The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-22


2 ENJOYING perfect health; all who are tired I
= paying taxes: and everybody else, in fact,
J. procure copy Of this little pamphlet from Eli
Y opposite the Post Office, and then flee to thi
t Isle OF the Blest.
TRAVELLING ON The OCEAN BED.
, WONDERFUL AND DARING FEAT BY AN AMERICA
Col. Forney, in q letter from London to tn
Philadelphia Press, gives the following &C
count of the marvellous adventures of Cit
zen of Philadelphia
A few days afterwards met Pennsyl
vanian, not quite so renowned as the Aus
trian Lieutenant, but in another sphere ever
more of curiosity in London. refer to 6
resident OF Philadelphia, Capt. Paul Boyton
of the New Jersey Lite Guard at Atlantic
City. now here after his extraordinary feat in
throwing himself into the ocean, from the
National steamship Queen, on the stormy
night Of October 81, seven miles off Fastnett
Rock, on the Irish rock-bound coast.
He began his experiment east of Baltimore,
where the cliffs are $50 feet high and more,
and, after being seven hours in the water.
swimming over forty miles, he finally guided
himself, in the midst of the tempest, into
one of the assures on that terrible shore
He was clad in life-saving apparatus recently
invented by another American, Mr.. Merriman,
and aided by his great skill as swimmer and
diver, his cool courage and strong constitu-
ton, performed feat which, when the news
reached London, was regarded as hoax, and
generally commented upon as On another evil
dence of American exsggeration.
Va, l,o~,n l. L =
to get passage on several of the outgoing
American steamers from New York in vain,
because the captains knew tat he would at
tempt to leap from the ship to prove the
American apparatus of Mr.. Merriman, and
how, finally, he obtained a berth on the Ma
tional steamer, the "Queen," and vas pre-
vented only by main force from jumping over
board when 800 miles from New York,
and how at length, at 8 o'clock on Tuesday
evening, October 81, off the Irish coast,
he persuaded the captain to put him down
the side, and all alone, in dark,
tempest1ous night, clothed in his
fated air-chambers, with food for three
days, a compass, bulls eye lantern, some
books, several signal rockets, an American
flag, with number of letters belonging to
tie passengers in his inside pocket, with his
bowie-knife and axe at his side, he grasped
his paddle, and amid the cheers of the crew
and company entered upon his awful Journey
Every soul on board believed that wal the last
Of the brave fellow. wish you could hear
him tell the story of his condition after being
tossed on these mountainous seas for seven
long hours; how he was cast into the rocky
fissure on the Irish coast; how in the dark
night he scaled the almost perpendicular cliffs,
and mounting the top fired off his signal
rockets for the relief that never came
how he descended the dangerous declivity,
stripped off his preserver, and walked,
bruised and battered, until he came to little
Irish town, the barefooted inhabitants of which
him pretty much as the Indians be-
held Columbus, or Robinson Crusoe's man
Friday" started at the sight of the ship
wrecked sailor; how, at last, he got to Skib- |
bareen, where he posted the letters entrusted
to him by the passengers of the Queen, who |
had all given him up for lost and were aston
ished when he telegraphed them to Cork that |
be had arrived, and would soon be among
them. "While the houses were being shaken
and roofs being blown off in London, says
the Daily Ne,rs Of October %. "this bold mari
ner was alone on the stormy sea, encased in
his magic dress, carried up and down the
alternate hills and valleys Of the ocean"
His passage through Ireland was some
hing more than triumph; the "man-fish, "
Is he is called, became an object of wild
curiosity and admiration. Crowds followed
'fter him, and when he got to Cork he was
welcomed at the theater by the company sing
ng the "Star-spangled Banner" and on the
18th of October exhibited himself in the har-
Der near Queenstown for more than an hour
&c proved at once the efficiency of his life
av'ng suit and his own daring courage. He
ired off rockets, burnt signal lights, ate and
frank, knocked the neck of bottle of lemon
de, hoisted his flag twined round with the Irish
,reen, and excited a bcwildering enthusiasm
Repeating these experiments on several other
he performed some extraordinary
eats in the city vf Dublin, and on the 9TH of
November, in the theaters, Geological Gar
len, in the river Liffey, and here, as every
where he attracted an immense concourse.
The same scene took place in the harbor of
Aingstown, and have just been looking over ,
many columns in the Irish newspapers of +.
upon his various performances, I,
I'LL of incident and amusement
Capt. Boyton has been in London about ,
'eek, and will soon display his prowess and .
rove his invention at Brighton, the English !.
,ondon by the sea, now in full blaze of fash ;
IN and frolic. But he is reserving himself :
n the most dangerous and daring achieve /,
lent Of his life, viz that of crossing the :.
hannel from Dover to Calais. To use his !
wn words to me: II will do it if it costs me
~ life, and when land will telegraph you
hese words: Il haze Just planted the CONT !
ensdl flag on the soil Of France. IL
The impression in the North and West is,
'om the tone of the papers there, that should I
he Returning Board defraud the people out J
the election, "they will have to pay the I
enalty of their crimes with their lives" ..
'pon this question we find the following in
he Chicago Times: S
The situation in New Orleansis unchanged :
he Returning Board has not yet made its I
eport. and of course the citizens will take no
ecisive steps until they can ascertain the full {
xtent Of the indignities heaped upon them. /,