The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-26
From The Boston .AdUertiser.
Thu NynrYels of Aarosfafiau.

| The New York Courier DIES Flats Unis announces
the successful attempt of M Poiteven, at Paris to
ascend in balloon with carriage and horses at
tached. The ascent was made on the 30th of June,
OF an immense balloon named the Globe, to which
4 was attached n carriage and two horses Monsieur
| and Madame Poiteyen, with another passenger,
| being seated in the carriage, assistant
| placed outside in the The operation of infiat-
| ing the balloon made with some difficulty, in
consequence of the great size of the machine and
the violence of the wind. When all was ready, nj.
Pocven entered an uncovered four wheel carriage,
| which he conducted himself, having Madame p.
on his rig bit hand and their travelling companion
on another seat. In this manner they drove round
the arena. The carriage was drawn by two beautiful
and spirited chestnut horses of middle size. Hav
ing arrived under the balloon, the equipage was at
tached to II by means OF an apparatus composed
| of strong cables. The assistant having taken
| his place, nj. Poiteven pronounced the words "Let
| all loose" the two hundred soldiers who had held
the cords obeyed and the aerostat majestcally
| in the midst OF the enthusiastic braves OF all the
| spectators Madame Poteven exhibited, In these
circumstances, singular serenity; before starting,
| she smilingly embraced her young son, and threw
out bouquet, which fell into the Champ de Mars.
| This balloon, in which more than four thousand
metres OF silk stuff have been used, 10 made OF al
ternate black and red stripes, going longitudinal
| ly. II is of spherical form, and is the largest
| aerestat ever made 1t is 81 metres high, ~ me-
tres in diameter its circumference at the equator
is IS metres its capacity 5000 metres; it's ascen
| sional. power with the impure lighting gas,
5000 kiogrammes. The horses, the carriage,
and the travellers weighed altogether 1880 kilo-
grammes.
| Nj. Poiteven landed at evening, without acct
dent at the Chateau Grignon, situated forty kilo-
| metres at the west of Paris.
| " But this daring voyage grows pale" says the
| Courier, " before the extraordinary experiment
which has just succeeded at Madrid, if credit may
be given to the correspondent of the Courier de la
| Gironde. This is nothing less than a lady who
| flies, and who flies with real wings.
The following is the account from the Courier de
la GiT0nde:
yesterday an immense crowd assembled at the
| Prado. spectacle was to be exhibited, the equal
| of which had never been seem For the last fort
night the walls ofthe city of Madrid had been cov
cred with placards, indicating that, on the 2Qth of
| the present month, Iuanita Perez, young girl of
barcelona, would fly in the air, at height OF 200
metres in circui of 400 metres. Ii is needless to
Say how considerable was the influx Of people at
| tracted by the promises Of the placards.
Sat four O'Clock in the afternoon, at heat OF 80
degrees, Mademoiselle Juanita Perez executed her
perious ascension. And, in the first place, must
| say that this experiment succeeded, wonderfully.
The young lady to height exceeding that
which was promised in the programme, and che
passed in her flight more than half the Prado
| promenade 1t is in vain TO attempt to paint the
| profound auaxement of the crowd when woman,
whose corpulcnce might seem TO attract her 70 the
earth, was floating in the air. Ii she had been
living in the middle ages, Juanita Perez would
have been burned in the public square for witch.
at is impossible to describe exactly the wonder
full apparatus which sustains this woman in her
asrial flight, the inspection Of the wings has not
been allowed to the public; but can say that the
dimension OF these wings is at least four or five
metres when spread out, and they are worked with
ligaments of such flexibility that they in the
air with great facility, and make noise like a
good-sized windmill. All Madrid is talking of
this curious experiment, which was to be repeated
the evening at the theatre dc POrient."
This account of the Spanish experiment ia fol-
lowed, in the Courier dss Etats Unis, with the his
tory of similar invention which has been made in
Paris, as follows
| -
passed by Frenchman who claims priority of in
venton and announces that he is about to do better
than her by whom he has been anticipated. cannot
doubt, he says, in writing to journal which had
published the account of the Spanish lady's ex-
pertinent, the reality of the ascension which you
describe, since it is only the realization of pro-
ject that am next month to carry into execution
| in the Champ de Mars, with the permission Of the
authorities. only regret, if the fact proves true,
that have been anticipated in this bold attempt
| My experiments having been crowned with full
success, and wishing to make my fight In more
magnificent manner, was desirous of being &C,
companied by my two sons, one twenty two and
the other seventeen years have only been de-
layed by the preparation Of my triple apparatus.
We shall rise into the air, each provided with a
pair Of wings of fifteen feet when spread out, by
which we shall be enabled to move about in the
air, either sinking rising, one after the other,
with all the spirit and all the lightness OF swa-
low.
81 intend to finish this experiment by an @rial
flight from the military school to Chaillot, realiz
ing thus the fable of Icarus, and not like him
dreadipg an approach to the sun. Our apparatus
is solid, and crossed the Seine the 9Th of
June last at O'Clock in the morning. The ex-
pertinent succeeded perfectly, and, being DESTROYS
to realize the fruits of my labor and study, was
about to exhibit them to the public, when the &C
count in your journal announced to me that ano-
Their had anticipated me-"
The name of this new Dedalus who does not
dread either for himself his sons the fate of lea
rus, Thomas DarvilIe, residing in Paris, lis Rue
dc Faubourg Montmartre.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC GENTLEMAN.--The Peoria Re