Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-05-19
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.


OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
TNOR 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, and number of
lstudents or pupils; names of the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description Of natural or
artificial curiosties; 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; 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 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 ofan annual volume like
this, as book preference to every citi
zen engaged in business, as we'll as to ira.
vellers and Spectators, will be apparent to
all. ltis 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
sufficient motive to sustain publication
so we'll calculated to show, at view, the
agricultural wealth and al
most boundless resources Of the State
The annual publication Of the Register
the continuation of which depends upon
he patronage of the first year, will give
he publisher ample opportunity TO keep
up with the improvements Of the State,
and make his volumes the annual records
IF the advance of society in mercantile
oursuits, in the arts, in education, and all
hat embellishes life.
The publisher has been at the expense
If sending IN agent into every county in
he State to obtain accurate statistics on
which he could rely. He has also made
to have the State map for
he Register engraved by distinguished
lrtst in an eastern city. He has only to {
ook to generous public for reimburse
nent Of these heavy expenses, and for
ufficient patronage to make itan objectto l
continue the publication in future; but, at \
he same time, he would scorn to ask any (
avor that may not be fully earned by the
Intrinsic merit and value OF the Register.
He commends his enterprise to all class
IS Of his (ellow-citizens, to judges, coun- '
y clerks, registers, and those State Off e
ers who may have valuable information S
or such a compilation, and whose inter. C
st it may be to communicate the same for n
publication. e
All matter for compilation which those n
1ho are DESTROYS offorwarding the enter. d
rise may furnish, should be transmitted tc
revious to the first day ofNovember neyt e,
The Register will be printed with new Fl
1pe, on fine paper, inthe duodecimo form,
18th more than two hundred pages--to be II
ound like the American Almanac, and W
her ANNALS of the class. SC
The price Of the Register, including the ia
ctional map Of the State, to subscribers, fl
i'll DO 50, payable on delivery Of the vol s
ne. Large discounts will be made to agents ar
no become responsible for number Of m
'lumes, or who purchase it to sell again.
A limited number of advertising pages