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Webster's Dictionary, Merriam..
Woman's Friend, J. Oakly

INDEX TO ELECTION RETURNS: Writing Ink, Maynard & Noyes..

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SOUTH CAROLINA.

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An election for members of the XXXVIth 62-3 Congress was held in this State in 1858, which resulted in the reëlection of the present dele44 gation without opposition, with the exception 55 of Hon. James L. Orr, of the Vth District, who declined a reëlection. In this District, the contest resulted as follows:

New Jersey.

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Districts.

New York, Governor, President, etc., by

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New York, Congress and Charter

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New York, Governor by Towns.

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Eclipses in the Year 1859.

There will be six Eclipses this year, two of the Moon, and four of the Sun, as follows: I. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, February 2d, invisible in the United States.

II. A total Eclipse of the Moon, February 17th, early in the morning, visible throughout the United States.

III. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, March 4th,

invisible in the United States.

IV. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, July 29th, in the afternoon. This Eclipse will be very small, lasting only a few minutes, and occurs about an hour before sunset. Visible in the Eastern, Northern, and Middle States.

V. A total Eclipse of the Moon, August 18th, invisible in the United States.

VI. A partial Eclipse of the Sun, August 28th, invisible in the United States.

Morning and Evening Stars.

Venus will be Morning Star until September 27th, then Evening Star the rest of the year. Mars will be Evening Star until July 21st, then Morning Star the rest of the year. Jupiter will be Evening Star until June 25th, then morning Star the rest of the year. Saturn will be Morning Star until January 29th, then Evening Star until August 8th, then Morning Star the rest of the year.

Mercury.

This planet will be in a position most favorable for observation on the 30th of March, the 28th of July, and 22d of November, when it will be in the west, not very far from the place of sunset; also on the 24th of January, the 22d of May, and 16th of September, at which times it will be in the east just before sunrise.

Chronological Cycles.

Dominical Letter, B; Epact, 26; Lunar Cycle, 17; Solar Cycle, 20; Roman Indiction, 2; Julian Period, 6572; age of the World, 5862.

Characters.

O Sun; Moon; Mercury; Venus; Earth; Mars; 2 Jupiter; Saturn; H Uranus; same longitude, or near each other; 90° apart; 8 opposition, or 180° apart.

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Two kinds of time are used in Almanacs; clock or mean-time in some, and apparent or sun-time in others. Clock-time is always |right, while Sun-time varies every day. People generally suppose it is twelve o'clock when the sun is due south, or at a properly made noon-mark. But this is a mistake. The sun is seldom on the meridian at twelve o'clock; indeed this is the case only on four days of the year: namely, April 15, June 15, Sept. 1, and Dec. 24. In this Almanac, as in most other Almanacs, the time used is clock-time. The time when the sun is on the meridian or at the noon-mark, is also given to the nearest second, for the 1st, 9th, 17th, and 25th days of each month, at the right hand of the top of each calendar page. This affords a ready means of obtaining correct time and for setting a clock by using a noon-mark, adding or subtracting

as the sun is slow or fast.

Old-fashioned Almanacs, which use apparent time, give the rising and setting of the sun's centre and make no allowance for the effect of refraction of the sun's rays by the atmosphere. The more modern and improved Almanacs, which use clock-time, give the rising and seting of the sun's upper limb, and duly allow for refraction. The practice of setting timepieces by the rising or setting of the sun or SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC. Aries; 8 Taurus; moon is not strictly correct, as the unevenness Gemini; Cancer; & Leo; y Virgo; of the earth's surface and intervening objects, Libra; m Scorpio; Sagittarius; 0 Capri- such as hills and forests, near the points of corn; Aquarius; Pisces. rising and setting, occasion a deviation in ASPECTS AND NODES. 8 Conjunction; * Sex- every place, from the time expressed in the tile, 60 degrees; Quartile, 90 degrees; Almanac, which time is adapted to a smooth, ▲ Trine, 120 degrees; 8 Opposition, 180 de-level horizon. The only means of keeping grees; Ascending Node; & Descending correct time is by the use of a noon-mark, or Node. a meridian line.

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The above table includes only 38 of the asteroids. Since it was made up, thirteen more have been discovered; making in all at the present time (1858), fifty-one. New discoveries are adding to the number of these every year. Le Verrier, the celebrated French astronomer, says, he is firmly persuaded that there are many more of the asteroids, and that before 1860, probably, in all, one hundred will be discovered.

Herschel.

LeVerr'r

Leap-Year.

Every year the number of which is divisible by 4 without a remainder, is a leap-year, except the last year of the century, which is a leap-year only when divisible by 400 without a remainder. Thus the year 1900 will not be leap-year.

Tides.

La Place pronounces the formula for deducing the tides the most difficult problem of celestial mechanics. It sometimes happens that the tide comes in several hours later or earlier than the most learned calculation would determine; and this in consequence of the strength and direction of the wind, which the calculator cannot reckon upon.

The Calendar pages exhibit the time of high-water at Boston, New York and Charleston. To find the time of high-water at any of the following places, add to or subtract from the time of high water, morning or evening, at New York, the quantity of time affixed to such place in this table. In using the quantities in this table, observe that more than 12 hours and less than 24, from midnight or the beginning of morning, is afternoon of the same day; and that more than 12 hours and less than 24, from noon, is morning of the next day.

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earlier at the westward, and later at the eastward, at the rate of four minutes for each degree of Longitude; or at the rate of one minute for every 12 miles 273 rods in the Latitude of Boston, 13 miles 60 rods in the Latitude of New York city, 13 miles 143 rods in the latitude of Baltimore, and 14 miles 199 rods in the latitude of Charleston.

The Calendar page in this Almanac is adapted for use in every part of the United States. It is based on the fact, that in the same Latitude, that is, on a line running due east and west, the Sun and Moon rise and set at the same moment by the clock or almanac, not only throughout the United States, but around the world-the variations being so small as to be of no importance for ordinary To Ascertain the Length of the Day purposes. Thus, if on any day the Sun rises at Boston at 5 minutes past 6, it rises at 5 minutes past 6 on the same line of latitude westward throughout the states of Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, Iowa, and the territory of Oregon.

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. Subtract the time of setting from 12 hours, and to the remainder add the time of rising next morning, for the length of the night. These rules are equally true for apparent time.

Moonlight.

Hence, a Calendar adapted to Boston for New England, is equally adapted, as to the rising and setting of the Sun and Moon, for use in Northern New York and Michigan; a Calendar for New York city is adapted for use in the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; a Calendar for Washington city is adapted for Virginia, Kentucky, and Mis- Professor Smith, the Astronomer Royal for souri; and a Calendar for Charleston will Scotland, in his interesting account of a recent man's frst by Carolina Tennesseeffutanarientific expedition fatha Peak Lepiffe, unlimited. Such was the story of Blifkins, as he related it to us the other day. It is a little exaggerated picture of almost every man's experience.

Eagle the First-By Alfred Tennyson.

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Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

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