Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-16
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ment he responded all right osanding on the side
of the boat With shaft aud wheels intended FOR
the working of the fan wheels, and ready to heavs
il should it be Necessary. frli 7uassj sea
Mr.. Hyde looked up to my car and very coemn-
y said, "This Is an exciting time professor What
shall we do 7" Trust to Providence and olt our
energies" said I. We were then runniug on to
Lake Ontario, and oh how terribly IL WAS foam
ing, moaning and bowling l said, "La Mountain,
l have $50 pounds Of ballast in my car vat, and
heavy valise and express bag sen. by the .he u,
S. Express Company, and lot Of .proyisions
Well, if that won't do, will cut up the boat for
ballast, and we can keep above water until we
reach the Opposite Shore" which was near d hun.
dred miles Oh, IN the direction we were going.
Here handed my ballast down TO La Mountaip
as we we're rapidly mounting above the terfi6o
gale, believing by that course we should at least
get out of the main track. Ever ytbing now indi-
Gated that we ehobld pefish IL ihs walore CT
on land, and our only salvation was to keep afoat
until we got out Of the gale if we could / said,
you must all get into the basket If you wantto be
saved, should we ever reach land-and L truly 4ell
you, the perils of the land DIRE even more terrible
than those of the water with our machines, nnd i.
would be easier to meet death by drowning than to
have our bodies mangled by dashiog against rocks
and trees" '.''''.'i %
By this time Mr.. eager and Mr. Hyde had
clambered into the basket with me. Mr.. Hyde
said. verv cooy az am prepared to die, Jut |
would rather die on land than in the water. |
said, "What do you say, Mr. eager :" lie replied.
II would rather meet it on land, but do as you
think BEST" Mr.. La Mountain was busily engag-
ed in collecting what he could for ballast Every
thing was now valuable to US that had weight
Oar carpet bags, our instruments, the express; Bas
our provisions, we're all ready to 60, and 90 they
did, one after another, urtil we were reduced to
the express bag that went overheard last. 'o's
| We deserted the shore, some forty miles ahead
peerng between a sombre bank of clouds and the
water horizon, but We were sweeping at a fearful
rate upon the turbulent water and in another mo-
ment crash went the boat upon the water, sideways
staving in two of the planks and giving our whole
craft two fearful jerks, by two succeeding waves.
La Mountain stuck to the boat like hero, but lost
his hat and got dash Of the waves, but soon re-
covered, and threw over thp express bag and thS
last remaining ballast and cried out, ''Be easy,
gentlemen, III have her affoat once more'' In q
, moment we were up . few hundred feet again, and
the steam propeller Young Amstlca was taskng
across our track. '-F Yea '-''A
4 now proposed to swamp the boat ahd balloon
i in the lake and trust to being picked up by ths
Young America but the desire was We should
make the shore and Iy the land. and as we crossed
the bow Of the steamer they gave US hearty hur-
rah. La Mountain had now cut out Of the boat all
he could, and We were within fifteen miles Of the
shore, the gale still raging below. La Moahtain
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ed out at first touching earth-and saw no imprc-
priety in that as then might have had another
hour or two to wait the lulling of the gale bot he
said be would share our fate, and he also Chamber
ed into the basket just as We were reaching the
land. "f D." esa915
saw by the swaying to and fro Of the lofty frees
into which we must ievitably dash, thai our worst
perils were at hand but still had blind hone
that would be saved. ordered two mon on
the valve rope, and we struck within q hundred
yards of the water among some scattered trees, our
hook which was Of inch and quarter iron. breas,
ing like pipe stem at the first eetch OF ii in a
tree and We bufling through tree tops at fearful
rate. After dashins along this way for nearly
mile, crashing and treaking down trees. we werc
dashed most fearfully INFO the boughs Of a tall elm.
so that the basket swung under and up
through the crotch Of the limb while the boat had
caught in of the other branches. This
brought us too little, but in another moment the
Atlantic pufed up her huge proportions; ana d.
one swoop away went the limb, basket and Boat
into the cir a hundred feet, and was afraid some
Of the crew impaled upon the scrags This
limb was about eight inches thick at the butt aud
full of branches, not weighing less than 600 or 800
pounds. 7a+
1t proved too much for the Atlantic, and it
brought her suddenly down upon the top of avery
tall tree and collapsed her. 1t fearful plunge
but it left US dangling between heaven and earth
in the moot sorrowful looking plight Of machine
~ that can be imagined None of US were Sc
riously injured, the many cords, the strong hoops
made of wood and iron, and the cless wicker work
basket saving us from harm as long as the ma
chinery hung together, and that could not have
lasted two minutes longer. .t fi % l.ggao
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The DAvrSpoRr Boys ARRESTED roR JueoLEaY.
The Davenport Boys. whose Spiritual. exploits
have rendered them notorious, we're arrested last
1 week in Phoenix, Oswego county, N. w. a
charge of exhibiting juggery without d license
They we're tried before justice there, con vIcted
and fined ten dollars and costs Ybe friends ar