Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-10-31
PROSPECTUS OF
Besanccn's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

hNOR J838.-To contain an Almanac
calculated for the meridian Of Match
ca; Sketches of the early history of thu
, State; the State Constitution; the names
of all county and State officers; incorpo
rated banks, with their official boards, ca
f pitfalls, &c; population of the counties ant
county towns, with their distances from
Jackson; public buildings, churches, no
: tells, stores and manufactures of the prin.
cipa or county towns; Incorporated rail
road companies, with their official boards,
amount of sock, and the localities of their
rail roads, whether commenced or in con-
temptation; list of colleges, academies and
Summaries, with the date of their incorpo-
4 Tatlon, annuA income, names of president,
professors fr principals, and number of
students orpupilS; names Of the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description of natural or
artificial curiosties; list of churches of
various denomOatlons, with the names of
the ccrgymen and the number of men,
bers belonging to each; tables of the pro-
ducts OF cotton in various years; cor
rected orthography of the Indian names
OF counties, towns and rivers in the Chick
aSaW and Choctaw cessions, with mass
oil valuable statistics relating to the soil, |
agriculture, resources and productions Of
The new counties, as well as the State at
large:-To which will be added, a com
Pleie sectional map of the State, showing
the divisions, course of streams and loca
ton OF county seats in the new counties
The necessity ofan annual volume like
this, as book of reference to every citi.
zen engaged in business, as well as to ira
Vellers and spectators, will be apparent to
all. II is needed to develope the resources
Jt the tate; toglve useful information to ,
ne emlgrant, and to embody, in an access
lble compass, such valuable statistics as
an be obtained from no other source. :
Laying aside the considerations of utili Il
y, the feeling of State pride would be a {;
motive to sustain publication d
well calculated to show, at a view, the ?
opulatlon, agricultural wealth and al II
lost boundlesS resources of the State Z
ne annual publication of the Register u
he continuation of which depends upon s.
lie patronage of the first Year, will give D
he publisher ample opportunity to Keep
with the improvements of the State,
I'd make his volumes the annual records -
the advance of society in mercantile
lrsults, in the arts, in education, and all
at embeIIishes life.
The publisher has been at the expense tn
sending an agent INFO every county in +
G state to obtain accurate statistics on Il
hlch ne could rely. He has also made N
engagements to have the State map for &c
e Register engraved by distinguished pa
list IN an eastern city. He has only to tn
ok to generous public for reimburse ca
ent OF these heavy expenses, and for or
thclent patronage to make it an object to
ntnue the publication in future; but, at
3 same time, he would scorn to ask any
'or that may not be fully earned by the v
riDslc merit and value of the Register.
lie commends his enterprise to all class w
OF his leIIow-cltlzens, to Judges, coun- q
clerks, registers, and those State Off II
w,
such compilation, and whose inter. IL,
II may be to communicate the same for sos'
blication. ~
All matter for compilation which those M
10 are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter ha,
sc may furnish, should be transmitted ~,
,vlous to the first day Of November Prr
1t. U''
The Register will be printed with new all
re, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form, Ba
h more than two hundred pages--to be bell
md like the American Almanac, and T
Ter ANNALS Of the class. va,
The price of the Register, including the tax
tIonal map of the State, to subscribers. the
be FIVE DOLLARS, payable on delivery
the volume. Large discounts will be
de to agents who become responsible J
number volumes, or who purchase -''---
D sell again. .
limited number Of advertising pages s
be appended to the Register for the Ind
antage offriends who may desire their Tow
ertlsements to penetrate every part If tho
State. Terms of advertising, One DOL Gen
per line. -, !
u! orders for the work, and all commu- eral
'tlons containing special information +
70 Incorporated in the Register. NAV be City
ressed to the compiler and publisher. copy
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