Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-07-29

l.. A. Cazenoye, w. Alexander,
VIM. K M'Donald.
VIM. F. Lee obtained the prize for elocu-
ton. w. b. LEAhi'
From the Missouri Gazette Of June ss.
By letter from Praire du Chen we un-
der,tand that council with the chiefs OF the
Winebago nation OF Indians, has been held
by colonel Leavenworth, on the subject OF
the murder of two of the men belonging to
the 9Th regiment. They disclaimed and de-
nounced the act, andsaid il was done by two
fools, who had covered the whole natIan
with shame, That they had no wish or in
tention to go to war, and promised to deli
ysr no the murderers IN days; and in the
mean time delivered FIVE of their chiefs as
hostages.
The Sacs, Foxes, Kickapoos, aud in fact
all tie Indians Oh the river stand ready to
ioin the United States, in case 1t is request
ed. against the Winebagoes, bu, no necessi-
~ for i, exists. A part of the Winebsgoes
are friendly, and the residue fear our troops
too much to do any more mischief.
Mr.. Michael German, native OF Queens
comfy. Ireland, and only few months IRON
the Emerald Isle, with an amable groupe OF
children, most Of them arrived to manhood,
had purchased a plantation in our neghbor-
hood.
On Friday morning last, The eldest sons OF
Mr.. German, Thomas and Patrick, descend
ed into well they were digging, and had
previously penetrated about 3u feet, Appre-
bending no danger they, with VIM. Neale
and Thomas Kinchelo, hired laborers, who
descended to assist them, tell victims to the
fixed air, which had accumulated in the saort
period Of twenty OF tiirty hours.
Mr.. VIM. Tharp, who resides near Cor
mans, had the intrepidity to go down IN the
bucket, and brought up the four men. one all
ter the other-bled them, but alas, they
could not be brought to life. MIR. G. lett
Queens county, Ireland, on the 10Th June,
1919, and arrived in ST. Louis 4th Decem-
bar following. All the above named, were
from the same neighborhood.
VIEW THEORY OF THE NOTIONS OF THE PLA-
NETARY SYSTEM.
A curious commentary, or rather an at
tack upon the received system of the plane
tary motions, has recently been published,
in small pamphlet, by captain Burney,
which is likely to- excite the attention OF the
scientific world, and may lead TO the disco
very ofvery unexpected astronomical facts.
The author deduces the motion OF the whole
of our system from the Progressive motion
ofthe sun itself Equality which he says,
must be equally possessed ny all the hea-
venly bodies, resulting from the universally
acknow lodged laws OF gravitation. he az
CUES. a prioSi, that, from progressive mo-
ton, rotation is produced, and a posteriori,
that body in free space, having rotation a.
round lis own axis, is clear indication Of It's
being in progressive movement. 1hls he
corroboratss by the general belief now en-
tertamed, that our sun and plauets are ad-
vancing towards the constellation Hercules.
Tue opinion, that the sun has progressive
motion, was not entertained till long alter
its rotary motion was discovered. Captain
b. states his conviction, that ii from the DIS
coyery !of the suns rotation, and the &C
knowledged universally OF gravity, its pro-
gression had been inferred, when kepiel
first suggested that the planets moved around
she sun by means of its atmosphere, the sys'
ten OF this philosopher would have obtained
immediate AMI lasting credit, and that the
hypothesis OF these bodies being continued
in motion by an original projeetiis impulse
wouid aot have been resorted to in account
LAG for the phenomena OF their motion.
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