Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-10-21
Erial Navigation.

The New York Herald publishes the following:
I'VE have this week the pleasure to record the sue
Of the most extraordinary invention Of the
if not the most so of any that the world ever saw
at least the greatest stride in invention made
by single individual.
In October last DR.. Solomon Andrews, Of Perth
Anboy, n. j., commenced the construction of war
sponsiblity, not being able, after submitting his
plans to the War Department, to make the honora:
BILE Secretary of War. "see the utility" of ma
chine which would 60 over into secesh and recon-
noitre the force and position Of the enemy. His
plans showed On the face Of them, to any one not
stupid, that the machine could not do otherwise
than go ahead in any direction in which the bow
was pointed, and that too, with any amount of
power or force which might be desired, and which
greenbacks would readily procure. The power
quired and the propelng apparatus added but little
weight to the aerostat, whether of large or small d.
mersions; consequently it did not increase the d.
mansions of the arostat beyond that of balloons of
ordinary construction, much less in size than may
that are now made. The machine made BY Mr.
Andrews would carry ut three men. in addition 20
all the fixtures and paraphernalia for its forward
movement. 1t contained &c. 900 cubic feet of hydro
gen gas. It carried him, weighing l72 pounds, and
25G pounds of ballast
Upon his invitation last spring we have sent our
reporters at three different times to witness his ex-
pcriments with his machine, and have watched its
progress with great interest sri.
Its form was that of three cigars pointed at both
ends, secured together at their longitudinal equa-
tors, covered by net, and supported by one hun
dred and twenty cords, car sixteen feet below un-
der its centre. =.
The car was twelve feet long, made of basket
work, and was sixteen inches wide at the bottom
The. aerosat cylindroids were made of vanished
linen, like ordinary balloons
On Friday, the 4th instant, he made his last ex.
pertinent, and demonstrated to an admiring crowd
the possibility Of going. against the wind, and Of
guiding her in any and every direction with small
rudder having only seventeen square feet of surface
He made no long flight in one straight line, lest his
modus operandi should be divulged; but by a most
ingenious plan demonstrated her capabilities beyond
all possibility of doubt whilst he prevented q pub
lie knowledge of his method of propellng
After few short flights, to satisfy himself and a
few friends that all was right, and that she would
do all he had contemplated he set her off in spiral
course upward, she going at rate of not less than
one hundred and twenty miles per hour, and de.
scribg circles in the air of not more than one and
half miles in circumference. She made twenty
revolutions before she entered the upper of
clouds and was lost to view. She passed through
the first strata of dense white clouds, about two
miles high, scattering them as she entered, in all
directions In her upward fight could be distinct.
~ seen her rapid movement in a contrary direction
to the moving clouds, and as she came before the
wind, passing by them with great CELEBRITY. As she
was distinctly seen thus to move both below and
above the clouds on the clear blue sky, at s o'clock
Z. D., with the sun shining clear upon her. there
could be no mistake or optical deusiou to the be-