The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-13
PROSP ECTUS
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published IN Charleston, s. c.
EDWIN HERoT, EDIToR.
P r. OSP E CT u 8


TIME subscriber proposes as soon as his sub
scrpuon list, now in, progress, will warrant
the undertaking, TO publish, in this city, a BIZ /.
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
| advancement Of the above objects. Its scope and
design are such es 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 edited
and well-conducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indssolubly connected, have, as vet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record ofther 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 Glasses, in every
branch or enterprise, proportonabIy 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 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-
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
tducatIon--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
reals, 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 irati 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. lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education il will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
! pecally, those which are most decidedly pracfica.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
-Revlews of all School Books and literary worly
published at the South-Reports of Teach ers5
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before it2
efary Societes--and oftbe progress oflaw ~ ed
zeal, military and free schools at the South viii
constitute the main features Of this division c. ts
work.
The IspusrRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices OF the progress of THE MECHANIC
AIRS 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 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 III cir
| achievements, and rewards of merit received at
public exhibitions. II 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 81 per annum, or
copies for Si5-payabis at the end Of the poirme,
in proportion, on the delivery of numbers, l8s
cenia, and less by the quantity. The insertion o
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
ber will make IL the interest of those concerned il
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TnE HoME JOURNAL viii make
no promises or pretensons. 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 sll-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 slim
uletine abe industry of her people.
April 10, I65I---tf