Phases of the MOON. 12349 DAY OF MONTH. ENSERNE DAY OF WEEK. New. 1st Quar. 9 4 Full.... 7 M 23 W 24 T 25 F 26 S 27 28 M D. H. M. 210 46 m. 29 T 30 W 31 T 20 ev. 16 10 50 m. 9 m. SIDEREAL 11 11 0 $ 10 56 10 52 8T 10 48 9 W 10 44 10 T 10 40 11 F 10 36 12 S 10 32 1310 28 14 M 10 24 15 T 10 20 16 W 10 16 17 T 10 12 18 F 10 8 19 S 10 5 2010 1 21 M 9 57 9 53 22 T 949 9 45 9 41 9 37 9 33 BOSTON. N. YORK. WASH'TON. D. EVEN. MORN. MORN. EVEN. H. M. S. 6 30 2 30 7 6 25 1 2 14 10 56 11 49 26 26 1 13 6 20 21 52 10 33 11 47 39 1 34 10 11 11 46 8 1 16 9 48 11 44 45 2 10 0 57 9 19 6 16 2 16 25 6 15 26 11 44 5 9 29 9 25 MOON SOUTH. 9 21 Moon. H. M. 10 96 56 46 4 10 3 H. M. н. M. H. M. H. M. 11 15 11 16 5 57 5 42 3 1 28 6 2 17 6 3 4 56 66 34 m. 8 ev. 38 m. 57 m. Boston; N. England, N. York H. M. 10 3 SUN SUN MOON HIGH SUN SUN MOON HIGH SUN SUN MOON RISES. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. H. M. 6 58 7 21 0 52 6 7 56 1 35 6 5 34 8 38 2 20 6 5 31 9 32 3 12 6 5 29 10 35 4 10 6 7 8 5 27 11 48 8 6 31 6 4 39 11 1 5 56 5 43 4 40 7 44 5 56 5 43 4 42 sets 11 37 5 57 5 41 sets 8 19 5 57 5 41 sets 6 27 morn 5 58 5 40 6 29 8 58 5 58 5 40 6 31 6 52 0 12 6 0 5 38 6 55 9 38 5 59 5 38 15 37 7 25 10 20 6 0 5 37 7 29 25 35 8 111 3 6 1 5 35 8 6 35 33 8 44 11 57 6 25 34 8 50 4 5 32 9 38 morn 6 35 32 9 45 55 30 10 41 0 57 6 4 5 31 10 48 6 5 28 11 53 2 4 6 5 5 29 11 59 7 5 27 morn 3 18 6 6 5 28 morn 1 4 8 5 25 1 8 4 27 6 75 26 1 13 2 20 8 46 6 9 5 24 2 23 5 31 6 8 5 25 3 35 9 40 6 10 5 22 3 36 95 23 4 49 10 276 11 5 21 4 49 rises 11 12 6 12 5 19 6 211 53 6 13 5 17 6 32 ev: 34 6 15 5 16 7 11 1 16 6 16 5 14 2 1 6 17 5 13 6 18 5 12 6 195 11 6 20 5 7 42 6 4 6 9 5 26 morn 2 26 6 266 rises 2 3 38 1 6 6 17 5 14 7 45 9 8 32 2 46 8 9 23 6 14 5 16 6 15 5 15 6 16 5 14 6 17 5 13 9 35 6 18 5 11 10 32 6 19 5 10 11 29 9 6 20 5 9 morn 3 36 4 30 5 26 6 23 6 10 20 5 11 19 6 21 5 3 morn 6 22 5 6 3 2 0 20 7 19 6 23 5 5 0 25 4 4 6 21 5 8 8 27 6 27 5 0 1 22 8 10 6 24 5 3 1 25 4 54 6 22 5 6 6 25 5 2 2 26 5 43 6 23 5 5 3 21 3 2 9 10 6 28 4 59 2 24 8 58 1 22 m. 56 ev. 6 11 6 23 5 6 58 6 25 5 10 26 m. 3 45 m. 1,500,000 FARMING LANDS in the world, for sale to ACTUAL SETTLERS, Neosho ISAAC T. GOODNOW, Land Commissioner, MOON. Phases of the Moon. DAY OF MONTH. DAY OF WEEK. New.... 1 0 1st Quar. 7 11 Full.... 14 0 3d Quar. 23 1 New.... 30 D. H. M. 144 9 6 9 2 858 8 54 8.50 8 42 24 25 M 26 T 27 W 28 T 29 F 30 S SIDEREAL BOSTON. 44 m. H. M. H. M. 9 13 10 18 8 14 8 11 8 7 8 3 9 10 1 2 7 59 7 55 MOON SOUTH. 751 747 SUN Evening Evening RISKS. SETS. 7 ev. 10 0 1 50 ev. 1 38 ev. 1 58 2 58 4 0 5 59 6 54 8 38 8 34 9 22 8 30 10 9 8 26 10 57 8 22 7 46 8 35 Venus Mars N. YORK. WASH'ION. D. H. M. 0 20 m. 0 37 m. 32 m. H. M. H. M. 6 33 4 53 6 36 4 50 6 38 4 49 6 394 47 6 40 4 46 6 424 45 Boston; N. England, N. York N. York City; Philadelphia, Washington; Mary- Iowa, and Oregon. Indiana, and Illinois. SUN MOON HIGH 64 646 7.39 8 30 6 27 5 00 sets 6 36 4 52 6 43 4 44 6 444 43 6 46 4 42 H. M. sets 5 54 7 26 8 28 9 38 10 52 morn 6 51 4 38 6 21 7 5 4 29 6 4 29 8 4 29 9 4 28 6 8 0 4 31 morn 24 31 34 30 4 4 30 EVEN. MORN. 1 6 15 2 4 52 4 7 6 36 4 50 10 56 morn 5 12 6 38 4 49 morn 0 14 1 26 4 6 37 4 51 2 34 5 6 39 4 50. 5 55 6 40 4 49 2 35 3 41 4.49 6 43 6 41 4 48 3 41 5 5 39 ev. 5 45 6 23 0 51 7 28 6 42 4 47 rises 8 8 6 43 4 46 5 12 8 53 6 44 4 45 5 51 6 29 9 37 6 45 4 44 6 36 7 19 10 21 6 46 4 44 7 26 8 14 11 6 6 47 4 43 8 21 6 48 4 42 9 17 7 13 6 49 4 40 1 38 6 3 10 9 12 11 55 3 57 6 53 4 38 10 11 ev. 44 6 49 4 42 10 16 0 9 4 46 6 54 4 37 11 11, 1 34 6 50 4 41 11 15 4 27 9 48 7 5 39 10 36 7 6 53 11 25 7 MOON-Lowest, 5th; perigee, 6th; 8 18 6 42 4 46 THE" CATHOLIC ANNUAL" for 1872. Now Send for our General Catalogue. 6 32 4 55 6 354 51 MORN. EVEN. H. 0 34 0 14 even 1 46 11 29 1 39 11 8 9 Jupiter Saturn SUN AT 5 59 0 10 1 23 M. 8. 9 2:11 43 41 8 40 11 43 52 8 18 11 44 32 7 57 11 45 42 7 36 11 47 22 highest, 18th; apogee, 21st. "We bave used the Wheeler & Wilson, the Singer, and another lock-stitch machine, and we have now used the Willcox & Gibbs two years. The result of our experience is, that for family sewing we would not accept either of the others as a present, and be obliged to use it." Rev. J. B. PITMAN, Matteawan, N. Y. See under Sept. and June Calendars. 2 M 3T 4 W 5 T F 7S 8S 9 M 10 T 11 W 12 T 13 F 14 S BOSTON. M. 52 m. SIDEREAL 29 30 M 31 T Venus Mars MOON SOUTH. 6 40 m. 4 48 ev. 9 16 ev. 1 40 m. Boston; N. England, N. York Evening Evening RISES. SETS. SUN SUN MOON HIGH H. M. H. M. H. M. 45 7 10 4 28 9 40 10 28 11 19 H. M. 6 28 m. 4 36 ev. 9 4 ev. 1 28 m. 7 11 4 28 7 12 4 28 7 13 4 28 7 20 7 17 4 28 8 67 18 4 28 н. м. H. M. H. M. H. M. 1 48 7 5 15 morn 7 5 4 34 2 52 1 10 7 3 53 2 57 84 33 4 50 7 14 4 28 3 94 33 10 5 44 7 15 4 28 9 56 07 7 22 4 28 6 7 18 4 34 7 18 4 34 7 20 4 28 7 21 4 28 MORN. MORN. 1 33 10 46 1 26 10 20 1 19 10 0 1 11 9 37 1 3 9 12 N. York City; Philadelphia, H. M. 5 21 Jupiter Saturn H. M 7 16 7 8 7 4 7 0 6 56 652 6 48 6 44 6 40 6 36 6 32 6 28 6 24 morn 6 20 11 7 24 4 29 15= 16 M 6 17 1 37 24 4 29 17 T 6 13 18 W 6 9 19 T 6 5 6 1 557 20 F 1 55 7 25 4 29 21 S 22 5 53 23 M 5 49 24 5 45 7 3 7 28 4 32 25 W 5 41 7 47 7 28 4 33 26 T 5 37 27 F 8 35 7 29 4 33 28S SUN SUN MOON HIGH 04 39 9 17 7 7 7 0 42 7 1 42 7 5 10 6 5 7 8 8 SUN AT NOON-MARK. M. S. 16 11 49 30 55 11 51 59 34 11 54 45 13 11 57 41 53 12 0 41 EVEN. H. 7 6 6 6 5 10 48 45 11 45 0 morn Washington; Maryland, Va., Ky., Mo., and California. SUN SUN MOON RISES. SETS. SETS. 14 39 24 39 34 39 44 38 10 4 5 4 38 11 18 6 4 38 morn 2 38 7 7 4 38 3 36 7 84 38 9 4 38 4 29 7 5 24 7 10 4 38 6 15 7 11 4 38 4 50 7 2 7 11 4 38 5 53 7 47 7 12 4 38 rises 8 31 7 13 4 39 5 17 9 18 7 13 4 39 6 11 010 17 14 4 40 7 6 7 14 4 40 5 5 4 11 47 7 19 4 34 7 19 4 34 0 10 41 8 7 20 4 35 59 11 23 7 15 41 9 4 5 58 ev.31 6 55 1 15 7 55 2 0 8 55 2 41 9 57 3 23 7 20 4 35 10 0 ev. 8 7 15 4 41 10 3 10 57 4 5 7 21 4 36 10 58 0 52 7 15 4 42 11 0 11 58 4 51 7 21 4 36 11 59 1 38 7 16 4 42 11 59 morn 5 37 7 22 4 37 morn 2 25 7 16 4 43 morn 0 59 3 14 7 16 4 43 0 59 2 3 7 7 17 4 44 2 1 3 11 27 17 4 44 3 8 6 17 174 45 4 18 6 59 7 18 4 45 5 32 7 53 7 18 4 46 6 46 8 51 7 18 4 47 sets 9 47 7 19 4 48 6 29 1 0 6 287 22 4 37 2 5 4 5 7 22 7 22 4 38 6 18 0 6 7 24 4 42 6 23 WALTHAM WATCHES, ENGLISH WATCHES, SWISS WATCHES, In every style of finish, and at lowest prices. Also And articles suitable for BISHOP & REIN, Jewelers and Silversmiths, Under Fifth Avenue Hotel, cor. Broadway and 23d St., New York. H. M. 5 27 6 28 7 37 8 50 0 27 1 34 2 39 3 44 ABSTRACT OF PUBLIC LAWS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS, AND THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS, WITH RESOLUTIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS. FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS-THIRD SESSION COMMENCED DEC. 5, 1870-CLOSED March 4, 1871. tions.-Provides for surveying and putting in market the military lands of Fort Lane and Walla Walla in Oregon, Fort Zarah in Kansas, Camp Garry in Nevada, Fort Sumner in New Mexico, Forts Jessup and Sabine in Louisiana, Forts Wayne and Smith in Arkansas, Fort Abercrombie on the Red River of the North, and part of Fort Bridger in Wyoming. CHAP. XCIX.-Protection of the Right of Suffrage. (This act is effective only when members of Congress are to be chosen.) Fraudulent registration for the purpose of voting, using force, or bribery, or in any way hindering a legal voter from registering, tampering with the registering officers, knowingly registering one not entitled to vote, making or using false papers, or doing any unlawful act to impede or falsify the registry, is declared a crime, punishable by the penalties named in the act of May 31, 1870. (See TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1871, pages 20-21.) In towns of over 20,000, upon written application of two citizens, the Judge of the United States Circuit Court shall, ten days before registration or election, appoint two citizens for each election district, of different political parties, who shall be known as supervisors of election. These supervisors must attend the registration, where there is any, to challenge suspected persons, scrutinize the books of registered names, sign their names to each page thereof, and do any lawful act to preserve the purity of the registration. They are also to attend the polls whenever members of Congress are to be chosen, to challenge any one whose right to vote is not clear, to remain with the ballot boxes until the canvass is fully made, to scrutinize the way in which the books and tallies are kept and the voting done; "and to the end that each candidate for the office of representative or delegate in Congress shall obtain the benefit of every vote for him cast, the said supervisors of election are, and each of them is, hereby required, in their or his respective elec-. tion districts or voting precincts, to personally scrutinize, count, and canvass each and every ballot in their or his election district or voting precinct cast, whatever may be the indorsement on said ballot, or in whatever box it may have been placed or be found; to make and forward to the officer who, in accordance with the provisions of section thirteen of this act, shall have been designated as the chief supervisor of the judicial district in which the city or town wherein they or he shall serve shall be, such certificates and returns of all such ballots as said officer may direct and require, and to attach to the registry list, and any and all copies thereof, and to any certificate, statement, or return, whether the same, or any part or portion thereof, be required by any law of the United States, or of any State, territorial, or municipal law, CHAP. II.-Lands for the Utah Central Railroad.-Grants 200 feet on each side of the road, besides land necessary for stations, shops, side tracks, &c. The road to be a post-route. CHAP. VI.-Sugar.-Modifies and reduces the tariff on sugar; present rate from 14 to 4 cents per lb. CHAP. XXII.-Internal Improvements.Grants $200,000 to improve the Louisville and Portland canal for 1871. CHAP. XXXIII.-Kansas.-Provides for reimbursing Kansas for expense of raising and equipping troops in the Rebellion; sum not stated. CHAP. XXXIV.-Internal Improvements. Appropriates $100,000 to improve St. Mary's Falls, canal and river. CHAP. XXXV.-Judicial Districts.-Divides Virginia into two judicial districts. CHAP. XXXVIII.-Indians.-Provides for the sale of the Stockbridge Reservation in Wisconsin, and the removal of the Indians to another location. CHAP. XLV.-Smuggling.-Amends the Act to Prevent Smuggling, with especial reference to the Canadian frontier. CHAP. XLVIII.-Indian Lands.-Provides for the sale of not more than six townships of the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin. CHAP. L.-Pensions of 1812.-Provides that the Secretary of the Interior place on the pension roll the names of the surviving officers and enlisted and drafted men, including militia and volunteers, of the military and naval service of the United States, who served sixty days in the war with Great Britain of 1812, and were honorably discharged, and to such other officers and soldiers as may have been personally named in any resolution of Congress for any specific service in said war, although their term of service may have been less than sixty days, and who at no time, during the late rebellion against the authority of the United States, adhered to the cause of the enemies of the government. The pension is $8 per month; widows who have not married again are provided for. CHAP. LXII.-District of Columbia.-Provides a government for the District, making it substantially a regular Territory. The governor and secretary are appointed for four years by the President, confirmed by the Senate; there is a Legislature consisting of a Council of eleven members, and a House of Delegates of twentytwo members. (This Act was put in effect early in the summer.) CHAP. LXVII.-Bridge over the Missouri.Authorizes the Union Pacific Railroad Company to issue bonds for building a bridge at or near Omaha, Congress may regulate tolls and fares for the bridge. CHAP. LXVIII.--Selling Military Reserva any statement touching the truth or accuracy of the registry, or the truth or fairness of the election and canvass, which the said supervisors of election, or either of them, may desire to make or attach, or which should properly and honestly be made or attached, in order that the facts may become known, any law of any State or Territory to the contrary notwithstanding." The supervisors are to select such places in the registering or voting room as may best enable them to see and know how the business is conducted, any State or local law to the contrary notwithstanding. They will report any molestation or obstruction offered to them in the performance of their duty to the chief supervisor of the judicial district, who will apply for the proper remedy. In large cities, the United States Marshal may appoint two special deputies in each election district to assist the supervisors, and it shall be the duty of such special deputies, to keep the peace, and support and protect the supervisors of elections in the discharge of their duties, preserve order at such places of registration, and at such polls, prevent fraudulent registration and fraudulent voting thereat, or fraudulent conduct on the part of any officer of election, and immediately, either at said place of registration or polling-place, or elsewhere, and either before or after registering or voting, to arrest and take into custody, with or without process, any person who shall commit, or attempt or offer to commit, any of the acts or offenses prohibited by this act, or the act hereby amended, or who shall commit any offense against the laws of the United States: Provided, That no person shall be arrested without process for any offense not committed in the presence of the marshal or his general or special deputies, or either of them, or of the supervisors of election, or either of them, and, for the purposes of arrest or the preservation of the peace, the supervisors of election, and each of them, shall, in the absence of the marshal's deputies, or if required to assist said deputies, have the same duties and powers as deputy marshals: And provided further, That no person shall, on the day or days of any such election, be arrested without process for any offense committed on the day or days of registration. Persons arrested must be taken before a commissioner, judge, or a court of the United States. Any person obstructing or refusing to assist the supervisors in their legitimate duties, or interfering in any way improperly with the supervisors or deputy mashals, is "liable to instant arrest without process, and on conviction to not more than two years imprisonment, or $3,000 fine, or both; and he shall pay the costs of the prosecution. Refusal to answer proper questions, or refraining from answering, or giving false information, is a misdemeanor, to be punished by 30 days imprisonment, or $100 fine, or both, and the offender shall pay the costs of prosecution. Supervisors an deputy marshals duly sworn in, who neglect or refuse to act without lawful excuse, are guilty of misdemeanor, with penalty of six to twelve months imprisonment, or $200 to $500 fiue, or both. Marshals resisted in making arrests, may call on the bystanders cr the posse comitatus for aid. One United States commissioner in each judicial district is to be appointed by the Circuit Court Chief Supervisor of Elections for such district, whose duty it is to provide books, forms, &c., and prepare instructions for the supervisors, receive their reports, &c. The supervisors and deputy marshals have $5 per day for actual duty, but not to exceed ten days for any one registration or election. All suits arising under this act, are to be brought in, or removed to the United States courts. "All votes for representatives in Congress shall hereafter be by written or printed ballot, any law of any State to the contrary notwithstanding; and all votes received or recorded contrary to the provisions of this section shall be of no effect." CHAP. C.-Security of Life on Steam Vessels.-Steamers are to have pipes attached to the boilers to use steam for putting out fire; stoves and cooking ranges to be securely fastened, and wood-work near them carefully shielded; steamers carrying 50 passengers, or any passenger steamer carrying cotton, hay, or hemp, shall have a double-action steam firepump, or equivalent apparatus for throwing water, with a pipe on each side the vessel to carry water to upper decks, with sufficient hose to reach any part of the vessel. Steamers exceeding 200 tons must have two double-acting fire-pumps, to be worked by hand, with hose, &c.; pipes from the pumps to the water below the vessel's water-line must be in order; no loose hay, hemp, cotton, camphene, nitro-glycerine, naphtha, benzine, benzole, coal oil, petroleum, or other like dangerous articles, shall be carried either as freight or stores on passenger steamers. Careful regulations for carrying these and other dangerous articles are made in the act, with heavy penalties for neglect or violation of the rules. Steamers are to employ watchmen at night; must have small boats always ready for use; also life preservers, fire-buckets, water barrels or tanks, axes, convenient stairways, clear gangways, ample space for deck passengers, wire tiller-ropes and bell pulls, and metal speaking tubes; $300 penalty for neglecting these matters. The system of inspecting steamers is improved, and incompetent inspectors are removed. Minute directions for inspecting boilers, engines and hulls, are enacted, and captains, chief mates, engineers, and pilots are to be licensed. A supervising inspector-general, and supervising inspectors for the several districts, meet once a year (third Wednesday in January) to further the enforcement of this act. (The act goes into minute directions, that are unintelligible to the non-professional reader.) CHAP. CV.-Our National Centenary Celebration.-Provides that an exhibition of American and foreign arts, products, and manufactures shall be held, under the auspices of the government of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1876. A commission to consist of not more than one delegate from each State and Territory, whose functions shall continue until the close of the exhibition, shall be constituted, whose duty it shall be to prepare and superintend the execution of a plan for holding the exhibition, and, after conference with the authorities of Philadelphia, to fix upon a suitable site within the limits of the city. where the exhibition shall be held. Said commissioners shall be appointed within one year from the passage of this act by the President of |