Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-08-20

Jloe.fcfd Club, to defend themselves from tho
aggressions Of stranger gentlemen, VINO ,. seem
determined upon marrying our young !aIies' II
having been shown to this Club, that WlLhln !he
past ten years, nearly every iaay Q. ,! Iees
has married a stranger, which Is not only us
cresitable to ourselves, but ruinous TO our hopes
be it resolved,
/ That the members Of this D1e-head Club
do feel themselves much abused BY the prefer
cnce shown gentlemen from distance by our
elegant and accomplished ladies'
>. That we make every exertionin our power
to convince our lady friends of our real sorrow
and main occasioneCi by their to US mysterious
ways, in the selection oil their hOhoFeo nus
bands
3. That we do most kindly warn all gentle:
men from afar, thatif they still persist IN thelt
uncomfortable attachment to our ladies, We VIII
be under the necessity of preventing by t"Ece,
their aggressions.
I. That each member Of this Club do from
this tine forth. exert all his energies and tai
ents. towards concentrating the intention
these resolutions.
Such were the feelings of the meeting, 50 far
as the committee was concerned hut It helm
quito late, upon motion the Doe Retf Gin6 adj
iourned till Friday next, when it IS eXPectees.
that the matter will be brought up in the mos
orderly and becoming manner-i"dced to b.
AUG 10, 1857. CrRarDeEx.
PrsrLors BALLOON ACCESSION We Icarnfron
the Troy tN. W TINES, that Prof. Marion mad
his thirty fourth ascension from that place fe'
( DAYS since, nndcr circumstances the most has
arlous. and with alesult so peculiar as to plar
it among the most remarkable events in the M
tory of balEooning. The Times states that
LADY accompanied the rronant to the height
about forty feet. ThcascenSiyc power, howeve
not being sufficient for the weight of the tU
passengers, the balloon rapidly descended, AZ
/ the lady was left on terra .tfraaa. The accour
/ of the second ascent is then described by tue
/ Times as follows:
| Getting off again, he nsccnded quite rapidly,
but was carried by the current OF air upon which,
! he struck rapidly toward the church spire.-
| When his attention was turned from the crowd,
! he found, to his aStOniShment, that lie was with
/ in twenty feet of tire church, and going toward
! il Mt a dangerous rate of speed. To clear him-
/ self ne Immediately grasped Il bag OF ballast
| and threw it outside. In descending, this pass
cal wItHr. So feet of the head of a lady
who was looking out OF the yriudnw Of an adioin-s
I ing building, made clean hole through grape
! arbor and broke board in back sLO0p by its
weight After throwing out the ballast, the
| baIlOoniSt assembled very fast, but If soon he
came painfully apparent to the anxions crowd
below. that a collision with the chuich spire was
! inevitable. This soon occurred. The balloon,
which was then going Mt rapid speed, came ~
contact with the iightning-Tod at the apex, with
| a blow similar To that Of vessel surglnS at1
/ high rate of speed against n rock. The concuS-
| sion was terrible The Professor, who bad an
ticipated the shock, braced himself in the car,
and aUXiorIslv waited the result. After swaYiBg
to and fro an instant the balloon caught, npPa-'
reuty, in a bolt connecting the rod With thu
spire, and tore, with sound which was distinct
| ly heard from the earth. The rent was between
/ ten and twelve feet in length, leaving mon
strous aperture, through Which the gas rushed
with a sound like that of the wind. \ thrill OF
! horror ran through the crowd below, accom-
panied by Explanations indicative OF thegeneTai
belief that the death of the aeroraut was newt
able But. notwithstanding the hazardous sit
nation in which he was placed, lac maintained
the most perfect elEPosscSsion and eqnanimlty.
The balloon hing suspended By the spire for
nnneiit the gus IIeanwhie escaping ut fearful
of Only ordinary nerve, Would nave 'Seei1Sd' 44
sentence of death. Then, disengagng ITSELF it
rose slowly and with ayaciilating MOTION caused
by the collapse, until it had reached attitude
loftive hundred feet. 1t then descended rapidly
again.
To retard this momentum another bag of bal
last was thrown out, and the effect WAS TO cause
a second ascension. The balloon arose swiftly
and gracefully, as though the power which car
rIed II up was not constantly belnS lost IL
anything could have alayed the anxious excite
ment of the crowd, it would have been the APP
parent indifference of tile Professor to the terri
BILE danger of his situation. When at the nlti-
tupe of thousand feet he leaned forward from
the car and waved his hat TO the crowd below.
The gas rushing out at the rate of over thou
sand feet minute, the balloon soon lost its as
ccnsive power, and when near the State dam
began. to descend at the rate of twenty feet a
second. The danger of descending in the river
became imminet but by leaning over in.thc car
and carrying the weight one side, this was
avoided, and the descent was made upon The
dock, within twenty feet of the water. The
conclusion upon striking the ground was very
great, the car rebouniinga distance of three or
four feet, and then drifting towards the river
A number of persons WHO were present pre-
vented it from going into the water by Selling
the net ropes and holding it wi;h strong hands.
The result of the pulling aud pressure of the
escaping gas was collapse of the bnllaon from
top to bottom. The danger was ovcr-ttie Pro-
fessOr had completed ascension which, we
venture to assert, was as hazardous as any ever
made by asroilaut who escaped from his adj
ventures with life and limb.
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Mrs. CuSxrNGHAM remains in the TombS, and
the regular physician Of that institution having
become preiudiced against her during her for
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