Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-11-04

good man. shivered out the poor invalid
wait till you get down below, if you must
swear. We are always in The hands of Provi-
dence; but up here, it strikes me, that our
lives are literally hanging BY thread
The colapsing of the bottom part of the bal.
loon, to which Mr.. Green here drew our at
ten,ion as evidence of the rate at which we
were descending, soon restored order, and
made every one anxious to attend to the direc.
tion of the aeronaut. We could now hear the
sounds of 'Ah bal-lon' again rising from the
ground and following in our wake, telling us
that at the small villages on our way the peo-
pie were anxiously looking for our descent
bag of ballast entrusted to one of the
passengers to let fall at given signal, while
Green himself stood with the grapnel ready to
loose Immediately he came to fitting spot
Presently the signal for the descent of the bal
last was given, and as it dropped, it was Curl
ous TO watch its fall the earth had seemed al
most at our feet the car swept over the
TO the ground, that as the eye watched it fall
and fall, the mind was filled with amazement
at the height the balloon was still in the air.
Suddenly the sound as of a gun announced that
the bag had struck the soil, and then we were
told all to sit low down in the car and hold
last, and scarcely had we obeyed the orders
given than the car was suddenly fercely ierked
half round, and all within it thrown one on
top OF another; Immediately after this bump
went the bottom of the car on the grouud, civ
Ing US so violent shake that it seemed as if
every limb in the body had been simultaneously
dislocated. Now the balloon hitched on 10 lis
side, and lay on the ground struggling with
the wind, and rolling about, heaving like a
huge whale in the agonies of death.
For heavens sake hold FAST shouted Mr.
Green, as we were dashed up and down in
the car and rolling one on the other, with
each fresh Iurch of the giant machine
stretched on the ground before us, and from
which we could hear the gas roaring from
the valve, like The blast 10 furnace.
Sit still, all Of you, say = roared our pi-
lot, as he saw some one en.eavoring TO
leave the car.
Again we were pitched right on end, and
the bottom of The car shifted into ditch.
the wafer of which bubbled up through the
wicker work Of The car, and /, unlucky
wight, who was seated in that part to which
The conclusions were mostly confined, soon
began 10 feel that was quietly sitting in a
pool Of water.
10 move, however, was evidently 10 peril
not only ones own life, but that of all the
other passengers, and still no one came 10
US, Tor we had fallen in a swamp, which we
afterwards found out was Pirbight-common,
situated some half dozen miles from Guild.
ford.
Presently, however, 10 our great delight.
some hundred drab. smoked countrymen an
peared, almost as if by magic, round the
edges of The car; for some little time thew
were afraid 10 touch, but at last they gor
III VA hoiu VI I3 anu VIC WClc Ouc ullcf utlOtIl-
er extricaied from our seats.
To tell the remainder of the adventure
would he tame and dull suffice il, after
some two hours labor, the arial machine,
car, grapnels, and all, was rolled and picked
up in n cart, and thus transported, an hour
after midnight, TO Guilford the voyagers
journeying to the same town in tilted cart,
delighted with their trip, and listening to the
many curious adventures of the veteran aer-
onaut, who had successfully pilored them and
some hundred others through tile air; and
who, now that the responsibility of our lives
rested no longer in his hands, seemed
thoroughly different man before he was tac-
Turn, aud almos; irritable wien spoken to;
and now he was garruIous, and delighting
lis with his intelligence, his enthusiasm, and
his courtesy. Indeed, long shall we all re.
member the pleasant night we passed with
the old ETHEREAL pilot on his 5OOh ascent
with the Royal Nausau BaIloon.-M Illustrated
London Ne,1s.