Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-03-31
PROSPECTUS OF
Besancon's Annual Register,
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

ASSSSA4SSA - $4,000 S@ss@ @pNk ASSJ
OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,
TNOR 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
pitals, &C.; population Of the counties and
county towns, with their distances from
Jackson; public buildings, churches, no.
tells, stores and manufactures of the prin-
cipa 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; description of natural or
artificial curiosities; list Of churches Of
various denominations, with the names OF
the clergymen and the number of men,
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 we'll as the State at
large:-To which will be added, a 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 a 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-
y, the feeling Of Stale pride would be a
motive Il Bhstain a publication
50 well calculated to show, at a view, the
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 keepi
Up with the improvements Of the State,
md make his volumes the annual records {
If the advance of society in mercantile /
pursuits, in the arts, in education, and all t
hat embelishes life.
The publisher has been at the expense d
# sending an agent into every county in S
he State to obtain accurate statistics on t
which he could rely. He has also made f
arrangements to have the State map for il
he Register engraved by distinguished r
'rtist in an eastern city. He has only to C
ook to generous public for reimburse a
nent of these heavy expenses, and for Il
efficient patronage to make tan object to n
continue the publication in future; but, at v
he same time, he would scorn to ask any p
avor that may not be fully earned by the k
Intrinsic merit and value of the Register.
He commends his enterprise to all class b
$ Of his (elow-citizens, to judges, coun- v
y clerks, registers, and those State Off ei
ers who may have valuable information 81
Or such compilation, and whose inter. ca
st it may be to communicate the same for nj
utilization. er
All matter for compilation which those na
Tho are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter di
rise may furnish, should be transmitted TO
revious to the first day OF November next ce
The Register will be printed with new fu
,pe, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form,
18th more than two hundred pages--to be tn
'und like the American Almanac, and VIZ
her ANIMALS of the class. sci
The price Of the Register, including the tai
ctional map Of the State, to subscribers, fut
II be rs, payable on delivery Of the vol sic
ne. Large discounts will be made 10 agents an
10 become responsible for a number of me
Tunes, or who purchase it to sell again. H
A limited number of advertising pages