Southern telegraph., 1837-08-01
PROSPECTUS
or
BESANCON's ANNUAL REGISTER
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
OF

ron 1899.
70 contain an Annual Almanac, calcu-
lated for the meridian of Natchez; Sketches
ofthe early History Of the State; the State
Constitution; the names Of county and
State Officers; Incorporated Banks, with
their official boards, capitals, &c. PopnIa
tion Of the counties and county towns. with
their distances from Jackson; Public Build
ings, Churches, Hotels, Stores and Manu-
factories of the principal of county towns;
incorporated Railroad Companies with their
official boards, amount of stock, and ithe
localities of their railroads, whether com
menccd or in contemplation, List Of Cole
ges. Academies and Semnaries, with the
date other incorporation, annual income,
names of President Professors of PRINCIPAL
Colleges, and number of students or pupils
Names of the Election Presincts, Post Off.
ces, Rivers, Greeks, Lakes, Bayous, De-
scrIption OF natural or artificial Curiosities:
List Of Churches various denomin tions.
with the names of the Clergymen and the
numhes of members belonging to each
Tables ofthe product Of Cotton in varions
years; corrected photography of the In
dian names of counties, Towns and Rivers
in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Cessions.
with a mass of valuable Statistics relating
to the soil, agriculture, resources and Dro-
ductlons of the new counties. as well as the
State at large:-To which will be added
complete Sectional Map of the State.
showing the divisions, course of steams and
location of county seats in the new coun-
ties.
The necessity of an ANIMAL volume like
this, as book of reference to every citizen
engaged IN business, as well as TO travellers
and SPECTATORS will be apparent to all.
II is needed TO develope the resources of
the State; to give useful information TO the
emIgrant, and TO embody, in an accessible
compass, such valuable statistics, as can be 5
obtained from no other source.
Laying aside the considerations of utility.
The feeling ofState pride would be a suffi-
cient motive to-susiain publication SO welt
calculated to show, at view, the population,
agricultural wealth and almost bonndIess
resources of the State. The annual pub (
fiction of the Register (the continuation of
Which depends upon the patronage of the
irst Year, will give the publisher ample =,
opportunity to keep up with the improve \
State, and make his volumes the
annual records Of the advance or society in
mercantile pursuits, in the arts in education.
nd all that embeIlishes life.
The publisher lad heen at the expense
i sending an agent into every county in
ne State to obtain accurate statistics on
which he could rely. He has also made 4
arrangements to have the State map for the :,
register engraved bya distinguished artist D
an eastern city. He has only to look to 'i'
generous public for reimbursement of te
lese heavy expenses and for sufficient c.
atronage to make it an object to continue Oh
re publication IN future; but, at the same
me, he would scorn to ask any favor that
Iay not be fully earned by the intrinsic
crit and value of the Register.
He commends his enterprise to all classes
ms tellow-cltlzens, TO Judges, County
Jerks, Registers, and those State officers :
no may have valuable information for n,
Oh compilation, and whose interest il ~.
az be to communicate the same for pub. Il
ation. Ta8t
All matter for compilation which those
10 are DESTROYS of forwarding the enter
se may furnish, should be transmitted
,vioss to the first day of November next.
The Register will be printed with new
&c, on fine paper in the duodecimo
M, with more than two hundred pages
be bound like the American Almanac
other annuals ofthe class. n
The price ofthe Register including the !
tional Map of the State, to subscribers 10,
be FIVE DOLLARS, payable on de- thel
Try Of the volume. Large discounts will no
made 20 agents who become responsible
a number of volumes, or who purchase )
sell again. -
limited number of advertising pages
be appended to the Register for the
antage Of friends who may desire their N
srtisements to penetrate every part off =
State. Terms Of advertising, One Dot
a line. r.
u orders for the work, and all commu- -
tons containing special information TO
lcoporated in the Register, may be adj nv
sed to the compiler and publisher. u
L. A. BESANCON.
Free Trader office, Matches. SUI, son
Nv, final
u. Those Editors who shall see it
Ibllsh the Prospectus of the Register. Al
receive the thanks of the nuhlisbar ,s