The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-15
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, S. C.
EDWIN HERIor, EDIroR.

VIE subscriber proposes, ms soon as his sub
II scrptlon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking., to publish, in this city, a 81.
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
L'terature, We are well supplied with ably-edted
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are ndssouby connected. have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly TO the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofthsir joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatc
among the people, their industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch OF enterprise, prOportionably elevated and
improved. II 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, a plan by
which, their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will their APPRECIATION, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. f $50 sias.A
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educution--the announcement 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.
ice 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 duplicity
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. W 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 are most decidedly pracfca.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-ky
published at the South-Reports of Teach ers
ConventioDs, or extracts from them---of CoIleg
3nd School Exhibitions, and addresses before 1 il
efary Societies--and ofthe progress oflaw IN ed
Fcal, military and free schools at the Soutt viii
constitute the main features of this division c. ts
work. .I eG.rt
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress of THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUpAcrUREs, us 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 Ars--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. 1t will also contain ESSAYS on
OF Southern Industrial institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOWE JOURNAL will cor
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
20 subscribers and others at SO per annum, or
copies for sl5-poyabis al The end Of the volume on
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, lei
cents, and less by the quantity The nsertono
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, Will make II the interest of those concernedr
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this "TlE HONE JouRsAL"will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for composition 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 win seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, 1s5I--tf