The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-25
PR o s PE CTU s
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
TO be published IL, Charleston, S. C.
EnypJ Hence. E..uD.

TO be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EDITOR.
NiE subscriber proposes as soon as his sub
scfipuon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, u
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such rs will not interfere with those of
any other Pubiicatlon now in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably -edite
and weil-con Quoted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissoluby connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practIca educatc
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
ana The condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated ana
improved IL is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigne submits, with confidence to
the consideration of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, n plan by
which their interests can be made identical ID
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wil'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
tducafion--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 anl Period.
cals, Colleges and Schools, at the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books,
and expose IN all their deformity and duplicity,
the perncious doctrines Of Abolition and ostilitv
to the South, which they have so long been per-
,mtted TO instil into the minds of our children
Will be the constant and unceasDg 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 ann or this Journal to promote, more es-
pecialy, those which are most decidedly practica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
published at the South-Reports Of Teachers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L it
erary Soceies-and OF the progress Of law 10 ed
cal military and free schools at the Soutk-wil
constitute the main features of this division c. he
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 lndusiry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every sartcle of do
mestlc consumption use, among us-and OF
new inventions, improvements, models and de-
signs In mechanism and the fine ArIs--bringing
INTO notice the names, qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs IT, cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. Ii will also contain ESSAYS on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistice
facts relating to their progress
Each number of the HOME JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, DI-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for Sl5-payabk at The end of the poinie, OF
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, Ia;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices Of new enterprises, &c, in each nun
Der, will make IL the interest of those concerned it,
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among Their friends and patrons
Beyond this, ''TEE HomE JouRNAL" will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the wey fnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be TO promote the interests of all--recognizng 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.
April -, l65l-tf