Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 October 1859 — Page 1

NEW SERIES--VOL. XI, NO. 13.

GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE. THREE HUNDRED MILES IN FOUR HOURS—LANDING IN THE WILDER-

NESS, AND THE BALLOON ABANDDONDED—FOUR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. Mr. Haddock, the editor of the Watertown <Reformcr>, the gentlemen who accompanied La Mountain in his perilous aerial voyage, gives the fowlloing [sic] account of the trip, its dangers, and incidents.

The ascension was made on the 22d of September. We omit such portion of the narrative as has already been given, or the like of which has been described by every one who ever wrote of a trip to the clouds. After the voyagers had been up one hour and thirty minutes, it became so dark that notes could not be taken. The thermometer had indicated various degrees of cold, ranging as low as 220 [sic]. Mr. H. continues to say:

We sailed along, contented and chatty, until about half-past seven, when we distinctly saw lights, and heard the roaring of a mighty waterfall. We descended into a valley near a very high mountain, but as the place appeared rather forbidding we concluded to go up again. Over with thirty pounds of ballast, and skyward we sailed. In about twenty minutes we again

descended, but this time no friendly light or "deep-mouthed watch dogs' heavy bay" greeted us. We were over a dense wilderness, and settled down over a small lake. We had our life-preservers ready for use, but got up again by throwing over all our ballast except about eighteen pounds. Mr. La Mountain now said it was folly and madness to stay up any longer; that we were over a great wilderness, and the sooner we descended the better. We concluded to settle down by the side of a tree, tie up, and wait until morning.

tall spruce, which stopped her descent^, and

tall spruce, which stopped her descent, and

we were soon fastened to it by the large

drag-rope. The touch of that spruce sent

a thrill of discomfort to my heart, for I

around and made as much of an cxamina-

darkness and rain, (for it had rained the

fore we were wet as men could be. Aftcr a night passed in great discomfort we were glad to see the first ray of daylight. Cold, and wet, and rainy, the morning broke, the typical precursor, we were to learn, of many other mornings to be spent in those uninhabited wilds. We waited until six o'clock in hopes the rain would cease, and that the rays of the sun, by warming the gas in the balloon, would give us ascending power

sufficient to get up again, for the purpose, if no other, of obtaining a view of the country into which we had descended.— The rain did not cease, and we concluded to throw over all we had in the balloon, except a coat apiece, the life-preservers,

then, they went—good shawls and blankets,

majestically with us, and

through

tic> fast by her anchor, and for a moment

we knew not how far from habitation, were

hungry to start with, no earthly hope of

raising a fire, and no distinct idea as to

where we were. We concluded to trust to the compass kindly loaned by H. K.

would bring us out of the wilderness we might be in.

We settled in our minds that we were in

TRAMPING IN THE WOODS.

To the south-east, then, we started.—

luu

After traveling about a mile and a half we

we were agreeably surprised to find that

some human being had been there before

This settled the question that we were

We traveled all day Friday up the unknown creek, which kept its general course to thc south of west, crossing it about noon on a floating log, and striking, on its southern bank, a 'blazed' track, which led us up to a deserted timber road, lying on the opposite side from a large lumbering shanty. W hoped one of the lumber roads might take us out to a settlement, but after traveling up them all until they terminated in the wilderness, we concluded to cross the creek to the shanty, and stay in it all night. La Mountain got across safely but my weight was greater than his, and the raft let me into the stream. I sank in all over and swam out, though it required all my strength to do so, and on reaching the bank I found myself so chilled as scarcely to be able to stand. I took off my clothes, wrung them, and we proceeded to the shanty, where we found plenty of refuse straw; but it was dry, and under a pile of it we crawled—

pulling it over our heads and faces in the hope that our breath might aid in warming our chilled bodies.

The next morning we made a raft of the logs and slabs of the cabin, and launched it in the stream, hoping to follow it to its confluence with the Ottawa, or some stream which emptied into it.

We got under way, and as we pushed off a crow set up a dismal cawing—an inauspicious sign, and ominous of the great trials and sufferings in store for us. We poled down stream about ten miles, and came abruptly upon an immense pine-tree which had fallen across the stream, completely blocking the passage of the raft, no other alternative was left but to untie the pieces and attempt to push them through under the log. This was at last done; tied the raft together again and poled her down stream. To-day we ate each a raw frog, all we could find, and began to feel that we were hungry. But there was no complaining—our talk was of the hopeful future, and the civilization we hoped yet to reach. Down the creek we went, into a lake some two miles long, and into which we of course supposed the stream passed, having its outlet at the lower end. We followed down the northern bank, keeping always in shallow spots, so that our poles could touch the bottom of the lake, until wc arrived at the bottom of the lake, where we found no outlet, and turned back upon the southern bank in quest of it. On reaching the head of the lake, we found that the current of the creek turned abruptly to the right, which was the reason of our losing it.

We felt happy to have found it again, and plied our poles like heroes. We passed, during the day, the spot where wc had first struck the creek, and where we had made a slight land-mark, which might afterward aid us in finding the <Atlantic>, should we ever wish to do so in order to get her out. At night we did not stop, but kept the raft going down through the

0 uv

iuejj3 sccuiet

ness seemed to hold the unrevealed mys-

owr

knew that its kind did not grow in any well-

some "tag" alders on the bank, where our

settled, nor any warm country. Mr. La Mountain said after he looked

tion of the scenery as he could do for the

past hour,) that the "<Atlantic> was played

out—we were far into the woods, and if

we got out alive we ought to be thankful.

and patiently waited until morning. The

time we found a spot where the clayey bank

llS( So

the great balloon, and it was not long be- jittle surface as possible for the dition with the utmost caution. Our lutraiu to beat upon. But wc could not stand ter disappointments had taught us that lessucli an uncomfortable position long, and as

raft down this place we regarded as hope-

the anchor and the compass. Overboard,

Mr. Fayle's overcoat, bottles of ale and a flask of cordial, ropes and traps of all

flask of cordial, ropes and traps a ]]C.so_ ^yc descended the bank nnd

unbroken wilderness of lakes and spruce—

to behold the country below. was an much exhausted, that locomotion was ]i

and we felt, then, that we had gone too far,

us still to the north, we dare not stay up,

as we were drifting further and still fur-

im jbl

and if we could get the raft down a piece at a time, we would go on with her, if not,

thcr to that "frozen tide" from which we

darkening future. About ten We kept our

it U)

n:am. We stop-!about halt' a

|ie "vessel," and crawled in under tain's attcntic

haps, half an hour's sleep. Rising again

(for it was easier to pole at night down an

stream than to lie on the ground

and freeze,) we pressed on for a couple of

for a couple of

hours, until three o'clock, pure ex-

pure ex-

haustion induced us to stop again. This

to stop again. This

We rolled ourselves up in our blankets,

rain dripped down upon us in rivulets from the great balloon, and it was not long be-

lacked a little of coming down to the water. On the mud we threw our little bun-

drawn under us, so that our bodies presen-

jt,r

before they stick on some stone which the low water left above the surface, and then you must pry it over in some way,

times fell headlong—completely using up

our compass, which now frantically pointed

of such labor, we got the raft down and

a nule

came to the bank of a small creek, flowing

down from the westward. At this point, "F 6 1^ n*--aereeably surprised to find that as could be expected

beii badVon tl.ere l.efore 1 we an, winch

much resolution as could be expected.—

Vfoupd

To-day we found one clam, which I insisted

us, for we found several small trees cut down, the coals from an old fire, and a half

barrel which had contained pork. I eager-

ly examined the stamp. It read: "Mess Pork, P. M..

Montreal."

credited any thing favorable to our condition with the utmost caution. Our bit-

ter disappointments had taught us that lesson.

the daylight of the Sabbath broke upon us Wc paddled the raft with the ends of we were poling down the stream in a driz-1 our poles directly across the lake, near, /.ling rain. 'perhaps, three-fourths of a mile wide, and

At eight o'clock we came to a place made for the canoe. It proved to be a where the stream catumcd—rushing over

large one, evidently an Indian's. Up the

The rapids were about a third of a mile

bottles ot a am a )Rn, nothing so wild and romantic as Kindish, too." Jle drew me into the cab-

•t kinds. ,#11 thought it best to try our luck on foot.— noble-hearted .Scotchman, named August The Atlantic, relieved of htr \\e oai traveling about a mile we found the (laineron. I immediately told my story— wc wen .in |Iia„k tangled and rugged, and ourselves that we came with a balloon, were lost, and

a miscalculation of the\clocity of time, we would go ou with her, if not, fifty miles due north of Ottawa, in the the balloon. As the current was liming

we would build as good a place as possible

on, LaMab MacDougall, a half-breed, and his son Beauceil. I dispatched the young Indian for La Mountain who came in after

talked over what c\ which the low water left above the surface, his son Beauceil. I dispatched the young -not a mouthful to cat.^ No pro must pry it over in sonic way,: Indian for La Mountain who came after •.^-incht from the damp ground, were instant •i

Newcomb, Esq., and take a course which

desirable. The water had unglued the

case, and it was ruined. After long hours

La Mountain again tied it together. Pass-

Around it we must, of course, pass until

we should find the outlet. So we turned

a La

LaMab

s|rcaBli e(1|lc

the deep darkness through which we had

laid down upon the cold ground, having lifted up the end of our raft so that the

in Canada, for I very well knew that no Montreal inspection of pork ever found its way into the interior of New York State.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY

Again upon the almost endless lake we went, following round its shore for an outlet. About ten o'clock we found a broad, northern stream, which we thought was the outlet we were seeking, and. we entered it with great joy, believing it would take us to our long-sought Ottawa. Shortly after entering the stream it widened out, and assumed the form of a lake. We poled up the westerly shore for about seven miles, but found we were again, deceived. On our way up, Mr. La Mountain sang these pretty lines: "Cheer up your hearts, my men;

Let nothing fright you;

Be of a gallant mind—

Let that delight you."

It has now been four full days since wc ate a meal. All we had eaten in the meantime was a frog apiece, four clams, and a few wild berries, whose acid properties and bitter taste had probably done more harm than good. Our strength was beginning to fail very fast, and our systems were evidently about to undergo an extraordinary change. I did not permit myself to think of food—that thought of a wellcovered table would have been too much. I thought over all poor Strain's suffering on the Isthmus of Darien, where he, too, was paddling a raft down an unknown stream—but never believed he could stand half the amount of suffering he did. Besides, he had means to make a fire—we had none. He was upon a stream which he knew would lead to the sea and safety—we were upon waters whose flow we knew really nothing of, and were as much lost as though in the Mountains of the Moon.— But we "could not give it up so," and took fresh couragc as troubles appeared to thicken.

Well, we turned the raft around, and poled her back toward the place where we had entered this last lake. We had gone about a mile when we heard the sound of a gun, quickly followed by a second report. No sound was ever so sweet to me as that. We halloed as loud as we could a good

a gun, quickly followed by a second report.

In a moment we were near the earth, and as we fell I grasped the extreme top of a

shades of awful forests, whose solemn still-

ness seemed to hold the unrevealed mysbut could get no response.—We kept our poles going, and had gone about half a mile when I called La Mounttain's attention to what I thought was a

ness seemed to hold the unrevealed mys-

smoke curling up among the trees on the side of a hill. My own eyesight had begun to fail me to an extent that I could not depend upon it when a long, steady gaze was necessary. He said it was smoke, and that he thought just below it, on the bank, was a bark canoe. In a few moments the blue smoke rolled gently, yet unmistakably, above the tree-tops, and we felt that we were saved. Such a revulsion of feeling was almost too much for us.— We could hardly believe our senses, and

dle of straw, and sat down with our feet

a Mtony bed, down a steep descent between bank I pressed, leaving La Mountain at high rucks on cither bank. To get our t-hc canoe to cut

place we regirded as hope-

in case he was timid and wished to avoid

less. We tied up and examined the shore. Here, again, we found unmistakable evi-

us. I came at once upon the shanties of a

||ore, again, we found unmistakable cvi- lumbering wood, and from the chimney of

which we had descent donee of lumbermen, as they had evident-j the furthest building a broad volume of

amped at this point, to be handy, by the .«mokc was rising. I halloed—a noise was attempts they were doubtless obliged to heard inside, and a noble-looking Indian came to the door. "Vans jxirlctf Fran-

make to get the timber down the <canon>.—

in, and there was the head of the party, a noble-hearted Scotchman, named August Cameron. I immediately told my story—

that we came with a balloon, were lost, and

to crawl into and prepare for death.

We went back, and after examining the

the canoe to cut off a retreat by the Indian

came at once upon the shanties of a lumbering wood, and from the chimney of

cais?>" was my eager inquiry, as I grasped his outstretched hand. "Yes, sir, and English, too." He drew me into the cab-

long, and in all the rapids of Black River

in, and there was the head of the party, a

had been four days without food, asking

impossible. So we concluded to go back,

been four days without food, asking

where we were. Imagine my surprise

when he said we were one hundred and fifty miles due north of Ottawa, in the

dense, uninhabited forest, whose only lim-

it was the Arctic circle. In a word, we

were nearly three hundred miles in a due

stream attentively, concluded to try to get the raft down. We at once commenced,

north course from Watertown, in latitude 47.

MacDougall, a half-breed, and

a moment, the absolute picture of wretchedness. All that the cabin contained was freely tendered to us, and <we began to eat>.

often up to the middle, and there I several

headlong—completely using up I Language is inadequate to express our sen.

which now frantically pointed in any direction its addled head thought

the "silver lining" shone all the brighter for

passed.

the great Canada wilderness.

Here let me state that the stream we came down so far with our raft is called Filliman's Creek; the large lake we sailed

nig on, in lakc- ten miles long, and six miles broad, Filliman's Creek the large lake we sailed

Icrc let me state that thc stream wc

it wc of course, pass until' around is called Bosketong Lake, and

around is called Bosketong Lake, and drains into Bosketong River, which flows

into the Gatineau. The Gatineau joins the

eron assured us that those streams are so

La Mountain should eat, as he was weaker

than myself, and had eaten little or noth-

ine on the'day we went up. Around wc went, into all the indentations try, or how much provisions they might of thc shore, keeping always in shallow! have. He regarded our deliverance as water \t last we stopped at a place we purely Providential, and many times rethought least exposed to the wind. Wc »arked that we would certainly have per-

to slumbers so disturbed and dismal as ours. By this time our clothes were nearly torn off. My pantaloons were slit up both legs, and the waistband nearly torn off. My boots both leaked, and our mighty wrestlings in the canons had torn thc skin from ankles and hands. La Mountain's hat was gone the first day out he had thrown away his woolen drawers and stockings, as they dragged him down by the weight of the water they absorbed. We slept but little. It really seemed as though, during the night, we passed through the horrors of a dozen deaths. At daylight, we got up by degrees—first on one knee and then on the other—so stiff and weak we could hardly stand.

Ottawa opposite Ottawa City. Mr. Cam-

that no set of men could get a raft down,

ished but for seeing his smoke. Mr. Cameron was hunting timber for his employers (Gilmer & Co., of Ottawa,) and was to start in two days for down the Gatineau, to his head-quarters at Desert. If we would stay until he started, we were welcome, he said, to food and accommodations, and he would take us down to Desert in his canoe, and at that point we could

wind might not drift it away in the night. Wc were cold when we laid down, and both of us trembled by the hour like men suffering from a severe attack of the ague.— The wind had risen just at night, and the dismal surging of the waves upon thc shore formed, I thought, a fitting lullaby in his canoe, and at that point we could

get Indians to take us further on. He also said that he intended to look for timber on Filliman's Creek, near where the balloon would be found, as we could describe thc locality to him, and would try to look it up and make the attempt to get it to Ottawa. This would be a long and tedious operation, as the portages are very numerous between the Creek and Desert—something over twenty—one of them three miles long. Over these portages, of course, the silk must be carried on the backs of Indians.

After finishing up his business in the vicinity where we found him, on Friday morning Mr. Cameron started on his return. We stopped, on our way up the

creek, at the place where we had erected, our signal by which to find the balloon.— We struck back for the place, and in about twenty minutes found her impaled on the top of four smallish spruce-trees, torn very much. La Mountain concluded to abandon her. He took the valve as memento, and I cut out the letters "TIC," which had formed part of her name, and brought it home with me. We reached what is known as the "New Farm" on Friday night, and there ended our sleeping on the ground— an operation always unpleasant, but particularly so at the fall of the year. On Saturday we reached Desert through a drenching rain, from which there was no protection.

At Desert we were a good deal troubled to obtain Indians to take us out. At last we appealed to Mr. John Backus. a kindhearted American trader who agreed to procure us a complement of Red Skins, to take us to L'Beau's place—sixty miles— when it was though we might obtain horses. Sunday morning we started from Desert, and reached Alexis L'Beau's about six P. M. The scenery upon this part of the route was sublime and imposing. The primeval forest stood as grand and silent as when created. The Indians we had in our employ to-day surpassed any thing I ever beheld in physical vigor and endurance. There were fifteen portages to be made during the day's run of sixty miles. They would seize the canoe, jerk it upon their shoulders with a swing, and start upon a dog-trot as unconcernedly as though bearing no burden. Arriving at the bottom of the fall, they would toss the canoe into thc stream, cry out, "<Arretes la!>'" and away we would go again, gliding down the stream like an arrow. We traveled fifteen miles and made seven portages in one hour and forty minutes.

At Alexis L'Bcau's we first beheld a horse and vehicle, which they called a "Buckboard"—simply a couple of boards reaching from one bolster tp the other, upon which the seats were placed. Starting at seven in the evening, we traveled nearly all night through the forests, over one of the worst roads that ever was left unfinished, and readied Brooks' farm, a sort of frontier tavern, in the early morning, where we slept a couple of hours, and after breakfast pressed on by stage to Ottawa, which we reached at five o'clock on Monday afternoon. Our first rush was to the telegraph office, whence thc trembling wires sped the glad news of our safety to the "loved ones at home.'' At Ottawa we were most hospitably entertained. To Robert Bell, Esq., editor of the <Citizen>, and President of the Ottawa and Prescott Railway, as well as to Joseph Aumond, Esq., we are under especial obligations by acts of kindness which will not soon be forgotten. Indeed, from the time we left Bosketong until we reached home, we met with nothing but one continued stream of congratulation and proffered kindness.

At Ogdensburg, and all along the line of the Potsdam and Watertown Railroad, we found large crowds awaiting our arrival,

LOSS OF THE BRITISH SHIP FOREST MONARCH. The Forest Monarch, Capt. Anderson, left this port August 17th, for Puget Sound, and was lost at sea on te voyage. Mr. Ballardie, the second mate, gives the following account of the disaster: On the 24th of August the ship sprung a leak, and all hands were called to the pumps, and by the aid of the engine the water was kept from increasing until Thursday morning, the 26th, when the water gained on the pumps in spite of thc unceasing efforts of the officers and crew. On Friday afternoon got the boats out, and put provisions and water into them, not expected that the ship would float until morning. All hands got into the boats, and dropped astern and lay to all night. In the morning we boarded the ship, and found that thc water was over thc 'tween-decks. She was then set on fire, and the boats bore away for land.

the furthest building a broad volume of smoke was rising. I halloed—a noise was

As near as could be guessed, the ship, when deserted, was 670 miles from the coast, and 190 miles to the southward of San Francisco. Capt. Anderson, the carpenter and ten of the crew were in the long boat; Mr. Macfie, chief mate, and three of the crew were in the gig, which was in tow of the long boat and Mr. Ballardie, second mate, the boatswain, cook, and four of the crew in the life boat being 23, all told. The boats were in company until Tuesday, the 30th, when the life boat lost sight of the others, and after a passage of nine days from the ship was picked up by Capt. Bruce, of the schooner Cochicf, who rendered the crew every kindness and attention that humanity could suggest.—<Times, 7th ult>. ———<>———

AN AUBURN CONVICT.

The fatal error of commencing a life of crime is illustrated in the life and punish-

ment of George B. Moody, who has been confined for two years in the State Prison at Auburn, New York, for fraud and forgery in passing off several fraudulent cLccks, purporting to be drawn by a Missouri banking house on the American Exchange Bank, New York. His time having expired, he is to be brought on a requisition to Kentuky [sic].

It is said that Moody, since his imprisonment at Auburn, has conducted himself in the most unobjectionable manner, and has won the confidence and friendship, to a very considerable degree, of the officials. He is imployed [sic] as a clerk in the hospital.

Letters written by Moody to his wife, since his arrest at Rochester, New York, speak of large deposits of specie, the avails of his forgeries, in the earth, in the neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, and West Point, Kentucky and, in reference to an application of his wife for a divorce, he expressed a design to take their only child, a little girl, and seek a home in Italy.

This offender commenced his career at Grand Rapids, Michigan, as a clerk in the Postoffice, where it is charged that he appropriated the funds of the office to his own use. He is reputable [sic] connected there, and his wife is now staying with her husband's relatives.

BABY LOUISE.

I'm in lore witfc yoa. baby Toni(e! With jrosr »ilk«a bmir and your wA bine eyes." An(l,the dreamy, wudom that in them lie*. And the faint, Mreet

Mnilejrba

brought frou the ikiK

God'J damhine, baby Lvuise.

When yonfold your hand*, baby Loniie, Your handlike a fairy's, so tiny and fair. With pretty iniKxrcbt. «aint-like air. Are yon tryin* to think of aoine an^el-tancht prayer? ion learnedaborc, baby Louise?

I'm in love with yon. baby Louise— Why! yon never raiue yoar beantifnl hrnd! Snuic day, little one. your cheek will grow red With a flush of delight, to hear thc words said, "I love you," baby Louife.

Do you hear mc, baby Loiii/p? 1 have «unsyour praioe*for nenrly an hour. And yoiir laaUea keep drooping lower and lower, Aud—you've gone to sleep, like a'weary flower.

Ungrateful baby Louuw

THE MURDER OF THE DAUGHTER OF TIIE PRESIDENT OF HAYTI. The following are the details as given by a correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, of the murder of a daughter of Col. GefTrard, the President of the Republic of Uayti, in v* n-xiio 'i-1"1, President's Palace .,

On the evening of the 3d Madame Blancfort, the President's daughter, was sitting in the saloon of the Palace reading in company with a little-girl, when she was shot through the head by a discharge from a, blunderbuss through one of the. open jalousies. The piece was loaded_ with twelve'irregular bits of metal, several of which entered her head, and scattered her brains about the floor in every direction. The corps retained its upright position. This outrage occurred at 7+ o'clock in the evening, during a storm of wind and rain. The National Guard was instantly called out, and lias since been kept under arms. 3fore than a hundred arrests have been made.

Madame Blancfort was engaged to her lover previous to the revolution, and was married shortly after it. She would soon have been a mother.

The foul murderer of a young and innocent wife and her unborn babe, as a political act, has excited the fiercest indignation among all classes.—111 the lowest not less than iu the enlightened class. |.

Gcffrard'sgovernment

which gave unmistakable evidence of the deep sympathy felt in our fate. ———<>———

Understanding

has been strength

ened by this event the blood of the innoccnt girl has cemented it compactly. Better than a thousand traitors perish than that another such event should be possible.

This poor daughter was distinguished for her goodness of heart she had always a gift ready for the poor always a word of consolation for her already bereaved father and mother. Gefl'rard has lost three children sinec the revolution. God pity him he bears it like a man, but he feels it also like a man.

CfirMr. J. y. Gavitt, Sheriff of Vander

owned by Dr. K. II. Ayrcs It has al-

ways been doubted whether there is

efficacy in the Mud Stone, jet lion. John

C. Walker

lowing. He says: In his mcanderngs of the Kankakee riv-

before lelief could be obtained the disease, with all its terrors, became maifest in the unfortunate subject, and thc person bitten suffered the agony of several paroxysms of' lydrophobia.

it was ascertained, however at tins junc-

turc that a physician at alparaiso was

aitpii'. .uw .ui. *.

sjoue

tient has been perfectly

Tin: Solar Spots.—Astronomers I

rccently noticed spots on the sun, and thc

Tl»'cs:

ever since,

COUNTY, INDIANA, OCTOBER 15, 1859. WHOLE NUMBER 905.

[From the Utica (N. Y.) Herald. 1st instant.) THE BALLOON MANIA. <A Balloon Bursts when a Mile in the Air —It Descends with Terrific Speed, and

Dumps its Passengers on the Tops of Trees—Thrilling Scene!> We have already noticed the ascension from the Fair Grounds at Rome, on Thursday, by Mr. Coe and Mr. Joseph S. Cottman, and have briefly recorded their rapid descent, owing to an accident to the balloon, which took them sky-ward. Yesterday wc met the gentlemen who made the trip, and from their own lips learned the particulars of the exciting voyage. We annex the NARRATIVE OF MESSRS. COE AND COTTMAN.

They started at precisely four o'clock— the ascent was rapid after reaching an altitude of about two hundred feet. The balloon at first took a north-westerly course, at a highth [sic] of about a mile, took a due south course for a distance of about five miles; then at the highth [sic] of over two miles the balloon struck the famous easterly current so often alluded to by balloonists.

Twelve bits of metal were found in thc that the difficulty alluded to could not be furniture near the murdered girl. 'overcome. The valve at thc top worked It is believed that the murderer was an I well, but thc pressure on the safety-valve, ignoraut man in thc pay of thc conspira- .(which had been deranged,) from the lowtors. er part of the balloon, was so great that an

I firmly believe that this horrible event explosion followed, causing a rent iu thc

will change the policy of President Gcffrard that thc regime of moderation will be succcedcd by an iron-willed rule that a sanguinary reign will succced a mild Presidency.

Gcftrard has more energy than any livinr Ilaytian, and also more goodness of heart but such events as this are calculated to increase the former in proportion as they extinguish the latter.

Thc body of thc balloon was constantly expanding from the cffects of the heat and air. There were clouds below floating in thc air, and the reflection of the sun's light upon the air vessel was very perceptible. The glare at times was almost blinding.— When the easterly current was reached, the Balloon drifted toward the east at a speed of about thirty miles per hour, and the voyagers were in high glee. At this point the scene below was grand in the extreme— the earth had almost assumed the aspect of a piece of mosaic work—small objects were not visible, yet streams, villages and cities were discrnible [sic] as distinct objects on the surface.

At about twenty minutes before five Mr. Coc discovered that a part of thc apparatus pertaining to the safety-valve of his balloon was deranged, and was so located that it could not be restored. He at once attempted to discharge the gas from the upper valve, in order to descend, conscious

balloon from the lower valve to its greatest circumference. The rent was some forty feet in length.

The sound accompanying the expolosion was about equivalent to the discharge of a musket. In about one minute after, the descent was so rapid as to increase the rent of the texture of the balloon about fiftyfeet, thus leaving almost the entire upper portion of the air-vessel open. In half a minute after the second rent was discovered there was not a foot of gas in the balloon. For nearly half a mile the voyagers came down at a most terrific speed, feeling the same sensation that one experiences in a high swing in rapid motion. The silk and cordage, as the balloon oscillated, caused a rattling sound like the rigging of a ship in a storm.

Descending half a mile, the main portion of the balloon was thrown on one side of the netting, and caused the air vessel to sway violently and the basket and passengers were raised to an even highth [sic]with the valve of the vessel itself. This mo- tion was experienced several times, and as

burgh county, together with •vronjluta in ehunging their position in the

was bitten by a map dog week before last. :car j,'iuauy hia swaying motion was in- jic jvor|

that there was a 3Iad Stone creased by the voyagers until they sue-1 ,pC Girardeau, crossing thc river at near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, lie has cceded in forming a parachutc of thc rem-, p,Ji11t in countlcss mvrinds. Thc citi--rone thither for the purpose of relief.- ™«t» of the balloon, when thc rapid rate

Pond Knolls in the Rome Swamp, each of

111

for the fortunate result of their perilous

possession ot what is celebrated and known -.

as the "Mad Stone," and that article re-,

after making a graceful descent from the

V'l .i tliev nartool of refreshments remaining in. ....

the car, and gave three enthusiastic cheers

trip.

jarded bv many as a mere myth of thc imagination, was produced and applied _to ^^"'"Vhe^ouaut assured him 'that'the

the patient. The wound occasioned bv the ^^^JXwn ali ri'iht "exccpt *kiff

bite of thc dog was opened afresh, by an f„nr.*„i in crossing her wake. incisiou from the surgeon's knite, and the .'

at a fearful rate of speed.

applied to thc cut. It was directly! At once the grapple and ropes uerei 4

filled with matter, at which period it fcll thrown out and alli the extra^weight e:.ccp..

•. ii Ixl......... ,/..««• ..H nrtrn

off and after saturating it in warm water the sand bags. The serial excursionist.- ,iiu

was reapplied as before. The process of wore perfectly cool and conversed togetli-

harm. But for a few seconds after the ex-

plosion,

each other, their fears could not well be

Mr. Coc that the appliance called a safety-

One of your correspondents last week valve, which he nnented himself, and jicaj|,y the left temple, and passed out called the attention of your readers to a re-! which is designed to work by a rope from

markable change of spots on the sun. I the outside of the balloon, had been dam- ing was with the left side toward the forobserve thc group on thc morning on which aged before he started on thc trip, and as trcss the shot must have come from there, it appeared, and have watched it closely a consequence could not be made scrvicc-:

aud most interesting have been able. This valve is underneath the main thc changes which it has undergone. I! valve, and is calculated

would now ask all who takes an interest in accordingly as thc air and heat may expand the subject to direct their attention to the or depress tbe body of thc balloon. On:e present appearence of the sun. In addi- finally closed, beyond thc power of operation to the group above referred to there ting it, the expansion of the gas, under the are two large collections of spots and one influence of an extraordinary heat, bccauic small one, the latter being cxactly upon too great for the endurance of the fabric thc equator.

The two large chains are of great length, extending by rough micromctrical mcas-

length. The most important and the most interesting of the two is a little to the south of the equator, and is headed by a very large opening, with a dense penumbra and black nucleus. The other is also an objcct of great interest, on account of its position, it being very near to the southern limb of the sun, a quarter in which these appearances are not generally looked for or found. ———<>———

PANTHER HUNTING IN AFRICA—A. PANTHER COUNTING FIVE...... [Correspondent of the Century.]

,, ,.f ti.n T.,, ,!•»•. '/'iWi-i speed in their deseeut was measurably by hundreds. Every tree and bush in that By thc last number of thc Laporte limes jiu)pgje(1 ])uring thc last half mile bewc sec that there is a 3Iad Stone in thc jforc reaching the earth their rate of speed possession of a physician in Valparaiso,

was but a trifle more rapid than that of

this State, and another in Jackson, Tcnn.,! the ordinary descent of a well ordered

When reaching a point within one hun-

dred feet of the tops of the trees near

Knolls iu the Rome Swamp, each of immense droves of squirrels suddenly

of haport vouches for the fol- the passengers, having a sand bag ready to 1 made their appcarancc, followed by in-

throw out, discharged this amount of weight tensely severe weather —bV. l/juis Jjxand the balloon concluded its dcsccnt to I prcis 2.\th. thc ground with less speed.

A lci Kits,'May 11, 1859.

You will be perhaps glad to know the last deed of Mr. Bourbonncl against thc panthers. A mounth ago he killed a young one at Cabylia, fifty miles from Algiers.— At thc begiuing of March, he learned that the parents of this young one committed great havoc upon cattle of thc tribes.— Every night cither au ox or a cow, or donkey, or a sheep, or a goat, was eaten by them. The last week he went to thc placc, and causcd a living goat, to be tied during the'night near a bush where he laid hintself in wait Thc natives say that thc panthers know him very well, and they do not dare to go where they have seen him. It is ccrtain that these animals arc very cautious, and with a rare sagacity dcicct a snare or a hunter. By thc survey of thc 31. Bourbonncd remarked that near thc above memtioned place is a high mountain, from which thc -panther ought to.overlook the whole locality.— Consequently lie said to thc natives: "Your enemy is 111 the mountains, and he will sec what we.shall do. A panther is able to count till five. Thc panther count:) 011 their claws as wc do on our lingers! If I go to thc waiting place with live of you it will reckon that one person has entered the bush, and it will not come. Let ten men go with 111c you will cover 111c with your burnous you will walk about thc bush after 1 have entered, aud somo minutes alter you will leave 111c alone."

All this was performed. At 7 o'clock in the evening 31. Bourbonncl entered tho bush, having a goat ticd at a few yards from it. At midnight, when the moon was near seting, he saw a large panther creeping towards thc goat, and immediately seizing its head in its claws. For two minutes thc panther, as if fearing some enemy, remained lying upon its belly, and looked about. There was a high wind, and tho brandies of thc bush prevented M. Bourbonncl from shooting at thc head. Ho firod at thc flank. Instantly tho panther saw thc smoke of the gun carried of by thc wind upon a bush at fifteen yards from it, and with a prodigious skip sprang on this bush, where it fcll dead. 31. Bourbonncl brought his trophy to Algiers. It is a large old female panther, measuring about six feet in length. A wonderful beast it was, lying dead in all its might and beauty, and 31. Bourbonncl standing over it, looking such a shrimp of a crcature, for he is very small, and all his power consists in his brain. There arc many curious episodes in our life here, which I wish could send you.

Yours, E. B.

A C01.D Winter Pkkd: tei.—About ten days ago a tremendous drove of graysquirrels, numbering hundreds of thousands, suddenly made their appcarancc ou thc Meramac, covering the trees and waters like a pall. Thousands of them wcro afterwards found dead in thc river and on

often was broken by the self-possession -'f tlie ^rronntl. They crossed thc 3Iississippi

|,at point., and worked their way down

utlt on

zei,s

Wednesday they reach-

turned out en mass'- and killed them

vicinity swarmed with them until night, when they all disappeared, and have not been heard of since. Their route was marked as by a devastating storm. Trees were girdled, and fields destroyed. Old French settlers predict a very severe winter, as it was noticed iu lH34aud '5'2 that

Kfm.e Thk Wi.va.vs Sxr.AMKii—The editor of

Thc passengers were suspended some seventy feet in thc air, 011 thc limbs of one I 'he 1 ortland At while Baltimore, ou

er, thc editor of this paper formed the ac-: quaintancc, during thc past month, of a| family named Hulo, one of whom, a few 'jn "t}ie ^van,p, while Thursday last, made an excursion in her. ™C0- tl,c balloon »|read itself ovc, oll.cr H. k«"!» '"P "f forest-trees. By good fortune .Messrs. Coc thirty-four miles, was just two hours and and Cottman readied terra firma in safetv, I

l,alf frora th, t,,nc the

tree -\rrivillain the swamp in safetv, at l«cr moving* and we upon terraJinna.

result of their perilous rate of sixt-on miles an hour, there

H-as

in. i% lit

katcnwgs were

tlic wliarf uutl1

-shc

was

''his must be considered

thrown out and all the extra weight except

"fillintr and saturation" was continued as cr during their dcsccnt. But for their This was done on the 31 st of An. 1 a an an on he re of in he no a of of so el could be extracted bv thc stone, after have escaped alive. Ihey both [le historian, for the purpose, if possible. which time and until the present the pa- thnt after the baUoou of setting at rest the question as to whethticnt has been perfectly restored chute, they had not the

But for a few secon a tcr ic x- traitorous bullet from his own troops.—rs

when the car an tie remnaii The examination of thc dead hero's the balloon were swaying a erna a mc conducted by Professors Kct-

nature or cause of thc phenomena is the suppressed. in the presence of thc Privy Council, Prof. subject of scientific speculation. An Eng- Yesterday afternoon ic a

ring and

0011

lTsh astronomer thus write, to the London 'Ti! Anti,|n»riu. H.l.lebrand, Tk. ex. l,sh astronomer

A»

valve, and is calculated to open and close

a«uiri

11 admirable pi was going at

.t.r, formanee. Ik-:i the voscd was gomg at

scarcclv any perceptible jar, and tlr

moment of thc explosion, Mr. disturbance of the water by the pissage of

Coc what was to be' the vessel was marvellously slight.

c]™"

i"''ced, was her movement, that .1

would

carccly

have felt any agitation

TI -N' '-J* JI.WM.K3 .XJf. t.

,.count, frol Stockholm that

()f

(«|iarics X11 has been opened-.

or(Jcr of

,Jie

pre3ent

sovereign, Charl-s

fe cr or not his death might have been due to

gantesson

and ])r

a 2 |'fryxcll, State

""-"'"P

,Uie.cd

Jimlberp

Archivarius Nordstrom and

amination entirely settled the point that

tliroug

..^'iderable size had entered

j1 jgilt

an as

an(J coulj not

,ilc position of tho

jiayc

beon fircJ fr0I1J

disown

Steel TvrEs.—A Frenchman, by thc name of Caiubaricn, has announced his intention of producing steel types, thc durability of which will be beyond calculr.tion. He has already a maehinc for making type, which produces ten thousand ut one stroke.

of which the balloon was constructed, and the explosion followed, as a matter of course. Thc vowels which cre»te thc most senna.7

urenTent6ibout"three ~ninut»» and a half, or over 011c hundred thou ,and mil?* in ti in the mind* -.fh-.m-t men nr.- 1 1