Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-05-13

lthey have gained. Ever hereafter uli
.lder one pretext or another, will they lay
ON taxes to the Full extent of the nation''
ability. It will increase their power!
lit viii fill their pockets; andit will ksef
! the people as humble as is the strong
lass that croucheth down under his bur
Idens.--ibid.
From the New-Yerk Evening Post.
Extract of letter TO gentleman ~
! THIS ciy, dated Paris, parch "a.
ai was Yesterday at the Champ de
! Mars and saw Mademoiselle Garnerin as
Icend into the air by a balloon. 1t was a
lmoSt extraordinary and painfully int.
resting sight. She was seated IN a kind
| of wicker basket and suspended 90 feet,
lperhaps, by cords from the balloon, with
| the parachute floating loose between shel
and the balloon. At ab0ut 90 minutes
latter 4. the balloon was set at liberty :
| the wind was very strong from n. yet
the balloon was so well charged that II
| descended at an angle of about 90 de-
gfees, and at lie rate IT about mile ~
Is minutes. In Two minutes frem the
time she started, she disengaged herself
] from the balloon at the. height, | should
Judge, of $500 feet from the ground, anu
3descended like lightning short distance,
when the parachute opened and she was
gently let down to her mothe" earth, al
y ter all absence Of about 5 minutes. She
lighted near mile from the Champ dc
Mars. and within g o. 8 rods Of the bank
of the river Seine , Thousands of people
Immediately surrounded her, and es.
Icorted her. on horseback, safe and sound
back to her father and half distracted
another and sister. There were about
5000 people within the Champ de Mars
who paid / franc admission a few PAID
sand even 10 francs to so within the en-
! closures. This-money went, il IS said,
! 10 the distressed inhabitants Of scissors.
iOn the outside of tn Champ de Mars
! and near it Isuppose there were not lew
Ter than $4,000 more. The lady is ia.
!moiselle about 25 years old, not hand
some, and Just befare she started looked
very paIiid, and thought frightened,
though ! dare say much less so than tie
thousands who we're looking at her; but
the moment she began to ascend, her COM
posture returned, and she waved two
white flags which she held in her hands,
with much grace.
! Fron the n. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.
Soar Spots, IN .aprit osd .say, 1916.
I SOL, the Sun, the most splendid of
the celestial globes, ditfnses light and
heat through the whole planetary sys-
tenn. Many authors have written upon
his nature and constitution. A catalogue
lot these photographic books, was pub
Ilished at Heimstadt, in Germany. during,
1873, by Nicholas Frobesips !; bat in'
1868, Mich. Chr, Hanovius attempted Ia
| a formal dissertation, to demonstrate tiat1
! the sun W s not body Of hfe.
Astronomers on beholdipg this grand
,iuminary, are satisfied that he is moi
equally radisntin every part. His sur
face is occasionally beset with spots OF.
clouds, OF which the famous professor,
WeidEer, Of Wittemburg, has exhibited
an able summary. The usual facts and
appearances of solar lnaculae, are these:
!! to wit.
/. Occasionally on the disi; of the sun
Iare seen blackish spaces. of a round, O.
val, orirregular figure. They often have
Il dark nucleus. whose circumference is
Hinged with a red and blue color. They
lare called maculae or spots.
2. frequently, as the French astrono.
lmers remarked, during the seventeenth
Icentury, there were meme to be seen tor
days, months, and even years in success
sion. Picard, Hevelius. and Marian,
distinguished themselves by the assidulty
with which they pursued their investiga-
ton upon this subject.
! 8. The number visible at time IL the
Isun, varies for sometimes there is but a
single one and then again, ten, twenty,
Thirty, or more, have been distinguished.
tSchciper discovered on q certain occa
sion, fifty spots in sight at a time, on tie
lSun's disk.
4. Their apparent magnitude varies :
they occupying at different times the
lhundredth, fittieth, thirtieth, twentieth,
aud even greater portion Of the suns