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ECLIPSES IN 1845.

There will be four Eclipses, two of the Sun and two of the Moon, and a Transit of Mercury.

I. The first will be an annular eclipse of the Sun, May, 6th day, 5h. 13m. morning, consequently invisible.

II. The second will be a total eclipse of the Moon, May, 21st day, 11h. 15m. morning, also invisible.

III. The third will be an annular eclipse of the Sun, October, 30th day, 6h. 58m. evening, little or no part of which will be visible.

IV. The fourth will be a partial eclipse of the Moon, November 13th, in the evening, as follows:

Beginning,

First contact,
Middle,

Last contact,

Digits eclipsed 7 on the northern limb.

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On the 8th day of May there will be a Transit of Mercury, visible.

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THE NAMES AND CHARACTERS OF THE ASPECTS.

8 Conjunction, or in the same

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8 Opposition, 180 degrees. Dragon's Head, or Ascending Node.

8 Dragon's Tail, or Descending Node.

YEARLY AND QUARTERLY MEETINGS OF FRIENDS IN NEW ENGLAND. Yearly meeting, beginning with select do., 7th day after 2d 6th day, 6th month, 9th hour, morn., at Newport, R. I.-Public meeting for worship 1st day following at Newport and Portsmouth, 10th hour, morn. and 4th after. Meeting for business at Newport 2d day following, 9th hour morn.

This yearly meeting comprises the Quarterly Meetings of Rhode Island, Salem, Sandwich, Falmouth, Smithfield, Vassalborough, Dover, and Fairfield, held as follows, viz., Rhode Island-On the 1st 5th day, 8th month, Portsmouth; 1st 5th day, 11th month, Somerset 1st 5th day, 2d month, Providence 1st 5th day, 5th month, East Greenwich. Salem-On the 4th 5th day, 5th month, Saybrook; 3d 5th day, 8th month, Lynn; 3d 5th day, 10th month, Ware; 3d 5th day, 1st month, Salem. Sandwich-On the 1st 5th days, 4th and 12th months, New Bedford; 1st 5th day, 7th month, Nantucket; 1st 5th day, 10th month, Sandwich. Falmouth-On the 5th day before the 1st 6th day in the month, at Windham, in the 2d and 9th months; at Falmouth in the 6th and at Durham in the 11th. Smithfield-On the 2d 5th day, 8th month, Bolton; 2d 5th day, 11th month, Northbridge; 2d 5th day, 24 month, Smithfield; 2d 5th day, 5th month, Northbridge. Vassalborough-On the 2d 6th day, 2d, 9th, and 11th months; and the 4th day before the last 6th day, 5th month, Vassal. borough. Dover, N. H.-On the 4th 5th day in the month; at Dover, in the 4th; at North Berwick, in the 8th; at Sandwich, in the 10th; and at Rochester, upper meeting, (Meaderborough.) in the 1st. Fairfield-At Hallowell, on the 4th day before the 2d 6th day, in the 11th month; at Fairfield, on the 4th day before the 2d 6th days in the 2d and 9th months, and at Hallowell on the last 6th day in the 5th month.

HOME QUESTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR.

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HAVE you attended to the few "Home Questions" asked by us, in a spirit of kind feeling, last year, and year before? Did you ever think of the advantages of Life Insurance? There are offices in Boston, where, by paying a small annual sum, you I may secure the payment of an amount that would make your wife and children comfortable, if you should die within the year, your crops unharvested, and your plans unmatured, perhaps a mortgage unpaid. Do you keep hammer and nails "handy, that clapboards and shingles may be quickly kept from flapping in the wind if by chance they get loose on your dwelling, or your barn? Don't you think your animals would be more comfortable in winter, and thus fat quicker, and in fact consume less fodder, if the larger cracks and holes were stopped up in your barn, if there are any such? A current of air in a cold day is not very pleasant to man or beast. Did you ever know a man to be more respected, or make more, by scheming than by attending to his regular business? Is the school-house in your district in good order? and do you drop in occasionally at the proper time and encourage the master or mistress by showing your interest in the progress of your children, and learning whether they are punctual and improve the sacred privilege of a free education? Remember! your children are soon to take your place, and the hope of a republic is in the correct education of its youth.

COLLEGE VACATIONS.

Harvard College.-1st, from the end of the first term, six weeks; 2d, from the end of the second term, to Friday after Commencement; the academical year being divided into two terms of 20 weeks each, and beginning at Commencement, the 4th Wednesday of August.

Amherst College.-Commencement on the 4th Thursday of July. Vacation four weeks from Commencement, six weeks from the Wednesday preceding the annual Thanksgiving, two weeks from the 3d Wednesday of April.

Yale College-Commencement six weeks. First Wednesday in January, two weeks. Last Wednesday in April, four weeks.

Burlington College.-Commencement, four weeks. First Wednesday in January, eight weeks.

Dartmouth College.-Commencement last Thursday of July. Vacation, four weeks from Commencement, four weeks from about the 25th of November, 14 weeks for such as are in schools, seven weeks for others; and from the 2d Wednesday of May, two weeks.

Providence College-December 10th, three weeks. March 31st, three weeks. July 21st, till Commencement.

Williamstown College.-Commencement four weeks. Wednesday after third Wednesday in December, six weeks. First Wednesday in May, three weeks.

Middlebury College.-Commencement four weeks. Last Wednesday in November, one week. Second Wednesday in February, two weeks. Third Wednesday in May, two weeks.

Bowdoin College.-Commencement, three weeks. Friday after the third Wednesday in December, eight weeks. Friday after the third Wednesday in May, two weeks.

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The Names and Characters of the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac.

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The Julian Year, introduced by Julius Caesar, 45 years B. C., made every fourth year, without exception, a leap year. This was an over correction; an error of 7 days in 900 years. As early as the year 1414, it was perceived that the equinoxes were gradually moving from the 21st of March and September, where they ought always to have fallen had the Julian year been exact. A new reform of the calendar was thus required; and it took place under the popedom of Gregory XIII., by the omission of 10 nominal days after the 4th of October, 1582, so that the next day was called the 15th, and not the 5th. This change was immediately adopted in all Boman Catholic countries, but tardily in the countries of Protestantism.

In England, THE CHANGE OF STYLE, as it was called, took place after the 2d day of September, 1752, eleven nominal days being then struck out; so that the last day of Old Style being the 2d, the first of New Style, (the next day,) was called the 14th, instead of the 3d. The same legislative enactment which established the Gregorian year in England, in 1752, shortened the preceding year, 1751, by a full quarter. Previous to that time, the year was held to begin with the 25th of March, and the year 1751 accordingly did so; but that year was not suffered to run out, being supplanted on the 1st of January by the year 1752, which it was enacted should commence on that day. Russia is the only country in Europe in which the old style is still adhered to, and the difference between the European and Russian dates is about two weeks.

UNCURRENT AND BROKEN BANK BILLS IN NEW ENGLAND. Corrected by J. W. Clarke & Co., Globe Bank Building, Boston. MASSACHUSETTS. UNCURRENT.-Nahant Bank, Lynn. Bank of Norfolk, Roxbury. Commonwealth, Franklin, Lafayette, Middling Interest, Fulton, Oriental, and Winnissimmet Banks, Boston. Chelsea Bank, Chelsea. Farmer's and Mechanic's Bank, Adams, South Village. Newburyport Bank, Newburyport. Phoenix Bank, Charlestown. CLOSED, &C.-Berkshire Bank, Pittsfield. Essex Bank of Salem. Farmer's Bank of Belchertown. Hampshire Bank, Northampton. Mendon Bank, Mendon. Phoenix Bank, Nantucket. Sutton Bank, Wilkinsonville. Roxbury Bank, Winthrop Bank, Roxbury. Kilby Bank, Boston.

MAINE. UNCURRENT.-Mercantile, Bangor, Commercial, People's, Globe, and Lafayette Banks, Bangor. Exchange Bank, Portland. Old Town, and Stillwater Canal Banks, Orono. Washington County, Calais, and St. Croix Banks, Calais. Westbrook Bank, Westbrook. Frankfort Bank, Frankfort. Georgia Lumber Co., Portland. Agricultural Bank, Brewer. Citizens' Bank, Augusta. CLOSED, &c.-City, Exchange, and Maine Banks, Portland. Winthrop Bank, Winthrop. Damariscotta Bank, Nobleboro'. Bangor Bank. Bath Bank, Bath. Castine Bank, Castine. Hallowell and Augusta, and Kennebec Banks, Hallowell. Kennebunk Bank, Kennebunk. Passamaquoddy Bank, Eastport. Waterville Bank, Waterville. Wiscasset Bank, Wiscasset. Oxford Bank, Fryburg, fraud.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, UNCURRENT.-Concord Bank, Concord. Claremont Bank, Claremont. Grafton Bank, Haverhill. CLOSED, &c.-Hillsborough Bank, Hillsbor ough. Wolfeborough Bank, Wolfeborough. New Hampshire Bank, Portsmouth. VERMONT. UNCURRENT. Bennington Bank, Bennington. St. Albans Bank, St. Albans. CLOSED, &c.-Windsor Bank, Windsor. Essex Bank, Guildhall. Agricultural Bank, Troy, fraud. Commercial Bank of Vermont, fraud. Green Mountain Bank, fraud. Jefferson County Bank, fraud.

RHODE ISLAND. UNCURRENT.-Seituate Bank, Scituate. Farmer's and Mechanic's Bank, Pawtucket. Providence County Bank, Smithfield. CLOSED, &c.-Burrillville Bank, Burrillville. Farmer's Exchange Bank, Gloucester. Mount Hope Bank, Bristel. Rhode Island Agricultural Bank, Johnston. Pascoag Bank, Pascoagville. Eagle Bank, Newport, fraud. Farmer's Bank, fraud. Franklin Bank, Prov., fraud. CONNECTICUT. CLOSED, &c.-Eagle Bank, New Haven. Derby Bank, at Derby, payable at Phenix Bank, N. Y. Bridgport Manufacturing Co., at Bridgport, fraud.

1845.

JANUARY, first Month.

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First Quarter, 15th day, 4h. 7m. morning.
O Full Moon, 23d day, 9h. 36m. morning.
Last Quarter, 30th day, 11h. 12m. evening.
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With joy we hail another year,
Nor grieve that time so rapid flies;
Its flight brings many prospects near,
Which will in quick succession rise.
Courts, Aspects, Holidays,
Weather, &c.

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Farmer's Calendar.

Though old and wise, yet still advise. "Hah! the same calendar man, come again, if I'm alive! How Higher and now presents its foretop! Scarcerapidly another year has approached,

3 67*s sou. Sh. 14m. snow. 4 7 Newt, b. 1642.

5E. 2d S. af. Ch. 6 Dly do we take thought of time, we 6 2 Epip. tides D per. are so busy, all scratching for profit 3C.P.Bos.C.C.Cam.Ply. or for pleasure!" Such was Tom Tillman's short soliloquy, on first 84Luc. Bat. N. O.'15. A opening the Farmer's Almanac for

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more, my friend; but hope it's no intrusion. It is not for jocosity and [& H empty palaver, that I again hail our D 2 be serious and sober and sincere in worthy patrons; for, I would indeed, all our intercourse, nor treat lightly these weighty matters, that concern mostly those of the community, on whose industry, and labor, and sweat tides we all depend for the necessaries and Rather the comforts of life. Nevertheless, Dapo. let all be done with a cheerful spirit. finer. Why should a farmer be glum and

snow-squalls.

17 6 Dr. Fr. b. 1706.
18 7 Pris. for the
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mourn, while all nature around him puts on a smile?

"Go to bed, Tom," in good season, that you may be able to hail the first streak of early dawn, and measure time with merry chanticleer. Such

is said to be the habit of the Marshsnow. field farmer, whose implements and tides. whose wits are ever kept bright, from 1725. constant use. Think not, because it is winter, that a farmer may lie still 60h in a sluggish sort of nonentity. To the woods! to the woods, man! but Inot for fox-hunting.

Fine for the season. 31 6 Cold Tues. 1815.

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