, 1860-04-25
THE BALLOON ASCENSION.
Narrative Of Prof. yEIse---Perilous De-
acents..The Balloon In the yTnter--.
Narrow Escape from Drowning.

From the y. i. Hesald. list 1r..l
When say this Isl precarious world, ought
to add that my nrial trip from Palace Garden
on Thursday afternoon became more interest
lug than had anticipated. The first rems1ka-
ble feature ofthe affair occurred wheu height
Of several thousand feet Was attained. AL Of q
sudden, as it we're, my ears were greeted with
the most unearihly noises that could be i'm
Agined. It seemed as though all the Calathump-
ian bands Of the United States were in grand
concert below, assisted By the strongest powers
Of Pandemonlum, intetlarded With artillery
from thousand big gurs, and garnished with
all the shrieks Of Internal population, according
to the birthstone theory Of TINT place. must
use strong language to conrey a faint idea Of
this horrible discoFd. did insoluniarily ejacu.
late, Is he'll beneath Ell" and my hair bristled
up with astonishment- Why this remarkable
hideousness Was observable On this occasion.
more than any previous one, cannot divine,
unless it was the southeast breeze beneath me,
which came fteighted with the city clangor be-
tween that point and the Battery.
Ash rose, the din and discord melted gradu-
ally into cadenccs Of melodions intonations, and
the mind, sympathlzlng with the sounds, was
tuned to sweetest harmony. Such are some OF
th= peculia-ities Of balloon voyages.
Ny main object in the trip WIS to make an
effort at local current selling. 1t WAS quite
practicable to sail orer New Jersey, or up Maa-
hattaa Island, or over Long Island. After sail.
ing afow minutes in the southeast b1eeze,:l went
| northwaEd straight over the length Of Randall 3
| Island. There rose higher and struck = breeze
from the west, and made for Flushing; there !
| descended, with the Intention OF landing ut
| Whitestone, on Long Island The southeast
| wind was strong 4. the surface Of the earth, but
did not extend IN height over thousand teet.
In coming down that thousand feet the balloon
| made three miles IN tive minutes, and strucs
the ground near Bininsers cottage mansion
eut the grapnel, striking into grave! walk
| fnRt In
cues!on the balloon eareened SO much q;
70 1li1 OUT OF tne car q sandbag. was
on the ground IN front Of tue cottage long
enough to hare man run up to lie anc
clap hls hand upon the csr; but Us soon as the
ua1ymeae recovered her perpendicular, snt
made pound over the cottage, swinging t1t
tlappe! lnto toe caves ot me foot ont tue pa1
totn ns'ng stronger than the part where 1 th'
nook 1ook euect, sometnlng EaEe way. IN
t seapnei next LOOK enect n PIG tree oes"eei
the eottaee ana me oouhu, pnt tne seeono squai
tnat st1uek her sent her reehng on the oeaco
Win me slae Of inc naske1, or rather tne IN
o1 Tue "lckef"ork' cut through py inc aneno
rope.
Here Tery interesting 1rostat1c expe11neh
occurred The balloon beng nicely poised II
me atmosphere. was Kept W the feooun'
swinging to and ITO II md a1r oet.een ta
water and lana. 4 guy'Tope was trailing o.
thc beach, within the reach OF nun stanoin'
there, with eyes and mouth wide open VIII
"oaoefnent; but IN another moment my CO
"as on the ocean wave. Ihe nun cried out II
most melancholy tone, ~. my Goa, nos
you're ~ the "ater; l answered: es, sfi
am ducsed, nut II! Get oref this little sea-
thonght TO my sell, choose Tue water 70 tue MI
ior this reason: my grapnel i lost. aod no",
take the alr and sall over to Manhattan lsland
the strong southeast breeze will dash me int
tnc tal! trees and damage the balloon; while,
taSs to the water and drag the car through 4
shall hare time, before reach the other sid
o. Jordan-whlch was m'le OIL d'sTorg
tne gas and render the GanEmede contro'la6l
without m anchor l passed tue stern OF
snip, but 1t TOOK no notice Of me, nnd SCENE
TO AurFy out OF my way The squalls now an