The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-12
PROSP ECTUS
OF THE
4 SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.
To be published in Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HERIoT, EDITOR.


TO be published ia Charleston, s. C..
EDWIN HERIor, EDITOR.
VyNHE subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
n scription list, now in progress, will warrant
the undertaking, to publish. in this city, BI
MoNrHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to the
advancement OF the above objects Its scope and
design are such 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 aby-edited
and well-conducted Journals The interests OF
Southern Education. and Home Industry, which
are indissoubly connected, have, as vet, no spe-
cal organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of
their claims, and the record oftheir joint progress
With the general diffusion of PRACTICAL educalic
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, proportionably 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, 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. I 1asf ah
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
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
tce 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 defornty and dupcity,
the perniclous doctrines OF Abolition and Hostility
to the South, which they have so long been per-
mitted to instil into the minds of our children
will be the constant and uDceasng 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, it will
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more es-
| pecally, those which are most decidedly practca.
| and best adapted TO the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educator
Reviews Of all School Books and literary work
published at the South-ReporIs of Teach ersg
Conventions, or extracts from them--of CoIleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before L il!
airy Societes-and OF the progress flaw ,m ed
lea, military and free schools at the Soutt - viii
constitute the main features of this division c. IA
work. 1853
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
achievements, and rewards Of merit received ut
public exhibitions. IL will also contain essays on
all topics connected with these matters; Reports
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and stn,istica
facts relating to their progress. m
Each number Of the HoME JOURNAL will cor
tain 40 pages, octave, bi-monthly, and furnished
to subscribers and others at So per annum, or
copies for Sl5-payabk at The end Of the poiune, on
in proportion, the delivery OF numbers, Ie;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
ber will make IL the interest of those concerned r
them TO secure as many copies possible, for cir
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, CITE HoME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretenslons. 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-recognizng 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
ulatng the industry Of her people.
April 10, lS5l--U