The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-14
PRO s PECTUs
or EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HERfor, EpIroR


To be published IA Charleston, S. c.
EDWIN HERIor, Error.
TNHE subscriber proposes, soon as his sub
II scnpuon 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. It's 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-edte
and well-eonducted journals The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe-
clal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy OF
their claims, and the record ofthelr 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. Ii is IN accordance with these views
that the unders igned submits, with confidence, TO
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both or either of these great causes, plan by
which their interests can be made Identical ,rd
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
will meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state The principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaiion--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.
tee 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 dupIicity,
| the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mltted TO lnsti into the minds of our children
VIII be The constant and unceasng aim Of this de-
partmeDt of the work; and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors
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all due merit to other systems Of education it will
be the aim OF this Journal TO promote, more es-
pecially, those which are mos, decidedly practica.
and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educaticr
Reviews of all School Books and literary work
publish ed at the South-Repors of Teach ers,
Conventions, or extracts from them--of ColIeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before It
cary Socetles--aDd of the progress O law ~ ed
zeal, military and free schools at the Souk- H.
constitute the main features of this division C.. ts
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 industry-of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mesuc consumption or use, among us-and OF
new Inventions, improvements, models and de-
signs in mechanism and the fine Arrs-bringing
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
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 SO per annum, or
copies for S5--payable al the end qfhe poiume, OF
| IN proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 49,;
cents, and less by the quantity, The insertions
full notices of new enterprises, &c., in each nun
Der, will make the interest of those concerned r
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons.
| Beyond this, "THE HONE 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 or politics, but the party OF
the South, II will seek to preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people
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