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Term Exp Salry Legs' re Meets. Gen. Election.
Dec. 1855 $2,500 2 M. Nov. 11 M. Aug.
Nov. 1856 1,8001 M. Nov
Dec. 1855 10,000 1 Th. Sept...1 Tu. Jan.
May, 1855 1,100 1 W. May
Jan, 1855 1,333 1 Tu. June..
Oct. 1855 1,500 1 M. Nov
Nov. 1855 3,000 1 M. Nov
Jan. 1857 1,500 2 M. Jan..
Jan. 1856 1,300 January
Dec. 1858 1,000 1 M. Dec..
Aug. 1855 2,500 1 M. Dec.
Jan. 1856
3 M. Jan..
Jan. 1856 1,500 2 W. Jan
Jan. 1857 3,600 1 W. Jan
Jan. 1856 2,500 1 W. Jan
1,500

Kinsley S. Bingham... Jan. 1856

John J. M'Rea..
Sterling Price...
Nathaniel B. Baker..
Rodman M. Price
Myron H. Clark.
Thomas Bragg.

William Medill..
James Pollock.
William W. IIoppin.
James H. Adams..
Andrew Johnson
Edward M. Pease.
Stephen Royce...
Joseph Johnson..

Wm. A. Barstow

W. Jan.

1 M. Nov. 2 M. Sept.

1 W. Nov. 2 M. Nov.

Tu. Nov.

Jan. 1856 3,000
Dec. 1856 2,000
June 1855 1,000
Jan. 1857 1,800
Jan. 1857 4,000 Tu. Jan.. 1 Tu. Nov.
Jan. 1857 2,000 3 M. Nov... 2 Th. Aug.
Jan. 1856 1,800 1 M. Jan..... 2 Tu. Oct.
Jan. 1858 3,000 1 Tu. Jan.. 2 Tu. Oct.
May, 1856 400 May & Oct...I W. April.
Dec. 1856 3,500 4 M. Nov.... 2 M. Oct.
Oct. 1855 2,000 1 M. Oct.....1 Th. Aug.
Dec. 1855 2,000 In December 1 M. Aug.
Oct. 1855 750 2 Th. Oct....I Tu. Sept.
Jan. 1856 5,000 2 M. Jan... 4 Th. April.
Dec. 1855 1,250 1 M. Jan.....1 Tu. Nov.

1 M. Jan.. 1 M. & Tu. N.
Last M. Dec. 1 M. Aug.
1 W. June... 2 Tu. March.
2 Tu. Jan....1 Tu. Nov.

GOVERNORS OF TERRITORIES.-Oregon, Geo. L. Curry; Minnesota, Willis A. Gorman; New-Mexico, David Merriwether; Utah, Edwin J. Steptoe; Washington, Isaac J. Stevens; Nebraska, Mark W. Izard; Kansas, Andrew H, Reeder. The following States hold Legislative Sessions biennially, viz :-Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, lowa, and Illinois. Whigs in Italios. Know-Nothings.

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43,232 39,287
155,113 149,061 8,050
172,186 11,177 161,203 167,535 6,332
7,626 8,733 644 6,779 3,646 730 7,322 4,867
Presidential electors chosen by the le gislature.

60,030 59,917

35,281 38,058
30,687 10,389,
25,922 26,537
32,671 40,077

67,712

53,470 10,959

991,514

24,237

27,703 3,63:

397,654

19,206

25,126

606,526

31,250

41,324

682,014

17,866 27,160 4,161

317,976

38,318

37,495 823

489,555

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1,393,089 1,596,395 158, 123 1,362, 242 1,223,795 291,378 1,291,643 1,329,013 66,301 23,191,558

Pierce over Scott, 203,306; Taylor over Cass, 138,447; Polk over Clay, 37,370.

Eclipses in 1855.

[ible in the United States, except in Washington Territory, about 400 miles north-east of As

This year there will be two total and visible toria. Eclipses of the Moon, and two partial and chiefly invisible Eclipses of the Sun.

III. A total Eclipse of the Moon early in the morning of Thursday, October 25, visible. MagI. A total Eclipse of the Moon, Tuesday even- nitude, 17.563 digits on the Moon's northern ing, May 1st, visible. Magnitude, 18.348 digits limb. The Moon will be totally eclipsed 1 h. and on the Moon's southern limb. The Moon will be 1 m. after the commencement of the partial totally eclipsed 1 h. 3 m. after the Eclipse first Eclipse, and will remain in total obscuration 1 h. begins, and the total obscuration will last 1 h. and 29 m. Duration of the Eclipse, 3 h. 25 m. Duration of the entire Eclipse 3 h. 42 m. See the following table. See the following table.

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II. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, May 15; invis

IV. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, Nov. 9th, invisible in the United States.

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NOTE. This table is arranged in order of longitude, and those places whose difference of longitude does not exceed one minute of time, are united.

True Time.

mark, the watch must be set 12 minutes and 33 The Sun is on the meridian at 12 o'clock on four seconds past twelve, which will be the true time. days only in the year. It is sometimes as much The practice of setting time-pieces by the rising as 16 1-4 minutes before or after twelve when its or setting of the Sun or Moon is not strictly corshadow strikes the noon-mark on the sun-dial. rect; as the unevenness of the earth's surface On each calendar page of this Almanac is shown and intervening objects, such as hills aud forests, the exact time when the Sun reaches the meridi- near the points of rising and setting, occasion a an, or the shadow the noon-mark; and in order deviation, in every place, from the time exto set a clock or watch correctly, it must, when pressed in the Almanac, which time is adapted it is noon by the sun-dial or noon-mark, be set to a smooth, level horizon. The only means of at the time indicated in the Almanac. Thus, on keeping correct time is by the use of a noon-mark, the 25th of January, when the Sun is on the noon- or a meridian line.

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NOTE. There are twenty-five small planets, called Asteroids, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, viz-Flora, Clio, Vesta, Iris, Metis, Eunomia, Hebe, Pysche, Thetis, Melpomene, Massilia, Fortuna, Lutetia, Calliope, Thalia, Parthenope, Irene, Egeria, Astræa, Juno, Ceres, Pallas, and two not named. Eight of these were discovered in 1852.

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English papers inform us that discoveries of an importaut and most interesting kind, have lately been made as to the planet Saturn, by the new monster telescope of Mr. Craig: namely, that the rings are not rings at all, but arches of the most perfectly geometrical formation; not of equal thickness, nor chamfered, but rather with terrace-like mouldings. And hence the appearance of the outward ring, consisting of several concentric rings. From this appearance, it is now supposed that none of the rings are in the same plane

The Moon.

Every object on the surface of the moon of the height of one hundred feet, is distinctly seen through Lord Rosse's telescope. On its surface are craters of extinct volcanoes, rocks, and masses of stone, almost innumerable. But there are no signs of habitations such as ours; no vestige of architectural remains, to show that the moon is, or ever was, inhabited by a race of mortals 2 12 6 similar to ourselves. No water is visible, no sea, no river; all seems desolate.

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Mercury.

This planet will be brightest about Feb. 15, 8 148 14 June 11, and Oct. 8, at which times it will be quite 5 155 12 likely to be visible, being then in the west imme0 450 46 diately after sunset. This planet will be bright8 20 8 18 est again about April 5, Aug. 4, and Nov. 22, when 9 21 9 24 it will be in the east just before sunrise.

EQUIOXES AND SOLSTICES.

EQUINOXES AND SOLSTICES, NOTES, LEAP-YEAR, TIDE-TABLE, ETC.

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VENUS will be evening star until October 1st, The Calendar pages of this Almanac exhibit then morning star the balance of the year. MARS the time of high-water at New-York and Boston. will be evening star until April 9th, then morning To find the time of high-water at any of the folstar the remainder of the year. JUPITER will be lowing places, add to or subtract from the time evening star until January 29th, then morning of high-water at New-York, as below. (There is star until August 21st, then evening star the bal- a great deal of uncertainty about the tides, in ance of the year. SATURN will be evening star consequence of the direction and strength of the until June 10th, then morning star until Decem-winds.)

ber 18th.

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H. M. The MOON will run highest this year October Albany. .add 6 34 New-Haven ...add 2 4 29th, to the 6th degree of Gemini, having a declination of 28° 0' 14" north. It will run lowest Oc- Annapolis, Md.sub. 1 51 New-London...sub. 0 21 tober 16th, to the 6th degree of Sagittarius, hav- Annapolis, N.S.add 1 49 Newport.......sub. 1 55 ing a declination of 27° 59' 51.6" south. The Amboy........sub. 0 39 Norfolk........sub. 0 41 Baltimore add 5 7 Plymouth.. .add 2 19 Moon can never depart from the equator much further than the distances above given. The lon-Bridgeport.....add 2 0 Portland.. gitude of the Moon's ascending node at the be- Cape Split.....add 2 0 Portsmouth.... add 2 9 ...add 2 9 Providence....sub. 0 41 ginning of 1855 is 49° 32.4" and on the 27th of Halifax, N. S...sub. 2 15 Quebec, Canada add 8 49 Eastport.. December is 30° 31.6'. Apparent obliquity of the Holmes's Hole.add 1 4 Richmond.....sub. 2 25 ecliptic July 10th, 23° 27 35.09". The SUN will be north of the equator this trop-Marblehead...add 1 49 Sandy H'k,N.J.sub. 0 50 Hellgate....... add 1 41 Salem. ..add 2 19 ical year, dating from the solstice of December, Machias.......add 1 54 St. John's, N.B. add 2 49 1854, 186 days, 10 hours, 52 minutes; and south Mobile Point...add 1 54 Sunbury........add 0 19 of it 178 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes; showing a New-Bedford..sub. 1 40 Windsor....... add 2 49 difference of 7 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes, which is caused by the slower motion of the Earth in the Summer season, when it is in that part of its orbit furthest from the sun.

Duration of the Seasons, etc.

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Distance of the EARTH from the Sun January 1st, 93,505,607 miles; July 3rd, 96,695,200 miles; Sun in Winter Signs.. December 31st, 93,507,857 miles; and at its mean Sun in Spring Signs.. distance of 95,103,000 miles, April 2nd and Octo-Sun in Summer Signs. Sun in Autumnal Signs.. Tropical Year...

ber 2nd.

Venus will retrograde from the 8th of September to the 19th of October. Mars will not be in opposition this year, and will not retrograde. Jupiter will retrograde from June 22nd to October 19th. Saturn will retrograde until February 9th, and from October 12th to the end of the year.

Venus will be visibly occulted or eclipsed by the Moon, April 18th, at 8h. 38m. evening at Washington; ends at 9h. 2m.: duration 24 minutes.

Mercury will be brighest, and in a position favorable for visibility, about February 15th, June 11th, and October 8th; at which times the planet will be in the west soon after sunset. It will be brighest also about April 5th, August 4th, and November 22nd, at which times Mercury rises early in the morning before the Sun.

Venus will be brightest on the 25th of August

and November 6th.

Sun North of the Equator..
Sun South of the Equator...
Difference..

D. H. M. 89 1 8

92 20 41

93 14 11

89 17 48

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.186 10 52 ..178 18 56 7 15 56

Jewish and Mohammedan Eras.

The 5616th year of the Jews begins on the 13th of September. The 1272d year of the MOMAMMEDAN era begins September 18th.

TO ASCERTAIN THE LENGTH OF THE DAY AND NIGHT, At any time of the year, add 12 hours to the time of the Sun's setting, and from the sum subtract the time of rising, for the length of the day. The rings of Saturn will be visible all this year, the remainder add the time of rising next mornSubtract the time of setting from 12 hours, and to with the aid of a telescope, their southern sur-ing, for the length of the night. These rules are face being now presented to the earth. GOOD FRIDAY Occurs April 6th, EASTER April 8th, and WHITSUNDAY May 27th.

Leap-Year.

Leap-years are those that are exactly divisible by 4, and also by 400, and not by 100. The year 1900 therefore will not be a leap-year.

equally true for apparent time.

Chronological Cycles.

Dominical Letter, G; Golden number, 13; Jewish Lunar Cycle, 10; Epact (Moon's age Jan. 1,) 12; Solar Cycle, 16; Roman Indiction, 18; Julian Period, 6568; Age of the world, (Septuagint,) 7363.

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