Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1837-11-21
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

I'd LNOR l838.-To contain an Almanac
n n calcGated for the meridian of Match
st ez; Sketches of the carly history of tn
@. State; the State Constitution; the name
II. OF all county and State officers; incorpo
I'd rated banks, with their official boards, ca
pltals, &c.; population Of the counties ant
h. county towns, with their distances from
Of Jackson; public buildings, churches, no
I. tells, stores and manufactures of the prin
v. cipal or county towns; incorporated rail
road companies, with their official boards
amount of stock, 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-
!, ration, annuahncome, names Of president,
professors & principals, and number of
Y students or pupils; names of the election
= precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
# lakes, bayous; description of natural or
: artificial curlosltles; list of churches of
0 various denominations, with the names of
t the clergymen 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
OF 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, COM
plete sectional map of the State, showing
the divisions, course of streams and loca-
ton OF county seats in the new counties.
The necessity of an 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. tits needed TO develope the resou rces
OF the State; to give useful information to
the emlgrant, and to embody, in an acces-
sble compass, such valuable statistics nc
can be obtained from no other source.
Laying aside the considerations of ut;l;-
ty, the feeling of State pride would be a !.
sufficient motive to sustain a publication
so we'll calculated to show, at view. tho
population, agricultural wealth and al
most boundless resources of the State
The annual publication of the Register
1.-THE continuation of which depends upon
the patronage of the first year. will Give
the publisher ample opportunity to keep
up with the Improvements of the State.
and make his volumes the annual records
Of the advance of society in mercantile
pursuits, in the arts, in education, and all
that embellishes life. t
The publisher has been at the expense |
OF sending an agent into every county in j.
the State to obtain accurate statistics on !,
which he could rely. He has also made q
to have the State map for P
the Register engraved by distinguished u
artist in an eastern city. He has only to CT
ook to generous public for reimburse o
nent of these heavy expenses, and for
sufficient patronage to make it an object to
the publication in future; but. at
he same time, he would scorn to ask any Y
avor that may not be fully earned by the
intrinsic merit and value of the Register. "
He commends his enterprise to all class a
IS of his iellow-citizens, to Judges, coun- LII
y clerks. registers, and those State Off we
ers who may have valuable information hi
Or such compilation, and whose inter. Sc
st 1t may be to communicate the same for bu
utilization. I'm
All matter for compilation which those ma
Tho are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter pa
rise may furnish, should be transmitted br'
revlous TO the first day of November Au
ext all
The Register will be printed with new pa
1pe, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form. W,
18th more than two hundred pages--to be
ound like the American Almanac. and wa
her ANNALS of the class. TAX
The price of the Register, including the t'''
'ctional map of the State, to subscribers,
i'll be FIVE DOLLARS, payable on delivery
the volume. Large discounts will be -
ade to agents who become responsible
# a number ofvoumes, or who purchase c
to sell again.
A limited number of advertising pages Il, Ina
III be appended to the Register for the :. io'
vantage of Friends who may desire their u tne
VertlSements to penetrate every part of pel
State. Terms of advertising, One DOL Dy
r per line. era
All orders for the work, and all commu. ~,
cations containing special information onn 10y
be incorporated in the Register, NAV be ~ NJ
dressed to the compiler and publisher. o 80"
l.. A. BESANCON. Corn
Free Trader Office, Matches. a ,olo
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