THE ALMANAC PRICE, 20 CENTS. ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTMENT: Eclipses in 1869. CONTENTS. Rising and Setting of Mercury. Table of the Total Eclipse of the Sun... Planetary and Stellar Phenomena. Cycles and Church Days.. Star Table, the Seasons, Evening and Morning Stars... POLITICAL DEPARTMENT: Impeachment, Trial and Acquital of President Johnson, with Platforms in 1868-Republican and Democratic-Letters of PAGES. 1 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 to 16 17 to 26 26 to 34 Abstracts of Laws and Public Resolutions passed during the Proclamation of General Amnesty.. Proc amation of Adoption of XIVth Amendment.. 46 23399 35 to 45 45 46 48 United States Government-Ministers Abroad. 51 Senators and Representatives in XLIst Congress.. Election Returns in 1868-Vote for President compared with 52 to 54 55 to 56 1864-Vote for Congressmen, State Officers, on Constitu- TRADE SUPPLIED BY NEW YORK NEWS COMPANY, 8 SPRUCE ST., NEW YORK Astronomical. PAGE. PAGE. PAGE. Names of Committee on ReAMNESTY. solutions. 28-29 Proclamation of July 4, 1868.45 Mercury-Rising and setting.. 1 Soldiers' and Sailors' Plat-Proclamation of Dec. 25, 1868.46 Eclipses in 1869.. Table of principal... 2 form (Democratic)..... 30-31 FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT. Calendars-Jewish and Mo- Vice-President-Ballots for...31 Proclamation Concerning....46 2 Seymour's Letter of Accept- Certificate of Ratification... 47 31-33 Concurrent Resolution on....47 hammedan. Planetary Phenomena....... 3 4 Church Fast and Feast Days. 3 Political. THE GOVERNMENT. Cabinet-the President's.. Congress - Members of the XLth. .5I ..52 ance... Blair's Letter of ance... Accept 34 -33-34 Cotton exempt from internal Appropriations for Deficien- 35 35 .35 ..35 Bounties Act regulating.. 35 35 Election Returns for 1868. 35 Appropriations for Post Of By States and Counties, for Congress Members of the Appropriations-Diplomatic..36 51 Lands granted to Nevada. President, compared with the vote in 1864; Congress in 1868, Legislatures and Constitutional Amendments. .36 36 .36 .36 Alabama.. Arizona.. kansas and other States.. 36 Arkansas 37 California. Colorado Judiciary-Supreme Court...51 Appropriations-Naval.. Chief Justice, how filled...37 Connecticut, (by towns.) Pensions-Invalid and other.39 Minnesota Deficiency Bill for 1868. .39 Mississippi. tion and vote thereon.......20 cases .24-25 .25 a Court of Impeachment...25 Freedmen's Bureau-Provid- New York City. Notes of the Proceedings. ..25ing to discontinue. Acquittal of the President Soldiers' and Sailors' Plat- ELECTORAL VOTES for Presi dent in 1852, 1856, 1860, 1864, and 1868..... .48 Astronomical Department, Computed and arranged expressly for this WORK, by SAMUEL H. WRIGHT, A. M., M. D., Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y. ton. The rising and setting of Mercury, when near its greatest elongation from the Sun, for WashingAt the times given below, it will probably be visible. MERCURY SETS, EVENING. MERCURY RISES, MORNING. January. sets. May. sets. Sept. sets. March. rises. July. rises. Nov. rises. Mercury is brightest when at an elongation of about 22° 19', which occurs about three days before its greatest elongation east and three days after its greatest elongation west, and is always between the greatest elongation and superior conjunction. Venus is brightest between inferior conjunction and greatest elongation, and when its elongation is about 39° 44'. Eclipses for 1869. There will be four Eclipses this year, two of the Sun and two of the Moon, as follows: I. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, January 27th, in the evening, visible. Size, 0.458 of the diamter, or 5.496 digits, on the northern limb. See the following table for the time. II. An Annular Eclipse of the Sun, February 11th, invisible in North America. Visible in the southern part of South America, or south of 20° latitude, and in the southern part of Africa, III. A partial Eclipse of the Moon, July 23d, invisible in America. Visible in Eastern Asia, and Australia. Size, 0.566 of the diameter, or 6.792 digits on the southern limb. IV. A TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, August 7th, in the afternoon, visible either as a total, or a large partial Eclipse, throughout Eastern Asia, and all of North America and the West Indies. This will be the most interesting Eclipse that has occurred or will occur in the United States for many years. The Eclipse first begins on the earth at sunrise in the Pacific Ocean, east of Japan, in lat. 36° 53.3′ N.; long. 138° 37.4′ W. of Washington. It becomes total first upon the earth in Siberia, at sunrise, in lat. 52° 41.9' N.; long. 165° 26.4' W. of Washington. The Eclipse is total at noon in Alaska, lat. 61° 46.9′ N.; long. 68° 4.6′ W. The line of the total Eclipse now runs southeasterly, grazing the coast near Sitka, thence running off into British America, and entering the United States near the origin of Milk River, long. 30° W.; thence through the southwest corner of Minnesota, and diagonally through Iowa, crossing the Mississippi River near Burlington, Iowa; thence through Illinois, just north of Springfield, and crossing the Ohio River near Louisville, Ky.; thence through the southwest corner of West Virginia, and through North Carolina, just south of Raleigh, and thence to Newbern, and entering the Atlantic just north of Beaufort, N. C., and end. ing at sunset in the ocean, in lat. 31° 15.2′ N., and long. 9° 36.6' E. Along the line described above, the Eclipse will be total, and at all other places in the United States it will be partial. The partial Eclipse ends on the earth at sunset, in lat. 14° 48.9′ N.; long. 13° 10′ W., being near the city of Guatemala. Along the Atlantic coast, in the United States, the Eclipse ends at about sunset. For the times of the phases of this Eclipse, see the following table. This Eclipse occurred last in 1851, July 28th, and the total phase was visible in the Arctic regions of America, and in Sweden, Norway, and Russia. TABLE OF THE LUNAR ECLIPSE OF JANUARY 27. TABLE OF THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF AUGUST 7. Milwaukee Pittsburg.. Detroit.. New Haven. Richmond Lowell Mobile Hartford.. Syracuse.. Portland, Me.. Savannah Wilmington, Del. Indianapolis.. Trenton.. Limb. Nashville Oswego... Dubuque. Augusta, Ga. Jewish Calendar for 1869. The Jewish year 5629 of 12 months, or 355 days and 51 Jewish Sabbaths, (Saturdays,) began September 17, 1868, and ends September 5. 1869. The year 5630 of 13 months is an embolismic year, and the sixth of the CCXCVIIth cycle, containing 385 days and 55 Jewish Sabbaths, beginning September 6, 1869, and ending September 25, 1870. Mohammedan Calendar for 1869. The year 1285 of 354 days began April 24, 1868, and ends April 12, 1869. The year 1286 of 355 days begins April 13, 1869, and ends April 2, 1870. NOTE.-In the table above it is to be understood that the word "near" and the character ¿ (conjunction) are synonymous and mean that the two bodies are nearest each other at the time expressed, and that they are then on a line running from the North Pole through both bodies, and have the same right ascension. GR. ELON. means greatest elongation or greatest apparent angular distance from the Sun. STATIONARY means that the planet is then without apparent motion east or west with respect to the Stars, and is about to move in a direction contrary to that it last had. The character 8 indicates that the planet is opposite the Sun, or 180 deg., or a half circle east of it, and rises when the Sun sets, and sets when he rises. When a planet is a quarter of a circle or 90 deg. from the Sun, east or west, it is known by []. PLANETARY CHARACTERS.- Mercury, Venus, & Mars, 24 Jupiter, Saturn, H Uranus, Neptune, Moon. The above table enables us to find the planets throughout the year. |