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


LNOR 1838.-To contain an Almanac
- calculated for the meridian of Match
ez; Sketches Of the early history of tho
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-
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
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,
6ers 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 ofan annual volume like
this, as book preference to every citi-
zen engaged in business, as well as TO ira
vellers and SPECTATORS, will be apparent to
all. 1t is needed to develope the resources
of the State; togive 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 a $
Sulhclent motive to sustain publication ,
SO well calculated to show, at a view, the I
population, agricultural wealth and al il
most boundless resources of the State Il
The annual publication of the Register /
the continuation of which depends upon t
he patronage of the first year) will give +
he publisher ample opportunity to keep t
Up with the improvements of the State, S
nd make his volumes the annual records O
# the advance of society in mercantile
pursuits, in the arts, in education, and all u
hat embelishes life. "
The publisher has been at the expense ii
+ sending an agent into every county in re
ne State to obtain accurate statistics on S
Inch no could rely. He has also made pj
arrangements to have the State map for ii
he Register engraved by distinguished
rtlst In an eastern city. He has only TO OF
'ok to generous public for reimburse it
tent OF these heavy expenses, and for tn
ltticlent patronage to make it an object to It
'ntinue the publication in future; but, at do
lie same time, he would scorn to ask anv su
vor that may not be fully earned BY the tn
trlnsic merit and value of the Register fal
He commends his enterprise to all class it.
OF his iellow-citizens, TO judges, coun. re,
clerks, registers, and those State Off Gle
RS who may have valuable information alb
such compilation, and whose inter. the
1t may be to communicate the same for no
blication. vic
All matter for compilation which those moi
10 are DESTROYS Of forwarding the enter low
Use may furnish, should be transmitted :
evious TO the first day ofNovember next be
The Register will be printed with new VOC
%, on fine paper, in the duodecimo form. cir,
IN more than two hundred pages--to be sha
ind like the American Almanac, and cal
Ter ANNALS of the class noc
The price of the Register, including the or '
tlonal map of the State, to subscribers, nal
DC 80, payable on delivery of the vol. disc
G. Large discounts will be made TO agents n u
become responsible for number Of cent
lmes, or who purchase it 10 sell again GII
limited number Of advertising pages "
be appended to the Register for the ad. thos
tage friends who may desire their ad. we'll
'lsements to penetrate every part ofthe sent
9. Terms Of advertising, sri per Inc. taini
u orders foi the work, and all commu- futur
tions containing special information sion
Incorporated IN the Register, may be and |
'essed to the compiler and publisher. rner
L. A. BESANCON.