Marine, Commercial, of the U. S.. Mars and Venus, Discs of.. Maryland Massachusetts Medical Schools in United States 122 Railroads, Grants of Pub. Lands in aid 142-144 42 Receivers and Registers of Land-Office .. 125 Religious Denominations ....... .. 107 Meteorological Information.......... 85-91 Representatives, House of.......... 195. 375 .. 212 ......... 277 Representatives, Alphabetical List of.... 198 .. 240 Representation, Ratio of, after each Census 205 211 Repres'tives, Apportionment of since 1789 205 318 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 213 113 Representatives, U. S., Apportionment of 214 114 Resolutions, Public, of Congress... 116 Revenue and Expenditure.......... 155-163 338 Revenue, U. S., for 67 Years........... 123 Rhode Island.. ........ ................. Militia Force of the U. S. Ministers of U. S. in Foreign Countries.. Mint, Officers of, Coinage, &c. Missouri.. 133 Rice, Exports of, since 1820. 217 School Fund of States. 296 Seasons, Beginning and Length of 107 Senate of the U. S. 171-176 Senators, State, No. of, and Terms... .... 128, 133 194 213 101 Slaves in the U. S. ... 215 118 Smithsonian Institution.. 211 119 South American Governments .......... 341 120 South Carolina 287 New Mexico Territory Newspapers, Postage on............. New York... North Carolina.................................. Obituary, American, in 1855.. 66 1856. 339 Sun, Ephemeris of the .............. 49-54 ....183-191 Sun's Parallax in Altitude............. ........ Obituary, Foreign, in 1855 and 1856 258 Supreme Court, U. S...... 284 Surveyors of Land-Office.. 374 Swamp Lands, enuring to States ... 346 Tennessee 350 Terrestrial Magnetism 359 Texas 66 229 307 67 302 Observatories, Latitude and Longitude of 43 Texas, Act to pay Creditors' Claims...... 154 Occultations Ohio. Oregon Territory ........... ....... 37 Theological Schools.. 210 313 Tides, Height of Greatest, in 1857........ 7 Pamphlets and Magazines, Postage on 184-191 Tobacco, Exports of, since 1820 Pennsylvania. 270 Tonnage, Comp. View of, for 41 Years .. 175 Pension Agents, Army and Navy.... 110, 111 Trade, Foreign, Countries of ....... 170, 171 Planets, Signs of the... 66 Tonnage of the U. S...... 3 Treasurers, Assistant 341 United States, Seventh Census. 214, 215 Utah Territory Pole Star, Apparent Places of the..... 55-57 Treasury Department Population of Chief Cities in U. S....... 216 Venus and Mars, Discs of .............................. 100 100 214 338 42 ......186-191 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815-1855 175 120 281 204 101 339 341 85-94 333 65 4 Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 186 Vessels of War in U. S. Navy Post Office, Distributing Offices .... 102-105 Washington Territory President, Popular Vote for, since 1824 203, 376 Zodiac, Signs of the.. Being the latter part of the 81st, and the beginning of the 82d year of the Independence of the United States of America; the 6570th year of the Julian Period; the latter part of the 5617th, and the beginning of the 5618th year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2610th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome; the 2604th year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as signed to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the astronomers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ; the 2633d year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the 659th Olympiad, which begins in July, 1857, if we fix the era of the Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or about the beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period; the latter part of the 1273d and the beginning of the 1274th year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the 16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era. 6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in 8 Opposition, or differing 180° in 66 66 The ascending, & the descending node. 66 66 The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south. The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon. CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES. Dominical Letter, Epact, 4 Roman Indiction,. 15 Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 15 | Julian Period, 6570 |