Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-04-28
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
NOR 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 ofthe 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, and number Of
fstudents or pupils; names of the election
precincts, post Offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; desert ption of natural or
artificial curiosites; list of churches of
various denominations, with the names Of
the clergymen and the number of mem
bers belonging to each; tables of the pro-
ducts of cotton in various years; a cor
rected photography 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 we'll 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 we'll as to ira
vellers 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
so well calculated to show, at view, the
population, agricultural wealth and al
most boundless resources Of the State.-
The annual publication of the Register
(the continuation of which depends upon
the patronage ofthe 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.
The publisher has been at the expense
of sending an agent into every county in
lhe State to obtain accurate statistics on
which he could rely. He has also made
arrangements to have the State map for
the Register engraved by distinguished
artist in an eastern city. He has only to
look to generous public for reimburse
ment of these heavy expenses, and for
sufficient patronage to make it an object to
continue the publication in future; but, at
the same time, he would scorn to ask any
favor that may not be fully earned by the
intrinsic merit and value Of the Register.
He commends his enterprise to all class
es of his fellow-citizens, to judges, coun-
~ clerks, registers, and those State Off |
GERS who may have valuable information
for such a compilation, and whose inter.
est 1t may be to communicate the same for
publication.
All matter for compilation which those
who are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter
prise may furnish, should be transmitted
previous to the first day of November next
The Register will be printed with new
yPe, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form,
With more than two hundred pages--to be I
FOUND like the American Almanac, and '
'ther ANIMALS Of the class. 8
The price of the Register, including the t
ectional map of the State, to subscribers, f
will be SIS, payable on delivery Of the vol $
lme. Largediscounts will be made to agents a
'ho become responsible for number of n
olumes, or who purchase it to sell again.
limited number Of advertising pages