CONTENTS. Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c. Beginning and length of the Seasons 4 Movable Festivals of the Church....... 5 Darkness of the Nights in 1848 Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites. Latitude and Longitude of Places The Great Telescope at Cambridge 72 Pingré's Predicted Comet of 1848.. METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION:- Tables for Saco, Cambridge, Mendon, Low- ell, Worcester, New York, Rochester, Lambertville, Chapel Hill, Savannah, Natchez, Washington, Bloomington, Louisville, Flowering of Fruit Trees, Flowering Season at Worcester for 8 years, Leafing of Forest Trees, Flow- ering of the Apple, Days when Snow fell and Depth of Snow for 37 years in Turner, Me., Frosts and Snows, Depth of Snows and Flowering of 16. Finances and Debts of the States .168 176 33. Population of the Cities 34. Population of the United States..214 24. Governors of States, &c...........177 35. Slaves in the United States.......214 ....... 153 25. Mexican Tariff ....... 154 26. Law of Imprisonment for Debt...181 ..153 27. The Electric Telegraph 159 28. Patent Office and Law of Patents, 190 160 29. Railroads in the United States....193 Do. in Massachusetts..... ..193 Other Railroads in New England · 194 Do. at the South and West..195 30. Abstracts of Public Laws... Relief for Ireland and Scotland, .....342 | Latitudes and Longitudes .343 Corrections and Additions Apple, Flowering of, for 37 years Arkansas. Army Officers, Pay of. ... INDEX. Banks in U. S. in 1842 and 1845-155, 156 Cabinet, Officers in the. Calendar: January, &c. Celestial Phenomena, Signs, &c. ..... Colleges Colleges, Annual Expenses in Page 197 Elections, State.... 93 European States Expenditures, U. S. for 57 years. tries Commons, House of. Congress Connecticut 325 10 3 362 4 5 .117 .213 Commerce Commercial Marine of the U. States..154 104 .335 161 237 Consuls, Foreign, in United States...109 8 Debt of the United States........142, 144 Debts of the States, ..........168 ..261 98 Delaware. Departments, Officers in the Discs of Venus and Mars. 49 .327 97 ..144 ..152 ..149 .145 5 .168 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of..... 57 Flowering of Fruit Trees in 1847. .......108 Foreign Trade, Countries of ........153 Forest Trees, Leafing of, for 37 years, 93 France .328 ......134 Franking Privilege Frosts and Snows for 8 years.... 94 .278 Government, Seats of, in different .102 States Governors of States 176 .177 170 Grand Refractor at Cambridge, Mass.. 72 ..328 ..146 House of Commons...... House of Lords ..335 .......... 329 .... Illinois Import, Articles of, in 1846. .315 146 ..145 Imports for 57 years.. ..152 Imports of each State for 1846.. Ireland, Relief for ...320 301 Judiciary, United States Jupiter's Satellites, Eclipses of .... 42 Kentucky 43 Latitude and Longitude of Places.45, 368 119 Law Schools..... 174 324 Law of Imprisonment for Debt.......181 178 Laws, Abstracts of Public.. 34 Laws concerning Patents Page ..176 ..187 ....... .....197 .......190 Page Page 65 Legislatures, State, Meeting of 176 Refractions, Dr. Young's. ..187 Religious Denominations Magnetic Telegraph, The 6 .......129 Marine, Commercial, of the U. S......154 128 Marine Corps • ..264 .227 Massachusetts, Railroads of Medical Schools Meteorological Information Mexico.. Michigan Militia Force of the United States.....124 113 ...... Mississippi Navy Department Navy Officers, Pay of Navy, Vessels of War in New Jersey. New York. New York, Railroads in Observatories, Lat. and Long. of. Ohio Oregon Territory. Parallax in Altitude of the Sun 193 175 178 ...342 Representatives, Alphabetical List of 166 163 219 State Finances, Debts, &c. .194 Supreme Court 8 Steamers 135 Postmasters... Law... 131 Presidents of the United States...... 97 Revenue and Expenditure 257 136 .......193 .....143 .233 Satellites of Jupiter, Eclipses of 44 Seasons, Beginning and Length of ..342 Slaves in the United States. 3 Snow, Days and Depth of, for 37 yrs. 93 Southern Railroads .275 Sovereigns of Europe .190 66 Telegraph, Lines projected Ten-Regiment Bill ..... Tariff in Mexican Ports -272 Tea, Duties on, for 12 years... ....187 48 Tea, Consumption of, for 26 years....159 .324 struction ..... War Department 212 138 Washington Observatory Young's Refractions 49 66 Texas Theological Schools. Venus and Mars, Discs of Vessels of War in U. States Navy....126 ..116 ..189 ..174 .145, 152 153 ...268 99 65 4 |