Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-09-18

Since Paez, says the Home Journal, has
taken shp-of-war by swimming troop
of horse off, and surrounding it, we are less
astonished than we mil INT have been, at find
ing another element-lhe air-traversable
by steed under the saddle The French
papers, however, which, of late, have been
filled with accounts of aerial excursions.
give very minute details of the recen, ascen,
of Monsieur Poilevin on the back Of horse,
his rising speedily out of sight, and passing
over the distance between Paris and Lyons,
near which latter city he descended.
The placards promising this wonderful
novelty, excited a great sensation in Paris.
The departure was to take place from all
enclosed field in The Champ de Mars, and,
on the afternoon appointed, the population
Aocked ,hi'her in masses. By far the grea-
ter portion placed themselves on the emf
nences around, to avoid paying the triAing
sum demanded for entrance to see the pre-
parations but the receipts, notwihs tandlng.
are said to have amounted 10 ten or twelve
thousand francs.
The spectators, while waiting, discoursed
of the probabilities, and of the approaches
to precedents in antiquity and my yih ology.
Bellerophon and Pegasus, Roger and the
hippogrlf, and recorded ascent Of horse
on a platform raised by balloon were all
discussed during the hours Of impotence.
Towards four o'clock, a very beautiful
pony made his appearance on the ground,
and was led around The enclosure, saddled
for his novel journey. The new accourre-
men,s seemed to annoy and fret the spirited
animal exceedingly, and the sympathy Of
the crowd was directed wholly to him, and
very little to the man who was to mount to
the clouds upon his back. Going agains,
his will, of course, he seemed like sacri-
fee offered up to the vanity and temerily of
its owner.
The weather was extremely unfavorable
A violent wind made the danger many-fold
greater, and heavy rain fell during the
epara,ions, though without in the Ieas,
diminishing the crowd within and without.
1t seemed incredible that man could be 90
fool-hardy as to at,emp, an ascension amid
such tempest
tevin made his appearance in the costume
ofa jockey, with white breeches and orange
colored jacket and cap. The balloon, to
which his horse was to be attached, had
been lashed about so violently, during its
imitation, that it was thought it could not
have escaped injury. He mounted boldly
to the saddle, however, and the swalhing-
clothes, under the horses belly, were at
.acbed TO the ballas,-baske.. For some in-
stanis the pony violently paved The ground,
and, during the few minutes which they
passed in readiness, waiting for a lull Of the
wind, the poor quadruped manifested every
shape Of unwillingness to leave the earth.
The incipien. pulls upon his body by the
twitches of the convuIsed balloon, agl.ated
him with eviden, terror, and he t'emblingly
threw back the sand with his fore feet.
At the moment of departure, the cord OF
The escape-vave was torn from the hand OF
the aronaut, and blown up out of reach a.
mong the ropes above. Without this, of
course, he would have no power TO descend,
and, had the balloon been cut loose from
the ground at that instant, he would have
been assuredly lost. Fortunately, the cord