The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-12
PR O S p E c Il U S
OF TIE
HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, s. c.
Edwin HEmoT, EDITOR.


Edwin HEMoT, EDITOR.
TuNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as bis SUBJ
Il scrption list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish in this city, BIZ
MosTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement of the above objects. Its scope and
design such will not interfere with those OF
any other publication in existence at the
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with ably-edited
and wellconducted Journals. The interests Of
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indlssolubly connected, have, as vet, no spe-
cial organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their CLAIMS and the record other Joint progress
With the general diffusion of practical education
among the people, their Industrial prosperity must
naturally be placed more permanent basis,
and the condition ofthe working classes in every
branch Of enterprise, proporiionably elevated and
improved. 1t IL in accordance with these views,
that the unders gned submits, with confidence to
the consideration Of those who feel interested in
both either Of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made Identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting TINT 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
tice all literary undertakings, Books and Period
icals, Colleges and Schools. a, the South--to dis
courage Northern agents, and their School Books
and expose, in all their deformity and duplIcity
the pernicious doctrines OF Abolition and hostility
to the South, which they have 80 long been per
mtted to Dstil into the minds Of our children
will be the constant and uncsasing aim Of this de-
partment Of the work, and, for this purpose, the
Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors,
has abundant facilities nj and. W lille I'd pg
all duo merit to other systems Of education, it will
be the aim OF this Journal TO promote, more
peciay, those which are most decidedly practical
and best adapted to the active business Of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Education
Reviews Of all School Books and literary works
puhsl ed at the South--Reporis Of Teachers,
Conventions, extracts from them-of College
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Lit
erary Societes-and OF the progress Of law, med
ical, military and free schools Mt the South-wiIl
constitute the main features Of this division Of the
work,
The INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT will embrace ex-
tended notices Of the progress Of THE MECHANIC
Arts AND MANUrAcTUREx, as well all other
branches Of indusry--of Factories and Work
shops, for the production Of every article of do
mestic consumption or use, among us--and of
new inventions, improvements, models, and de-
signs IN mechanism and the fine Arts-brngng
into notice the names, qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs, then
achievements, and rewards Of merit received al
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 JouaNAl will con
tain 4S pages. octave, bi-monthly, and furnish ed
to subscribers and others at "a per annum, or 10
copies for S5-pnySblt at The end of the roi,.ms or
IN proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, Is;