New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-06

copta ed COO pounds a ballast, one bucket OF wa'e'
one pucket CT lemonade with abundance OF nresn
cod wine, poultry and ssndwehes, beside deicsc'es
too pumerous to cnumerate furpshed by knd rien1s.
Mountain took command Of the bost ard last,
srA took his place on ore end; Mr. "ager TOOK hs
ether end .nd took charge Of the charts AMI compne
Mr. Hyse, local editor Of The Sc Loais Republican,
took is seat in the middle with note book and pencil
a. tfstorian. Although Mr.. Hyda was nyt in the
o,if insl programme, unaniInsasly sgr~ed TO let
rim accompany us, provided it you'll no. interfere
with our ultimate design snd 81 it ~as arranged that,
under any circumstances, wien the talloon should
fall the boat With is uccupsts should oe disposed Of
and myself or Mr.. La Mountain shds,i proceed With
the voyage alone.
TIE oasfet contained 40 pounds Of banast, bar
ourter, wet and dry tulb, thermometer, besides
quansiiy Of W nes AID provisi,ns; and took my
ttace IN the bstket and charge Of the valve rope
end a,difector of the general plan Of the voyage by
the mous corsent Of thu party engaged 10 fn's
long devised enterprise. mast say here that Mr. La
Mountain took IN charge part Of the programme,
that none but cool head and most accomplished
stror ant could be trusted with and especially ID
niebt-ssilipg. At 7.20 p M, we set sail from tn
Washington Square Of ,St. Louis, and our course
starting was north Of est. When We got up and owe
The Mississippi andwei, under way, we cav Mr. Brooke
land in clear place, about sunset.
At 830 p. m, the shades of the evening shut rom
our view the noble city Of ST. Louis and the fsher ct
waters though it continued light until after g. Mr.
La Mountain having suffered from sickness On
Thursday ard being too unwe TO work hard under
burning sun at the imitation, left much hard labor for
me ct that work. / submitted the whole thing to his
charge for the night with the understanding to have
me walked whenever he wan;ed the valve worked.
and he took il with alacrty. Before went to sleep
we had mounted to hight at which the balloon had
become completely d-tended, and where we found the
current due east Here it became chilly, and Mr.. La
Mountain as well all of us, suffered from the change
of air; and with all the clothing could put on us 1t
was still uncomfortable though the Thermometer stood
at 40 and the barometer at 2 and this was the lowest
OF both the Instruments during the whole voyage, eA-
cept the crossing of Lake Ontario.
Mr.. La Mountain proposed to take the lower current
az long il would take but few points north OF
east and told him TO do he deemed best, and report
his reck onng in the morning. After bidding the party
III the boat good night and God speed coled myself
up in blankets, laid down as best could and in
few mements was sound asleep, and knew of nothing
but repose until II 80 pm.
AT this time Mr. La Mountain again mounted for the
upper-eureDt; being deslr0us OF making little more
eating, he hailed me to open the valve, as the balloon
had become tense and the gas rushing from the
neck with noise, but finding no answer from me, ne
suspected that was being smothered in the gas and he
adIDoDished Mr. eager to mount TO my car by rope
provided for that purpose, and Mr.; eager found me
breathing spasmodlcally, but good shaking and the
removal OF the neck Of the balloon from my lace, WITH
plenty Ofpure cold air around me- soon brought me back
to knowledge of what going on, and resolved to
sleepno more during the night.
Al midnight felt quite well, with an invigorated
spnt Of observation and interest in our experiment.
The whole dome Of heaven was lit up with a mellow
phosphorescent light the stars shOne with crystalline
brliaDcy, and the milky way 10 ked like an illnmin.
hon aanA
water the heaven-lt dome visible below by re-
Election as above So remarkable was this phospho-
rescent light Of the atmosphere that the balloon looked
translucent and looked like light shining through oiled
paper. We could also tell prairie from forest and by
keeping the eye for moment downward we could see
the roads, fences fields and even houses quite distinct
D at any elevation not over mile, and even at the
greatest elevation could discern prairie from wood
land, and from water.
Whenever we halloed it was followed by distinct
ecbo and this served difierehtial index to
hight. We always found q response IN numerous bow
w.wows, and these, too, always indicative OF
the fulDess and sparseness of the habtaOns below a.
we could hear them for many miles around us. Mr.
La Mountain remarked that nobody lived IN that coun
Try but dogs, or ese the people baIked like dogs ne
having cot te ont of humOr, because nobody wonld
tell him in what State sailing and ne gave up
the inquiry, with the remark that must be over some
other country than America, as we had been moving
along at a rapid pace.
At3 a. M, Saturday, we came to q feneral concu-
sion that we somewhere the State OF Ihdiana
or Ohio At a. m, We passed city, but coulf not
make il out, but at a. m, we discovered Lake Enc
ahead Of u.s. and then concluded that the city we LETT
little south of our track must have been Fort Wayne.
At a. No., passed Toledo, and about an hour after
ward we lowered the margin of the lake little
north of Sandusky. After few moments consultation,
ard review of our ballast we determined to rsk the
length Of Lake Erie, and to test the notion that bal
looms cannot be kept up long over water, because OF
some peculiar affinity of the two-a notion that never
hsd any belief with me. just a. we merged upon The
lake, little steam that propelhng up arver
or bay headed for our track and some aboard of
her very quantity cried aloud to u.s. That is the Lake
shead of You" MIR. La Mountain cried back, " Is II
Lake Erie - and the answer was, "Yes, 1t Is, and
You had better look out Our good friend, the prope
ltr finding that we discarded his kindness rounded off
again, sonpded good bye with his steam whistle
and went his way up the nver.
Here We mounted up until the balloon got full, and
the barometer fell to % in order to make along near
the southern shore Ct the lake but at Mr. La Noun
tans suggestion that we could make the City of Bu
fao by sailing but few hundred feet above the sur
face OF the water opened the valve untlwe gradually
sank TO within 500 feet of the water. Here found
gentle gale Of about speed of mile per minute, and
resolved 10 float on il until we should heave in
sight Of Buffalo, and then rise and sail over 1t. This
most interesting part of our voyage. We over
took seven steamboats,, passed mutual salutaons, ana
would leave them fitting on the horizon in
rear One of these lonely travellers remarked a. we
passed him. lyon are going it like thunder At 1920
a. III. were skirtiDg along the Canada shore and
passed the mouth Of the Welland Canal, and
began to mount for our easterly current TO
take Buffalo in our track but We cclei up into be-
tween Buffalo and Niagara Falls, crossing Grand
Island, leaving Buffalo TO the right and LockpOrt TO
the left of Us in onward course Finding ourselves
in the State of NewYo:k but too far north to make
the City of New-lork, il was agreed that would
make lending Rochester detach the boat, leave
out Mr.. Eager ard Mr. HYDE and Mr.. La Mountain
and myself pursue the voyage to point at Boston or
Portland. Accordingly we descended gradually but
cot wit n off tha