MISSISSIPPI. Scott..... This State voted for Legislature and County officers in '71. The following is the vote for District Attorneys: Counties. Rep. Dem. Jasper........ 826 1008 Adams... Amite.. Atala Benton Bolivar.. Calhoun Carroll... .1955 772 644 .3992 55 395 1009 Lauderdale...1708 1642 Washington...2673 .1355 -Laurence.... 1428 Leflore.. Chickasaw...1858 1864 Lee. Choctaw.... 309 914 Lincoln... 68, Loundes.. ..1242 1262 Madison. House.. 62 426 449 Total... 84 NEW MEXICO. 46 1313 .1101 756 CONG. DELEGATE,'71. Rio Arriba....544 Rep. Dem. San Miguel....256 Chaves Galleg. Santa Ana.....276 633 883 592 570 Wayne 869 365 474 1516 975 Claiborne.....2299 .4266 1680 Counties 842 Clarke.. .2774 1027 48 Coahoma.....1227 Marion 199 384 Bernalillo. Copiah.... .475 729 Covington. ...2705 1675 Dona Ana. 478 763 Tuos.. .752 471 De Soto. 3148 3008 Montgomery.. 366 .951 358 Franklin. 634 581 Neshoba 315 582 Lincoln.. Greene.... 58 263 Newton....... 399 24 Mora 23 28: .3325 832 .743 709 Santa Fe... Grenada. 1337 Hancock ...no elec'n Oktibbeha....1694 1085 659 Panola........2567 1604 343 Perry. Harrison... 250 2616 1089 Pike Issaquena.....1486 177 114 967 921 Gallegos over J. Francisco Chaves, 2395. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. 338c8 1929 29025 20306 8719 108857 84710 24447 86110 65021 888 161 3013188 2703600 309588 2216127 1808725 407342 1866452 1375157 847953 590631 52.71 47.29 1 5.42 55.10 44.90 10.20 39.87 29.37 18.11 12.65 (*Democratic majorities.) In 1868, whole vote 5716788 Grant's maj. 309588. In 1864, whole vote 4024852 Lincoln's maj. 407402. In 1860, whole vote 4680193: Lincoln over Douglas, 491295; over Breckinridge, 1018499 Over Bell, 1275821 all others over Lincoln, 947289. 78 HOW TO ACQUIRE TITLE TO GOVERNMENT LANDS. There are two classes of public Lands subject to entry: one at $1.25 per acre, known as minimum, and one at $2.50, known as double minimum, the latter being the alternate sections along the lines of railroads. Title may be acquired by purchase at public sale, or by "private entry," and in virtue of the Pre-emption and Homestead Laws. At Public Sale lands are offered at auction to the highest bidder, pursuant to proclamation or public notice. Private Entry.-Lands subject to private entry, are those which have been once offered at public sale without finding purchasers. In order to acquire title to these lands, a written application must be made to the Land Register of the District in which the land is located, describing the tract desired. The Register certifies the fact to the Receiver, stating price, and the applicant then pays the money and takes a receipt, and at the close of the month the Register and Receiver make return of the sale to the General Land Office, when a patent or full title issues on due surrender of the receipt, and will be delivered at the option of the purchaser, at the General Land Office in Washington, or by the Register at the District Land Office. Land Warrants.-When lands are to be located with land warrants, application must be made as in cash cases, accompanied by an assigned warrant. When the tract is $2.50 per acre, $1.25 per acre must be paid in addition to the warrant. Receipts are given and patents delivered, as in the preceding case. At the time of location, a fee of 50 cents for a 40 acre warrant, and a corresponding amount for larger ones, must be paid to the Register, and a like sum to the Receiver. Agricultural College Scrip.-This may be used in the location of lands at private entry, 'but is only applicable to lands subject to entry at $1.25 per acre, and is restricted to a technical "quarter section," and to 3 sections in each township of land. The proceeding to acquire title is the same as in cash and warrant cases, the fees being the same as on warrants. This scrip may be used in payment of pre-emption claims. Pre-emptions. Any person being the head of a family, or widow, or single man over 21 years of age, and a citizen of the United States, or a person who has filed his declaration to become such, by settling upon and improving any of the "offered," "unoffered," or unsurveyed lands of the United States, may obtain a preemption right to purchase 160 acres so occupied, at the regular Government price, whether it be $1.25 or $250 per acre. Where the tract is "offered" land, the settler must file with the District Land Office his statement as to the fact of settlement, within 30 days thereafter, and within one year must make proof to the Land Office, of his actual residence and cultivation, and secure the land by payment in cash or Land Warrant. Where the land has been surveyed and not offered at public sale, the statement must be filed within three months after settlement, and payment made within 21 months. Where settlement is made upon unsurveyed lands, the settler is required to file a statement within three months after the survey, and pay within eighteen months thereafter. No person is entitled to more than one pre-emption right. The Homestead Privilege-The Homestead laws give to every citizen the right to a Homestead of 160 acres minimum, or eighty acres double minimum. To obtain Homestead, applicant must swear that he is the head of a family, or over the age of twenty-one, a citizen, or has declared his intention to become such; and that the entry is for his exclusive use and benefit, and for actual settlement and cultivation. When an applicant has made actual settlement upon the land he desires, he must make affidavit of the fact before the Land Register, and pay fees amounting on 160 acres of minimum land to $18, or an equal sum for eighty acres of double minimum, for which he gets a receipt; and after five years occupation and cultivation of the land, he is entitled upon proof of such cultivation to a patent or full title to the Homestead. Any loyal person in the naval or military service of the United States, may acquire a Homestead by reason of his family occupying land and making the application in his stead. All officers, soldiers and sailors, who have served in the army or navy for ninety days and remained loyal, may enter 160 instead of eighty acres of double minimum lands. fees above for entering Homestead, apply to surveyed lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Dakotah, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Florida, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. In California, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Washington Territory Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana, the fees are $22 instead of $18. A settler having filed a preemption declaration, may change his filing into Homestead, and receive the benefit of the Homestead laws. If a Homestead settler does not wish to remain five years on his land before obtaining title, he may pay for it in cash or Land Warrants. Lands obtained under the Homestead laws are exempt from liability for debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent. The United States Land Offices are located at Fort Des Moines, Council Bluffs, Fort Dodge, and Sioux City, Iowa; Menasha, Falls of St. Croix, Steven's Point, La Crosse, Bayfield and Eau Claire, Wisconsin; San Francisco, Marysville, Humboldt, Stockton, Visalia, Sacramento and Los Angelos, California; West Point, Beatrice, Lincoln, Dakota City, and Grand Island, Nebraska; Taylor's Falls, St. Cloud, Du Luth, Alexandria, Jackson, New Ulm, and Litchfield, Minnesota; Oregon City, Roseburg, and Le Grand, Oregon; Topeka, Junction City, Humboldt, and Augusta, Kansas; Carson City, Austin, Belmont, and Aurora, Nevada; Vermillion, Springfield, and Pembina, Dakota; Denver City, Fair Play, and Central City, Colorado; Boonville, Ironton, and Springfield, Missouri; Mobile, Huntsville, and Montgomery, Alabama; New Orleans, Monroe aud Natchiloches, Louisiana; Detroit, East Saginaw, Ionia, Marquette and Traverse City, Michigan; Little Rock, Washington, and Clarksville, Arkansas; Boise City and Lewiston, Idaho; Chillicothe, Ohio; Indianapolis, Indiana; Springfield, Illinois; Jackson, Mississippi; Tallahassee, Florida; Olympia, and couver, Washington Territory; Helena, Montana; Prescott, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah. Van Astronomical Department. Computed and arranged expressly for this WORK, by SAMUEL H. WRIGHT, A. M., M. D., Penn Yan, Yates County, N. Y. ECLIPSES. There will be four eclipses this year, as follows: I. A Total Eclipse of the Moon May 12, in the morning, which will be partial and visible from Boston west to Chicago, and west of Chicago the Eclipse will be total. The Moon sets with the Eclipse upon it, except at San Francisco. II. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun May 26, the Sun rising partly eclipsed in Maine, New Hampshire, and part of Vermont and Eastern Massachusetts. At Portland, Maine, the Eclipse ends at 4h. 37m., about eight minutes after sunrise. In New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts there will be scarcely more than a contact of limbs. III. A Total Eclipse of the Moon November 4, which will be visible as a partial Eclipse in California and Oregon. At San Francisco, and at Portland, Or., it begins at 5h, 56m. in the morning, the Moon setting with the Eclipse upon it. IV. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun November 19; visible in the Southern Ocean. Mercury, January 8, May 6, and September 2, rising then before the Sun; also March 15, July 13, and November 7, setting then after the Sun. Venus, March 29 and June 10. Mars, April 27. Jupiter, February 14. Saturn, July 21. JEWISH CALENDAR. The year 5633 begins October 3d, 1872, and ends Sept. 21st, 1873, and has 51 Sabbaths. The year 5634 begins Sept. 220, 1873, and ends Sept. 11th, 1874. MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR for 1873. The Mohammedan year 1289 of 355 days, begins March 11th, 1872, and ends Feb. 28th, 1873. The year 1290 begins March 1, 1873, and ends Feb. 17th, 1874. PLACES OF THE PLANETS. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. June July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. |