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i PUBLISHED EVERY T3EpE>MB TWO PER ANWXIM IN ADYAyCS.
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Sailroads.
>GH. ft. WAYNE AND
railway.-Onand after May
;w\. l;ave stations as follows:
GN- GOING WEST.
SX P D 3. MAIL. EXFB B» SXPB S
i I > 4*>am n.oOxM 9.10 am 1.30 pm
. ~' 52 7 10.25 2.40
' 517 1100 I.lopm 5.28
! o"1 LOOIM 3.07 1 7.06
i Vv, 3.10 5.09 : 9.11
. g.’aj 4.00 , 5.40 I 9.40
; >i 40 5.55 am 6.00 9,50
7.40 I 7.55 . 11.15
11 ’1 9.UO 9.15 12.1 iAM
j‘o 40 11.50 12.02 AM 2.45
'4 45 2.35 pm 2.55 5.05
j, t'.'s 6.50 , 6.50 3.20 pm
\INb GOING BAST. ”
MAIL EXPB'S. EXPB’S., EXPB'S.
iT'Hm ''.2oam 5.30 PM; 9.20 PM
I i)'*s 12.02PM' 8.55 1 12.15 am
I-ISOPM 2.30 111.20 1 6.00
1 ..V 4.07 I I.lBam 8.05 pm
lii*. 5.08 2.27 j 9.27
6.?0 j 4.C5 111.10
. ! ,„gm 6.50 j 4.15 ’ 11 30am
' , 7.19 | 4.43 11.05 PM
'! 9.20 I 6,37 2.13
'!-• U.OO I 8.25 4.20
‘■Vy, v 1.12am'10.42 1 6.55
1 1' ,r. 2.20 11.45 am 8.00
F. R. MYERS,
ra! !’a,-#enger and Ticaec Agent.
A PITTSBURGH R. R
:tf . May 25. 1873, trains will leave
■«i.u(ia>s excepted) as follows;
G SOUTH—MAIN LJNK.
IEXFB'B. MAIL. EXPB'S. ACCOM
! 8.30 am 1.55 pm 4.05 pm
2.41 3.02 5.23
I 10.13 i 3.33 5.53
' ,11.03 1 4.13 6.40
I ,111.3" j 4.44
| * I.lopm j 6.00
H : 3.40 I 8.20 )
NORTH-MAIN line.
KXPB'a. MAIL. EXPBS. ACCOM
0.30 am 1.15 pm
S 55 3.13
,10 25 , 4.30
11.23 . ' 5.15 1 7.25 am
12.08pm' 5.53 , 8.15
12.41 0.22 0.05
j 1.55 7.30 110.25
.W-RIVEK DIVISION
JM OX. MAIL. EXPE'S. > ACCOM
5.40aM 10.5-'am 3.35 pm
5.53 ,11.00 i 3.45
C 37 12.07PM’ 4.45
4.13 1.30 fi.2o
3U 2.35 , 7.15
v 40 3.40 8.20
rt'EST—RIVER DIVISION
I ACCOM , MAIL. EXTB’S. ACCOM-
i , 6 30am 1.13 pm!
7.40 2.20
8-50 ! 8.20
■I?:S 'y§
11.1 C ; 5.40 |
C AHAVT AS BRANCH
Arrives
<>* l ;>m Bayard. 9.45 ami- 4 00pm
P m. i N. FhPi. 3i)o aT.3O p m
F. R MYERS.
a:.-! Ticket Agent.
F*
VANIA R. R,
■rr, i i-M. l'T2. Train? will arrive
westward.
Thro’i'rh Train? Arrive
Tnion Depot.
I a m Mai! Train, l;05a m
■ t" a ni Fa<t Line, 1:33 a m
I' n* !’ M-l.rprr), g x . S tiTt a ID
" I 2- ' Ex. 8: fan
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t’' '•' n : Ar. N’n'i 7:i r i p m
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Expre.'-M, I’a.-t Line
l>r Monday
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>'< ''-iHI t'nndsj
- 1' ■■'liiiich a' ’LoO a id ar
• • t" 11 n; Ptii't.di'lphia
5 V. a-iiii-ton r>:4<» pm.
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a Li. I’;.Ladelphla ti:so
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at .'iii pm: arrive* at
. pv. i a m: Bnlt:-
■ii !’. .3') a rn: New York
'• 'Val'.V Station every
- rirL a: I'f• f>■ am.
ca: I*2.3np m. and arrive
m Leu c Pittsburgh
pr.i.
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■; vi-.m' ci'j rkkc't office
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'iopol
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~ 1 > Hxcol-ior Bat^a^e
off CO.
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y 1-Vh. Three
■•'“-I ' " -r-tlny. u:'.l
for Franklin.
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Leave Arrive
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j,m 0.15 am
l (l 50 U m 4.45 aid
4" a ui a m
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. r s 5O p m 7.20 pm
>m i-2ve> PitrsFunjh even’
' I1, “ “* Parker at 11.25 am.
\ K ’-‘ r at 4 40 p m. and arrives at
'■od OomSoda Work? (Sunday)
' u 8: a m. aud leaves at
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General Darit a good Soldier bot bad
Lawyer-The Disposition of tbe fflo*
does—Conventions—Tbe Irlsb Ameri
can Convention —Tbe National* me
chanics* and Worklucmen’s Conn
ell—The Enterprise of News Corres
pondents.
Correspondence of the Radical.
That General Jefferson C. Davis has
shown himself an able soldier by the
manner in which be has conducted the
campaign against the hostile Indians in
Oregon will probably be admitted by all.
Thai he has shown himself to be as fa
miliar with questions of law as with
questions of military strategy is not so
evident. In fact, the exact_ reverse of
this is true. Tnefe is no faw, written or
unwritten, State or National, civil or
military, that can by any construction,
strict, or liberal, authorize him to proceed
with the execution of prisoners in his
hands without first giving them a fair
and impartial trial. His intended action
ir, the case of the Modocs whom he pro
posed to execute summarily was the di
rect opposite of all law, contrary to the
spirit of the institutions of tbe land and
of the age.
Under the beat and excitement conse
quent upon the atrocities of this band of
outlaws a large proportion of the people
would have been disposed to justify him
for taking the law into bis own hands,
but bad he carried out bis intentions we
would’ some time in the future, look
back to that occurrence as a national dis
grace, comparable only with tbe action of
the Biitish authorities in their treatment
of tbe Sepoys. General Davis will himself
have cause to thank the Secretary of War
for the timely Ulegraphic order which
stayed his hand from the execution of
this bloody deed.
4-35P8
5.30
.7*00,..
8 on
ft 05 •
0.30
LOI Al.
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When the news first reached here that
Genera! Davis had contemplated the
summary punishment of Captain Jack
and a dozen or so of his confederates
without even the form of a trial, it was
disbelieved in official circles. Both Sec
retary Belknap and General Sherman
avowed their disbelief of its correctness.
They said that should General D,avis do
such a th-ing he would clearly exceed
his authority and lay himself liable to
courl-martiai.
Certain newspaper reports have repre
sented that there is a disposition on the
part of the Commissi mer of Indian Af
fairs and others connected with tne ad
ministration to shelter Captain Jack and
his hand from the proper punishment of
their crimes. It such a feeling exists
here, I have been unable to discover it.
On the contrary, stick an intention is
dislirciy disavowed by Commissioner
Smith. Delano and all other
prominent officials whose sentiments I
have been able tp iearn. They express
themselves as surprised that such reports
should have ever been put in circulation,
a? no act or word of theirs has afforded
any grounds therefor. They are desirous
that they should he punished according
to the nature of their crimes. I have
yet to hear the first person, of high or
low degree, express any wish that the
government should deal leniently with
Captain Jack. But to say that he should
have a fair trial is not to incur the re
proach of attempting to shield a crimi
nal. As General Sherman has so aptly ex
pressed it, “We ali know they are mur
derers; the President himself says they
are murderers, and had General Davis
&br 2?*am lUtlifal.
it tv vt
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, D. C., June 16, 1873.
'Ml
shot them while they. were" being pm
sued he would hothaveexoeededhla du
ty. He did hot doth# andcouldnot af
terward shoot them in cold blood.”
This is certainly the age of conven
tions. We have our political conven
tions, church conventions, temperance
conventions, Sunday school conventions,
woman's rights conventions, peace con-'
ventions, editorial- conventions,-’agricul
tural conventions, coDventlons of mer
chants, railroad directors and master me
chanics, cheap transportation conven
tions, Congressional conventions, and
what not ? It is one of the inalienable
rights of our people to convene. To de
ny them the right to convene would be
to destroy their liberties. Let them con
vene.
1.00
Two conventions which come off in
Ohio during the coming July deserve a
notice. One is a convention of Irish'
Americans. Tbe purpose of this conven
tion is tbe formation of a permanent
Irisb-American society of a semi-political
character, a sort of political brotherhood.
The members are to be pledged to sup
port Irishmen for office in preference to
native Americans or persons of any other
nationality, This is to be a sort of
Know-Nothing party with tbe condition
of things reversed. Instead of being an
association in opposition to foreigners
this is to be in opposition to natives. But
this movement is not likely to be a suc
cess. Tbe Irish are not strong enough
to get up an anti-American sentiment
here. They will not be such fools as to
court a conflict between themselves and
the native-born. Already many of the
prominent Irishmen are opposing it <Mid
it is sure to come to naught. Bulbil will
make a matter to be talked about for a
week or two.
Another convention haying a better
purpose but with* perhaps, no better:
prospects of accomplishing any effectual
result is that called by the "National
Mechanics’ and Workingmen’s Council, ’*
an organization having its headquarters
in this city. This council has issued:%n
invitation to all anti-monopolj associa
tions to send bona-fide delegates to a con
vention to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, on
tbe 15th of next month. The call is in
tended to include every species of trade
organization as well as the Patrons of
Husbandry, but there is very little prob
ability bt a coalition of the farmers and
the trades-unionists. Among the agri
culturalists there is a spirit of opposition
to trades-unionism, and it is scarcely prob
able that the members of the Farmers’
Granges will admit that their organiza
tion is based upon exactly the same prin
ciple that underlies all trades-unions, to
wit: opposition to the exactions of mo
nopolies. But such is the fact and if this
could be generaUy understood tbe Cleve
land convention would likely contain the
elements of which to form a gigantic op
position to all railroad and other monop
olies. At a meeting of the council the
other day a committee was appointed to
draft an address for general circulation
setting forth the purposes for which tbe
convention has been called. It w 11 be ready
a few days.
One who has had no experience in soch
things can form but little idea of the ri
valry between the correspondents of this
city representing the variouspublic journ
als in every part of the country. Of
course each one is desirous of getting up
a reputation for enterprise. Some cor
respondents are very exclusive and un
communicative ; if they get a choice bit
of news they keep it as quiet as possible
in order to excite the envy of all the rest
of the fraternity. Others form cliques, nr
rings, and meet daily, sometimes hourly,
for the purpose of exchanging items.
But whatever method be adopted tbe aim
in all casees is the same, to-wit: the great
est exhibition of enterprise.
Ordinarily there is a wide difference be
tween the correspondent of the daily and
the representative of the weekly journal.
The special hobby of the daily corres
pondent is getting the very latest news.
The representative of the weekly, though
he does not underrate the feature of late
ness, sets his mind more specially on the
discovery of the significance of events,
and is generally more particular about
the reliability of his Information. He
has a very good reason for this, too. The
daily letter writer can correct his mis
takes within twenty-four hours; the
weekly correspondent has to wait longer.
As an instance of the manner in which
such things are done, the humble individ
ual who writes you, dear reader, the let
ters you find every week in the columns
of the Radical would beg your indul-.
gcnce while he relates a brief chapter of
bis own recent experience. The rescued
survivors of the Polaris have been the
sensation in this city for the past eight or
ton days. As the whole nation is i§ter-
FRIDA
ft - '- 1
e&ted in tbH||||ftUitoir there has been a
great deal in getting the
news on Not wishing to be
behind budpiiTe' been ; trying by every
honorable mAfai to learn what [ could
concerning given before Sec
retary Robeiwfihthe investigation con-
Winded a feW The, investiga
tion was fn secret and it was
no easy out what the testimo
ny bad at I had at
my my work, but with
ail my t coald ' obtain nothing
that I
plenty, buhJ»^muia‘<Were : not - totis
factory. efforts I'failed to
gather any that I thought
worthy of|(iwpg ; -into type. Each day f
howeyer, myselfwiih the re*
flection thalltrttaswell off as anybody
else, bot day I was disap
pointed in ranging over the columns of
the to find that almost
every correspondent bad
found out* about the Polaris
matter. I witTcjS^rined and mortified to
think I hadhejh outdone, and each
day set redoubled energy to
catch up. TbW|li)egaii to think some
one had tbVln|Sd#track; tbat thesp'other
lorgHfbering id-
not, I wondered if
they bad secret charm worked
tbeoffl
cials at the departments. I wondered if
they bad ttOlhiibid snme subordinates in
the office ofth&Secretary of the Navy.
• ; Andnow, delWresder, if I have your
sympaty in tbUvtny great tribulation, I
know you- charity enough to
paSs by my when [ inform you
that I gUd, I was pleased,
when I found CUtlbat they knew no more
about this I did. It did me
good to of one day denied
in the letter the nest. All this
Mmi-offlcla! Information that bad been
sent out to tbe||i|eG had been nothing
but mere And now that it is all
over, l aloor, lam glad I
did
so behind wlthSjr 'teWa than com
pelled to unsay in one letter what I had
written in a previous one.
The evidence taken in ibis investiga
tion is not yet known to anybody except
| the witnesses and the gentlemen who
j heard it. It is still kept secret, and from
I this fact more than anything else I am
1 led to infer that it is important. It is rap-
I idly being prepared for publication and a
| portion of it has been sent to the govern
' ment printer. When it is made public it
I may not differ from the reports first given
| in the newspapers, except that it is sure
; to be more full and complete.
Mr. Editor : It has been ray good
fortune to pay a flying visit to the great
oil fieM of Butler county. Entering it at
Millerstown one is agreeably surprised to
seethe quaint old town rearing. its gol
den crest above the wrecks of lime. A
few short years ago one would have been
very loth to have given twenty-five dol
lars for the best location that the town
afforded; now corner lots are command
ing the fabulous price of seven dollars
per square foot, although it is but a short
time since “dad struck ile” in that vicini
ty. The old town has swelled to double its
former dimensions. Taking the road from
Millerstown to Buena Vista, one must
pass through Iron City. Oh, what a
city ! Now as everything in oildom par
takes of the nature of “buncotnb,” the
consequential inclination to puff must be
allowed a due amount of latitude; where
fore, you must not look for towns any
where on the occult oil belt, they are all
cities, and Iron City, being no town, but
a city, can boast bf two bouses and three
oil rigs, with a host of derricks looming
up in the distance. Although this is oil
dom you do not strike the oil fields prop
er until you arrive at the McClelland
farm. There you find derricks to the
right of you, derricks to the left of you,
derricks in front of you, derricks all
around you, derricks ;ncar you, and
derricks as far off us you can point yonr
finger. Near by stands the great
Frontman well, spouting out its greasy
stuff at the of six hundred barrels
per day. The word has gone forth some
how or other that this well produces
twelve hundred barrels of oil per day.
Now if anybody tells you this don’t be
lieve it, for I have it from the gentleman
who gauges this, well for the Cleveland
Pipe Line, that she caps the climax when
she reaches six hundred barrels. Leaving
the McCllelland farm we proceed directly
to Greece City (!), and the first thing that
strikes a stranger as beingqueer on enter
ing the city from this side is a sign over
a grocery store, and he stops to ask him
self the question* 1 where am I?” for ther
NE 20.1873.
OILDOiH.
before his face.he sees that sign bearing
in flaming letters the words City
Store.” He will probably say. “is U pos
sible that I have got intq the land of
Goshen ? Now to set his mind at rest, as
well as to enlighten thdincredu lous pub
lic, it will be toy'duty id Wop in this
place and make anexplahation. When
the city was yet in its infancy (it la how
tan months old), the early Aettleirs were
not certain as to whether they, in drill
ing, would strike buckwheat batter,
grease ,or old cheese ; they were about
equally divided on grease and cheese; the
buckwheat batter faction, being greatly
Id the minority, bad to yield to the pres
sure, and not being of Welsh extraction,
they naturally joined bade withtbe grease
men against the cheese fMtibn, who
.threw up the sponge, except one wily
Chieftan, who still sticks to his Goshen
idea, with the expectation that sometime
daring the jpext decade there will be a
large emigration from the land of
Wales, when he will be enabled to turn
the tide In his favor, and have the place
named Goshen City, thereby saving the
the expense of getting a new sign paint
ed. If-yon wish to draw a map of Greece
City all you have to do is to take up a
handful of mad and throw it against the
side of a bafn, and then you have it. It
is truly wonderlul to see that city of rail
road shanties built up like the mushroom
springs out of the ground seemingly, al
most, as if by magic. It boasts already of
Us banking houses, its stores, its hotels,
its law offices, its banshees, and its gam
bling hells, la its onward rush it has not
left the printing press behind. No, in
deed, it sports a semi monthly paper call
ed the Greece City Renew. If you have
not got it amongst your exchanges why
get it, that’s all.
Where Greece City now stands about
ten months ago was an almost impenetra
ble 1 glade. Some uniniated reader may
be ready to, ask, what is a glade ? I w ill
try/tQ give,some taint idea of it. Qlad.es
are
andawhor-f
lleberry bush, and standing so closely to
gether for railed around that if a rabit at
tempts to run through them he is sure to
leave bis skin hanging on the tranches
behind him, and he is lucky if be comes
out with bis toe nails all left on. The
people of Greece City, unlike other pla
ces, move into their bouses before they
have them built, and this is the way they
do it. They first build the foundation.
That is done by taking a sharp pointed
slick, and making a mark on the ground
in the shape of a hollow square, then
they pile up their household goods in the
center and go to weatherboarding up and
down, as it is called, and when the house
is weather-boarded and the roof is on,
their transient home Is completed. Every
thing about the place bears the air of
Paddy catching the bnmb'e bee, only an
experiment. A lighted match thrown
carelessly upon the ground might cause
the city to be wiped out in one general
conflagration. Maint street,in Greece City,
is so crooked and narrow that during the
muddy season, when a team stuck fast in
it, the rest in their bustle and hurry to
get along, just drove on over top, and
when Sunday came they all turned in and
helped to dig it out, and very often they
would strike oil before the wagon was ex
tracted.
Sam.
Greece City is a lively place. All is
hurry and bustle, and everybody seems
to be after something, bur the general
rush appears to be after either oil or
whisky. It is quite a difficult matter to
tell from appearance which is the oil con
tractor or the day as all alike
look saucy fat and greasy, but as a gen
eral thing you can pretty nearly always
tel! which is the worthless cuss, whodoet
nothing and sponges his board, by his
hair being parted in the middle and his
incessant whipping of his boots with a
a rattan walking slick. There is un
doubtedly a mine of wealth just opening
up for Butler county. Although her day
of prosperity was long a coming, it ap
pears now to be rolling in like an irre
sistible avalanche. Iler best resources for
wealth, like the Irishman’s good friends,
seem to be all under the ground. But
the energy and the will are here to bring
it up, and up U must come. L.
—The ifitlanning Free Press says : The
Republican county nominations, we= are
gratified to learn, give entire satisfaction
throughout the county, and a hearty and
united support will be given the whole
ticket. With the proper organization it
will make a clean sweep of the track ip
October, and be triumphantly elected by
a large majority. -
—H. A. Sturgeon, cashier of the Har
risburg State Bank, is said to be a candi
date for State Treasurer.
NUMBER 25
OVER THE SEA BY BALLOON
The proportion by a Philadelphia ®ro
naut, “Prof.” Wise, to cross the Atlantic
by balloon in threje.days, recalls the once
femous but now forgotten Jalloon hoax ;
of Edgar A. Poe t Thirty: years ago. it
was published in the New York Sun, and
for a few hours set the whole town agog
with wonder and delight In those days
the electric telegraph had hardly ceased
to seem as impossible as such an air ship
still seems. And by fixing .the point of
landing of his 'fictitious balloon at Charles
ton, Poe gained the interval between two
mails lor the undistarbed enjoyment of
bis deception, The hoax is worth recall
ing not only for the intrinsic interest *
which such speculations, must always
have, but because of certain analogic*
with the scheme now-proposed, wbfolx
suggest either a curious degree of fore
sight on the. one hand, or some
ness of the other.
In Poe’s, narrative the great achieve,
ment is the result of happy accident, not
of design. A party of English anooauts;
setting out from a point in North Wglea
on Saturday afternoon to cross the Brit
i®h Channel, are borne rapidly out to sea*
and making a virtue of necessity, con
ceive the bold project of attempting to
reach America. The party was supposed
to consist of two professional seronsnts*
Monck Mason and Robert Holland; Mr-
Hew son, the projector of the unsuccessful
flying-machine; Sir Everald Bringhnrst,
Mr. Osborne, a nephew of Lord Bentick ;
Harrison Ainsworth, the novelist, and two
sailors. Besides these eight
weighing in the aggregate 1,200 pounds,
the cat holds provisions for a fortnight;*
water casts, cloaks, carpet bags, barome
ters, telescopes, &c M and ballast up to
2,500 pounds, the carrying capacity of tbe
balloon. Among other articles is a ms-*
chine “contrived for warming coffee by
means of slack lime, so as to dispense
with fire.” The balloon itself holds
40,000 cubit feet of co»l gas, and -is. pro*
vided with A maryelous steer ing .and pro
* 'petting apparatus of screwraad"'~spT , iirg»
and rudders, the aeronaut of the
present would dismiss with calm derision,
but which to the simple folk ot those
days was a miracle of ingenuity. After
various adventures duly detailed in jour
nals kept by Mason and Ainsworth, the
balloon lands on Tuesday morning, at
Sullivan’s Island, near Charleston, mak
ing seventy-five hours from shore to
shore.
Should Prof. Wise’s hopes be realized,
this invention of Poe’s will read like a
prophecy—not the first time either that
his restless imagination anticipated some
of the most extraordinary triumphs of
modern progress. In a paper written
about the same ttoe, call \XMeUnta Tauta,
and purporting to be the journal of anoth
er balloon voyage, a pleasure excursion,
this lime in the year 1843 present
era, he clearly hints at the two greatest
achievements of the nineteenth century,
the Atlantic Cable and the Pacific Rail
way. His ocean wires, to be sure, are
carried above water on gigantic fl tats,
and his continental trains travel at the
rate of 300 miles an hour, "while the pas
sengers flirt, feast, and dance in the mag
nificent saloons” of the yet undreamt-of
Pullman cars. Yet nothing gives so viv
id an idea of the real magnitude of these
two enterprises as Poe’s wild, vague
guesses at the truth that was to be, and
remembrance of the good-natured con
tempt which a hardly a quarter of a cen
tury ago met soberer aspirations in the
same direction. The romances of yester
day are the realities of to-day.
It is curious, ton, to compare the crude
notions of aeronautic possibilities preva
lent in Poe’s time with the practical ex
perience of our own. Po c 's balloon, with
40,000 feet of gas, and a carrying cipacity
of 2,500 pounds, is made to carry eight
grown men. Prof. Wise thinks 325,000
feet of gas and a supporting power of 11,
000 pounds little enough to carry two.
On the other hand, the lime specified
and the lime-heating apparatus present
quite as curious coincidences. If the par
allel should be completed by a successful
landing of the Philadelphia aeronaut on
the other si ie, who shall limit the future
of aerial voyaging, or gainsay that before
long people will be going to Europe by
balloon with at least as much speed,
safety, and certainty as, let us say, in a
Philadelphia steam-ship. A few years
ago the latter mode of travel" was ridicul
ed as wildly impracticable.' Yet the
Pennsylvania has actually struggled across
the ocean with a few daring and devoted
Pennsylvanians on board, getting there
it is true, in a rather dilapidated condi
tion, but still getting there. Let us not
be too skeptical about Philadelphia enter
prises.
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