The southern press., 1851-11-01
PRO SPECT is
or THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC Industry.
To be published ia Charlesion, s. C.
EpwrN HrRIor Entroa

OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC Industry.
To be published in Charlesion, S. C.
EDWIN HERIoT, EpIroR.
YNfIE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
II scripnon list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish, in this city, a
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 -edtt
and well-conducted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the dvocacy OF
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in every
branch Of enterprise, proportionably elevated ana
improved. IL 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 u'd
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wlll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
10 advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
EducatIon--the encouragement Of our own Liter
ary Institutions, and the publication of Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated in
the Southern States-to bring into prominent no.
lice 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 pernlclous doctrines Of Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instll into the minds Of our children
VIII 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 VI lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it will
he the ann OF this Journal to promote, more es-
pecially, 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-Hepors of Teacher
Conventions, or extracts from them--of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L It
Larry Societles-and OF the progress df Law n cd
lcal, military and free schools at the South wil
constitute tho main features of this division c. ks
work
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices of the progress OF THE MECHANIC
ARTS AND MANUFACTURE, as well az 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, modals, and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringing
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs, their
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistics
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor.
tain as pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and Others at ~ per annum, or
copies for s5payabie at the end of the volume, oil
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, 1s;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertionc
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make it the interest of those concernediL
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 way off none, its legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests of all--recagnizing no
party, in education or noli,ics, bp. the party OF
the South, u wl seek TO preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, lS5l--tf