Bailey's Algebra. FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA, designed for the use of Academies and Common Schools. By E. BAILEY, late Principal of the Young Ladies' High School, Boston. A KEY TO THE FIRST LESSONS IN ALGEBRA, containing the Answers to the Questions and Solutions of all the difficult Problems. This is an elementary treatise on the inductive plan. It is especially intended for the use of Common Schools, and of Teachers who have not had an opportunity to become acquainted with the science. This ALGEBRA is used in the Public Schools of Boston, and is highly approved. Goodrich's United States. A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, on a plan adapted to the capacity of Youth, and designed to aid the memory by Systematic Arrangement and interesting Association. By CHARLES A. GOODRICH. New Edition, revised and enlarged from the fifty-fifth edition. GOODRICH'S QUESTIONS to the above, revised and enlarged. EMERSON'S QUESTIONS and SUPPLEMENT to Goodrich's History of the United States. 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THE AMERICAN GLEE BOOK: consisting of a selection of Glees, Madrigals and Rounds, from the most distinguished English and German authors, together with original pieces composed expressly for this work. By George J. Webb, President of Boston Handel and Haydn Society, &c. Second Edition. Teachers and others interested in School and Musical Books are requested to give the above works an examination. SCHOOL COMMITTEES, MERCHANTS, and COUNTRY TRADERS generally, can be supplied with the various SCHOOL and other Books published in the UNITED STATES, and STATIONERY, on reasonable terms, by addressing their orders and references to JENKS & PALMER, Boston. THE FARMER'S ALMANACK, CALCULATED ON A NEW AND IMPROVED PLAN, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1844; Being Bissextile or Leap Year, and 68th of Am. Independence. Fitted to the city of Boston, but will answer for the adjoining States. Containing, besides the large number of Astronomical Calculations, and the Farmer's Calendar for every month in the year, as great a variety as any other Almanack of NEW, USEFUL, AND ENTERTAINING MATTER. THE year that's past, where has it gone, its charms and pleasures sped? BOSTON: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY JENKS & PALMER. Sold, also, by most Booksellers and Traders throughout the New England States. [Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1813, by Charles J. Hendee, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.] A. Sumnerd percen TO PATRONS AND CORRESPONDENTS AGAIN we are permitted to offer our renewed and oft-repeated thanks for obligations which we are under to our friends and patrons, for their continued and increasing patronage, for an unprecedented length of time. S. H.'s problem attended with a tedious solution, and it is doubtful whether two persons would solve it alike, and each contend to be correct -a circle reduced to a square is attended with minute calculation,—not adapted to our purpose. Our young friend's first query is very ingenious, but have not room for itmay have hereafter. J. W. D.'s contributions will ever be received with gratitude. Observations on the Weather, &c., were correctly transcribed from minutes made by the editor, and forwarded to the publishers by a trusty person, as we thought, but they were never received by the publishers. The original, after copying, was destroyed. In a few copies of our first impression, the Court of Common Pleas at Plymouth was put down as occurring on the third Monday of August; it should read second Monday. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. AS before our next number this subject will be agitating the land, we have given the following statement of the Electoral Votes each State is entitled to under the new apportionment of Congress. It is from the N. Y. Tribune. See also page 45. Pres. Electors. States. Pres. Electors. States. States. Pres. Electors. New Hampshire, THE Connecticut, Pennsylvania, 7 Mississippi, 26 Tennessee, 9 Arkansas, Total, 13 Required to elect, 138 275 To know how many members of the House any State is entitled to, subtract two (for Senators) from its quota of Electors above, and the remainder will be the number of its Representatives. Variations of Time in different parts of the United States. At 12 o'clock at noon in Boston, the time in the places mentioned below is as follows: LOWELL. They make nearly a million and a quarter yards of cotton cloth at Lowell per week; employ about 9,000 operatives, (6400 females) and use about 450,000 lbs. of raw cotton per week. The annual amount of raw cotton used, is about twenty-three millions of lbs., enough to load more than fifty ships of 350 tons each, and of cotton manufactured over seventy-five millions of yards.-100 lbs. of raw cotton will produce about 89 yards of cloth. It is said that to supply one of the mills (the Middlesex) with wool in the year, it would require the fleeces of three hundred and seventy-four thousand four hundred sheep. EDUCATION.-A wealthy farmer in Kentucky says, "I would rather be taxed for the education of the boy, than the ignorance of the man. For one or the other, I am compelled to be." |