Southern telegraph., 1837-10-24
PROSPECTUS

ron 1893.
TO contain an Annual Almanac. calcu.
lated for the meridian OF Natahez; Sketches
of the early History of the State; the State
Constitution; the names # county and
State Officers; Incorporated Banks, with
their official boards, capitals, &C.; Popula-
ton Of the couniics and county towns. with
their distances from Jackson; Public Build
: in2s, Churches, Hotels, Stores and Manu-
factories Of ihc principal of county towns;
Incorporated Railroad Companies with their
official boards, amount Of stock, and the
localities Of their railroads, whether com
mcnccd or in contemplation, List of Collie
geS, Academies and Seminlree, with the
date oftheir Incorporation, annual income,
namosof President. Professors of Principal
! Colleges, and number Of students or pupils;
| Names otthe Election Prc,incfs, Post Oil
ccs, Rivers, Greeks, Lakes, Blyous, De-
scripion Of natural or artificial Curosities;
List Of Churches various denominations,
with the names Of the Clergymen and the
numhes Of members belonging to each;
Tables of the product Of Cotton in various
years; A corrected photography of the In
dian names of counties, Towns and Rivers
in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Cessions.
with a mass OF valuable Statistics reIatinr
to the soil, agriculture, resources and pro-
ductions of the new counties. as well ms the
State ut 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 annaI volume Ike
this, as n book of reference to every citizen
engaged IN business, as we'll as TO travellers I.
and Spectators, will be apparent to all.
1t Is needed TO deveIopo the resources of
the State; to give useful information to tho
emlgrant, and 10 ombody, in an accessible
compass, such valuable statistics, as can be
obtained from no other source.
Laying aside the considerations ofutiity,
The feeling of State pride would he sufTi-
Gent motive to sustain publication so well
calculated to show, nj view, the population.
agricultural wealth and almost boundless
resources of the State. The annual pub-
inction of the Register Che continuation of
which depends upon the patronage of tho
ilrst Year, will give the publisher ample
TO keep up with the improve
nentS OF the State, and make his volumes tho
annual records OF the advance Ct society in
mercantile pursuits, in the arts in education.
md all that embelishos life.
The publisher had been at the oypcnso
II sending an agent into every county in
no STATE to obtain accurate statistics on
vhIch he could rely. lie has also made
arrangements to have the State man for the
Register engraved by distinguished nrlist
Il an eastern city. He has only to look to
generous public for reimbursement of
hese heavy expenses and for sufficient
au'nage to make it an object to continue
ne publication in future; but, at the same
me- ne would scorn to ask any favor that
Jay not be fully earned by the intrinsic
lerit and value of the Register.
lie commcnds his enterprise to all classes
his felIow-citizens. to Judges. County
Jerks, Registers, and those State officers
no may have valuable information for
lch compilation, and whose interest il
ny he to communicate the same for pub
cation. 4
All matter for compilation which those
no are desIrous of forwarding the enter
Use may furnish, should be transmitted
eyloas to the first day of November next
Tho Register will be printed with new
pc, on fine paper in the duodecimo
rm, with more than two hundred pnges-
be bound like the American Almanac
q other ANIMALS ofthe class.
The price ofthe Register including the
'tonal Map of the State, to subscribers
Il be FIVE DOLLARS. payabIe ON de-
cry OF the volume. Large discounts will
made 10 agents who become responsible
a number of volumes, or who purchase
sell again.
a limited number of advertising pages
y ne appended to the Register for the
'antage OF friends who may desire their
er'Isemenis to penetrate every part of
State. Terms of advertising, One Dol
a line
Nj orders for the work, and all commit
ATOMS containing special information to
Incorporated in the Register, may be adj
'sed to the compiler and publisher.
L. A. BESANCON.
Free Trader office, Naiclcs.
Ii. Those Editors who shall see ct
ublish the Prospectus of the Register,
receive the thanks of the publisher. as
as gratis coDV OF the volutna ,nd ,,,,v