Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-04-07
PROSPECTUS OF
Besanoon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
ENOR 1838.-To contain an Almanac,
calculated for the meridian OF Match
ez; Sketches OF the carly history OF the
State; The State Constitution; the names
oil 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 oil the prln-
clpal or county towns; Incorporated RAIL
road companies, with their othclal boards,
amount OF ock, and the localities OF their
rail roads, whether commenced or in con-
temptation; list OF colleges, academies and
SemnarleS, with the dae OF their incorpo-
ration, annual income, names Of president
professors or principals, and number oi
IS udents or pupils; names of the election
precincts, post offices, rivers, creeks,
lakes, bayous; description OF natural or
artificial CurloSltleS; list of churches OF
various denominations, with the names of
the clergymen aud the number Of mem
bers belonging to each; tables Of the pro-
ducts OF cotton in various years; a COR
rected photography oil 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, COM
plele 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 like |
this, as a book of reference TO every citi
zen engaged in business, as well as 10 ira
velers and SPECTATORS, will be apparent to
all. II is needed to develope the resources
Of the tate; to giveuseful information to
he emigrant, and to elnbody, 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 a publication
30 well calculated TO show, at a view, the
agricultural wealth and al
most boundless resources OF the Stale
The annual publication of the Register
the continuation OF which depends upon
he patronage Of the first year) will give
he publisher ample opportunity 10 keep
ip with the improvements OF the State,
md make his volumes the annual records
IF the advance of society in mercantile
in the arts, in education, and all
hat embellishes life.
The publisher has been at the expense
If sending an agent into every county in
lie State to obtain accurate statistics on
Which he could rely lie has also made
arrangements 10 have the Slate map for
he Register engraved by distinguished
artist in an eastern city. He has only to {
ook to generous public for reimburse I
nent Of these heavy expenses, and for I
sufficient patronage to make IT an object to Il
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 lellow-citizens, to judges, coun- '
y clerks, registers, and those State Off e
ers who may have valuable information S
or such compilation, and whose inter. C
st It may be to communicate the same for n
ublication. e
All matter for compilation which those nj
Tho are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter di
rise may furnish, should be transmitted ito
revious 10 the first day ofNovember next CO
The Register will be printed with new fu
pc, on finepaper, in the duodecimo form,
ith more than two hundred pages--to be tn
'und like the American Almanac, and WI
her ANNALS of the class. Sc
The price Of the Register, including the ia
ctional map Of the State, TO subscribers, lu
Il be SIS, payable on delivery Of the vol SIC
ne. Large discounts will be made to agents an
10 become responsible for number OF I'M
umes, or who purchase it 10 sell again
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