New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-24
ETTlE SAMCARY LAST SEEN STRUGGLING
m THE WATER.
cEsEGHAN FALLS THROUGH The ROOF OF
A sCHCOLHOUSE.
Governor Tilden Holds an Inquest
and Delivers an Grafton.

Ahopt eight o'clock on Tuesday, the
tvelEta instant, the inhabitants of lock
sterion On the canal few miles above
Albany. New York. were alarmed at hear
ing loud defamation in the west which
barred the glass IN the windows. Very soon
they saw an object approach rapidly upon a
diagonal slope which soon brought it in col
iision with the earth. A few successive
bounds of the balloon whipped ont all its
contents, when it dashed off to the south
east apparently much relieved. 1t was sub
sequently found in Wall street utterly de-
moralized, as was natural.
Bns it SO happened that at the mome ut of
it's iali, near Albany, the Hon. Sam Tilden,
being on visit to friend, was taking a
walk along the tOwpath, meditating on the
damage which Lord and other faithless
Democrats occasioned him, when the terri
BILE Intelligence reached him that several
human beings had been hurled from the
collapsed balloon.
What was the shock experienced by Mr.
Tilden when he found in the demolished
form which lay before him his old friend
William Allen, of Ohio. whom he had
known SO well during the war against the
United States Bank. He could, however,
never have identified him but for the manu-
script, almost moist from his pen, which
was found with the body.
Mr.. Samuel Tilden OF course rendered
this misguided balloonatic the last honors
of eoroners inquest anu funeral Grafton.
1t was found that Hon. William Allen, late
of Ohio, had come TO destruction by depart
ing from established principles of Demo-
cratic aerostatics and initiating an unbal-
lasted balloon to the point of explosion.
The verdict was simple-Bal-loonacy. We
regret extremely that We can not give the
GRAFTON of Mr.. Tilden. 1t commented on
Che errors and ambition of the defunct vii.
liam, but trusted it would be a warning to
all who dissented from the orthodox faith
of the Democratic ballasters to abandon
the heresy and return to the true belief.
He stood ready to receive, bless and pardon
all who would recant and repent-before
the State election. The remains of William
Allen were then embalmed and placed in
metallic coffin. To this, we are panied to
learn, certain inhationists objected-just as
dead play actors, Masons, or priests who
have joined the Odd Fellows, are sometimes
kept in the ante-chambers of the tomb, to
make them behave better in future.
In the absence of the Grafton, however,
we are able to give the earliest authentic
copy OF
The NARRATIVE AND DIARY OF HON. VIII
LIAM ALLEN.
1, William Allen, a citizen of Ohio, being
about to hazard an ascension, the result of
which is uncertain, and having been re-
preached by some of my friends with undue
temerity and ambition in so doing, deem it
duty to prepare for the public or for pos
terity, as the issue may determine, a vindl-
cation of my perfect sanity and sincerity in
entering upon the enterprise which now
contemplate.
From my earliest life have been re-
garded as prudent and rather wary man.
Proposed entire confidence in ready money
and rarely left anything at the risk of debt.
Liabilities for others entirely avoided. 1t
that first bestowed much thought upon a
theory which led to my present intention.
This science may be called financial aerol-
ogy. 1t is SO abstruse and novel that shall
subsequently refer to another more compe-
tent than myself to elucidate it.
1t has been thrown up to me that have
departed from earlier convictions. 1t is |
true; but with increasing years must come
large experience, and am no more deserv- |
ing censure than those who take the steam |
car when they formerly used the stage
coach. will, however, do justice to Pro
fessors Andrew jackson and Thomas H. |
Benton. Their object was only to avail |
themselves of aerology for the rapid and |
safe transportation of values from place To- |
place. These Anticipated savaus took no
risks. They used q heavy ballast usually |
of bullion. To cast this overheard would !
have been too expensive, and might have
injured the people, whom these professors
held in great regard. They feared the ex-
hilarating effect of extreme imitation. Still
must say that still regard it system of |
safe and practical usefulness, though alto |
xether unworthy the progress of the pres
emit day. 1t was . system of safe and |
straight transit between given points, and |
they no more thought of rising above the at |
mospheric stratum of their direct voyage |
than the captain Of an ocean steamer plying
between California and Japan would think
OF exploring Australia or doubling Cape
Horn on hispassage Indeed, I witnessed one