Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 July 1859 — Page 1

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THE BALIiOOIf EXPEDITION FROM brought his friends intc the car, and. what 1HI90OURI TO HEW YORK- was the matter. The proficient balloonist, KH. itTDE's ICCOTJTJT. who boasts of his two hundred and thirtynine ascensions, had been taught a valua-

^rcafr published in fall, Mr.

•""VVise*# circumstantial narrative of his 'ferial-ToyftjJ® ^rom Ij0tl'a

Jefferson

county, .N. Y, We BOW reproduce these portion? of report by his companion, Mr. Hjk, :ae piltdished in the St. Louis

Republican, wldeh bare not been wholly

anticipated. f:i THE EAETH A* SEKN FROM TUB HIGH AIR. Hr Hyde thus describes the appearance I*- of objects beneath, as the balloon gradual•i ly rose from Washington Square.

From a general appearancc of squattincss—the word may not be very elegant, but is the only one suggesting itself which conveys the idea—objccts gradually become less clcarly defined the smoke from the foundries disappeared in the sky streets grew narrower and darker, until they seemed like thin lines and finally the city faded into a spot. By this time the barometer had fallen four inches, and the balloon commanded an extended view of the Mississippi, the Missouri and Illinois ,rivers. Leaving the noblest of streams to the left, I had an opportunity to realize, as much as possible to a practical person, the meaning of poetic dreamers when attempting to portray the silvery, glittering sheen of the waters, produced by 1 lie rays of the declining sun. Nothing could be imagined more gorgeously beautiful. We cracked a bottle of Hcadsick on behalf of the silvery, glitering sheen. The strips of timber land and fields of newly harvested graiu of that portion of Illinois over which our silkin globe was gliding, were not •grotesquely mingled as they might be supposed to be when viewed from the distance, but, lay like a floor of mosaic inasonry, regular and square. To our vision there were no hills nor valleys, every object appeared set upon a level surface.

THE PLEASURES OF AN AERIAL SAIL. Every vestige of St. Louis had now LAKE ERIE. vanished from our sight, and we were Twelve minutes after five o'clock we drifting at a wonderful rate ot speed, to- JiSCried iu the cast what at first appeared wards our far off destination. I do

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F'^tly steady. here was I

no of the boat or car, or rustling of

ihe si.

not»m? ?llt

forests a.*1' lelds beneath, to tell us we

were not poised jotuccn enrlh ami Ay,

In a dead ca.

i.l on itrv.-. fleet-

delightfnl. S'nili'.ig pnrrlrg

i« grand unruffled iat and !-l iiuiiiin lie."-', iueffab vablc uielhci in piiu! of dai -1 1-. ings of breath buoyant the will boat In-

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lake iru 11 with gent! ly glorious. i! it these eisls of travel, 1 felt, yit bled ity !rasur-ableness tn ihe and imj.ressive snrri'iund.na

r»,'veO ori:il of l.ree down o] iw ear. its own

vi:ration.

this calmness our monster bubble floated Mrough* the clouds. Twilight was on the •earth, and gave to t!.c r'oJor ot the soil the •.il'ijiearanee of frozen i».kes. I?y this time •thi: sira bad set to the inliabi'ynts of the •earth,'tliifjgh to us it was four or five degrees above the horizon. At thirlv-two ninutcsj aft seven, we saw our eonsovl, .tlo 'f'oiiie:. \0b':*h looked like a mere blaJ-

der, effecting a landing far to the North-•

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a St'XHiSK ik Tin* vvK.sT—Tin* col.!). |(,I)(r

derfully. The rising of the fluid was not the only way by which we knew wc had been attaining a great altitude, for we now enjoy the rather unusual occurrence of beholding the sun rise in the West—apparcntl}- rise, for the glorious luminary had only disappeared as our craft sank, and

and our teeth chattered after the manner

pale with apprehension lest something fearful had occurred to Prof. W., at once bounded to one of the upright irons of the fan wheel machinery, and, with assistance from oue of his fellow voyagers, clamered into the car. It was a luck)* circumstance for Prof. Wise that he did, for Mr. Gager found that the tube at the mouth of the balloon was directly under the former's nose, and that the expansion of the gas had driven some of the hydrogen directly into his face. He was at that time insensible, though as soon as the tube had been removed Dy Mr. Gager from its proximity to the Professor's olfactories, and a few bttty shakes given him, the comatose man revived.rubbed his eye,and muttered a few incoherent syllables, and enquire^ what

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ble lesson. AMONG THE BREAKERS.

flowed laiiguidiy on every sid their gauze-like robes and oddviiig eurrents.

A\"i111 lis no

•e/e was stirring. The of a thistle, released from vt111 have fallen to the specific gravity, fn all

I he mad waves dashin

coll

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It was, I think, about this time that an prcperation made for keeping out of the incident occurred, both exciting and alarm-! waves. For a while wc chcrished the hope ing. Prof. Wise crouched himself down that wc would be able to pass the proad in the wicker-car, covered his body with expanse of the deep in safety, though wc shawls and other articles of warmth, and knew wc had nearly one hundred and was paying his devoirs to the drowsy god ninety miles to traverse. But this hope ^f fikiep. The balloon bad again become died out in less than an hour, as the troopinflated to its fullest tension, and the Prof. I ing winds bore down on us, it seemed, lay immediately under its mouth. Mr. ivith grater and increasing fierceness. We

Gager had occation to address some rc- had got far out and there was no land in mark to the veteran rcronaut, but received sight. A dreary waste of nearly seven no answer. It was deemed impossible thousand square miles of water was before that he had fallen asleep so soon, and Mr. and around us. G. again accosted him, this time in a loud- At length we ncarcd the dashing billows, cr tone. Still there was no response. A which were wildly flinging up their white third and fourth time did he call, but! caps and chasing one another towards the heavy, deep, and convulsive breathings North -cast. For mc, a lifetime was conwcre the only result. Mr. Gager, almost ccntrated in that awful, perilous moment,

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Prof. Wise and Mr. Gager had been asleep since about half past twelve o'clock, and appeared to give the matter there unremitting attention. I had taken about an hour's rest in broken doses, having been in a dilemna whether to close my eyes on sublunary things, or to keep a visual open for passing events.

When Mr. L. was dozing, I observed that a current of air was taking us downwards, and called his attention to it. We had just time to scoop up a couple of handfulls of ballast apiece and drop them overboard, to save us from a collision with a clump of trees which stood in alarming proximity. Such' was our nearness to the earth at this time, that we very distinctly heard the sand fajl on the ground. The balloon, once more freed from, a portion of her freight, darted ui pgairi into the air, and went above the branches without touching, though the margin was quite small.

THE WABASH AND WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.

At twenty-five minutes after 3 o'clock we floated over a village composed of a dozen or so houses in a pretty cluster.— By this time all the party were awake and lively, and we chatted and sang and ate till sunrise, at 4 (/clock and fifteen minutes, when we left to the right of us a large town which Mr. La Mountain said was Fort Wayuo, Ind. We could plainly hear the shouts of the astonished and delighted inhabitants, and Mr. Gager led off with a resounding and jolly hurrah, given by the whole of us with a will. We accordingly lost much breath for nothing, for it is not probable that we were heard. We threw of some papers and bills of fare at Barnum's Hotel, which may have alighted within ten miles of the town.

to he the reflection of the sun on the skv.

think I ever before experienced such cx- i.st 011c of the party asserted that we liberation of spirit-such real joy. Our

were Ilot ni my milcs flTom a ]akCj and so it

ts at first secnu

cast(.rl,

tIlc

brilliance of the

heavens was nothing less than an

immense body of water. The .-eronauts

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oncluded that it could only be Lake Eric,

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tliev were tracing the shore and ob-

have been apprehen-'.SOrvii!:/tho little islands

its contour cor-

sive of danger would have been next to ijnpossibile—'*a ve fftlt tear would have been lint. uewHi'di^C, but pusillanimity.— My feelings was' that ballooning. b. sides has a surface ot 7,8'0 square miles, and J0vcr the lake, though lie warned us of danbeing flic most ploasan an .swift was f-'le |-_iliour1t wo could not behold the whole of LCr as soon as we should be off the water, safest mode ot tra\cl Known. .. teaming ilio view lost none of its magnificence down a rapid current ft jiat on a love evening with sublime bluffs, romantic caverns and given f)ijage on either side, glistening wave® hel..w and a. mild skv above, I of water, vast, lncasurlcss as the this time appeared in the dim distance li.'iulimr canopy itself. (.-roups of white Apropeller eallcd "Young America" sliortin's, like groat puffs from a steam pipe,! ly afterwards

responded almost precisely with the niaji sublimer Lak

scene never broke on human l'ii'ie, it will be remembered,

from this causr Its expanse, limited and

unfolding ing off in

At half ast ten o'clock we had Lake Krie and Lake Ontario both insight, a spectacle that could not be viewed without, mingled S"iitinienls of admiration and wonder.— Tlte balloon had now attained an altitude 'of nearly a :ile. A terrible storm was surging beneath us,

breadth of silk disturbed, soaring aloft

with her expectant crew, and gailv bead-

i,.-. for the salt crests which bound our! grapnel swung against a tree of moderate size, the velocity of the balloon and its terrible strength would tear it down and

ist :«.epul)lie. .Now like a gurgle, comes the .vibdued roar of the plashing and head- ...

At S o'clock, ibe murcury in the baro-1 hooks broke off, and we were again at the metrical tube, toM 20 inclies, and five mill- ..... mercy of the all-sweeping wind. Mr. La •utcs subsequently, 2H which showed that Passing the western tcrm.nus of the Mountain and I held on to the valve rope, our gallant ship bad lifted herself up won-' Ca«aU'»e ballcHm was^borne directly djeavoring to discharge the gas, but we

towards Lake Ontario. Our ballast was now nearly exhausted, and to have determined on crossing the sceotad lake would have been sheer recklessness and hardihood. At this point it was resolved to descend to the earth, land Mr. Gager and mvself, in our stead take in a sufficient

again came in sight as the misterious in- quantity of new ballast, and again stern before these strong cords were broken.— fiuence of the sand-bag lessened the dis.

for tlic

tancc between us and the earth. A quar- lowered, but was immediately caught in ter of an hour elapsed and it became dark.,t,ic hurricane which was then ringing, and 5Tiic barometers then stood at twentv-threc I carried very near the tops of the trees inches, and the wcniher was bitter cold.—!

ur shawls, and overcoats and gloves camc :tr0 ^,c

*l»c*ir contents, and the lift this gave

•of American Bottom ague. I woods. Like a bullet we shot out. into the Lake. The maehienrv was cot in readiMR.W1SK S ESCAPE FROM SUFFOCATION. „CSS

kept us from being crushed in the

It was the first time since I had set foot in the boat suspended to the balloon that I had experienced fear as to my safety. I looked around at my companions they were calm but their countenances gave me no assurance. Plunge, plunge, went the iron bars of the machinery into the waves, now rolling ten feet in bight! And the Atlantic, obedient to this magic control, again bounded uptvards out of the way of the dark and hungry element. There was great relief in this, but the coolest reason could not have seen in the circumstance anything but momentary encouragement. I cannot recollect whether it was at this point, or before, that Mr. Gager climed up into the car with Prof. Wise- Whenever it was, he did so aa much for the security

tracts of Nia"ara. fling it to the ground. One by one the

Atlantic Ocean. The air-ship was

w,licl

were bending and swaying to and

forcc of

:iiUo requisition, but in spite of these ar- Mountain at oncc throw over the buckets tificial aids to comfort our limbs were numb

('1C winfl-

Mr. La-

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For a time again our flying ship was buoyed up out of the way of hazard, but would frequently dart downward as though intent on burying us all. This movement was promptly checked by throwing out some article as ballast, and thus, carpet sacks containing clothing, overcoats, bundles of papers, provisions, were pitched out into the lake, and still we kept in almost hopeless proximity. Mr. Lamountain had said he desired to take care of the boat, and advised me to get into the car above, with Messrs. Wise and Gager, which I hastened to do. No sooner had I planted myself firmly in the wicker basket than down, down, down with a fearful speed went the balloon towards the lake. I closed my eyes involuntarily, but was quickly aroused by a crash and a lunge of the car forward.. Three times were there a terrible clatter and splash. One moment more of my life, thought I. Looking around I beheld a hat floating off, and at the same instant the balloon darted out of the water. "Poor La Mountain," was in my heart to say, for I thought him gone but a cheerful "all right, boys," stopped me and lightened me of one grief. Now came a test of La Mountain's bravery, and nobly did he stand it. Taking a hatchet which was handed down to him from the car where it was swung, be began loosening the planks making the lining of the boat, which he sent overboard at every indication of another descent. When he had gone as far as possible, this way, he unscrewed the nuts which had been placed in the side of the boat by which to fasten the machinery. Gathering all articles, of no matter how little weight, together, he sent them with the rest. The oars went over next, and at last there was nothing in the boat. He had taken off his coat to it, and worked till the prcspiration ran from his brow like rain—all the while speaking hopefully and endeavoring to quiet our apprehensions.— When there was nothing more to be done below, Mr. La Mountain drew himself up by the rope, into the car. Everything had now gone but an overcoat and two blankets, which were saved to be used as the final resort.

How wistfully did four persons strain their eyes that day in the direction of the shore and would it never, never come in sight? Mr. Gager'a face bore an expression of mingled sadness and solicitudc: perhaps he was thinking ofagroupc of happy faces, all unconscious of his peril, away in Benton, Vermont. Mr. Ln Mountain seeni-

cd more hopeful, and l'rof. Wise talked as though we were certain of getting safe

Prof. W.'s theory was, that if the boat should get swamped, the balloon would

bounded only by the great zone where it still have momentum and power sufficient bb.Mided with the heavens, seemed an I to drag us to shore, which happily had by

bore down upon us to come

to our relief, but sc-udded some hundreds of feet before biU^'0y.?,.,a»d so that hope failed. 7

Finally",'after 'skimming within forty feet of the dark waves, for a distance of not I less than fifty miles, and perhaps more, we had the joy to know we were out of dangcr of drowning but a new peril was betore us. Prof. Wise had been quite right in his prediction. The hurricane blew us

the trees waving and immediately into a dense forest which skirtagainst the°s'liore

ct^

^1C ^a^cc threatened to tear us limb

..f J''ric in an awfully tempestuous manner.! ^n" Hut above the careering whirlpools audi -lr-_Gagei bad thrown out the anchor, a the thundering breakers swam the proud "cav3'

Atlantic, not a cord displaced, nor

lron

one with three hooks, each an

aml a

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ou^

,,car

^r thickness. So

our flight that this stood

straight from the car. As the

nado. Trees half the size of a man's body !'s

It happened that the landing was made

bv means of a broken tree, several persons

were standing around with open mouths and eyes staring out wonder. We then learned that we had landed on the farm of Truman O. Whitney, near Sackett's Harbor, in the township of Henderson, Jefferson county, New York. By Mr. La Mountain's watch, the time was two o'clock and twenty minutes. Wc had been nineteen hours and forty minutes traveling a distance which cannot be computed at less than nine hundred miles, and is said to reach as much as twelve hundred.

RECEPTION BV THE TERRESTRIALS/^,'

Our landing, though so hazardous, WM in one important respect a fortunate one, inasmuch as we feU among hospitable people, who treated us in a Epirit of politeness which might be emulated"-'ty pfrrstfis'of

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of the entire party as for his own safety, more genteel pretensions. About twenty for there is no selfishness in Mr. Gager, women and young girls surrounded us, and see him where you will.

had a million questions -to" propound relative to the extraordinary Voyage. But we soon got used to that.sert of thing. In the bottom of the car we found a douple of copies of the St. Louis Price Current and the card of. Fred. Kretschmar, candidate for the office of Clerk of the Criminal Court, which were seized and appropriated at once, perhaps for .'some cabinet of curiosities.

of ourselves as to undertake a trip of the kind. We finally went up to the house of Mr. Justus Wayne not a great'ways off, where the women folks set about to get up a "staving first rate dinner." And a firstrate dinner it was, whereat we sat down to an excellent cup of tea each, superior bread and butter, lettuce, aud other well prepared viands, including cherry and blackberry pie. Having finished our meal, and beii^g anxious to let our friends know of our safety, we inquired the way to the nearest telegraph station, which was at Adams, ten miles distant, on the Watertown and Rome llailroad. Mr. Wayne geared up a team for Mr. Gager and I, while a neighbor performed a like service for Prof. Wise and Mr. La Mountain. On the road to Adams, one of Mr. Wayne's acquaintances met him and asked him if he had heard about the air balloon which had alighted in the woods. A glow of pride and complacency spread all over our driver's honest phiz, as he replied, with an affirmative shake of the head, "Yes, and here's two of the men that was in it!" The foot traveler felt immediately that he had been eclipsed.

Our arrival at Adams was such an event as to deserve notice. We made our business known at the telegraph office without delay, and sat down to prepare dispatches, a half dozen loungers gathering about us, and, as they were civilly answered, the news spread like a prairie on fire. We had scarcely finished our messages, when each one of ns found himself surrounded, and had to go through with the whole-ac-count.

One after another carnc up, each wanting us to repeat the whole uarative from the commencement. There was a dress parade of military gfiing on in the street, but it had to cease its ineffectual lire before us "foreigners." They are very scn-

Some gentlemen remarked that it might be well for Prof. Wise to address the multitude on the subject which seemed to agitate thcni with such transverse sentiments of faith and disbelief, and the Professor, in obedience, gave out that if a hall could be procured lie would relate a history of what our party had done and seen, whereupon a meeting was concocted 011 the spot. Tn half an hour the whole town knew of Prof. W.'s promise, and in a few minutes a commodious room was jammed full of ladies and gentlemen anxious to hear "all about it." So the veteran Wise, Mr. Gager and myself, (Mr. La Mountain had returned to look after the wrecked balloon,) were trotted out on a large platform, a President and Sccretar3' were appointed, and the assemblage being thus organized, Prof. Wise proceeded to lay before his audience an in

7 ,r 1 1 terestinc account of the voyage from point quickly were compelled to release our grasp,!. .fc *,ri ,r 1 4 41 ,, 44. 1 .1 to point. When lie had concluded. Mr. and cling to the "eonccutratmg hoop to

avoid being thrown out. It lias been be-

1 1 1. Gager was called on, and made some ap-

4 4 1 41 4 41 1 1 4i propnatc remarks relative to the cold shoulforc stated that the meshes enveloping the S

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silk of the Atlantic had an aggregate strength of 011c hundred and twenty tons. It is not strange that it was some time

The balloon actually went through a mile of forest, and, tearing down trees and breaking branches, pursued its resistless course, dashing our party in the willow car |to and fro against trunks and limbs, until the stout netting had broken little by little and the balloon itself had no longer any protection, when striking a tall tree the silk was punctured in a dozen places and rent into ribons, leaving the car suspended by the net-work twenty feet above ground.-^— The course of the balloon through the woods left a path similar to that of a tor-

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4 dcr which is usua ly turned to projects of

importance in their infanc}-. Both gentlemen stated their entire satisfaction with the experiment made, and announced that they were more than ever convinced that the science of aerostation would yet amount to something which would astonish the world.

TIIE ORPHAN OF MONTERELLO.

A letter from Casale, in the Saint rub-

lie, of Lyons, says :—I met in the Piazza Savone a French light infantry soldier with a sparrow perched on his shoulder the soldier smoking, the sparrow chirruping. •'You breed birds, my brave fellow?" said I. The man smiled and answered:

were snapt in twain as though they were ''1C fight, on leaving the village, we pipe-stems, and huge limbs were scattered I

orphan from Montebello. The day

chase(i

like leaves. It is difficult to see how any Bullets whistled among the trees like hail, one of the quartette escaped with his life. |aP^

the Austrians across the fields.—

lk's

P00r l"r(l quite young, being tcr-

r'fie(i

within one hundred and fifty yards of a thrust it into my shako, which had been settlement, and the crash was so great that! pierced through by^ two balls, and thought the people ran to the spot to see what had !n0

since

When wc got down, rrhich was done partly j—we

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I10 l^ld

ou'

derly the bird sparrow.

of Lesbiathan

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I my

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After the natives had somewhat recovered from their surprise, we were beset on every side to accompany iiH of them home, and take a "snack of Something to eat."— One elderly lady insisted on our going home with her because she wanted to give [Territory to decide the question whether us a good scolding for "making such fools

ator in reference to the question of slavery in "the Territories. They demand that the Charleston Convention shall unequivocally admit the right of the first settlers of a

or 1,ot a

Southern man with his slave

The Constitution has come to his tion of non-intervention—that is all there is in it—and assigns him one he has never assumed. Why can not the Constitution do this eminent statesman justice Why this eternal disposition to pick at him Why these inexcusable slanders on his public position with which the whole country is presumed to be familiar? The Constitution and its allies have already made him strong enough by their abuse and persecution. In the interest of all bis coin-

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they hesitated to believe that a journey had been accomplished to their county, from so remote a region as St. Louis, in less than twenty hours. Some excuse may be found for their incrcdulousncss in the fact that they had recently been swindled by a. miserable hoax, concocted by some ingenious newspaper editor, relative to the descent of an imaginary meteor somewhere in that vicinity. It was suggested that the jerolite was nothing more nor less than a bag of sand from the Atlantic balloon.— The Adanisitcs are "down" on newspaper hoaxes.

tbe citadcl

from its nest on my arm. I

morp

°f it, unti!

happened. Singular as it would appear, something seratchin there was only one of the four injured in said: 'It is my the least—Mr. La Mountain receiving some surprise and great amusement 01 my

and

now

slight contusions about one of his hips, and fdes I produced him. 1 ha\e kept him e- ,.lja one quite small. He looked at his wifethe remainder escaping without a scratch.

wc love

each

petitore for the Charleston nomination, we. ucntal trips.

they hesitated to believe that a journey other statements, that" no little

Montebello?" And as he |—of a small brown backed, white-bellied

finger to the specie?—do live harmoniously in the same

bird, which hopped on it without hesita-j h0]Ci know, for I have seen "it. But it is tion. I begged permission to buy Monte-jnot true that the Rattlesnake unites in the

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on the hill, yet occupied by Aus- ed man suspended between the he.-, vons t-rian troops, openened its fire on the city, and the earth. He was not discovered The attack was terrible, and though the until after daylight. inhabitants fought bravclv, the enemy pre- Bouzy bad for a long time been a vicious, vailed. They pressed into the streets, ungovernable persons, and was a perfect and every house was taken by assault.— terror to the neighborhoods ot MiltedgeThis jThe Austrian troops surrounded the city, villc and HuntsviUe. so that escape was impossible, and the carnage was iTmensc. Men, women and NOT children were massacrcd, and on the sec- working soil

MR. DOUGLAS AND «IE CINCINNATI PROF. WISE ACCOUNTS FOR TIIF. PLATFORM. Failuic of his Bnlloon Voyajc. The Washington Constitution appears! NEW YOUK, Julv 8. to be employing its summer leisure (par-j Mr. Wise, the bnlloonist. has written a don the paradox) in slandering distinguish-j letter, which will appear in to-morrow's ed Democrats. For instance, in a careful-: Tribune, in which he says ly prepared article on Friday last, it ac-! There is a current of air blowing from cuses Judge Douglas and his friends of' cast to west continually, and'this current .. ... "demandingat the hands of the Charleston jruns never less than fifty miles an hour— spoken with 1-rench soldiers, and \il age Convention that there shall be incorpora- oftdner sixty, seventy, and eightr. Prof, Pr'es,s

ted into the platform of our party, by that Henry thinks it is the return current of body a plain and. unequivocal recognition the trade winds. As we aseond higher in of the peculiar doctrines held by that Sen- the current it runs faster, until we lind it deliverers, the peasants and the r.:-

changing a little south of cast the lower

currcnt near the north of oast. I have rents at all times of the year, 1st of April totheI2th of December.

my correspondence with C'has. Green, of!

propertj- shall be permitted to go into that Territorj- under the protection of the Constitution of the United States. In other words, they demand that the national Democratic party shall solemnly announce to the country that the power exists in a Territorial Legislature to deprive the people of the Southern States of the right guar- degrees north of east from the point properly is actually not r.o gront anteed to them by the Constitution of going starting. Why, then, it is asked, did we

into such Territory with their peculiar not sail to New York and deliver our ex-

took the balloon to an altitude at which she was making due east. In this current wc sailed until some of m3T companions shivered with cold so that tbo balloon quivered with the tremor. I also t«ld theui that the lower current would take us on the Lakes, as it was coming from the southwest but to this it was answered that \j*e could cross the Lakes if wc had ballast enough when we got to them. We finally agreed upon that plan, and to make the

voyage one of distance and experiments.

My purpose was simply to make a lonj: voyage from west to cast, and in that, voyposi- age learn what may be done systematically there with balloons. I am now convinced that ...e5 we can go from St. Louis to Baltimore, I1

we can go from St. Louis to Baltimore, ,.l

Philadelphia, and New York city with bal-1 "Scs loons, with system and precision. I hold, I

ready

can raise six thousand sail from any city to system and precision.

with our present knowledge of ballooning.

protest against it making him any stronger. I should inter from J.ainountain state-!h I'I'I. 7 I -IT 11 ,P.

4 -i i, I the L.m/uirer is not committed to Judge mcnt to the roy imcsof last evening, and ..r,., siblc people in Adams, probably, though!,-. 4 111 Ui 1 1 cd what was the matter, "these hell- ., 1 4 1 41 4

But it loves to see justicc done a man to whom the Democratic party—wc care not what may have been past differences of opinion—is under such a weighty load of obligation. It is quite time all this nonsense was at an end.—Ci.n. TUnq.

Douglas tor I resident, or any body else. the comments ot that journal, and from I, ,,

[From the Louisville Courier. .Inly 10.] TEKKIDM: TltAKICDY IN lil.NCOI.N COUNTY—A DESPERADO HUNU BY

A MOB.

8®" The allies were received with open Tn May last, Jasper Itouzv shot .James arms by the people of Brcscia, a large I tal-. Oldham, in Millcdgville, Lincoln County, ian town, which lies on the direct route and immediately fled. He located hhnfrom Milan to Venice. The history of: self in a remote corner of Marion County, and ajthough the .Fxccutive of the State olfered a reward of $400 for his apprehension, every one was fearful of attempting to make the arrest, such was his desperate character and so thoroughly was he armed.

Breseia is marked by all the reverses common to the cities of northern Italy. At first a I toman colony, it was sacked by Altila, and subsequently raised by the H111peror Otlio I. to the rank of a free city, and remained as such for three hundred years. Then came those distracting Guelph and Ghibbclinc contests which perplex so much the student of Italian history, and which perplexed the Brescians so greatly that cning to blow out their brains incase of they voluntarily placed themselves, in 14- refusal—so that he was enable to form 20, under the Venetian government. The quite an arsenal. city next fell under the power of the! On last Monday he went to BradfordsFrcncli, and again under that of Venice, villc, and encountered a gentleman, he remaining under the Venetian rule until! seized his gold watch and placing it in the fall of that republic. During the era hie pocket, said: "What will you do about, of' Napoleon I. it was the capital of the it?'' .Just at this junetur a small man department of Mclla. seized him from behind and pinioned his

While iu .Marion be was accustomed to committing depredations of the most serious nature. lie would go to the houses of persons and demand their guns, thre-it-

In 1849 occurred events that have giv-'arms so closely that a number of persons en to Brcscia an additional interest, and were enable to come up and assist in bandadded sad chapter to her history. At cufliug the prisoner, lie was then taken that period, when, as now, Lombardy was to Lebanon. When leaving the latter rising against the Austrian domination the place he expressed a desire that he might citizens of Brcscia, taking advantage of.be killed there, as he was sure it' ho roth absencc of the greater part of the gar-1 turned to Sanford he would be hung. rison, revolted, and constituted a provis- Arriving at Sanford, the county seat of ional government and a committee of pub- Lincoln, he was placed in jail. Vcstcrday lie safety. To quell the insurrection, Mar- (Saturday) morning, about half-past two shal Ilaynau repared to the city with troops o'clock, a mob of some eight}' persons atdrawn from tbo garrisons at Mantua and tacken the prison, made a forcible entrance, Verona, and on the 30th of March appear- and carried of the prisoner, They proed before the walls with three thousand ceedcd a short distance, and then informed two hundred men and six cannon. He off-j liouzy of their intention, lie only rcered terms of arrangement, which, not quested that his body should be given to being accepted, he divided his force into his wife and that it remain in peace, as he five detachments, each of which attacked trusted his soul would, 'lbe mob then one of the gates. At the same moment hung him upon a tree and left the wrctch-

ond of April the place surrendered, and ja five years' absence in f'alfornia, with but was compelled to pay a ransom of over a little more cash than lie took away with million dollars to avert total destruction.' bim. He left a wife and two children This terrible conflict showed the Bres-! when he w^nt away, and the fir.-t thing cians what the exasperated Austrians on his arrival was to seek out. his family.

other dearly JSfThat the Prairie Dog and the Owl jjc j)en ]0Ok(.fj

bello a few cherries, and to caress it.— game household.—Horace.Greely's Kansas, hrln Zm/'r/niisrd h— lanin-Ttif'l,, \W Catullus would not have kissed more ten-1

hel

Letters.

I did that Then the coalition is a failure. Thc

Prarie Dog. which shrieks and burrows in

the soil, is a Black Republican. The Owl

The New York Herald is, in a an American of thc dark lantern order, business point of view, the largest and The Eattlesnake is the disunionist, all venmost successful newspaper establishment om at the mouth, and rattle at thc tail. in this country. Its owner lately stated its value at a million of dollars, and those who know its business, believe the estimate not to be exaggerated. Its income is not less than $100,000 per annum.— This office is e?nd«oted strictly on thc cash system, not only for subscription but advertising—every ihi6g i« paid'for in advance,

He finds it a failure, and will have to give up in despair. He can unite Owl and Snake, or Dog and Snake, but not all three. Poor philosopher, unfortunate philanthropist!—Albany Atlasand Argvs, '1

SATISFIKI).—Last week a hardreturned to this city, afler

thc placc of tu 0 tl) ro wcn

„w bur

[,jrf habic.- Then at

wife, who stood silently by. Hack and forth, from one to the other, for full five minutes he gazed, and then broke out with: "If 'ell, Mary, for a small woman, without

lc r,US (l 1

xcakec Xeic?.

I®" An exchange lowing affecting drama:

[Corrospondcnce of t)io London HerftlJ.] Til OTHER SIITE OF THE' STORY— AM.h'RGD EXCESSES of the FRENCH !.\ I.O.^UAHDV.

London, a scientific cron:uit of. much ex- ^'orcisod ajruinsfc those lca&t lo to ea» periencc, I Irarn from him that those cur-!11,

rents exist likewise in Europe. From my

experience of fiuding them thirty-nine

times out of forty trials, I contcud that

regular and iircci.se voyages can be made

from west to east, and io places 15 and 130 |OT'terpi-isc. .1 he taxation ot rural labor

property." press bag? It is a-very rational inquiry, Lcmg bciorc tney erosscd the j..Cino„t»e \V ithout arrogating any right to speak'and deserves a rational explanation. It Pr,cs(s denjiinecd the invaders troni evciy for Mr. Douglas, wc hazard nothing in saying that the position imputed to him by the Constitution is an unjustifiable and unexcusable calumny. He has never asked for any interpolation of the Cincinnati Platform. He has never assailed the Southern construction of the Nebraska Bill. He has only claimed the right to put his own interpretation on it, by virtue of the compact by which the extent of Territorial power was made a judicial question. When the doctrine of the slave code was broached in the Senate last winter when grave Senators signified a purpose to tenr down the old "Democratic embankment" of nonintervention and, by the way, when the editor of the Washington Constitution kept a padlock on his lips, Mr. Douglas defended and sustained the Cincinnati Platform.

could have been done.

Trrux. Friday, •Tur/o 17.

I have just returned from a trip to Lombard}-. and have visited successively Pa_via, Lodi. Marijjnnno and Milan. I have

?,m'

r:i^

earth runs toward the !a*

Italiani peasants, and le coi.-

lusion I have arrived at is, that whilst in the towns the Frcneh arc everywhere hail-

priesthood, who are quite as powcrtul

tl,e-v

nce

Treland. are to a man in la-

found tboe eur-ivorui the Austrian?. Indeed, one tin tig from the *sc(ms very evident, that the grinding tynber 1

nu'ny

of the Austrian?, of which wc have

,car(

'much, has not been, a nllc\cnts,

cxcn:'ls.

l'r([,nrl1

been done, and should nave The reason why it was not I

done is,"some of our partv did not provide

themselves with extra clothing.

Immediately after leaving St. Louis, 1

undnj severity haa bec.i

keep in order the turbulent

popnl'ition." of the towns, th.1 ti:!er cf bho

0(1

peaceful husbandir.^ii. has rccon-

''v,r.v

hl^

som,° ,,cas»rc

l^rC!'

and am ready to demonstrate as soon as 1 !, ,7 #i...f ihiin what had happened, but 1 could onlv dollars, that we can .,

'y-lJ

as In

"'cdmont. ne

aro evei-vwlien' Cv.vrrited.

pulpit, described theiu iu the Idacke: colors, drew frightful pictures of the spc-.

cor

!e,n

ench army, depicting

n? ,1Gn',s

hxumn

,t,w,

wltl,m tI,c

This we can do !l'ronchmen. A few houses has been:

pcncnce, two or three more trans-conti- ... .....

jca

rnnniirc

exists among the aeronauts.

l1(n7Cr

ot the J'rench themselves to remove

this

I unfavorable impression, and to prove by their conduct that they were not so black as they had been painted. I regret to say that they have not done so. Tliej' do not generally commit murder if they arc civilly received, it is true but, no woman's honor is safe in any village through which ja French detachment happens to be marchjing. After the aflai? .It Malignant, the licentousness of the victorious soldiery

Ktl0W

,.1.0

'0",n^s'. "0- peneti nted into

l,. I. ,nn„ the ccllars ot the houses, whe?n some part jof the female population had taken: refuge while the fighting was going on, and fright-? is were committed there. At r,. ie Gallipazzi aud Pugnalo, near Lodi, thu vil-

A.„

lngcs were still deserted when I. passed

rent If' sec the parish pries!,, to ask

Great Britain with "!lt "f J""\ "fAh

thuSC

luvl,.s

gutted, but the natives had, by keeping

vii i-iji out of the way,-rendered any greater crimfl All 1 ask is a fair chance, a little more ex-I. ., ,,

,i impossible. At Isola Bella the urcos

had le marks ot their passage, saw a

group of women standing round -the door

I of a cottage, and, moved by curiosity, ask-

i0U9V jhounds have taken our daughter froin ua land, in tact, 1 saw several

in fact, I saw several Italian village girls following the regiments at Lodi.— The}' were unwilling to return home after their disgrace, and shame kept them trailing after their ravishcrs. Their fate ia indeed lamentable. j|

At.Milan the enthusiasm is as great a.T! ever: but it is rather a remarkable fact, that both French and Mil.-incse agree in abusing the giiiant soldiers of Piedmont,5 anil Victor Kinanuel himself finds no favor in their eyes. The annexation to Piedmont is by no means popular, and (lie only, thing that could reconcile them to it.would be the selection of Milan for the kingdom of North Italy, instead of Turin. The Kuiperor of the French evidently know's what he is about. No opportunity of politely snubbing the I'iedmontese is neglected, and the Milanese are delighted at this. On seeing su'-h p'Mtv jealousies and' such meanness of spirit, one can not help regretting that the poor fellows who have, already fallen have she! ti 1'• ir Mo'.i.i to ho, litll.

*e. Here,! unpopular

arc fj are is

Turn 5 I he

lbe French ediiiontes" p-

Milan. The influc

cc and hauteur," "uuv operators"

the patronising airs wliic

are assuming are extremely galling, and, serious as (lie consequence. mi^ht pr ve to themselves, 1 believe lh"t, th'Tij are 111ai1yTnrine.ee who would-b" de)i-ii)od at the l-'rcnch getting sjiimd thrashing, just r' to euro them for a time of their insurer-: alj!e arrogance.

Anri.-ri:r.v \OT A PI:N.W. Or-ii:.\ci:.— .Judge Hnickenridgc of the f'ourt of Coinnion i'leas for Allen county, has decided that, thc adulicry is not a penal offence iu Indiana. The section of the Statute fixing the penalty for adulterous intercourse simply names the crime without defining' in what the same consists—leaving tho common law to define what act constitutes it.—and such has been the ease ever sinec thc State was organized but there is another Statute now in force rcquireing every offence to be defined by Statute, and hence as this is not so defined it is not punishable. In other words there arc in Indiana no common law offences. The force of this decision will he readily understood r. by persons who are .skilled in the law.— Our Legislature de-erves the thanks of all the imps of the lower regions, as well as of bad men on earth.— I'm I Wmjn TilllCS.

Din TIII: HAVKNS KI.IJAU'—MIFlint, the Secretary of the Ma-isachusettH Hoard of Agriculture, has added a raven to the ornithological collection in the State. Cabinet. So far as is known, this is the second specimen of this bird which has

tr.vjslator was fed

paper give

Indignant husband ''Scoundrel you have

Greely is intent in the union of all these must die." in the next contest and has gone West to dagger. study the habits of these types in the ani- Wife (seizing thc dagger) mal creation.

the fo!Sickles

seeen from

to wife's lo dishonored in and

Maks a rush at him with

Massachusetts. Mr. it is a lineal descendant 5:

hot thai

ever been Flint assert of the "Slnt«j' 'which fed Klija! hut

yore,

corrected by lbe

urnal. which assert- that modern have discovered lhat Klijah \rabj, and not bv ravens.

BIIINF..—

A FiiKNtii AU.MV ON nit:

have the news by the steamer Adelaide that the Freri'-h loverninent. has decided-, on sending and army to the Rhine, lbe. Prussians will also have an armed force, on the banks of that celebrated stream.— When the two armies are thu- lace lo faec. with but the river between them, tli'V .chances of a collision are almost certain.—

-"Hold, rash, Whatever maybe the profession-of th-v

wretched, impudend, man! What would I governments, the sending of two large you do?—would you murder the father ufjarmies—French and Prussian—lo thc Khine your children?" will be considered as preparatory mea.*-

Husband caves, and father of bis chil-juretoa war which is deemed incvi'Hblr. dren carries straight ccrat tail throngt front door. cer l»ewar' of r-tran-