Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-09-01
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSIsSIpPI,

I OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
ENOR 1870 contain an Almanac
IL calculated for the meridian Of Match
ez; Sketches Of the carly 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 prn-
clPal 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
semlnarles, with the date of their incorpo.
ration, annual income, names of president,
professors or principals, and number Of
tstudents or pupilsj names of the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description of natural or
artificial curlosities; list of churches Of
various denominations, with the names Of
the clergymen and the number of men,
oers 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 cesslons, with mass
OF valuable statistics relating 10 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 Preference to every citi
zen engaged in business, as we'll as TO ira.
vellers and spectators, will be apparent to
all. is needed to develope the resources
OF the State; to give useful Information TO
the emlgrant, and to embody, in an Access
Slble 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
suitclent motive to sustain publication
so well calculated to show, at a view, the
population, agricultural wealth and al
most boundlesS resources of the State I
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 :
" the advance Of society in mercantile
pursuits, in the arts, in education, and all /
hat embellishes life. ,
The publisher has been at the expense +
II sending an agent into every county in
ne State to obtain accurate statistics on 8
Which he could rely. He has also made n
arrangements to have the State map for +
ne Register engraved by distinguished
rtlst in an eastern city. He has only to q
ook TO generous public for reimburse :,
nent of these heavy expenses, ard for u
uttcient patronage to make it an object to r
ontlnue the publication in future; but, at 4,
he same time, ne would scorn to ask anv 9,
avor that may not he fully earned by the - -
Intrinsic merit and value of the Register. "a
He commends his enterprise to all class. :.
s of his lelow-citizens, to Judges, coun- re re
y clerks, registers, and those State Off ~
ers who may have valuable information ~
or such compilation, and whose inter. ~
st 1t may be to communicate the same for ~
utilization. II.
All matter for compilation which those '. W
Tho are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter. +.
rise may furnish, should be transmitted ~
revlous to the first day of November next /.
The Register will be printed with new w W
,pe, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form, W W
nth more than two hundred pages--to be e e
ound like the American Almanac, and 81
her ANNALS Of the class Cd
The price of the Register, including the liu
ctlonal map of the State, to subscribers, eT
Ill DC IS, payable on delivery of the vol. ia ia
me- Large discounts will be made to agents us
no become responsible for a number of 10
lumes, or who purchase it TO sell again. cceE
a limited number of advertising pages 'ui
IL be appended to the Register for the ad-
nt.age of friends who may desire their ad. 'ho '
easements to penetrate every part ofthe we
'te. Terms Of advertising, 81 per line. sen en-
All orders fol- the work, and all conmu- t an
atlons containing special information lul'
be incorporated in the Register, NAV be $40,
dressed to the compiler and publisher. ulu
L. A. BESANCON. ''0
FreH Trader OHre M,t.bc-