
be 10 promote the interests Of a-recognizine no
party, in education politics. but the party of
the South, il will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
uating the industry of her people.
April 10, lS5l--ff