The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-10-14

was fearth IN the line, being tssn *
great unsculUt strength as we'll a. presence
uf mind, had suddenly thrust his pole iuto
Tho firm suow beneath which crftainlv
checked the force Of his fall The two
gridcs Julien ncveroux aud Joseph Marie
Coutot soon appeared. II was long before
we could convince ourselves that the others
were last hope, and We exhausted our
selves irutlcsslv for some time in fathom.
ing the loose snow with our poles. We
vcnturCd in the crcvassc, on the snow
which had fallen therein. Happily it, did
not give way beneath our weight Here
We ccnt!aucd Ubcyc quarter OF an hour 10
make every cNcrtlon for the recovery Of
cur poor comrales After thiusting tho
poles in to their full length, we knclt down
and applied our mouths TO the end, shouting
along Their, and then listening for an an.
swer, in the fond hope that they might be
still alive, sheltered by souc projection of
the icy walls of the crcvasse, but, alas all
was silent ~ the grarc"
The calql1ity, Of cCtgrso. resulted in the
abandonment of Dir. Hamcls enterprise, aud
served Tor timo as u check To- othef AT
| tompts 20 reach the summit Of Mont Blanc
! The scene, in ChNmoupx. among the friends
OF tie les. men, on the return CT the survi
vors of the party, was most distressing
few yeats after, some scientific men Of
Geneva, who had carefully studied the sub
ject of the movement CT tho glaciers, pre-.
dicted that in forty.two years the bodies Of
the lost guides would rc-appcar; and with
almost astronomical precision the calcula-
ton proved true, fer about fifteen months
ago--lnst tOrty.two years after the disaatcr
--an arm and other fragments OF human
body, recognized as having once belonged
to Pierre Balmat were piectcd ty the re.
morseiul glacier, and were buried at Cha.
mounix, with due religious ceremony.
Last week, further portions of the same body
"a thigh, another arm and hand wcro
found, all in state of preservation, as faI
as flesh aud bone Yer6 c0ncerned--were
discovered and inferred in the same grave
with the previously found fragments,
CONDITION OF THE REMAINS.
y :hus proved that the glaciers are slowly
rcctoring &c .l;o surface CT tho earth tho
remains Of those unfortunate men lost in
their crerasscs In the case of the st. Bcr-
nard pilgrim, whose body was preserved
entire in its coffin of ice, the restitution was
complete; but in the cese of the guidea CT
DR.. liamrl, the cruel glacier had Vnutilatcd
and discovered it's victims. A horrible am
putation has been going on for years be-
workings of the sharp knives of ice have
cut away limb after limb, the monarch Of
mountains thus torturing, as it were, by
meana Of its icy myrmidons, the lifelcss
forms OF those who dared to scale his maies-
tic summit
Yet during all these years OF slow and
cruel mutilntion the human flesh which sur
rounded thy fragments OF the body has re.
manned entire and undecayed and further
rostitu,!ons are expected, Last Sunday
Frederic Balmat, descendant Of Pierre,
and, like all the family, q Mont Blanc guide,
found in crcvassc shirt sleeve, but the
arm which it once protected being 8 thick
er and larger substance, will, it is predicted.
not be recovered for two or three years yet
THE MtMMIEs OF MONT BLANC.
Perhaps nohumon being can tell the nun.
Der, whether large or small, of those human
beings who, dead yet undecayed,,, T., are now
under the mighty glaciers of the Mont Blanc
chain. A vilIager or hunter falls into n
crevasse; years roll by and he is forgotten,
yet, perhaps half century afterwards, the
glacier, in orc Ct Natures hours ofrcmorse,
will yield up the forgotten man.
THE AsCryrs Ct MONT rLANc.
But The terrors which invest Mont RlanG
arc viewed lightly enough BY modern tour.
lists, for no less than tltrty-cight successful
ascensions TO the very summit have been
made this year by thirty out of the nine thou-
sand visitors to the Champrnix' since April
last. Two ladies have been among these
Mountain-Climbers, aud each asceut has cost
at least one hundred dollars Indeed, all
things considered, it is rather 70 be regretted
that Byron could not have ic,esedn this
Cockney dcsecration and have placed tho
scene Of his Manfred among ne iracces.
sible Andes or llimalayas for it does seem
little ont of place for the "Mountan
spirit to alludc to popular resort of Eng
lish picnic tourists in such sonorous strains
rs these
Mont ,Blhn3 is the Monarch Of Mountains,
,,We'vo crowned him long ago,
On throne of rocks, with a robe Of clouds
And diadem of snow,
Around his waist are forests L.a.et,
The avalanche IN his hand;
B..t ere it fall, that laundering ball
Must pause for my command.
The glaciers cold aud restless viags
Moves onward day by day,
But am he who bids it pass
Or with its ice delay.
| Am the spirit Of the place
Can make that r.ouutu;n bow,
And qCivcr TO its cayerncd base
And what with me wouldst thou :"
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