The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-01
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SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
Tobs published in Charleston, S. C.
EpwTH HERIoT, EDIToR.


TIME subscriber proposes. as soon as his sub
IL scription list, now in progress, will warran
the undertaking, TO publish, la this city, b
MoNTBLY JouRsAL. exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects Its scope u he
design are such will not interfere with those
any other publication. now in existence at ths
South. In every other department Of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edit.
and well-conducte Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, whic
are indissolubly connected, have, az yr,, no spe
cal organ, devoted mainly 10 the advocacy o
their claims aud the record other Joint progress
With the general diffusion OF PRACTICAL educate,
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
aud the condition ofthe working clusses, in every
branch of enterprise, proportionabiy elevated and
improved. Ii is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, to
the consideration Of those who feeb interested in
both or either Of these great causes, plan by
which their interests can be made Identical d
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which il 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--Io 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 dupIicty,
the pernicous doctrines OF Abolition and hostility
TO the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds of orr children
will be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
partment of the -'ork; 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-
pecially, those which are most decid sdly practical
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-Reporis of Teach ersl
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it
cary Societies--and OF the progress flaw IN ed
ical, military and free schools at the Soutk-wl
constitute the main features of this division c. ks
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
ARrs AND MANUFACTURERS, as well as all ether
branches of industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
nestle consumption or use, among us-and oi
new inventions, Improvements, models, and de.
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringine
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
of our own mechanics and amateurs: their
achievements, and rewards of merit received al
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays or
| all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistica
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 '5-payable at The end Of the volume, OF
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, lei
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 many copies possible, for cir
cuation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, 'TLE HOME JOURNAL " will max e
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way ofnone, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all-recognizing no
party, in education politics, but the party OF
the South, it will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing lIer resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, lS5l-tf