The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-10-25
! Balloon Race-Jnterestinx De-
scrtptIon

The Cincinnati papers have very full descrjp.
tions of the late balloon race between NJ GODDARD
freuch, and NJ Steiner, American @conauts. The
balloons left there Wednesday at four and twenty
one minutes o'clock. Prof Steiner taking the
lead 10 the "Pride Of the wes,n n. GODDARD. in
"The Leyisthan,v soon overlook. When three
miles from the city they spoke With each other
u. dodard Introducing his compagnon da yoyaos,
Mr. Vim. Hod to Prot Steiner. They pledged
each other aud drank tcasts-then came a col
lsion. The Gazette says:
scarcely nve minutes after, the balloons came
IN cotiiAon, at an elevation Of some q ye thousand
| feet from the earthi The balloon Of Prof Steiner
drove rapidly toward its rival SO that the basket
OF the latter struck the former about midway Of
| 'oo oaiioos. Mons. Hodard and bis companion
promptly f3rced ed with their hands and Pref
steiner shouted to Mons. GODDARD to throw out bal
| last, which be did, and rapidly rose above the
friue q the West, and out of danger and of any
| further contact.
The @ronauts were not within speak ing distance
ourlng the race. Steiner started ahead at an sIe.
| Vation OF about 5000 feet, and gradually gained
upon hts competitor. He found q strong current
o, AIT, and taking advantage of it by keeping at
ABOUT The same elevation, made rapid progress
| Mons dodard soon after CONNIE need 10 descend to
within i've or six hundred feet Of the earth,
creating the greatest excitement amongst the
1 whistles
Mr.. Steiner still kept the current which was
carrying bin rapidly north.by north east, at q
/ height OF about Fine thousand feet. At O'Clock
ne opened his basket of provisions, and sat
an excellent supper, which he partook of while
driving through the air as the rate OF about ftty
miles au honr.
Al i've minutes past ak he passed over Dayton
| at an elevation of about ten thousand feet. He
| cast overheard several dispatches, but found that
| the wind was so strong that they were carried
| several miles from the city. Nothing cosid be
| seen Of Mons. GODDARD, and Mr.. Steiner concluded
| 10 AEpn he ranf md
| southwest. He passed several towns, and sent
| down dispatches, but as he could hear nothing
| from the inhabitants. concluded that he was un
| observed, and kept on his course.
| About half past O'Clock, the aronaut became
very sleepy, and found il almost possible to keel
awake. The cold was quite benumbing. He sung
songs, overhauied bis traps in the basket to divert
his attention, and finally attached about 5000 feet
of guide line TO hts wrist so that il he dcecended
| the drag rope would awake him. He then threw
| out ballast, AID assembled TO an elevation of about
| ii,ooo iee., ana unable longer to keep himself
| awake, quietly resigned himself to a comfortable
| nap.
About ten o'clock the eronsus was awakened bv
crash, and found that his balloon had n,Ied
sound sleep, had struck in the top of tree in the
| middle OF a small forest. The basket was turned
nearly over, aud the sleeping ;eronaat was thrown
Violently into the hoop TO which the ropes were
attached which united the basket with the Dalloop
| The remainder of his supper was thrown ont-hi
wine was Cast overboard-a part Of his bsllast fol-
lswsd in The desceLt-bis bundles of d spatch.s and
| pspers kept ih-S company. The shock was 80
great as 10 spnt tile seat on which the Rropaut vas
! taking sisstd
The basket righted ia a minute, and tho balloon
being relieved of considerable weight in the way
OF cold chicken aud other "Walnut Strret House.
preparations for a long voyage, shot into the air
| with gfeas velocity, 81 rapid that the @ronaut
epened hs valve in order to prevent going ssaway
| up yonner amongst the stars. Before being
stopped, the balloon reached elevation OF L. 600
YHAI find lin, fhnn -
the 9ronaut commenced to descend.
Finding u good current At an elevation of 5000
leet, fro Steiner mao aged to keep his conveyance
| in II, and proceeded at speed OF sixty miles a
| hour, when be discovered Lake Erie but few
miles ahead. The cement around his valve had be-
| come broken 10 the collision with the tree and "A
he had already discharged d considerable quantity
Of gas, he did not deem it advisable attemp. to
| cross the Lake. The direction in which he va.
aaiIiug would have carried him about North by
| Northeast from Sandusky to Long Point on the
| Canada shore, some $50 miles. With dense forest
for landing place, 10 escape which he would have
been obliged to travel probably 800 mi!es he open
ed his valve. and rapidly descended.
| The balloon struck tue ground about 500 yards
from the lake, aud dragged to within 800 yards Of
the water before the anchor took a firm hold. The
| landing place was about half mile from Ssndus-
| Ky city, in corn seid, on the farm of Mr. A. G
Townsend. Prof Steiner called loudly for assist
ance but FILLING to arouse any body, he eyarorated
bis balloon, and gathering shock or two of corn
/
coat, and lay down hy his "Pride of the West"
AMI slept until daylight.
After enj ,ying refreshing sleep, Professor S.ei-
ner proceeded to the farm house, and arou.ipg the
| inmates, was carried by Mr.. Townsend to Sandus
ky, where shipped his balloon by express to this
| city. aud himself took the morning train
| All this time from O'Clock, Prof Steiner had
! had no knowledge of bis competitor in the race
but on arriving ut Il station on the railroad, some
| Is or % miles from Saudusky, Mons GODDARD came
on board with his monster .'Levia,han" lie had
| landed near Hunts Corners, some Is miles this
| side Of Sandusky.
The srouauts started at 4:21. and Mons GODDARD
landed at abont 20 minutes past ten--baviug been
| up about & hours. Professor Steiner landed at
1920. having been in the air 10 or Is minutes lou
ger than bis Competitor. and having travelled 10
| the six hours and ten 70 nutes about 80 miles.
| Both could have travelled considerably far ther
but neither having Knowledge OF the wberea bouts
OF the other, and not feeling disposed to attempt to
cross the lake into Canadian forest, they descend
| sd, as we have described, aud returned to town
over the Hamilton and Dayton road last evening
| CHANGE OF JuRIsDICrtoN.-The necessary copfr.
nation of the action Of the late Provincial Council
| OF Baltimore, having been received, the Catholic
Parish OF st. Maryr, embracing the City and Conn
ty CT Alexandra, has passed from the Jurisdiction
of the Archbishop OF Baltimore, into the diocese of
! Richmond. which thus includes all Eastern Vfrei.
| mia. The Rt Rev. John McGil, D. D., will there
tore, for the future, exercise the Episcopal suthori
ty over the Catholic Church in Alexandria.
| DEATH OF THE HosTLER PREMIER OF PARMA-Ba.
| ron Ward, the famous Yorkshire groom who left
| England when boy, in the pay OF Prince Lchen-
stein, OF hungary, and became in pid succession,
master OF n0rse, Minister of Finance and eventu-
| ally Prime Minister of Parma. died at Vienna on
| thu 9th inst. Without any educational foundation
/ he contrived to write aud speak German, French
and Italian. and conducted the sfsrs of State with
Considerable claVeTness, if not with remarkable
straghfIrwarduess. Baron Ward was married to
humble person Of Vienba, aud has left four chill
/ dren Perhaps no man of modern times passed a
more varied and romantic life than Ward, the
groom, statesman and friend of soveregns From
tie stable he to the highest ofaes of little
Kingdom, at a pariod of great European political
interest," apd died In retirement, pursuing the rus
tic occupation Of a farmer, carrying with him to
the grave many curious drcdaa imperit.
AMERICAN TRAVEL TO EURorE-SiDce Gen. Cass
became Secretary Of State, ten thousand eight
hundred and seven passports have been issued from
the Department. Each passport is supposed to
cover three of = family an average, making
some thirty thousand persons year. Allow an
expenditure of $1,000 each, and thirty millions q
year would thus be carried out fthe country from
this source only. This estimate represents only q
part OF the travel, and does not include those who
use their old passports, those who 20 to the
British domfnions, 10 which none are required and
get passports there from the American Legation,
as many do
! SUICIDE w. X Cole, a young man about 25 wears
| Old, was robbed OF his money in New York, on the
I'D inst. where he had arrived on his way to Cal.
| iiornia, aud committed suicide the next day by
! taking strychnino, lsudanam and morphine The
deceased was from Kentucky where he had been
a school teacher.
MORE CANELs.-The New Orleans Picayuue of
| Saturday, states that the ship Thomas Watson;
| and the bark Lucerne, the former having eighty
camels board, and the latter forty, have arrived
| of the Southwest pass, and have been ordered to
| Galveston. The camels are imported by the Fede-
fal Government, aud are no doubt intended to Join
those already doing SO we'll At Camp Verde, above
| San Antonio, Texas.
THE SrArRoEDsRIRE (Es6LANDl PofTKRIRs-Staf-