ECLIPSES FOR 1850. There will be but two eclipses this year, and both of the Sun. I. An annular eclipse of the Sun, on the 11th and 12th of February. Invisible in this hemisphere. Beginning at 10h. 41m. on the evening of the 11th; middle, 1h. 46m.; and ending at 4h. 49m. on the morning of the 12th. This eclipse will be central and vertical in the Indian Ocean, near the Isle of Madagascar. II. A partial eclipse of the Sun, on the 7th of August. Visible throughout the United States, as follows: Beginning, 2h. 12m. Middle, 4h. 48m. Apparent time, eve. 7h. 26m. This eclipse will be central, total, and vertical at 180 10' east of the Sandwich Islands : consequently it will be noon there. It will be total from the Caribbean Sea to the Gulf of Mexico. At New Orleans it will be 10 digits eclipsed; at New York, 6; and at Boston, 5 digits. Eclipsed on Sun's southern limb. PHENOMENA OF THE PLANETS. VENUS will be morning star till February 13th, then evening star till December 15th, thence morning star. MARS will be evening star till November 16th, thence morning star. JUPITER will be morning star till March 11th, then evening star till September 24th, thence morning star. Single Letters, or any number of pieces, not exceeding half an ounce, 300 miles, or less, 5 cents. If over 300 miles, For each additional half-ounce, or part thereof, add single postage thereto. ON NEWSPAPERS. Newspapers, of 1,900 square inches, or less, sent by editors or publishers from their offices of publication any distance not exceeding 100 miles, Over 100 miles, and out of the State, All sizes over 1,900 square inches, postage same as Pamphlets. ON PAMPHLETS. 1 cent. 1 cents. Pamphlets, Magazines, and Periodicals, any distance, for one ounce, or less, each Quarto post, single cap, or paper not larger than single cap, folded, directed, and unsealed, for every sheet, 2 cents. Transient Newspapers, or those not sent from the office of publication to subscribers, handbills or circular letters, printed or lithographed, not exceeding one sheet in size, for any distance, 3 cents, payable upon delivery at the office, and before they are put into the mails. Newspapers and pamphlets must be folded with one end of the wrapper open. Letters advertised, 2 cents extra. Letters addressed to different persons cannot be inclosed in the same envelope or package, under a penalty of ten dollars, unless addressed to foreign countries. COLLEGE COMMENCEMENTS AND VACATIONS. Harvard College. By a vote of the Board of Overseers, passed September 7, 1848, the Commencement in this College is restored to the date on which it occurred prior to 1802, namely, the third Wednesday in July. Following this is a vacation of six weeks, when the term commences, which lasts twenty weeks. At the close of this is another vacation of six weeks, followed by another term of twenty weeks. Amherst College. - Commencement, fourth Thursday in July. Vacations, four weeks from Commencement; six weeks from the Wednesday preceding the annual Thanksgiving; two weeks from the third Wednesday of April. Yale College. Commencement, third Thursday in August. Vacations, from Commencement, six weeks; from first Wednesday in January, two weeks; from last Wednesday in April, four weeks. Dartmouth College. Commencement, last Thursday in July. Vacations, four weeks from Commencement; four weeks from the 25th of November; two weeks from the second Wednesday in May. Williams College. Commencement, third Wednesday in August. Vacations, from Commencement, four weeks; from the fourth Wednesday in December, six weeks; from the first Wednesday in May, three weeks. Middlebury College. - Commencement, third Wednesday in August. Vacations, from Commencement, four weeks; from last Wednesday in November, one week; from second Wednesday in February, two weeks; from third Wednesday in May, two weeks. Burlington College. - Commencement, first Wednesday in August. Vacations, from Commencement, four weeks; from first Wednesday in December, eight weeks; from second Wednesday in May, one week. Brown University. - Commencement, first Wednesday in September. Vacations, from December 10th, three weeks; from March 31st, three weeks; from July 21st until Commencement. Waterville College. Commencement, second Wednesday in August. Vacations, from Commencement, four weeks; from second Wednesday in December, eight weeks; from first Wednesday in May, one week. Bowdoin College. - Commencement, first Wednesday in September. Vacations, from Commencement, three weeks; from Friday after third Wednesday in December, eight weeks; from Friday after third Wednesday in May, two weeks. Andover Theological Institution. - Annual Visitation, first Wednesday in September. Vacations, from the Visitation, six weeks; from the first Thursday in May, six weeks. Cambridge Divinity School. —Annual Visitation, the Monday preceding the third Wednesday in July. Vacations the same as in Harvard College. Bangor Theological Seminary. - Anniversary, last Wednesday in August. Vaca tions, from last Wednesday in August, six weeks; from fourth Wednesday in April, five weeks. Meadville Theological School. -Annual Visitation, first Wednesday in July. Vacations, the next ten weeks following the Visitation, and two weeks following the last Monday of January. JOHN M. CLAYTON, of Delaware, Secretary of State, 6,000 WM. M. MEREDITH, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Treasury, 6,000 GEO. W. CRAWFORD, of Georgia, Secretary of War, 6,000 WM. B. PRESTON, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy, 6,000 THOMAS EWING, of Ohio, Secretary of the Home Department, 6,000 JACOB COLLAMER, of Vermont, Postmaster-General, 6,000 4,000 "We spend our years as a tale that is told. So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom." - Psalm xc. 9, 12. MOON'S Last Quar. 5th, 3h. 53m. mor. PHASES. First Quar. 21st, 4h. 55m. mor. The Apostles' Creed. "For as Tertullian said well, heretics make disputes, and disputes make If heretics; but faith makes none. upon the faith of this creed all the chosen of God went to heaven, - all, I mean, that lived good lives,-I am sure Christ only hath the keys of hell and heaven; and no man can open or shut either but according to his word and his law. So that, to him that will make his way harder by putting more conditions to his salvation and more articles to his creed, I may use the words of St. Gregory Nazianzen, 'What dost thou seek greater than salvation?' - meaning by nice inquiries and disputes of articles beyond the simple and plain faith of the Apostles' Creed. It may be thou lookest for glory and splendor; it is enough for me, yea, the greatest thing in the world, that I be saved. Thou goest on a hard and an untrodden path; I go the king's highway." -Jeremy Taylor. "A dinner of fragments is said often to be the best dinner. So are there few minds but might furnish some instruction and entertainment out of their scraps, their odds and ends of thought. They who cannot weave a uniform web may at least produce a piece of patchwork, which may be useful, and not without a charm of its own. The very sharpness and abruptness with which truths must be asserted, when they are to stand singly, is not ill fitted to startle and rouse sluggish and drowsy minds.” "He giveth snow like wool: he scattereth the hoar-frost like ashes: he casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?"- Psalm cxlvii. 16, 17. MOON'S Last Quar. 3d, 8h. 34m. eve. PHASES. First Quar. 19th, 3h. 27m. eve. "Once on a time there was a certain country, in which, from local reasons, the land could be divided no way so conveniently as into four-sided figures. A mathematician, having remarked this, ascertained the laws of all such figures, and laid them down fully and accurately. His countrymen learned to esteem him a philosopher, and his precepts were observed religiously for years. A convulsion of nature at length changed the face and local character of the district; whereupon a skilful surveyor, being employed to lay out some fields afresh, ventured to give one of them five sides. The innovation is talked of universally, and is half applauded by same younger and bolder members of the community; but a big-mouthed and weighty doctor, to set the matter at rest for ever, quotes the authority of the above-mentioned mathematician, that fixer of agricultural positions, and grand landmark of posterity, who has demonstrated to the weakest apprehensions that a field ought never to have more than four sides; and then he proves, to the satisfaction of all his hearers, that a pentagon has more."- Guesses at Truth. "In the Bible, the body is said to be more than raiment. But many people still read the Bible Hebrew-wise, backward; and thus the general conviction now is that raiment is more than the body. There is so much to gaze and stare at in the dress, one's eyes are quite dazzled and weary, and can hardly pierce through to that which is clothed upon.' "The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is, the idea after which all his parts are classified." Emerson. |