Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-02-03
PROSPECTUS OF
BesanCon's annual Register,

OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
NOR l838.-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, ho.
tells, stores and manufactures OF the prln-
cipa or county towns; incorporated rail
road companies, with their official boards,
amount of ock, and the localities OF their
rail roads, whether commenced or in con-
temptation; list Of colleges, academies and
SemlnarleS, with the date of their lncorpo-
ration, annual income, names OF president,
professors or principals, and number OF
tstudents or pupils; names OF the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description of natural or
artificial curloslties; list of churches OF
various denominations, with the names of
the ciGTgymen and the number OF men,
bers belonging to each; tables of the pro-
ducts of cotton in various years; corr
rected orthography Of the Indian names
OF counties, towns and rivers in the Chick
asaw and Choctaw cesslons, 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 ioca-
ton OF county seats in the new counties.
The necessity OF an annual volume ike
this, as book OF reference to every cni-
zen engaged in business, as well as to ira
Veliers and spectators, will be apparent 10
all. 1t is needed to deyelope the resources
OF the state; toglye useful information to
inc emSrant, and TO embody, in an access
slb'e 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
Sullcleht motive to sustain publication
SO well calculated to show, at view, the
population, agricultural wealth and al
most RoundlesS resources of the State
he annual publication of the Register
Nthe continuation Of which depends upon
me patronage OF the first year, will give
me publisher ample opportunity TO Keep
up win 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 embeIishes life.
The publisher has been at the expense
OF sending an agent into every county in
the State to obtain accurate statistics ON
which he could rely. He has also made
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 {
patronage to make it an object to q
continue the publication in future; but. Mt
ne same time, he would scorn to ask anv i
aVor that may not be fully earned by the
intrinsic merit and value of the Register I
lie commends his enterprise TO ali class.
IS OF his leliow-citlzens, TO Judges, coun-
y clerks, registers, and those State Off. Q
,ers who may have valuable information
or such compilation, and whose inter. :
'st It may be to communicate the same for D
publication. C
All mater lor compilation which those
Who are DESTROYS of forwarding the enter. .
rise may furnish, should be transmitted u
PREVIOUS TO the first day Of November NEXT u
The Register will be printed with new (
yPe, on hne paper, in the duodecimo form. =
WITH more than two hundred pages--to be- u
found like the American Almanac, and :,
ther ANNALS of the class. u
The price of the Register, including The W
ectionaI map OF the State, TO subscriber, SC
vii be $5.payable on deliEery of the vol. ia
me- Large discounts will be made TO agents III
mo become responsible for numher or sl'
DUNES, or who purchase it to sell AGAIN an
a. a ilInIted number Of ADVERTISING no nas nj
III be appended to the Register for the S adj
ahtago OF friends who may desire their nd.
to penetrate every partortha -
'" .9 Terms oil advertising, SI per hne
an orders loi the work, and all commn Y
Gallons containing special intormn,;nn '
20 Incorporated in the Register nav hn cn'
'oressod to the compiler and pubIishcyr u Coz
Fro, r = L. A. BESANCON att