WHIG ALMANAC: 1848. CALCULATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1848: PREPARED EXPRESSLY FOR THE WHIG ALMANAC BY DAVID YOUNG, PHILOM. CUSTOMARY NOTES. Venus will be Morning Star until July 22, then Evening Star until May 12, 1849. The Moon will run highest this year about the 2d degree of Cancer, and lowest about the 2d degree of Capricorn. Longitude of the Moon's Ascending Node in the middle of this year, 5 signs, 25 degrees; or 175°. Mean obliquity of the Ecliptic in the Middle of this year, 23° 27' 32.6". True obliquity at the same time, 23° 27′ 22.8'', ECLIPSES IN THE YEAR 1848. I. A small Eclipse on the Sun's northern limb at the time of New Moon, March 5, in the morning; visible only in the north-eastern parts of North America, including Greenland and Iceland. The magnitude of this Eclipse will at no point exceed 3.23 digits. At the following cities it will be visible, but very small: See Table.... CITIES. Rochester.. Detroit. II. An Eclipse of the Moon on the 19th of March, at the time of Full Moon in the evening, ending before rising at New-York; visible about four minutes at Hartford and eleven at Boston-rising with two digits eclipsed at the latter place. Boston III. The Sun will be Eclipsed April 3, at the time of New Chicago Moon in the evening; visible only in the South Pacific and Cleveland... Southern Oceans, between Cape Horn and New-Zealand and between Easter Island and the South Pole. IV. A very small Eclipse on the Sun's southern limb, at the time of New Moon August 28, in the afternoon, visible only in a small tract in the Southern Ocean. This Eclipse is little more than a mere contact of the Moon's penumbra with the surface of the Ocean. Its magnitude will at no point be more than about one-eighth part of a digit. V. There will be an Eclipse of the Moon in September, visible and total. Duration of total darkness, 1h. 38m. Whole duration, 3h. 36m. Depth of immersion in the Earth's shadow, 20.42 digits from the northern side. VI. Sun Eclipsed September 27, at the time of New Moon in the morning. This Eclipse will be invisible in America, excepting the north-eastern coast of Greenland. It will be visible in the north-eastern parts of Europe, and in a great part of Asia. Greatest Eclipse, 5.82 digits on the Sun's northern limb, in longitude 122° 12' east! from Greenwich, and latitude 72° 14' north. Boston. Raleigh Beginning Middle of the Eclipse. tot.dark. Eclipse, 13th day 13th day morn'g. morn'g. ECLIPSE OF THE Begin'g, H. M. D. H. M. 11 47 TRANSIT. Detroit.. Cincinnati, Tallahassee. New-Orleans Calendar for Calendar for BOSTON; New-England, New-York State, Michigan, Iowa. Sun Sun Moon H. w. NEW-YORK CITY; Calendar for Calendar for CHARLESTON; North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. Sun Sun Moon | H.w. Sun | Sun Moon Sun Sun | Moon | H. w. rises ris's sets rises Ch'a 2.37 4 36 3 37 8 28 7 27 4 42 3 34 22 52 7 32 4 37 rises N. Y. ris's sets 3 31 7 5 5 4 3 21 4 28 4 27 7 5 5 4 4 15 5 30 6 23 11 1 7 27 4 44 6 19 6 16 7 5 5 6 6 2 71 sets sets 7 5 7 sets 742 6 28 7 6 5 7 6 40 8 21 5 8 743 RANK IN THE ARMY, OR A DARKEY'S DIGNITY. CAPTAIN JO.-During Doniphan's march from -After a portion of the troops had been landed El Paso to Chihuahua, the black servants of the on the beach near Vera Cruz, on the night of the different officers of the regiment formed them. 9th of March, a body of the enemy commenced a selves into a company. There were twelve of brisk fire of small arms into the encampment Of them, of which number eleven were officers, and course, all hands were on the qui vive, expecting one high private. Jo- -, servant to Lieut. Dthe Mexicans would make some demonstration was elected captain. He was the blackest of the upon our lines during the night, and when the crowd, and sported a large black feather with a firing commenced, concluded there was about to small black hat; also a large sabre, with an inbe a general attack. The lines were soon formed, tensely bright brass hilt-which same sabre was and not a word could be heard from the soldiery;eternally getting involved in the intricate windbut there was a negro who kept running from ings of his bow legs. With Jo for captain they one little point of hill to another, apparently in a were a formidable body, and to hear them talk, state of great excitement. He finally laid him- they would work wonders. During the battle of self flat on his face, at full length, and commenced Sacramento, however, the company were not to working himself into the soft sand with a good be seen; but after the action was over, they were deal of energy. On being asked what he was espied breaking out from the wagons and joining, about, he replied, "I'se 'fraid some ob dem 'ere in the pursuit. That evening one of our officers copper balls will put a stop to me drawin' my ra- attacked Jo about his company. "Well, Jo, 1 shuns " "Why," asked the party speaking to hear your men were hid behind the wagons duhim, "don't you get up and fight them?" "No, ring the fight?" "Lieutenant, l'ee berry sorry to sir-ee!" he said, "dat's my massa's part ob de say it am de truf! I done eberyting-I called on biziness; he has been to West Pint, whar dey de pateriam ob de men-I injoked dem by all dey makes fightin' people to learn dat, and you don't hold most deah in dis worl and de nex, but it ketch dis nigger meddlin' hesef wid odder peo- was no go-dey would get on de wrong sides ob ple's biziness. My massa does de fightin', and I de wagons." "But what did you do there ?" "I waits on him and nusses him. If he gits wound-stood dar gittin' cooler, and de firing kept gittin' ed, we gits promoted." "You get promoted hotter, and at last de cannon-balls cum so ormighty What good will his promotion do you?" inquired fass, I thought de best ting dis nigga could do, war the individual. "Oh, dat question is been settled to git behind de wagons heself!" [St. Louis Rev. long time ago in dese parts down here. A col "No. ored gemman what waits on a kurnel outranks "Bob, is that dog of yours a pointer?" one dat waits on a capten; an' de way we colored he is half hunter and half setter; he hunts for gemmen reg'lars makes dese volunteer niggers bones when he is hungry, and sits by the stove squat, is a caution to white folks!" [N O. Delta. when he is satisfied." 13 14 24 Th 25 Fr 26 Sa 28 M Tu 16 W 12 276 58 5 31 8 22 even. 3 2 morn. 5 2 5 50 h.m. h.m. h. m. h. m. h.m. h.m. h. in.l. m.b.m. h.m. 127 17 5 11 4.10 8 417 13 5 15 4 6 6 57 10 5 18 9 48 7 12 5 16] 4 58 7 12 7 9 5 19 10 36 7 11 5 18 547 8 07 85 20 6 19 5 23 7.30 841 6 5 24 85 22 11 2 2 57 2 487 25 28 15 29 05 30 59 5 31 9 186 565 34 50 4.57 5 42 5 39 6 16 rises 1 43 6 9 526 52 5 37 11 06 51 5 38 morn 6 50 5 39 0 86 50 5 40 1 136 49 5 41 2 156 48 5 42 3 14 6 47 5 43 4 76 46 5 44 4 54 6 45 5 44 5 37 6 44 5 45 6 156 43 5 46 rises6 425 47 7 26 6 41 5 48 8 22 6 40 5 49 9 186 39 5 50 10 13 6 37 5 50 11 8 6 36 5 51 morn||6 35 5 52 36 34 5 53 TOBIN'S LAST-Ex-Captain Tobin, the corres- breastworks into de fort." pondent of the N. O. Delta, writing from Buena ning too?" "No sir-ee! I rolled ober long side o' Vista, tells the following laughable incident: Pete; and when we got in dey roared out, fall There are many jokes about the boys who in, niggers,' and commenced firing bombs and sloped from the field. One acknowledged that he things; and Pete says, 'if one ob 'em busts here did some tall walking; another, that any one it will hurt us-let's slope for de plaza;' and meeting him on the road to Saltillo would have when we got dere it was fall in, niggers, fall in,' supposed him in search of a physician for a deli- all de time. You may call dat a fandango; but if cate lady; while two negroes, officers' servants. you ketch me at one agin, dere's no snakes whar repudiate the idea of running away, and claim the dis child was raised, Massa Bob." merit of making a handsome 'treat. "I'll tell you bout it, Massa Bob," said one to his master; PRETTY WELL FOR AN INDIAN.-We were Pete and me was down at the ranche, where somewhat amused, on last Sunday morning, at the doctors was cuttin off the white folks' heads the plan hit upon by one of the Miami Indians to and legs, and says Pete to me, 'Tom,' says he. get rid of the crowd of gazers at 'Canal House.' 'let's go up the hill and see the fightin;' so up we A number of squaws were in the sitting room, goes, and we meets the landseers, and we streaks and naturally attracted a great deal of attention it back for de ranche, and de dam landseers after The copper-colored gentleman in question beus; and Pete he makes for de bake oben, but de came either disgusted or tired of the constant gemman wot deals faro for de Kentucks he was gazing of the 'pale-faces' at the ladies belonging safe sconced in de back side ob de oben, and when to his party, and while the room was crowded to Pete put his head in de mouf ob de oben de lodger excess, he raised his hands to attract attention, swear he blow Pete's dam brack brains out; so and exclaimed-" Ugh! one Ingin got small pox!' Pete says, dere 's danger here-Tom, let's wam- The 'pale-faces' mizzled. [Lafayette Cour. pos to town; and when we got half way we sees de landseers agin, and den, Massa Bob, you ought THE RETORT SURGICAL-At a late examina to a seed Pete a streakin of it; his coat-tail tion of the College of Surgeons, a candidate was streamed away behind him all round, you might asked by Abernethy, what he would do if a man a played marvels on it." "But what were you were blown up by gunpowder? "Why," coolly doing all the time, Tom-were you running away answered the tyro," wait till he came down too?" "No, Massa Bob, I scorn de idea-I was again." "True," said Abernethy; " and suppose only 'treating long side o' Pete; and when we got I kicked you for such an impertinent reply: what near de fort de soldiers holler out, run, niggers, muscles should I put in motion?" "Why," rerun, git into de fort.' Den you ought to a seed plied the young man, "the flexors and extensors Pete a streakin on it; he rolled ober and ober de of my arm, for I should floor you immediately." W 7 20 6 37 Th 4 24 Fr 6 346 34 5 51 5 7 5 5 Sa 6 115 325 52 5 47 A 6 M 5 48 6 31 5 53 sets 10 Fr Sun Sun Moon | H. w. Sun | Sun | Moon | H. w. Sun Sun Moon Sun Sun Moon H.w. ris's sets rises Bost. ris's sets rises N. Y. ris's sets rises ris's sets rises Ch'n. h.m. h.m. h. m. b. m. h.m. h.m. h. m. h. m. h.m. h.m. h. m. h.m. h.m. 5 49 3 39 7 49 6 35 5 50 3 35 5 13 6 34 5 51 3 32 6 29 5 56 6 576 35 5 50 9 76 345 51 4 21 6 31 6 33 5 52 4 19 6 28 5 57 10 12 6 32 5 52 7 366 31 5 53 5 36 27 5 58 8 216 30 5 54 5 44 6 26 5 59 9 66 28 5 55 sets 6 24 5 59 9 46 6 27 5 57 7 33 6 23 6 0 8 45 10 286 25 5 58 8 44 6 22 6 9 56 11 11 6 24 5 59 11 5 11 55 6 22 6 0 morn morn 6 21 6 4 16 18 6 1 25 6 18 6 3 13 M 2 40 3 17 6 3 2 10 TOUCH US GENTLY, TIME. BY BARRY CORNWALL. Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Touch us gently, Time! Lies in simple things. without manufactures, and the richest robes were the skins of the most formidable monsters. They carried on trade without books, and correspondence without posts; their merchants kept no accounts, their shopkeepers no cash-books; they had surgery without anatomy, and physicians without materia medica; they gave emetics without ipecacuanha, and cured agues without bark. A PRETTY IDEA.-Dr. P-, who is attached to the Parisian theatre in quality of a physician, expressed his astonishment that man and woman were not created at the same time, instead of the latter springing from the rib of our first parent. A young actress standing by, remarkable for the graceful turn which she gives to the expression of her ideas, immediately said-" Was it not natural, sir, for the flower to come after the stem ?" A fellow describing his wife, to whom he MANKIND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.-had been recently married, to an absent friend, They had neither looked into heaven nor earth, said-"She has a small mouth, a plump, pretty neither into the sea nor the land, as has been done face, lively eyes, and a temper-whew! it's as ince. They had philosophy without scale, as explosive as gun-cotton !" tronomy without demonstration. They made war without powder, shot, cannon or mortars; WEATHER-WISE-The following table is exnay, the mob made their bonfires without squibs tracted from an Almanac printed in the Lancaor crackers. They went to sea without compass, shire dialect, (England,) and entitled "Poginoor and sailed without the needle. They viewed the Olmenack, For't Year ats cum inta Egshistance stars without telescopes, and measured altitudes call'd 1847; bein ten ov ar good Queen sittin without barometers. Learning had no printing- cumfortably upat throan, an reignin e peace an press, writing no paper, and paper no ink. The' quiatness ovver all hur subjects." Although over was forced to send his mistress a deal board computed for a different year and meridian, its for a love-letter, and a billet-doux might be of the predictions will be found accurate in America, size of an ordinary trencher. They were clothed in 1848: 4 47 5 44 6 24 6 26 5 33 5 40 6 27 sets Tu 5 56 5 39 6 28 7 34 W 6 19 5 37 6 29 Th 6 41 5 35 6 30 Fr 7 45 34 6 31 8 48 9 59 11 5 8 Sa 9 A 10 M Tu 14 Fr 7 26 5 326 32 Sun Sun Moon H. w. Sun Sun Moon | H.w.Sun | Sun Moon Sun Sun Moon H. w. 3 57 9 36 5 23 6 38 4 25 9 44 A 12 44 5 M 13 45 25 Tu 13 235 26 W 13 43 5 8 6 49 7 6 50 7 05 24 6 36 3 56 4 26 4 55 rises For't use a Wesherwimmin, Hay-mackers, an ivvery rate an usefull guides at's ivver yet been publish't. pany to alot him sum shares, an bein 75 degrees nearer t'chainges it weather If a sarvant lass stops aght longer then't statements a Docktar Adam Clarke, or onny uther Astronomer, dead or livin. When a man happanze ta wed an Warm at illtemper'd womman, its suar to Thick for a while. Sudden daanfall. Fair. A rise it temperature. If a Landlord iz seen runnin for If yo go on a turnpike, an sees a Mile'd. Uncommonly cloise. Sharpish, attendad we wind. Storm. Unsattald for a while. Varry squally. |