The southern press., 1851-09-06
PROSP ECTUS
or THE sf.
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL.
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
TO be published in Charleston, s.. C.
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PRO S p TU S


VNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
IL scrption list, now in progress, will warrart
the Undertaking, to publish, in this city, Bl,
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted TO the
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope and
design are such ts 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 indissouby connected, have, as yet, no spe-
cial 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, proportonably elevated and
improved. IL is in accordance with these views,
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, TO
the consideration Of those who feel interested i'm
both or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made identical and
mutually dependent. Trusting that the object
wlll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state he principles upon which it will be con-
Quoted. .Nt
To cdvocate, 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.
tlce all literary undertakings Books and Period
icals, Colleges and Schools, ct the South-to dis
courage Northern rgents and their School Books,
and expose, IN r'l their deformity and duplicity,
the pernicious doctrines Of Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mtted TO insti into the minds of our children
will 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. " hile awarding
all due merit to other systems OF education. il will
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peciey, those which most decidedly practico.
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with EducaticT
Reviews Of all School Books and literary wo-ls
publish ed at the South-Reporis of Teacter erss
CoDventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before its
erary Societes-and OF the progress ofaw m cd
ical, military and free schools at the Souti- -wiL
constitute the main features Of this division c. Ia
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
mestic 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 IT, cir
achievements, and rewards of merit received at
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 46 pages, octave, bi-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for S5-payobie at the end ofLhe volume, or
in proportion, on the delivery OF numbers, 1e;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertions O
full notices Of new enterprises, &C., in each mum
Der, will make II the interest of those concerned r
them to secure as many copies as possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TLL HomE JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensons. Not entering the
lists for composition 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, 1t will seek TO preserve the Union of
the South, by developing her resources and stim
ulatng the industry Of her people.
April 10, l85l--tf