The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-10-03
THE LOST BALLOONISTS-LA MOUNTAIN

AND HADD0CK.
The latest news we have concerning the missing
balloonists, is the following
"WATERTowN, N. Y, Sept. 30.-Professor La
Mountains balloon has been seen at Harrisville,
Lewis county, passing over the New York wilder
ness, going due east, at great elevation. re-
ward of 81 900 has been offered for the discovery of
the bodies alive, and $500 if dead. party will go
to the woods tomorrow to institute search"
This ascension was made at Watertown, on the
23d of September. La Mountain was accompanied
by MIR. John A. Haddock, editor of the W atertown
Reformer The balloon inflated to the full with
hydrogen gas, and had strong ascensive power so
that large quantity of ballast was taken up
enough to have lasted for trip across the CONT
nent, and more than was used in the voyage from
st. Louis to Henderson. But for the engagement
at Kingston, and another rapidly following in New
\ ork, it might be supposed that MIR. La Mountain
anxious always to demonstrate his favorite theory
had concluded to continue his voyage away to the
coasts of Nova Scotia, for that matter and it may
be he has done so. On the other hand in the case
OF an early descent in the almost interminable
North Woods, or the forests of Lower Canada there
are thousand circumstances under which it would
be possible for the parties to become entanged lose
themselves, and be kept, perhaps for several weeks
from reaching any point where they could readily
ly communicate with u.s.
The Watertown Reformer, Mr.. Haddocks paper
of September 18th, comedies the probability of
the loss of the parties, and speculates to their
destiny:
"The ascension was made on the 29d Instant
After reacllng Il lew hundred Ieet IL passed OIL to
the northeast, and in about twenty minutes was
| out of sight. 1t was to pass Philadelphia
IN. Y.,) eighteen miles distant, fifteen minutes
after its departure. The last that has been heard
OF it, was its passage the town of Fowler St.
Lawrence county, thirty miles distant, when it
seemed to be moving at rapid rate in the di-
rection as before. 1t was supposed that they would
come down before dark. They were well clad, and
could not suffer from cold. That they had but
small quantity of provisions, say three pounds but
that at this season of the year they would not find
it very difficult to obtain the means of sustaining
life. They had from two hundred and fifty to three
hundred pounds ballast, which would enable them
if they struck the Gulf of st. Lawrence, to cross
that body of water, and possibly to cross the ocean
if their course lay in that direction"
Mr.. A. ]. Morrison left Troy, on Thursday, for
Watertown, with the intention of placing himself
at the head of party there, and starting for the
North Woods, in search of the balloonist and his
companion, Haddock.
The Rome Sentinel, of Wednesday, mentions a re-
port, which it, however, discredits:
ga rumor current in our village, yesterday
| afternoon, brought here by the Watertown train
due here at 240 p. NJ. to the effect that it was re-
ported in Watertown that letter had been picked
up in Canada, (near Bytown, we believe,l purport-
ing to have been written by La Mountain, stating
that Haddock Zone of the balloonists,) insane,
and that the rope was tangled up that the valve
could not be opened to let out the gas so as to al
low the balloon to come down."