The Southern Press

PROSPECTUS

TO THE

OF THE

SOUTHERN HOME JOURNAL

of Education and Domestic Industry.

To be published in Charleston, S. C.

Edwin Heriot, Editor.

THE subscriber proposes, as soon as his subscription list, now in progress, will warrant the undertaking, to publish, in this city, a Bi-Monthly Journal, exclusively devoted to the advancement of the above objects. Its scope and design are such as 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 indissolubly connected, have, as yet, no special organ, devoted mainly to the advocacy of their claims, and the record of their joint progress With the general diffusion of practical education among the people, their industrial prosperity must naturally be placed on a more permanent basis and the condition of the working classes, in every branch of enterprise, proportionably elevated and improved. It 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 can be made identical and mutually dependent. Trusting that the object will meet their approbation, he will now proceed to state the principles upon which it will be conducted.

To advocate, strictly and exclusively, Southern Education—the encouragement of our own Literary Institutions, and the publication of Southern School Books, edited, printed and circulated in the Southern States—to bring into prominent notice all literary undertakings, Books and Periodicals, Colleges and Schools, at the South—to discourage 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 so long been permitted to instil into the minds of our children—will be the constant and unceasing aim of this department of the work; and, for this purpose, the Editor, with the assistance of ready contributors, has abundant facilities at hand. While awarding all due merit to other systems of education, it will be the aim of this Journal to promote, more especially, 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 published at the South-Reports of Teachers Conventions, or extracts from them—of College and School Exhibitions, and addresses before Literary Societies and of the progress of law, medical, military and free schools at the South-will constitute the main features of this division of the work.

The Industrial Department will embrace extended notices of the progress of the Mechanical Arts and Manufactures, as well as all other branches of industry—of Factories and Workshops, for the production of every article of domestic consumption or use, among us—and of new inventions, improvements, models, and designs in mechanism and the fine Arts—bringing into notice the names, qualifications and localities of our own mechanics and amateurs: their achievements, and rewards of merit received at public exhibitions. It 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 contain 48 pages, octavo, bi-monthly, and furnished to subscribers and others at $2 per annum, or 5 copies for $15—payable at the end of the volume, or in proportion, on the delivery of numbers, 18 cents, and less by the quantity. The insertions of full notices of new enterprises, &c., in each number, will make it the interest of those concerned in them to secure as many copies as possible, for circulation among their friends and patrons.

Beyond this, "The 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 stimulating the industry of her people.

April 12. 1851---1f