The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1849-03-02
couerpondsucs of tho National In,elligsncer.

Correspondence Of the National Inieliigencer.
NEw York, February 10, ls49.
!. The fea Balloon from New Yorh fo
!. California and q Market-hss not sale,
n yet, bu, will shortly have dispa,ch-ac
Communications for passengers all taken u
i. letter bag still open. III had dream
which was not oil dream:" nor is The
. above announcement all q joke, however
much It may have that appearance. There
J Is company here seriously OF work con
f structiDg balloon 10 carry over passen
gers TO California. The achievements o
the human intellect are generally in some
degree proporiionaie TO the stimulus OF
strength Of motive with which the objec,
IS pursued /; and if ever 50 grand an a.
chievemeh, 10 Eros,a,ion is to be accom-.
plished, perhaps The eager desire Of peo.
pie TO get TO the land of gold may be The
very stimulus or motive necessary TO pro.
dncc so wonderful a result. "Huuger vi ii
break through a stone wall;" who then
shall say 'ha, the love Of gold may not en-.
able man to sail around the earth in an
air.balloonl
The Company to which have referred
have their model balloon and apparatus
Just completed, and Intend TO make pub.
tic exhibit on of il IN the Broadway Tab
ernacle IN the course Of the coming week.
The model balloon is twenty -four feet in
length, and two feet in diameter al the
centre, running To point at each end. -
( II Is to mpve boriz 'nlslly. point foremost
ike ti.h in the water. The motive pow.
er Is small steam easIne, connected with
sort OF screw propeller at the stern
which acts upon The air something like the
wings ola wind mill. The inventor pro.
misses that il shall sail round the interior
Of the Tabernacle like trou, m mill
pond, or perhaps more like q gold fish in
glass globe.
IL the performance OF the model prove
satisfactory he will Immediately construct
his passenger balloon for California which
he proposes shall be FIVE hundred fee, 10
length and forty feet in diameter al The cen.
ire. running 10 a poin, at each end, like par.
abolic spindle IN geometry. A long cabin
or saloon is to be suspended below the bal.
loon for passengers, machinery, &c. The
engine Is 10 be about four. horse power
There are 10 he two screw prope Hers, the
fans Of each TO be twenty fee, in diameter.
The rnddcr - SO arranged as to vary the
direction of 'he balloon to the right or left,
or up or down, ns circumstance. my re.
CURE. by calculation it is estimated iha,
The balloon, Of the axe mentioned filed
with hydrogen gas, Will carry abou, five
Inc n, a ht
~ machinery. This would cna bic il TO
carry perhaps fifty passengers With rea.
sonable amour, OF baggage.
The inventor says that he can build his
grand balloon in three or four weeks. lie
VIII make one or two trial trip, perhaps
TO W ashlngton or Boston before starting on
his voyage across the Rocky moun,ains.-
Ii is hardly probable he will ge, to Wash.
inglon in time for the Inauguration, though
II is possible he may be ia time to help
the out going administration along By an
overland passage TO the head Of certain
river, and thus save them The difficulties
Of its navigation. The time estimated for
? voyage To California is some four or five
days, sailing only by daylight, and anchor.
ing during the night. Upwards Of two
hundred names are already booked to Sc,
cure the right Of precedence in passages if :
The experiment is successful.
Now, this will appear 10 most people to +,
be ridiculous visionary project, and | ;
have no idea Of asking any one TO put The r
least faith in IT, or expect any thing TO !,
como Of it. But, after all, does its success ,
ook more improbable than description OF !
he present achievements Of steam on land :,
and water would have appeared half cen 7
Jury ago. Or an account Of the present ;,
Geographic communications len years agol :
ain not prepared 10 say that something ,
great and slupendous will not yet be &C.
in nros,alion. 1t is mol quite
seventy years since all Paris turned out
With wonderment 10 see balloon, filed
with heated atmospheric air ascend few
hundred feet above their dwellings. This .
10 philosophers The idea Of using '
hydrogen gas for like purposes. the ey .
RENE lighiness of which enabled il TO sus.
AN great weight in the atmosphere. The
subject was pursued for a while in F.ance >
md Eng land with great zeal, and in some !
cases with grand results. People began
10 ascend with balloons and make voyages
II greater or less distance, I'LL in one case
hey reached three hundred miles, and
moved with a speed seventy or :
''ghty miles an hour. Ice sufficient pro.
,elllng power and a mode Of steering can u
% successfully attached 60 he balloon, =
he grand problem would Of course be ),
solved.
DREADFUL FIRE---A MOTHER AND
THREE CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH
Tao Brooklyn Daily Advertiser Of .
Thursday gives the following account Of a u
ire and melancholy loss Of life, which oc. :.
.urrcd at tho farm house Of Mr.. Miller,
'bou, two miles from Hempstead, Long !, y