The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-07-16

y broke another bottle 70 the bluel sky, glitt
.d ing Ill over with gorgeous heraldry.
!. At twenty-five minntea OF o'clock We pas
h 4 ovor email river, but we're unable to tell v
= it was. no being able to trace its course 70,
= sufdcienS distance. At o'clock 70 found o.
70 selves sailing over dense forest, and bel
r. then quite low, distinctly heard the wind pa
r ing through the tree boughs. sounding i
. very heavy rain. We emerged from the WOO
If u the term ID allowable, and Hoated over seve
Z habltations, which We saluted with our unit
e voices. Only the dogs and the bull-frogs b
4 the kindness to seut up their uncivillixed q
+ Examinations. and in return We dispatched th,
= the lateat intelligence from st, Louis done up
copy Of the Evening News. as affording
! sort OF compromise between our language al
: theirs.
At bali past one We glided over another rive
and, as We thought, canal, and thirty minus
later over railroad track. The river W
doubtless the Wabash aud the railroad the Ne
! Albany and Salem.
Prot. Wise and Mr.. eager had been aslet
since about halt past twelve d'c1Ock aud OF
peared to give the mattel. their u8remitted q
tention. had taken an hour q feae in broke
doses, having been in q dllee1ne whether /
close my eyes on suhlunary Wsh;nae - to kee
visual open ior passing event6. The quandar
was settled BY my comiag. 60 tile conciusio
that, as such trips as the Atlantic was maxim
we're by no means Of every day occuirance, i
would not do 70 miss any Of the Incidents
Ar. Lamountain, who had been very joviall
Inclined during the earlier part Of the night
suddenly became rather indisposed to talk, an
l observed him bowiDg with closed eyes at tn
bottom Of the beat. He had worked with grea
INDUSTRY At verandah Hall in getting the cords
II EA ssnt f,- IL 4 4
taken but little sleep. Morpheus seemed I,
have some claim upon him and was disposed /,
press it. While Mr.. L. was doing, observed
That current Of air was taking Us downward
| and called his attention to it. We had jus
time TO scoup up = couple of handfulls o
ballast apiece and drop them overheard to save
US from collision with clump Of trees which
stood 10 alarming proximity. Such was our
nearness TO the earth at this time that we very
dlstinctlyt heard the sand fall on the ground.
rue balloon, once more freed from portion
OF her freight, darted up again into the air and
vent above the branches without touching,
though the margin was quite small. It was
twenty minutes to three o'clock then. The
goddess Of the dawn was Just leading her
ccnrsers OF daylight to the gate Of the horizon,
unging the east with faint purple glow
Pretty soon another rudy fame lighted up, aud
eat three o'clock could distilgu uish where t1ore
vas line IN my note book, sufficiently TO avoid
making one memorandum directly over another.
Five minutes eapss, and the stars have gone off
.he.r beats-the deeD-mouthed dogs going to
their kelnels. The balloon was nov riding
maJestically through the clear ether. We we're
not high, apparently, yet. house below us
looked the size ot ac0bble stone. Messrs. Wise,
eager and Lamountain were fast asleep and it
desolyed on me to be "scentifc direc-
tor, navigator" and aeronaut, in one. tie
responsibility of which. aatter myself, was not
misplaced, inasmuch as there could have been
"othing for me to 10, except TO wonder how
tar We had travelled, what course ne were taking.
where we we're going and when we would Res
there, duties that performed With astonishing
proficiency, for q novice. Yet wAsnot so
in this philosophical Employment that
could not cbSefve passing events. I noticed
the same combustion OF forests and fields into
regular squares thai had attracted my attention
IN the earlier part of the evening whilst above
Illinois, but the balloon was nearer the earth
now and every object was dressed in an en-
erali hue. A piece OF ice Weighing about three
pounds, which had been placed in the water
bucket, at starting, had melted to the size Of
\ walnut, from which circumstance it will 10
Inferred that the weather had not been intensely
cold.
At twenty five minutes after o'clock we
hoated over village composed Of dozen or so
houses in pretty cluster BY this time all the
party we're awake and lively, and we chatted
and sahg and ate till sunrise, at o'clock and
iiteeen minutes, when we lett on the right Of us
! large town which Mr. LMmountain said was
Fort Wayne, Ind. We could plainly hear the
shouts OF the as onished and delighted nhabi-
ants, and Mr.. eager led off with resounding
md jolly hurrah, gwen by the whole Of US with
! Will. We accordingly lost some breath for
iothing, Tor II is not probable@we were heard. |
We threw oil some papers and bills OF fare at
3arnum's Hotel, which may have alighted with |
O ten miles OF the town. Ii there was but one |
rocked river in the world, no person. going
'ver the Wabash. attached to a balloon would |
lesitate to say that it was it. Prof. Wiz jocu.
arly remarked that fishes would have tiresome |
work navigating that stream MI eager
holghs ID would afford excellent opportunities |
or the display o; science on the part of q |
teersman OF fAt-boAt Mr.. Lamountain as
erted that the steersman aforesaid might i'm
gine II great stream for doms while could
nly make remark, not very funny, that Tho
yabash, like the ..tired" topper, did not pursue
: course on undertaking princi ples-the idea
t which stole from Hood. o.
At twent5-aoyen minutes past o'clock We
'erc sailing q : moderate speed near the for
SITS, in . northern course, the thermometer
angling at "A 2 and the barometer as low as
73 inches. Although the aeronauts were not
leased with this state Of things, they said it was
OF best to throw of any ,ballase. as the suns
ays on the balloon you'd heat the gas and
i've the vessel a new impetus apw ard
here was good philosophy n thai, and pretty
bon we noticed it's vertifcutiOn. At fifteen
linutes after live o'clok the mercury in the
aromcier had risen to twenty live inches,
nowing our altitade. 70 ~ nearly OF mits
0e could then hear the loving OF cows with
lstinctness. In seven minutes more the bar.
meter indcated9t twenty three and half inches,
: as near as could be Appropriated, only three
lches and . half below the medium figure
ssched during the voyage, which was At night,
heMat was too dark to make observations on
'e Instrument. (Our highest alsitude, there
IRE, WneaAbout two miles.
Twelve minutea AFTER five o'clock 70 deserted
! the East what At first appeared s0oe the re-
ection Of the sun on the sky. Ataiast one OF
,c party asserted that we wSre not many miles II
ON lake, and so it was, ae the reader shall
now BY and by. The noble air vessel Maa
lsping along at brisk rate, dragging its sha-
Ow on the ground encrcled IN fantastic colors.
time light silk umbrella marked ~. Geo. Da-
i" had been left in the boat BY some person
. Washington Square. appropriated this, aud
nioldins it had an excellent protection for my.
III md Mr.. eager from the heated, yellow r1ys
hach were pouring in upon us. There Was
cw no doubt that what had at first seemed . II
rilIiAncy Of the EssteeA heavens was nothing II
- than AZ immense body Of water. The aero II
Auts concluded that 1t could only be Lake
re. and they M1es right, for tracing the shore
i'd observing C. little islAade, its contour cor
appended almcA precisely With the mp a
,blimer acene never bf0ee on haman visw.-
AXE Esie, it will be remembereA has . surface
800 square mi:es, and though We couldsnos
ahold the whole Of it, the vie1 lost none Of its
agni6cence from this cause. Its expanse,
nited and bounded only BY the great zone
here it blended with the heavens. seemed an
eTnity Of waters, vast, uneasureless ~ the
ending canopy ifsslf Groupsof shits clouds,
1e great puls from steam pipe, 6Oated Ian
,idly on every side, unfolding der gauze-liks
bes and passing on in eddyine currents. - ,
mere was a collection OF houses huddled to9e-
er where the Manmee rivers pour its tribute
10 the lap OF the lake, and this was Toledo;
ID there in that great bend, dotted with specks
Land, Perry gained his victory In 1919. III
Seven o'clock saw the gallant Atlantic parting
mDany With the ehOre little North Of Port | I