The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-13
PROSPE CTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL
OF EDUCATION AND DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.

To be published in Charleston, S. C..
EDWIN HEMoT, EDIroR.
ME subscriber proposes, as soon as his sub
u scrption list, now IN progress, will warran
the undertaking, to publish. in this city,
MONTHLY JOURNAL, exclusively devoted to tn
advancement OF the above objects. Its scope an,
design are such .s Will not interfere with those
any olher puohcation now in existence at tn
South. In every other department of Periodical
Literature, We are well supplied with aby-edts
and well-con Quoted Journals. The interests o
Southern Education and Home Industry, which
are indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no spe
clnl organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy O
their claims, and the record oftheir Joint progre "a
With the general diffusion Of pracucal educatic
among the people, their industrial prosperity mus
naturally be placed on more permanent basis
and the condition ofthe working classes, in ever,
branch OF enterprise, proportionably elevated ant
improved. Ii is in accordance with these views
that the undersigned submits, with confidence, Il
the consideration of those who feel interested il
both or either of these great causes, a plan by
which their interests can be made identical (
mutually dependent Trusting that the obec
w'll'meet their appreciation, he will now proceed
to state The principles upon which it will be con
Quoted.
To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern
Educaion--the encouragement of our own Liter
airy Institutions, and the publication OF Southern
School Books, edited, printed and circulated ir
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 pernlcious doctrines OF Aboil,on and OstiIity
to the South, which they have so long cen per.
mltted TO lnstil 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
xrtfh xg "A
has abundant facilities al hand. " lille awarding
all due merit to other systems Of education, it viii
be the aim OF this Journal to promote, more co.
pecally, those which are most decidedly practica:
and best adapted to the active business of life
Essays on all subjects connected with Educate
Reviews. OF all School Books and literary work
publis! ed at the South-Reports of Teach ere,
Conventions, or extracts from them-of Colleg
and School Exhibitions, and addresses before It
esary Socetes-and OF the progress o law n cd
ica, military and free schools at the South Ill
constitute the main features Of this division C. h
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 use, among us-and ni
new Inventions, improvements, models, and de.
signs in mechanism and the fine Arts-bringne
into notice the names. qualifications and localities
Of our own mechanics and amateurs IT, ell
achievements, and rewards Of merit received a
public exhibitions. 1t will also contain essays OF
all topics connected with these matters; Report,
Of Southern Industrial Institutes, and statistics
facts relating to their progress.
Each number Of the HOME JOURNAL will cor.
tain 4s pages, octave, pI-monthly, and Furnished
to subscribers and others at 50 per annum, or
copies for 5-payabe al the end of the poittne, OF
in proportion, on the delivery Of numbers, Is;
cents, and less by the quantity. The insertion {
full notices of new enterprises, &C., in each nun
Der, will make il the interest Of those concernedir
them to secure as many copies possible, for cir.
culation among their friends and patrons.
Beyond this, "TEE HOME JOURNAL" will make
no promises or pretensions. Not entering the
lists for competition with any, and standing in
the way of none, 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, it will seek TO preserve the Union OF
the South, by developing her resources and slim
ulating the industry of her people.
April 10, lS5l-tf