New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-29

PirOne ~ eph5oDg go Id ocDAh Va s""
scoOo 3; Po,,-sr Prince the capital OF the sooVe-
tsmso Yepobbc.
Baron w.sseubrg, the former primste Of the Zee
Of Constance ~ho lied recently, has heqdeatbed his
extensive coll coD OF pictures to the Grant Dnke Of
Baden upoer the con- iron that he saa appropriate
SIS COO for the benefit Of the poor children Of Con-
stance.
The Hon. Alexander II. Rice, Representative from
the iNlD Congressional Dis,rct Of Massachusetts has
app ,iDed FraDk Wides OF Boston to the Naval School
az Arnsy OILS. The young mau has been admitted TO
that I s,i,uioD sc Astirg Midshipmsn.
Mile Polack the prima donna Of the Berlin royal
opera ba. been discharged secouut Of her having
participated in musical festival at CApenhsgen
memor.tive Of the battle Of Idstett, in which dspr-
aging aIlu, ions we're made TO Pfuss and Germany.
The three S Tiss Cantons of schwyts, vi, and
Unierwalden a erssiing monument TO Schiller, on
the 80 called HytheDs'eio or " uyihstons msmora-
bIs in the bi.tory Of William TIL and referred to IN
the German pos,'s drama Of that name.
Nj Leoesu, a prominent member Of the Brussels
ROYAL Academy of Sciences referred in the session OF
haG booy on Sept. g. n the great number OF eminent
men in the Nea-York Medical Society, and proposed
81 active coo JerstiJn y ith that institution
Several thousand Polish Jews have recently passed
through Poem on their way to the Uoited States via
Berlin and Hamburg. The German papers say that
ouch an exodus of the children of rael mas not been
witnessed since thai ont Of Egypt
The gepuipeDess Of the discoveries of R1uic in
scriptons in France by Lsnormabt VII ca have been
ebars cterized by Ja@b Grimm as Important coutriou
tons to ancispr German Archaeology is CALLED into ques-
ZION by Prot Lsutn of Berlin, aud by other achoas
The br ,hers Schlseintwetare now 10 Paris where
they were received wi much distinction On tue
l0h Of August they delivered before the Academy OF
Sciences lecture on their explorations in Asii' Toe
leatDre il in course Of publication by B4rtheemy st.
HIare.
-G0.chep, the GOD of the celebrated LEIPZIG pnb-
Ii Der fas presented the Saxon Government wi
$40 coo for the benefit of the Grim public schO Of
his naive city.
Professor Jskcb Bebkerof Fran kfor on the. Main,
noted for h- labors in archaeology and epgraohy, has
been elected corresponding member of the Institute
di Corresponden=a ArcheolOsica of Rome.
"A new opera by Verdi is founded upon Schilers
tragedy of The Robbers and is to be called =" Tne
Robbers Of Germany"
joe Ro5riquez Seoane, Spanish youth of great
u
died r, Gently at Madid, at the early age of 81
TT eresa PaIscky, the wife of the eminent Slavic
historian, died August IS, al Bodenbach, on her way
home TO Prague from Mia.
Andrea Mustaxdi, friend Of Capodistril, noted
az an eminent Greek aud Italian phlOlogist died in
Vienna July %, 1860.
The albany Knicker5oeker furnishes the following
account of recent balloon Trip by which MIR. Is
Mountain came near losing his life:
Az our others are well aware Pro-. Johu La
Mountain made most magnificent ascension from our
Fair ground on Friday sfe-r1 Don last We now re-
gre 20 say that that splendid sDson terminated 10 o7t
seri us v Mr. La Mountain meeting with an accident
by u'aGs Of which he came near losing his life AT
precisely o clock Friday afternoon last, every
biI being in readiness the ropes of the balloon were
loostned and Prof La Mountain siled of 10 truly ma
iestic ttyle in course due east He arose rapidly
until he reached the upper current when the Ataut
Travelled alOrg at a velocity ceeding one nit min
ute 1t Travelled at this speed for upward Of 80 oes.
! Prof. La houn'an was now over Pttsh-ld, Mass
sLd locked ou for a place 10 land DE discovered a
fine meadow located between two high mountains, ana
De .rmned upon eectDe it thsre. lie acted accord
ingly and the Atlantic descended just mai IS lea ly
BIZ It had aseeDded, afd aghted safe and sound upon
the farm Of Mr. Wood. about six miles from Pits
field. Time from star ting, ~ minutes. Bat he had no
sooner arrived terra ma ard was about to vaca e
his ba-ket than tornado sweeping through the
vale and carried the Atlantic off with it. Here Prof
La Mountain could have landed had he seen it, bat be
rref rTed sieyng with his balloon al all hsZa ards la
few feconds the Atlantic elevated 10 distance OF
| 800 feet Prof. La Mountain possesses rem rkabe
presence of mind ard fully realized his dangerous stu
| alton. When be left here he had about 10 pouads
| Of ballast, which tue car Ell retained. He COM
| menced launching il ont. Up the mountain sOps
| the balloon Travelled at q fearful rae. As il
reached the top it struck the earth and plowed 1t
ID with as much ease as would an earthquake.
| Over the mountain top 1t went. AT this moment
| ,ha I'LL baad he hos
and Prof La Mountain after IT, al speed OF over one
mile minute At this poiut the elements tossed the
balloon about in fearful manner, aud the Professor
says that during the whole Of his experience he Dever
met with an thing threatening He thought that
| Iothrg but instantaneous death awaited hi n. AZ
tin es the basket would be as high the balloon and
both swayiDg To ard fro, and clashng together like al
CRY on the oCe3n. Coward he sped, lntll the
basket was dashed az ,ns a stone wall with tremen-
dous rec by which means Mr. La Mountain received
his injuries BY tine conclusion his left hip, shoulder
and knee were terribly brued, aud also his head.
/ One finer on his left hand wss badly jamned. su
yet, with all these bruises and g4sbes Joq his body,
La Mountain thit ks nothing of them. Carrying away
portion of the sOne W II. the Atlsotic struck sDa
m8gle tree, the top OF which 1t whipped of as though
! it were pip--stem. Some of the branches having
caught in the netting tore it considerably. The bal
loon also suffered from this collision. the aerial sh
NJ Xt encountered a larger maple, aQans which II
casbed brosdside. Here Mr. La Mountain was di.en.
Gsged from biz balloon, but by what means he is ..
| able 10 eXI lain. He was THO IN out and fell 10 the
| ground He lay here for few minutes in partially
lDseusiUe state and rs IA he became really cOQ
sciou of hs predcament be looked after the Atant;
On casting his eye upward be discovered it wrapped
about tree in a collapsed condition. 1t was greatly
| shattered and torn and tia basket broken. Nc. l..
Mountain laid on the grass until help came, when he
was removed 10 the hOuse Of Mr.. Wood whose family
| kindly cared for him. Mr.. Wood and bis then 81
about removing tie balloon. TOTS taken from ia
| Judgment and slso brought down 10 the house"
"A correspondent Of The Manchester Mirror writ
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