Washington telegraph., 1855-05-23
Arrival by the overland Route
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGE IN BALLOON.

EXTEAoRDIN VOYAGE IN BALLOON.
Safe and QutcA Conveyance of Passe,-
gers from Netc Orleans to the uicinity
Of Ticks5yg.
The longest aerial voyage we have any
knowledge Of, {says the Memphis Eagle &
Enquirer,) was recently made BIZ Monsieur
GODDARD, who left New Orleans on Sunday,
Both of April. aud arrived near Vicksburg
the following Monday A description Of
the trip is published in the Vicksburc
Wing, extracts from which we insert be-
low - --.....
Mons. Godard's balloon. the "America,"
left New Orleans on Sunday evening last,
at ten minutes past 6 o'clock, and landed at
Mr.. Samuel Hutchins' plantation, near Cav
uga, between Is and 90 miles S. S. E. from
this city. ct 20 past 2 o'clock on Monday
Notwithstanding the trip through from
New Orleans TO Mr.. Hutchins' in s hours
and 10 minutes. including stoppage of
about one hour at Mrs Smiths plantation;
thus making the travelling or flying time
about I hours and 10 minutes The dis
tance between New Orleans and Mr. Hutch
ms plantation, in direct or air line. is
about l60 miles, but the distance travelled
through the currents Of the air on this tour
is very reasonably estimated, we think, at
from 225 to go miles. We were greatly
interested with the oral history given US OF
this aerial voyage by Mons. GODDARD and Mr..
Dessommes. and after expressing the regret
we feel that they could not tarry long
enough to recite every incident of the vow
age, we will briefly give to our readers a
synopsis Of what we heard from them. On
Sunday evening, the 29th, about ten min
utes past q o'clock. Mons. GODDARD made
brilliant ascension from the corner of Ba-
rome and Poydras streets, New Orleans. in
his magnificent balloon America The
America is about 20 feet high, about 12S
feet in circumference at the base, and has
capacity for about A, 1900 cubic feet of gas,
with basket large enough to comfortably
seat s persons. He was accompanied in
his voyage by Mr.. Louis Dessommes, Mr.
Gibbons, of the Crescent, Mr. Davis, and
another gentleman whose name we did not
learn
At the time they started from n Orleans
there was a fine Southern wind blowing,
and they went upward aud onward very IA
vorably, passing near Carrolton, crossing
Lake Ponchartrain and Pass Manshac, leav-
ing Lake Maurepas to the left AS they
were moving in rather a Nortwesterly direc-
tion, they must have passed over the par
ishes of Livingston and St. Helena, in Lou
isiana. They entered over the State of
Mississippi in the county of Amite, near
the edge of Wilkinson, as far as they could
ascertain, and proceeded onward OYER Frank
lin into Jefferson, where they came down to
earth at Mrs. Smiths plantation, (as they
were told by negroes at a little after u
o'clock on Sunday night. for the purpose of
renewing the gas and initiating the balloon
At this point they remained nearly one
hour. and left three of the passengers, Mr..
Gibbons, Dir. Davis, and one whose name
we did not get. At o'clock Mons God
ard set sail again very beautifully. accom-
panied BY only one passenger, Mr.. Dessom-
mes, with view Of coming up to Vicks.
burg or the vicinity. They travelled lit
tie over an hour. and as the negroes at Mrs.
Smiths had told them, they were only IA
miles from the Mississippi river, and not
very far from Vicksburg, N, GODDARD con-
cluded to come down, as he did not wish to
pass Vicksburg, or the line of the Railroad
desiring to return from this point to n
Orleans. By way of steamboat. Their des-
cent to the earth was easy and beautiful,
according to their statements, and. they
touched land at 20 minutes past 2 o'clock
on Monday morning in the vicinity of Mess.
Anthony c. and Samuel Hutchins, in the
upper edge of Claiborne CO., near Cayuga,
and not far from the border of this county
and Kinds. @
As they crossed the upper parishes in Lou