Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-10-12

to secure the punshmen by severe fines Of all Who
shall endanger the wires by the casting of nets or the throw
ing of anchors II is pretended that the wires inersec
the most valuable fishing grounds.
Recent letters from the East speak Of very valuable and
tensve phur just discovered upon the borders Of
Red Sea- in Upper Egypt The products Of these mines
said be abundan: that material fall in the prices Of ST.
Gillian sulphur inevitably take place. The working Of
the newly discovered mine and its poducveness greatly
facilitated BY its proximity the The Egyptian Gov
ernmen which first had leased the mines to private
pany, is about possession and work them
account Ne&l s
party of sapans met few evenings since, upon the
heights of Bsev, for the purpose Of pursuing experiments
in meteorology They raised considerable elevation kites
which supplied with magnetic points Of iron and to the
great admiration Of spectators they drew from the
clouds although the atmosphere perfectly calm, flashes
eghor ten feet long, similar n appearance to those produc
ed during storm. Suddenly portion Of the electric fluid
was observed to dart down one of the gentlemen who
were making the experiments He instantly fell senseless
The mprudent sapa hal neglected keep himself isolated
by holding only the glass handle which the string of the
kite was attached He touched the cord and the fluid find
ing thus conductor, descended with the effect describ
ed The companions Of the unfortunate physician promptly
afforded him all the relief in their power. They happily
ceeded in restoring him to life but his right has the
accident been paayzed and is apprshended will
main
Balloon ascensons still continue to be the avore popular
the most daring of modern aeronau Mr. GALE said to have
been lieutenant in the British navy, has Just his death
In one Of his perous ascents This gentleman had been
amusing the Parsians during the last months his
and daring exploits He attached to his balloon cars,
suspended twenty feet below the other, connected
by slight rope ladder To the lower car were affixed
plodng fireworks The aeronau leaving the earth,
seated in the upper After reaching the desired elevation
he might be descend through hole in the CENTRE and
make bis way with sailors agility along his impecepible
ladder to the lower there he attracted the attention Of
the millions below by the discharge Of his aerial artillery
After while his diminished form reascending
the upper car and he and his balloon soon the
distance. From Paris he proceeded Bordeaux. There he
undertook initiate Potevn, of Paris by ascending horse
back and it in this experiment that he lost his life
The exploit successfully accomplished he had regained
the earth, and his horse oosed from the ghs by which
he had been held in the The balloon relieved Of the
weight of the horse, again. Mr. Gales
des misunderstood his French assistants he spoke
French but mpeecty. The cords oosed and up went
the balloon, carrying Gale, who enangled among the
cords up with it. He succeeded by violent effort in gain
ing the car and there Immediately suocated by the
Gaping gas. They who Witnessed this involuntary ascent
lost sight Of him. No, seeing him
expected search instituted That night the balloon
found but all search for the unfortunate Gale vain Next
morning aborer proceeding to bis work, discovered the
body in wood His face had already been devoured by wild
animals and nearly every bone in his body broken. He
had evidently fallen from great height is supposed that
the anchor, dangling BY long rope, had caught in tree
upset the fiat upon which Gale lying suocaed and
enseess and caused him roll off The balloon descended
Of ITSELF and without the slightest injury within mile or
from the spot where the body was afterwards found
Poievin, in Paris still continues from the hppodrome his
original exhibitions present. four days ago. at his last
ascension. He himself assembled, mounted, upon bis
white pony but in the character Of Sancho Panza upon an
ass. The poor animal allowed nothing stand upon,
but suspended by srths passing below his belly Above
the ass and his rider suspended wicker car in which
seated female Of the hppodome representing Ducnea
del Toboso and accoued the knight Of La Mancha
The poor most unwilling actor in this ridiculous
scene His "reminiscences of former ascension not
agreeable and required at least dozen pushing and
hauling to bring him to his post beneath the balloon For
after leaving che arena he beat the air with
his legs, but they became fixed and stiff in death.
The immense amph,heate of the hppodroms crowded
with spectators Of both and every degree. These with
those who collected outside drawn the spot by this
novel sight estimated and the estimate does not appear
to me exaggerated, to exceed one hundred thousand
Speaking Of the Hppodrome reminds Of the splendid
monument Of the EMPIRE NAPoLKoss arch Of Triumph, in
its immediate vicinity All the papers amusing them
selves with notices. less spiteu Of addendum that
has within the last few days been made to the list Of great
captains who illustrated the most brilliant of French mill
tary glory that Of the Of Louis and Jerome Bonapae
father and uncle OF the actual President Of the French Repub
lie. asked if M. Louis Bonapare places different es
upon the military services of his father and uncle than
was accorded by Napoleon the Great himself The
might perhaps be accepted in relation Jerome. He
manded but without any particular gory corps Of the in
vadng army in the great Russian expedition of 1879 and
three years later Waterloo, he fought CALAMITY the head
Of his division but what egegous ignoramus and aere
says the Critic he who suggested the President the idea
Of adding to this exclusively military the Of
Of the pacific of his day Louis Bonaparte,
King Of Holland, Of tase if not Of military
nown and would himself be shocked this unsuitable and
false illustration which is attempted to attach to bis name.
To be sure, be followed aide de-camp Napoleon Bona
Parte to Italy and Egypt, and afterwards made brga
der general and upon the assumption Of the imperial purple
by Napoleon, Louis made constable Of France uthe
neposm of his brother alone procured for them these promo
tons, indeed it effected the military advancement of Js
himself Le exclusively their merits, neither
Of them would have attained than coones
mission.
Mr.. HIxDs English astronomer has just discovered
another asterod To be added to the group