Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1872 — Page 2

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Hm [Morton] ia the base of the prounid, and every Repablican voter in Indiana

recognises him as such.—[Journal

Who dilutee his baseness?

Tmw literary gentry of New York have bean airing their snobbery again on the occasion of banqnetting Mr. James Anthony Fronde, the historian of England, and the prosecutor in chief of the reputation of the Queen of Scots, by the Lotus Club. Mr. Whiteiaw Reid did the formal

lol-de-rol of the affair. '

Tma Journal, this morning, issues a proclamation, by authority, offering a pardon to all rebellious Liberal Republicans, who will return to that fold, except Ju lian. Cravens, Allen, Scott, Hudson, Finch and Holliday. These have sinned too deeply against the power of the Ring

to be forgiven.

History repeats itself. In the beginning of the Ameridah revolution, King George III issued a similar proclamation by his flunky, offering pardon to all his rebellious subjects in America except Adams and a few others, who**' treasons were too great to be forgiven. Sfaxh is the livelieet country for deadly experiments we know of. Only the other day a railway smashed up timberand lives very much in ike fashion of our American roads. Still later a second at tempt to kill the King was made. Am: latest of all the Republicans of the port of Ferrol have declared against the mon archy, and taken arms with the prosper ! of getting little more by the effort than a liberal provision of executions. Ferrol i* the best harbor that Spain has, and th* largest, though not best kept, military arsenal, and its entire possession by the R< publicans would make them more formidable than the more pretentious uprisings of the Carlists. But the latest re ports say that the government forces hotf the fortress and only await reinforcemenuto act on the offensive. The insurgents by'seislngthegun boats have cut off rein foroements by sea, and the disavowal ot their action by the Republican leaders in the Oortea must leave them too weak u * hope for any success. Tea antangonism of bigotry to th< opening of reading rooms on Sunday it weaksning in effect, if not violence, bv the demonstration of its utility. No le*than 400 persons filled the room of tin Oooper Institute of New York on th< first Sunday of its opening, in spite of th usual objurgations of preachers and tin well-worn prophecies of “Heaven’s judp ment" on such contempt of God’s law These 400 would, in all probability, hav< been drinking beer in some saloon oi garden if they could uot have got tin chance to read. But this almost inevita ble alternative seeming to affect ou> “nnoo’ guid” not at all. In effect they in gist that the beer holee are the better resort of Sundays for those who won’t go t< church, by closing up such ss Ibave n< bear. They eeem resolved to force poo human nature to choose between the pun lahment of sermons and the brutal enjoy ment of intoxication. The half-wa\ house of a reeding room, where may b< had eome pleasure without any brutifica tton of liquor, is an “ungodly thing,” h

their view. Pansy Fern.

_ The vehemence of political feeling harun over and pushed out of sight an oe currence which in ordinary times wouV have commanded a leading article and * long obituary in all our morning contem porariea, and would have produced a great a variety of opinions ss any event in no way connected with public interestor prejudices could do. We allude to th daath of Sarah Payaon Willis Parton better known, even by those who kne* her peteonally, as “Fanny Fern.” first appearance on the literary horisoi was, like that of Lady Bulwer and Mr* ~ Joaquin Miller, in the menacing char acter of an avenging angel, sent to pun iah the conceited assumption oi her victim and the careless assent of the public Her “Ruth HaD” was little more than ar attempt to pillory her brother, N. P. Wilha, for much unbrotherly neglect ordown right meanness, and, though a crude pro duetten, with too broad an outcropping oi the underlying motive, it contained much that went straight to the general sense of jasttee, and so much that indicated a power not to be lightly defied, that the •lagant Willis, the embodiment of all litenury affectation, was badly shrivelled by it It gave her a place in our literature* though such a place as a woman of womanly delicacy would be little more am bitfoos of Raining than of gaining the notoriety of Mrs. WoodhuU. Occasional ■ketches in the papers indicated the tendency, fully declared by the first elaborate work, to play in letters much such a pert as “Anonyms” or “Cora Pearl” play-

edge oi the boundary between tolerated aanemess and intolerable coarseness, to mix pertness with shrewd observation, and looseness of manner with soundness of reflection, in such proportions ss to puzzle equally the moralist and the fast man, and this tendency, but little alleviated by a more ensured reputation and a competent support, remained to the last the moot marked characteristic of her work. Allusions which would never be indulged or allowed in decent society, wilful coarseness, an assumption of naive ignorance lo cover suggestions of doubtful decency, yet all applied to a general purpose ot inculcating someresllv sensible lesson, end never directed to the softening of real iniquity or certain evil—we might ssy the manners of s “fast woman” applied to moral ends—made pretty much all of “Fanny Fern” that will live longer than her funeral flowers. The matter of her teaching was not better than that of many who made lees show of it, and when plainly told is as commonplace moralising as one may hear from the most rural of backwoods pulpits. Her equivocal manner, made half of daring indifferenoe to propriety and half of superficial smartnees of a woman of the world, made the piquancy of her writing, and the sole difference between it and much forgotten lucubration of the aame tenor. She wanted to write like a man, and not a very wise or brilliant man either, and she only got so far on the way to her aim as to cease to write like a woman. She has left no hole in literature by her death, and whatever mark she may have impressed upon it through the admiration of half baked youths of either sex is not likely to last longer than the time needed for two numbers of the Ledger. That *111

suffice to send her a succeseor.

The British Crops.

Tbs entire potato crop of Greet Britain is estimated to be equal to 10,000,000 quanerof wheat As the crop this year is reported to be largely deficient, foreign breadstuff will be needed to supply the deficiency. The British harvest is reported to be about 26V* per cent below the average. This is the estimate made by a writer in the Chamber of Agriculture Journal. He cellmates the total average production of wheat in England at

Wavy and bright In tbesumwer air— Like a quiet wbea the b .iW* fsir. And it» roughest breath ha* curied

The green highway to an onkrow-i wond—

fctt whispers passiag from shore to shore, l ike a he«n oo teat ye* desiring more; Who fewis io !*>ra. . . ,

Waudem g ii.u.- on the path through the corn T A short space s ace, and the dead leaves iay

Compel of under the hedgerow nay; So ham of insect nor voice of bird O'er the desolate field was ever heard;

• mly at eve the pallid snow

Blushed reaped in the red i-on-giow;

calify the former is very apt to he knocked bad ernlemcwo ; 0 Recover a piaee where be

imp. quarters; Wales, 473,000,

erage pi Iy483,400

Scotland, 470,000; Ireland, 840.000; islands 12,400; total, 14 309.600. The production in 1872 is eetimated as follows; England, 10,820,500 quarters; Wales, 373,100; Scotland 421,500; Ireland, 739,400; islands, 30,0000 total, 12,307,100, making the total deficiency in yield, 1,912,400 quarters. To this is added 5 per cent for deficiency in weight, and 10 percent la breadmaking power, making the whole crop about 3,800,000 quarters, or 20 Vi >er cent under the average. The estimate requires correction, as no account is taken of .he area planted. The barley crop is also short, but the crop of oats, beans and pea>

ire unusually good.

The Voice of the Shell. When a shell is held up to the ear there is a peculiar vibratory noise. Philosophical!} investigated the peculiar sound thus recog nised Isa phenomeuon that very much per oiexed learned gentlemen for a long while. Che experiment is easily made by simply pressing a spiral shell, common in collections >ver the cerebrum of either ear- If a lane shell, the sound is very much like that of a far-off cataract. Now, what causes itf Every muscle in the body is always in a state o'f tension. Some are more on the stretch than others, particulsrly those of the fingers. It is conceded that the vibration of the fibre* of those in the fingers being communicated to the shell, it propagates and intensifiee it v as the hollow body of s violin does the vibration of its strings, and thus the aooustii nerve receives the sonorous impression* Muscles of the leg below the knee are said to vibrate in the same way, and if conducted to the ear produce the same result

Till one t»le»t morn. aw up into life the yoan - green earn. aryil and feeble, deader and pale. It bent us head to the winter gel \ Heartened the wren’s soft uo,e of enter, sicaieely believing Spring was Bear; 3aw chawtnnui bud out a^d camraor.'* blow: And daisies mimic the vanished snow. Where it wag bom. On either side of the path through the com. The corn—the com—the beautiful com, JEt-ilag wonderfully, mom by morn, Flnt scarce as high as a fairy’s wand. Then Just in r«*?n of a child’s wee hand. Then growing, growing—tali, green and strong. With the voice of the harvest in its. song, whiie In fond room The tar* out-carols the murmuring com. Oh. strange, sweet path, formed day by day. How. when; and wherefore—tongue can not say, No more of life’s strange paths we know Whither they lead us, or why we go, Or w bather our eyes shall ever see The wheat In the ear, or the fruit on the tree. Yet—who is forlorn? Heaven, that watered the furrows, will ripen the

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—‘Christian Weekly. ** men A JP 8.’* Dew Drop Inn" ia the euphonious and seductive title of a saloon in Peoria. Kansas City is operating a corner m murders and mysterious disappearances. The late King of Sweden was a frequent contributor to the Swedish newspapers. Iowa has five hundred and seventy-three children in her Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home. A crazy Mormon woman hurled stones at her husband’s funeral procession as it passed Pare Hyacinthe and his new wife are going to start a newspaper. Goodbye, $75,000! A disgusted Kansas pioneer says that Barnum’s mummy is “nothin’ but a jerked In-

un."

Farina is giving opera m Chicago. The Chicagoans think his singing is wheat—[Detroit Tribune. The Sioux City Journal says saloon fights are common in that city, but they are all of an inferior quality. A love-lorn swain remarks that the final rejection of his suit by his inamorata was of the nature of no sir-ender. What Shall Hinder?’’ is Anna Dickinson’s new lecture. That’s what a suffering public would like to know. Dr. J. 8. Wilson, of Atlanta, offers a ton of stone coal as a premium for the fattest baby at the Georgia State Fair. Louis Jordan, ot Paris, will be imprisoned a year for threatening to kill Bismarck if the latter did not send him 40,000 francs. Pumpkin pie socials have broken out with great virulence in Fenton, Michigan. The ladies manifest high art in managing the dis

ease.

An Honest Physician's Confession. ▲t a recent murder trial in Memphis, wherein an attempt to establish insanity was made on the part of the defence, Dr. J. K Allen was called as an expert, and teetifieri thus briefly and rationally: I have been u practicing physician for nearly thirty years I have had some experience in cases of in danity, having been for ten years Medical Superintendent of the Kentuckv Lunatic Asylum, and during that time had over two thousand crasy people under my charge, have heard the hypothetical caw read by Mr. Phelan. I am here as an expert, and before answering the question would like to lay that the more I studied the question of in sanity, the leas I understood it; and if yon ask me where it begins and where it ends neither I nor any physician in the world oould tell yon: in fnct, on occasions like thin lawyers make tools c( themselves in trying to make aseee oi doctor*.

Btraaboars Catbadral Beaters*. The cross on the monument of Strasbourg Cathedral, which sustained very serious in jury during the war, has now been very com pietely restored. The work was begun in Oetober, 1871, and was one of no eilent diffl cutty or danger. The operations were Ire quentiy interrupted by the violence of th* wind, more especially soon after the work commenced, and notwithstanding the extreme tempestuousness of the weather, it has often been found necessary to complete the task commenced in the morning, lest damage should be done while the portion of the repair immediately in progress was but half iuished. At length, however, the under taking has been brought to a conclusion, and appily without any accident The coat ha* bean under a thousand dollars. The mis baps of 1870 will only serve to render thr Cathedral additionaly interesting henceforth One af Hartranfl’a Men. An old, crippled, sincere, honest soldier of the corps which Hartxmntt commanded dor lug the war, walked up to the Grant candi date for Governor of Pennsylvania, in Alientown. just before the election, and in tb* lucid intervale of afcohoiicai mandlinism, said: “Mr. Gineral Hantruff are you th* tVHar wats runnin' for Govnur on our ticket?” •‘Yea, sir,", proudly responded Harcranft. -Well," replied the inebriated soldier, “I hearn that yon area d-d thief. Give me voor hand, old fell—I’d rather ahake hand* with a thief any time than with a traitor. Shake, old Harty, shake!'’ And that’* th* key-note of the Grant campaign. It ia a matching of long-ago rebels against public thieves. The intoxicated soldier understood himaelf better than he knew.

According to the Pali Mall Gaaetto, the wav i& which such enormous quantities of absinthe have come to be need by the French

expedition in the reign of

is; but a

j taiglH with «uety detain the batoon until jvSv»ii,At, and he still entertained the earn* .resign. Nevertheless, he deemed it beet to let bis emit take its own upward and downward -being prepared to check its dowu j^ssage if u approached too near |tbe *» • - •->- these means he avoided the loss <>( ml •- •» gas or ballast, and secured the neeluLuvss *>1 the balloon in journeying out of the wilderness for a longer period. It has repeatedly been demonstrated in Mr. King s • -but never more fully than on

■ uniformity and consequently with ess loss of power in the night than in the day, when the sun’s heat, cloud* and other extraneous influences cause continual and sudden changes in the degree of rarefaction

fata ■

with an overflow

of the gas, inducing at w and then an expenditure of

high ascent

Louis

much cheaper than quinine. During the entire campaign, therefore, the soldier* drank this mixture, and afterward retained the cm* tom, which first appeared in France at Marseilles, whence it rapidly spread through the

yd in •ocjrty, to daah gaily along the very country and settled permanently in Facte

George MacDonald walks or drives out every day, at Boston, wearing a Scotch boanet and the insighia of his clan. He likes fine horses. A number of the salt work companies Of Saginaw, Michigan, are preparing to suspend business for the season on account of the scarcity of fuel. A conclusive argument is made to the ne groes in New* Orleans to vote for Grant They are told that if Greeley is elected they wil never ride in a street car again. Rev. Mrs. Hines, a lady preacher, over seventy years old, is travelling over the moun tains of California, exhorting the wayward, wherever she finds them, to repent Those minute perforations noticed by the surgeons in the diaphragm of John Ayers, ot Jacksonville, Illinois, were caused by hanging his gun up by the hammer. Paris newsboys are to be uniformed in dark blue, and their unkempt hair is to oe crowned with caps of scarlet cloth, simiiai to those worn by the Neapolitan boatmen. An entirely white lion has been captured and is exhibited in Buenos Ayres, where $10,000 was offered for it by an English merchant for the soological gardens in London After being kept on the streets two months and eleven days by conflicting suits and de cisions, the “Clark House" at Taunton, Mas aachusetts, has reached its final resting place. The Chicago papers issue immense supplements on the anniversary of the great fire We ehall never be fully rid of the disastrous results of that conflagration.—[Lou. Cour.-

Jour.

The Custom House party of Detroit, determined to carry the eletion by fraud, have commenced bringing negroes over from Canada and registering them.—[Detroit Free

Preea

A lady, about to marry, was warned that her intended, although a good man, was very eccentric. Well, she said, if he is very unlike other men he ia more likely to be a goon husband. A Maryland murderer has been four times on trial for his life, resulting once in conviction with an appeal, twice in a disagreement and once in no judgment rendered. He is still at it A Washington lady, unable to procure a hearse in the city for the funeral of her child which had died of small pox, purchased one for tne occasion, paying $240 therefor. An old sailor recently refused to ship on a Lake Erie schooner because he had seen a rat swim ashore from it Curiously enough, the vessel was foundered the next night with all on board. Economy fa wealth. A well-regulated New ark family ate hash for breakfast in 365 diffsrent styles last year, apd the mother is, in consequence, enabled to display a $90 lace handkerchief. . There ia some very had news of cholera from India. The epidemic is said to be raging furiously at Srinagger, Cashmere. In one day 369 cases have occurred, of which 144 proved fataL The Savannah News believes that the Rad ieafa are working to have that city "placed uader martial law at the Presidential election, and the polls taken possession of by the Federal soldiers.” The result of the elections in Pennsylvania proves nothing, except that in a fight between impecunious honesty and opulent ras-

down and dragged out.

Benjamin D. Emerson aeccmnl&ted $250.-000*r-d died a few d-tya ago, at ^*uiaica Plains, near Boston. He was for many years a school teacher, but didn’t save most of hfa

money at that business.

Henry Ward Beecher was nearly buried in bouquets by the Sunday school children of

his ctiurcb on Tuesday, when, three thou- _ sand in number, they called upon the popu- this voyage^ that a balloon travels with

lar and new silver-wedded pastor.

Tire total quantity of coal raised in the world is estimated at 195 500000 tons. Europe yielding 167 250,000; America 27,000000, almost entirely from tire United States;

and Astralasia nearly 1,500.000.

Mont Blanc has been successfully ascended by three English young ladles named Murray, aged respectively twenty-one, seventeen and fourteen. The youngest of the party, a girl of twelve, had to relinquish the attempt A jailor’s daughter at Dee Moines, Iowa, the other day caught an escaping hone-thief, after he Had knocked down her father and jumped from the windows of tne jail, holding him jUpon the sidewalk until assistance

arrived.

A sailor boarding-hoese keeper in New Orleans. named Young, was arrested the other day and taken to a police station in that city charged with carrying concealed weapons, to-wit: "One revolver and seven registration

papers.

The annual reunion of W. T. Darling’s family at Leyden, the other day, brought together his twelve children with their sons and daughters, in all thirty-six descendants. Mr. Darling has never lost a child or grandchild by death. Dr. Louis Buchner, the newly-arrived German philosopher and lecturer, has such an abiding faith in the possibilities of Teutonic colonisation, that he “looks upon the United States as the seat of the future German Republic.’’ The latest case of suffering from mistaken identity is that of a young man in Westfield, Massachusetts, who clipped off a part of hie fingers under the miataken impression that they were a huge spider. He also euffered from pedal vipers. Boston has a well dressed highwayman, who steps up to a lady, places his finger on net nose and in the “most amiable manner’ requests her name, at the same time grabbing her pocket-book which is in her hand, mak ing off with his booty. A boy named Shultc, fourteen years old, was smothered to death in an elevator at Poplar Grove, Illinois, on the flth iustant. Shultz was at play in a barley bln while the barley was being run out through a spout, and was drawn down and smothered. Mrs. Levi Woodbury, who waa a belle in President Jackson’s day, when her husband was Secretary of the Navy, spent her sum mere with her daughters, at her old home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is often seen riding alone in the suburbs of that delightful old town. Mark Twain, at the dinner given him by the Savage Club, in London, the other day, responded to a toast in his honor by propos ing the “memory of Artemus Ward,” which was drank in silence. Artemus was a cherished guest of the Savage during his stay in London, just previous to his death, A freight train “broke” near Washington Tuesday night, and run away down the mountain, with the brakes set and engine reversed in a futile effort to hold the train. At Becket the runaway was only ten feet behind another train and both going at a killing pace; the shock soon came, breaking the rear train in six places. The danger was telegraphed ahead, the track cleared, and at Middlefleld the runaway waa brought under control. There was the most intense excitement along the line for some time, and as the mad locomotives swept past Becker, the platform was packed with awe-struek specie tors.—[Springfield Repablican.

ballast to equalise the buoyant power and secure for tne time, or until farther west* takes place, the equilibrium of the aerial

machine.

It is e strange sensation, and by no means a

pleasurable one, to be thus journeying through the air, over a wide and densely wooded region of which we knew nothing— for even oar own coarse was hidden from ns

with e strong probability that we wonid

ultimately be compelled to descend, perhaps in the very heart of the wilderness, and work our way out as best we might, without the most remote indication of which direction we had best take to reach the nearest settlement, and that a hundred miles or more away. If we had continued in the same di rection in which he had travelled in the early stage of our voyage, we were somewhere

over the northern wilds of Maine, but

had we been sure regarding our actual coarse, we might err vastly in our estimates of the progress we had made, for it wasan utter impossibility for ns to establish the merest reliable fact relative to our rate of speed since the lakes and mountains of western Maine were passed. The hoars ware long to ns benighted travellers in these mysterious regions. They seemed to have no

Many times did we peer into

the darkpeea to discover some indica tions of the rising moon, or the coming day Once we ascertained the hoar by feeling the hands of a watch, and it was then only half an hoar after midnight We had thought it to be an hour or more later. Again, in the earliest gray of the morning we thought we had discovered the hour, but long after we were brought to a sense of our mistake by

finding it even then much earlier. We dared not sleep, for we knew not into

VP IB A BALLOOB.

A Remarkable Aerial Tejage-A Bight Ride Over the Wilde of Haiae i

Canada and Ont a* Ben.

I ••Banger" in the Boston Journal.]

The balloon voyage made by Mr. Samuel A. King and the writer, September 20 and 27, which had Plymouth, N. H., for its place uf beginning, and tne little obscure settlement of S&y&bec, in the province of Quebec; on the line of the new international Railway, for its terminal point, must certainly be regarded as one of the moat thrilling and remarkable aerial journey’s which has ever taken place in America. The wildest and most desolate regions of New Hompehire, Maine and tire extreme lower portion ef the province of Quebec were traversed, to the very shores of the Gulf of 8t Lawrence, the voyage even extending ont over that vast desert of waters, a contrary current of air fortunately bringing the balloon to land again. The whole distance travelled must have been considerably in excess of 500 miles, inasmuch as the distance in an air line from Plymouth to our final landing place is found to be about 450 miles. Our general course probably varied little from a uirect line until the waters of the gulf of St Lawrence were reached, when we descended into a contrary current which was blowing inland. Nearly the whole journey —in fact every inch of it after the White mountains were passed—was travelled in the darkness of a stormy night, mid most of it over a trackless wilderness. The balloon passed over not only nearly all the highest peaks of the White mountains, and within almost a stone’s throw of the summit oi Mount Washington itielf, but over scores upon scores of othe mountains in Maine and Canada, besides lakes and rivers innumer able. The time occupied in the voyage was from 18 minutes past 4 o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday, the 26th, until 5 o’clock on the morning of the 27th—12 boom and 42 minutes—and two additional hours were spent in securing the balloon to the tree tops and in making oar way safely to terra Anna, as our descent was made in a dense forest, e « e # • • • .It was perhaps half-past • or 10 o’clock when the range of lakes and Mount Carmel faded away from our vision. The darkness prevented us from ascertaining the hour by meBM of our watchea The storm

itest we feared was the liability to an en

what new dangers we might drift The

lability

lement among the tree tops In case of a sudden descent among them. With all our anxieties and fears, we ooold have slept

soundly and happily, however, and it re quired our utmost efforts to keep ourselves and each other from succumbing to the

ouraelvee

deepest and blackest—wl nfymg sound broke upoi sound we had heard up

drowsiness which so beset us. ▲ moment’* cessation from conversation or bodily activity seemed enough to plunge us Into

dream-land.

a saw T1KRO*—OUT xt sax. It could not have been far from 8 o’clock —at any rate it was when the darkneee was deepest and blackest—when a new and tern our ears. It was a upon one or two pre vious balloon excursions, when daylight favored us, and notably on the 13th of Jnly, when we floated out over Cape Cod bay across Marshfield beach—the dashing of the ocean sorf. It seemed louder in one particular direction than in any other, and was to be heard lees from beneath us than upon either side. Still the line of agitation of the waters was clearly defined and its ioudnes« in a particular spot might readilybe ascribed to the nature of the coast. We tried to make it sound like the murmur of a brook and the merry music of the mountain cas cade, hot it would not, nor oould we make it assume the equally joyful rumbleof a distant railway train, we were travelling at the bight of a mile or more, and immersed wholly in the clouds as we were, we could discern nothing below us. That we were

perfect qniet. Thei

fainter and fainter, and soon died away altogether. We listened in vsin for a recurrence of the music of tne dancing streams, made so familiar to ua through the livelong night, for it had never been stilled till now, but no sound reached our ears. An intense and most painful stillness reigned around ua while the cold and treacherous waves rolled stealthily below. Mr. filing palled the valve cord for the first time since starting, allowing not only the gas to escape but also a shower oi water which had collected upon the top of the valve to come down through the balloon upon our heads. The sound, although accompanied by an involuntary shower-bath, was welcome in the terrible stillness, which was broken by naught else save our voices. The escape of the gas soon

mist,

on account of the high trees. It had grown much lighter, and we were able to see that it was a little past four o’clock; but yet we were unable to detect the magnetized end of the compass needle from Its opposite, so that we were as much mystified as ever in regard to the direction in which we might he moving We pondered much as to where we ought be, and came to the same old conclution tfawl we didn’t know. We might have crossed an arm of the ocean, and reached some large island-Mount Desert, for example. At all events, it became expedient to eare this particular locality, wherever it might be. for the balloon was in imminent danger of being tom in the trees, and throwingout a little ballast, we lifted the rope from among the branches and again mounted into the upper regions. This time we went to a very considerable bight, probably two miles or more, the balloon becoming completely distended again through the leasened pressure of the atmosphere. The temperature also became extremely cold. We did not long remain at this altitude, as the balloon lost some gas from overflow. As we were running down toward the earth we again heard the solemn cadences of the breakers as they dashed upon the beach. It was needless to open the valve to accelerate our descent, for we were on a Mown grade and feared a smash-up or a wetting. We were still in the clouds when we first heard the sound of the surf, and when we had descended below the upper mists it was yet so dark that we could not clearly tell the patches of lower clouds from the water. We made out, however, to read the compass, and there appeared to the north of us a great river, and east of us a bay or gulf, but so in- * distinct was everything pictured amid the gloom and mist that we felt by no means sure tnat they existed at all. Nevertheless the sound of the breakers indicattd something of the kind, but as we approached the surface we heard it no more, and indeed we were out of sight of the water we had seen from above when we came down within a short distance of the trees. It was gradually becoming lighter, and we used redoubled efforts to discover some sign of civilization, such as a road, a farm-house, a fence, or even a clearing. Meanwhile we made the discovery, that we were floating toward the west or the southwest, in a contrary direction from oar general course in the early part of the night We had evidently changed our course upon our descent by dropping into ancther current of air, and the same thing had occurred while we were out over the water. The second time we had probably turned upon our: course before getting Quite out to the water, though the sound of the surf had surely Indicated our close approach to the coast While there were yet thin, fleecy clouds below us, we descried, partly throngh them and partly beyond them, a straight white line. We took it to be a fence, and Mr.

King decided npon coming down as near 11 ss possible. We could follow it until it led— somewhere. As we approached nearer, our fence became a road. After crossing it, the balloon seemed to course along parallel with it for some distance toward the northwest Soon, however, it got opposite the curved portion, and oonseqnently increased the distance from it Meanwhile we thought we aaw indications of the same road, or a second, in another place. Subsequent development* tended to snow that the latter was the case.

XT M00BI5OS.

We were now close to the tree>tops, and the fraide-rope was catching among the branches. To detain this ba!iooouwken it should become fastened to borne of them waa no very difficult matter, for there was a light wind at the surface, but it became necessary to steer clear, so far as possible, of the high trees and the dead and scraggy branches. After an extended series of maneuvenngs, during which we had several times to oope our united strength with that of old Boreas, who manifested his displeasure at onr proceedings in little squally pnflb which threw the balloon about like a fleece of thistle down, we brought ourselves to a mooring among the branches of some of the leaser trees, while the globe of gas swayed to and fro just above the higher foliage.

WOOLLEN, WEBB & CO., 13 ankers*, Vo. tl West Washington Btrsst. INDIANAPOLIS, Accounts received from Individual*, merchants manufacturers, banka and banker*, on Ubem Foreign Exchange, and ticket* to Europe bv the Inman Line of Steamship*, for sale. * J For money deposited on time we win pay W reasonable interest. A ». mwtarm +~vo.

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the gas

brought us down through the thick : and then the good services of the guide-rope again came into play. The mist seemed wet and chilly, whereas in all our previous approaches to ths surface we had encountered a wanner and mors comfortable temperature. We soon became conscious throngh a peculiar hissing sound that thesndofthe guide rope waa being drawn at a lively rate through the water. Indeed by taking hold

tained

Of the rope, Mr. King had ascertai

it touched, and by the

when

clouds appeared to settle lower, and we were

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the midst of the rain-fall,

and through

frequent which gr

m spite of tne partial protec " ““ri the umbrella, which we spread within the hoop over our heads. Without thfa nroteotiou we should have been thoroughly drenched within half an hour after leaving Plymouth. The greater part of the time we were in the clouds, sometimes at a very considerable bight—two miles or more. The temperature was mild near the surface, probably in the fifties, but we were often to a cold^toSjheST which chilled u. to the very marrow of our bone*, wet as we were. Derides the cold temperature, there were the ot her certain ind ications of ajpsat olsvation-

■I steady resistance, as well as ths peculiar sound referred to, that it waa dragging in the water and not over the tree tops. Ths entire length of the rope was about two hundred feet, and a half of it probably rested in the water. We were doubtless at times within 25 feet of the waves, but the thick fog enveloped us like a cloak and ws could not sea them. At no time had we encountered such dense and impenetrable mista. It was a period of terrible suspense. We were surely being driven over the water, and in all probability far out to sea. Only one fate oould await us under such circumstances, for our chance of falling in with a vessel at a great distance from the coast, even if we should be able to keep the balloon above the waves until daylight, was infinitesimal. The best of aeronautic skill— and this was certainly vested in the person of ths commander of our frail little craft— could avail but little out at sea after the bal loon could no longer sustain itself. But where were we? There seemed a strong probability that we had drifted from the wilderness far south and over the coast of Maine—but what point had we reached? If thfa was the esse we might possibly fall in with some vessel plying between the United States and the provinces, or Europe, but our opportunities in this direction, with a heavy fog and a still breese blowing, were one in a thousand. The only real mishap which occurred during the whole voyage befell Mr. King while we were out over the water. It was ths loss of his hat After peering in vain into the murky mass below he drew in his head and the hat was knocked off by coming In contact with

the ropes. .

A STBAXeX BCT WFLOOB* SIOHT. We were conscious ot being over the water from twenty minutes to bail an boor, when a strange but welcome virion arose before our eyes. It was as if the misty curtin had suddenly been rent asunder, disclosing a scene of most intense blackness, which, in fact, seemed to be within our very reach The line of fog was as clearly defined as if drawn with matchematical precision. In a moment more Mi. King proclaimed the joy ful tidings that the rope was dragging over the tree tops. We knew then that wt escaped from the cold embrace of the wave*, and the wilderness of Wees which. been onr terror thrbugh the long WfAry watches of the night became welcome and hoenitable Within a abort time after reaching the ahar. having meanwhile ascended again nearer the clouds, the balloon once more settiMl 1 *!? on other occasions, to save ua from Vnd.fon o«»J5r?2f. to T 1 sswtfftaffiElSH

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