The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-29
Extraordinary Balloon Ascension by a Lady,
and Miraculous Escape.
OUR EAsToN CORRESPONDENCE.

OUR EAsT0N CORRESPONDENCE.
EAsroN. Pa Jan. 26, 1855.
The ascension If Miss BrodieyBursing Of the Balloon
Its Frighful Dcscent--HirGcal Escape-Railroad
Bridge Across the Detawdre-7he Senatorial Contest
see that you have in your teegraphc column Of to-
days HERALD brief account OF the balloon of
Miss Louisa Bradley from this place yesterday escape
from death miraculous that think you will find
a detailed account interesting. Miss B. filed her
balloon entirely with gas from Of the street MAINS
and at II o'clock stepped fearessy into the She is
a small, delicate looking woman, and was dressed in
Booner costume Of scarlet and blue The balloon held
by rope then permitted rise about twenty feet
from the ground when she made short address to the
crowd Of people 1t then gently, still held by the
rope until she hundred feet from the ground,
when she cut the cord and the balloon perpendicu
larry with great velocity, until abe had reached mile
mile aud quarter, as IT was estimated by those
present who best able TO Judge.
II would appear from her account that she knew
very little about the business she had undertaken of
the likely to be produced upon the balloon whea
it reached the rar6ed The balloon old
one and the silk had become rotten that is wonder
full that It would bear initiation a. all. When she reached
this height she states that the balloon, which
entirely filed when left the EARTH expanded until the
gas began to escape at the and became very Of
fensive to her. She had beer absorbed by the
chanting pr, spect spread on. beneath her. which she
says magnificent beyond the power of language to
describe that she had noticed the balloon The
cape gas alarmed her. and she pulled the valve rope
but permitted but little gas escape she afraid
she would fall into the Delaware, which directly
meath her In few moments after this the balloon col
lapsed, and 70 horror and alarm we saw her fall
with rghtul rapdty for the distance OF six hundred or
hundred feet her progress then being checked
hat, h.l.,
then observed that she descending quite slowly Il
that when the balloon burst it was torn into rib
and except the lower part neck OF the balloon so
completely the upper part TO pieces that large
pieces of silk blew away and the remainder hung down
below the When she had fallen this distance
the neck Of the balloon suddenly teo up, turning inside
out aad catching against the net cork, formed para
chute ,ohich bore her safely 10 The ground. She cana
down in open field, and lightly dad the strike
the earth that she says there not the slightest
jar. Her presence OF mind extraordinary
After this fearful fall, and when the balloon
was stir descending with terrific velocity she
threw out her sand bags and anchor aud then with the
utmost calmness commenced singing a hymn. She
alishted about four miles from this place The trip
must be considered quick one at quarter past IL
she rode into town safe and in sne spirits.
The railroad bridge the delaware connecting the
Lehigh Valley Railroad win the Central Railroad OF New
Jersey and the Belydsrc Delaware Railroad, is nov
being pushed forward rapidly Two spans up,
and the timber and iron nearly ready for the
nainder The ehgh Valley Railroad extends from this
place TO the coal mines the Lehigh and will connect
also with the schuyA and susqushanna coal regions
Is expected that this road will be- finished by the
latter part OF the coming You viii then
railroad direct from New York TO the coal regions
whence you may obtain supplies at all seasons Yoar
merchants may well look upon this enterprise with ia
in addition 10 other advantages will secure
for them large trade from this prosperous and improv
Ing region. This town does large trade which is
increasing annually and Is destined at distant day
10 be the largest and most thriving town in Eastern
Pennsyvana, except ambitious Philadelphia, who, in
extending her limits far into the rural districts had
well nigh included our town and the surrounding
country.
Your Harrisburg correspondents all seem TO agree
that Gen cameron be elected United States
tor, and effort Is evident their part 70 write him
down. One OF them seems TO think ex-Gov. Johnston
TIE most prominent while another says Sena
tor Cooper has decidedly the inside track Those az the
capital NOT always the best informed upon such
matters and take your last pendent to 80 toera
bly, igrosant % the prominent Of the state
he tabs about Judge Snys-r ne an ordinary county
court Judge, ana speaks ~ his "mounss'n honer
Judge T. lives a, sorristo m nopris1r town q 100
5000 people rixtcen miles from Philadelphia aud i
regarded BY ~ wei rlofnes r.n bore ~ ere q the