The southern press., 1851-08-27
ROSP ECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND Domestic INDUSTRY.
10 be published in Chorieston, s. c.

EDwIN HERIor, EDIroR.
TTylIE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
- scrIption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, IN this city, b
MosrHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement Of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such as will 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 edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
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 oftheir Joint progress
With the general diffusion Of practical educatic
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, proportionsbly elevated and
improved. 1t il 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'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state the principles upon which it will be con-
ducted
Education-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 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 duplicity
the pernicous doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have SO long been per-
mltted to instil into the minds of our children
VIII be the constant and unceasing aim of this de-
partInent OF the work; and, for this purpose the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors
has abundant facilities at hand " hie awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education it will
be the aim or this Journal To promote, more es-
| pecially, those which most decidedly yracticn.
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educatier
Reviews OF all School Books and literary wo-h
published at the South--Reports of Teach ere.
Conventions, or extracts from then,-of Coeg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before itc
ernry Soceties-and Of the progress oflaw IN cd
cai, military and free schools at the Soutt- viii
constitute the main features of this division c. ta
work.
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress OF THE MEcHAkIc
ARTS AND MAsurAcTuREs, 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 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. II will also contain essays OIL
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
OF Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistical
facts relating to their progress.
| Each number of the HomE JouxsAL will cor-
tain AZ pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
TO subscribers and others at 80 per annum, or
copies for Si5-pnyabie al the end Of the roIune or
IN proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, les
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion O
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, will make 1t the interest of those concerned r
them to secure many copies possible, for cir
cuaton among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "Tng Honr JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way Of none, it's legitimate sphere and aim will
be to promote the interests Of nIl--recognizing no
party, IN education or politics. but the party of
the South, IT will seek to preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulating the industry Of her people.
April I2 ls5I--tf