Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-03-17
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Re gister,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

ENOR 1838.-To contain an Almanac,
calculated for the meridian of Match
ez; Sketches of the early history of the
State; the State Constitution; the names
Of all county and State officers; incorpo-
rated banks, with their official boards, ca
pitfalls, &C.; population Of the counties and
county towns, with their distances from
Jackson; public buildings, churches, no.
tells, stores and manufactures of the prin-
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
seminaries, with the date of their incorpo-
ration, annual income, names of president,
professors or principals, und number of
fstudents or pupils; names of the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description of natural or
artificial curiosities; list of churches of
various denominations, with the names of
the clergymen and the number of men,
bers belonging to each; tables of the pro-
ducts of cotton in various years; cor
rected photography of the Indian names
of counties, towns and rivers in the Chick
asaw and Choctaw cessions, with a 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, a 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 we'll as 10 ira
yellers and spectators, will be apparent to
all. 1t is needed to develope the resources
of the State; to give useful information to
the emigrant, and to embody, in an access
sible compass, such valuable statistics as
can be obtained from no other source.
Laying aside the considerations of utili-
ty, the feeling Of State pride would be a
sufficient motive to sustain publication
80 we'll calculated m ~h~", .s >,;aw. the
population, agricultural wealth and al
most boundless resources of the State
The annual publication Of the Register
the continuation Of which depends upon
he patronage the first year will give {
he publisher ample opportunity TO keep |
Up with the improvements of the State.
md make his volumes the annual records
If the advance of society in mercantile Q
pursuits, in the arts, in education, and all i
hat embellishes life. /
The publisher has been at the EXPENSE 7
# sending an agent into every county in d
he State to obtain accurate statistics on $
which he could rely. He has also made Il
arrangements to have the State map for {;
he Register engraved by distinguished il
rtist in an eastern city. He has only to r.
ook to generous public for reimburse G
nent OF these heavy expenses, and for a
efficient patronage to make it an object to Il
ontinue the publication in future; but, at n
na same time, he would scorn to ask any v
avor that may not be fully earned by the D,
ltrnsic merit and value of the Register. Il
He commends his enterprise to all class.
Of his fellow-citizens, to judges, coun- b.
clerks, registers, and those State Off W
'rs who may have valuable information ri
II such compilation, and whose inter. 81
It it may be to communicate the same for 90
iblication. -
All matter for compilation which those err
no are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter ma
Use may furnish, should be transmitted dis
eyious to the first day ofNovember next TO
The Register will be printed with new ce,
pc, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form, fui
tn more than two hundred pages-to be
und like the American Almanac. and thc
Ter ANNALS of the class. We
The price Of the Register, including the sen
tional map of the State, to subscribers, tail
! DO $5, payable on delivery Of the vol fut,
e, Large discounts will be made to agents siol
Q become responsible for a number of and
umes, or who purchase it TO sell again me
limited number of advertising pages ga
be appended to the Register for the ad- j