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THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
TIII-41 . : GLOB
eireulation—ae largest in the, county,
giENVFMDCYI',I,
Wednesday, September 29, 1858
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREALE COURT,
W. 111.. A. ponTEB., of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
VirESTLEY FROST, of Fayette Co.
'(p 411
CONGRESS,
CYRUS L. PERSHING-, of Cambria co
6)0 A eI;W =4l CHPIOIII laedia 1/211
ASSEMBLY,
DANIEL HOUTZ„ of Alexandria
COIINTY COMFISSIONEIt,
JAMES HENDERSON, of Cassville
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
,3:011N NIERLY, of 'Springfield.
CORONER, '
THOMAS P::LOVE, of Huntingdon
AUDITOR,
WILLIAM SPECK, of Juniata
EXTRA PREMIUMS
t will be observed that the County Society—for very
good reasons we suppose—have omitted in their list, pre
miums for the best specimens of printing. Printing is an
art—the art of arts—in the improvement of which, busi
ness men at least, take some interest. We take as much
pleasure, and pride, in executing a job of work as it should
be, as.other men do in their calling, and wo can see no
good reason why a printer should not contest for an honor.
We, therefore, propose the following premiums :
For the best and greatest variety of Fancy Card
printing $0 00
For the best and greatest variety of Plain Card
printing 5 00
For the best and greatest variety of Blank printing, 500
_For the best and greatest variety of Handbill and
Circular printing
For the best and greatest variety of Printing
" " Job Office in the county
The contest to be confined to the printers of the county
and no part of any Card, Blank, Bill, Circular, &c., to be
executed out of the county.
All customer work, only, and Blanks regularly kept on
hand for sale, to be entered for the premiums.
Each Office contesting for the premiums, to place in the
hands of a Committee like sums as above, the whole to be
given to the Office receiving the awards.
The Committee to be appointed by the Offices entering
for the premiums—one by each Office, and the Committee
to appoint one.
The Committee to visit and examine work at the Offices
entering, on the second day of the County Fair.
See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
To Tax-Collectors
For the convenience of Collectors, we have
just printed„ and will keep constantly on
hand for sale, blank receipts for State and
County, School, Borough, Township, or other
taxes.
Zect. All who are not assessed, should at
tend to it immediately. After the 2d of Oc
tober, it will be too late.
gar An Encampment comes off at Holli
daysburg this week—a considerable crowd is
expected to be there.
GRAPES.—We have received from Mr. JACK
'SON WILITE a plate of fine grapes, for which
he has our thanks.
The State Fair commenced at Pitts
burg on yesterday. The Pittsburg papers
say it will equal if not surpass any State ex
hibition ever given.
12(far CYRUS L. PERSHING, Esq., our candi
date for Congress, addressed a Democratic
gathering, at llollidaysburg, on Monday eve
ning last. He is expected here, next week,
when the people may have an opportunity to
hear him upon the questions at issue.
THE TICKETS.
The tickets fur the election will be printed
and ready for distribution towards the close
of the week. Our friends throughout the
county, coming to town, or having an oppor
tunity to send, should procure a supply in
time to have them well distributed.
The Huntingdon Band, and Military,
in attendance at the Bellefonte Encampment,
last week, have returned home, and report
favorably of the hospitality of the Centre
folks generally. The crowd was enormous—
and more noise and confusion than was ever
before seen or heard, in that region of coun
try, by the oldest inhabitant.
THE TICKET AGALN COMPLETE.—After Con
sulting with several of the County Commit
tee, we have taken the responsibility of pla
cing upon the ticket fpr Auditor, to 811 the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of John
Hirst, the name of WILLIAm. SPECK, of Juni
ata township. The name is placed there
without the knowledge or consent of Mr.
SPECK ; but we know Mr. SPECK to be too
faithful in the harness to kick at trifles. lie
is a• farmer, a young man of energy, and
well qualified to discharge the duties of the
- office, and we hope he may be honored with
an election. Too late, Bill, to decline.
County Commissioner and Director of
the Poor.
For these offices,—the most important to
the tax-payers of the county,—the Demo
cratic delegates in County Convention, were
peculiarly fortunate in selecting JAMES TIEN
_DERSON, of Cass township, and Joux MYERLY,
of Springfield township. There need nothing
be said in their favor to secure for them a
heavy vote in their own and adjoining town
ships, where they are well and favorably
known. Few men can be placed upon a
ticket with the same home strength as is
claimed for our candidates, by their neigh
bors, and if the voters of the other townships
of the county will look to their own interests
in the selection of men to fill the offices named,
Messrs. HENDERSON and MYERLY will be
elected by_ a very decided majority. Tax
payers, you now have an opportunity of pla
cing in two of the most important offices in
the county, just
. such men as should always
be there. Will you elect them? Their elec
_tiOnor defea,t is with you.
The County Pair
On Wednesday of neat week, the sixth day
of October, the fourth annual exhibition' of
the Huntingdon County Agricultural Society,
will be commenced at this borough. The'
display will embrace all kinds of doinesticatbd•
animals, and articles from every department
of industry. The lover of fast horses, the
admirer of the works of art, the farmer, the
gardener, the mechanic—all,—may find there
something to please their particular tastes.
The committee of arrangement have made
proper preparation for the reception of arti
cles intended for exhibition, and will endea
vor, as we are assured, to do all in their power
to assist exhibitors. in obtaining secure and
conspicuotis places for - the animals and other
matters intended for competition or public
.inspection. • The committee have prepared
two courses for the training of horses, where
the lovers of the nee can have full,enjoyment.
Grants of the issue of excursion tickets,
upon the Pennsylvania Railroad, from all the
stations between Harrisburg and Johnstown,
and from all the - stations on the Broad•'Top
Railroad, having been Made, opportunity will
be afforded, at a low rate, to persons residing
along and near the lines of these railroads
to visit Huntingdon and the Pair. The
weather, as best as we can at present judge,
will be-favorable; Should such be the case,
considering that our farming community will
have leisure, that the excursions offer a cheap
means of travel, and that some of our neigh
boring counties _will not have fairs this year,
we may safely predict a very large attend
ance of exhibitors and visitors.
Few persons consider the importance of
the existence of such a Society, or properly
estimate the advantages to be derived from
its annual exhibitions. These yearly shows
draw together the people from every locality
in the country, even the most remote, and
from many of the neighboring counties.—
Thus
a never-equalled opportunity -is given
to persons to see and coinmunicate with
friends, who, by reason of their distant or
retired residence, are seldom met. They af
ford an occasion to see together the products
of the skill and industry of citizens of every
township—and to note the progress made by
persons in every department of science, art
and manufactures. Beside the advantage of
seeing articles brought for the observation of
the public, these annual exhibitions, which
are the occasion of mass-meetings of the peo
ple, work a good social effect. Our people
form acquaintances from distant localities of
the connty,—see their own and their neigh
bors' productions contrasted, and have their
prejudices for, or against, certain districts
and their inhabitants, removed by actual con
tact, and thus are bound together in a tie of
mutual interest, all who claim to be citizens
of the old county of Huntingdon. If, for
this purpose alone, the annual meetings of
this Society should be continued. In addi
tion to the good social effect it works, several
hundred dollars are each year distributed by
the Society to exhibitors of articles of real
merit. These premiums incite to competi
tion, not on account of the money, but by
reason of the desire to bear off the palm of
superiority.
The public mind is ready to admit that
much good can flow from these exhibitions.
Then they should be - maintained and con
tinued. Like the power in our government,
the inclination so to do, rests with, and must
come from, the people. Not one, two, or a
dozen individuals are or should be interested,
but every one who desires the advancement
of our citizens, should make an active, living
manifestation of his desire, by participating
in the - exhibition and in the annual elective
meeting of the Society. Effort in this mat
ter, is just as essential to its existence as it
is in any enterprise, and those persons who
are willing to put themselves to a little in
convenience and trouble, to bring their arti
cles to the exhibition, deserve credit, and we
held their example up to their neighbors as
being worthy of their imitation.
In conclusion, we would say to every per
son in Huntingdon county, and in the neigh
boring counties, bring to the Fair every arti . -
die of your own design, manufacture, or rais
ing, that approximates elegance, and whether
you succeed in obtaining the premium offered
or not, you will show to the people what you
can produce. • You cannot ALL get premiums,
for if that were the case, they would loose
their greatest value, that is, being marks, as
near as impartial judges can indicate, of The
best articles on exhibition. Then we say,
bring your articles in great abundance, and
show to the thousands that will assemble,
what OLD HUNTINGDON can produce.
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it e-• It is amusing, to see how anxious a
few of the Republicans of this place—the
pure, untainted with Americanism, witlr the
original black stripe, down their backs,—are,
for the success of their candidates, Messrs.
BLAIR. and WIGTON. , It is a good rule, to
judge men by the company they keep,- and
even the short-sighted editor of the Journal
sees, in the anxious political friends of these
candidate's, men, who have not supported
regular 'nominees for the last three or four
years. If the rank Republicanism of Messrs.
Br..tra and WIGTON, causes the nostrils of
the editor of the Journal, to turn up, how
will the Americans be able to swallow the
dose ?
NEW Goons.—Many of our merchants are
now busily engaged unpacking their new
goods, and others will receive their supplies
before the close of the week. Consult our
advertising columns next week for particu
lars.
Mr. Pershing's Position
[From the Ebensburg Mountaineer.]
• The -Opposition - papers in this district,--are
in_ -very • great suspense, as 7:to the 'Course
-which Mr. Pershing is likely. to pUrsue • on
thekanias and Tariff questions. ' pon these
•
questions, Mr. Pershing was exceedingly
tinct and explicit in his speeech delivered in
the meeting here, last week. On the Kansas
question, he. . - -
"UPON THIS QUESTION, I HAVE NO
OPINIONS TO CONCEAL. SHOULD I
BE ELECTED TO A SEAT IN THE NA
TIONAL CONGRESS, I WILL VOTE:FOR
TIIE ADMISSION OF KANSAS, THE
SOMENT SHE PRESENTS A LEGAL
CONSTITUTION, WHIM' HAS BEEN
SUBMITTED TO THE . PEOPLE AND
RATIFIED BY THEM. I WILL DO SO,
LET TIIE CONSEQUENCES 'BE WHAT
THEY .ICIAY ; AND I DO NOT FEAR
TIIE CONSEQUENCES."
Here is a clear, explicit declaration of his
opinion upon this question—no equivocating
and no dodging. If our Opposition friends
still have tears to shed over bleeding Kansas,
they need not waste any on Mr. Pershing, as
he has no evil designs upon her.
On the Tariff, he dwelt for a long time—
arguing forcibly and correctly, that it is un
wise and impolitic to make this a party mea
sure—showing clearly that it never has been
done successfully and never can be, because
the interests of different sections of the coun
try must clash, and that every section will
necessarily adopt the means best calculated
to advance its interests. He showed how im
pertinent it was for the present Opposition
party, to assume the peculiar championship
of the Tariff, when,- in 1857, a Republican
Congress reduced the rates to a lower figure,
than had been done by the Tariff of 1846,
and when, in 1857, they nominated fr% Gov
ernor,- David Wilmot—the only meniter of
the Pennsylvania delegation in Congress,
who proved untrue to her interests, and voted
for the Tariff of 1846, and, when in 1858,
they have nominated for Supreme Judge,
Hon. John M. Reed, who, in a public letter,
endorsed the course pursued by lion. George
M. Dallas, in giving the casting vote for the
Tariff of 184 G. He closed, by unequivocally
pledging himself to support a Tariff, which
will discriminate in favor of Pennsylvania
interest.
If we mistake not, this speech will knock
all the thunder out of our adversaries, and
meet with the endorsement of the people of
the district, on the second Tuesday of Octo-
IBM
Rebellion in Lancaster County
The Lancaster Examiner, the organ of the
more conservative portion of the Opposition
in Lancaster county, a paper that hay led
more than one successful campaign akalust
•
Thaddeus Stevens, refuses to endorse his
nomination, and is evidently preparing to op
pose his election. The editor alleges that the
delegates were carried by fraud, and adds:
"That four or five hundred Democrats,
minors, and otherwise improper persons, who
voted at the delegate elections, did, in effect,
settle the ticket which was formed at the late
County Convention, is an assertion which
admits of mathematical demonstration. It
is for each and every voter, in view of these
facts, to say fur himself, how long these prac
tises are to be acquiesced in, and to what ex
tent he chooses to be bound by them." •
In view of these facts, the Examiner thinks
the nominations of the Convention have no
binding force beyond the merits of the nomi
nees themselves; and alter alleging that gov
ernment attention to the industrial pursuits
of the county, is fast becoming a question of
bread and butter, this significant passage oc
curs. The italics are our own, but there is
no mistaking at whom they are directed:
"The voters will now be untrammelled by
party consideration in the choice of a person
to represent them in the national councils.—
They can support the man they deem best
fitted in all requisites which go to make a
desirable representative, or most likely secure
that friendly regard front the representatives
of other States, which is necessary to obtain
legislation that will revive the drooping pros
perity of Pennsylvania."
Further on, the editor uses language still
more explicit, where he says:
"Our Democratic friends of the city have
already given us one ticket. Ou this day
two weeks the Democrats of the whole coun
ty will_ meet for the purpose of forming a
second ticket. Common rumor foreshadows
the selection by them of a gentlethan from
the country, as. a candidate for Congress,
whose well settled political views aree - thoge
to which the popular heart of the old Guard
has in former years enthusiastically respond
ed. After the nominees are all in the field,
it will be for each voter to weigh fairly and
calmly the merits and demerits of them all.
to consider the probable influence for good or
evil of their election upon the moral and ma
terial welfare of the county, and then to cast
his ballot as an enlightened conscience shall
dictate."
We are not without hopes that the people
of Lancaster county will rise up, and with
one accord spurn Thaddeus Stevens, when
we see the leading organ of the Opposition
treat his nomination with such evident dis
gust.—Harrisburg Herald.
To TAKE INK OUT OF LlNEN.—Editors and
clerks will learn with pleasure, that to take
a piece of tallow, melt-it, and dip the spotted
part of the linen into the melted...tallow, the
linen may be washed, and the spot will dis
appear without injuring the linen.
We invite attention to the advertise
ment of sale of real estate, by McCoy &
CAMPBELL.
.(45F- See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in..n.nother column.
John Penn Jones' Attack on the Ameri-
cans---the Man in Spasms'.
[From tho•Altoona Tribuned:
•
MESSRS. EDITORS :—lt appears, orthe last,
Hollidaysburg Register, that the mere
.pre
sentation of the proceedings orthe American
-Congressional Co nference , to Jplin,Penn
had a serious effect upon - him and threw him
into spasms.
The idea that John Brotherline - *ould not
desert his friends, and go with him in using
up the-American party, seemed to me more
than poor Jones could bear. He denounces
John as all sorts of a bad man for not follow
ing in his lead. We hope he may well enjoy
whatever,hemay . gain by his present course.
Jones knows he is driven into it by a certain
Republican, and he is weak enough to think
hc - can chive - others. - In this he- is greatly
mistaken.
_ He attacks the proceedings in a manner al
together becoming a new convert in politics.
His entire article ,attacking the American
evinces -all the feelings of a heart fatally bent
upon mischief to the. American party.
He states that, no American conventions
has been held in any of the counties to au
thorize the holding of. an American Confer
ence to nominate a candidate for Congress.—
The truth. is the little fellow turns around so
often in politics that he 'does not really know
where he was a month ago. He is weak
enough to think the Americans ought to turn
with him as often as he turns. The facts are
;fin• American Convention - was held in this
place on the 20th day of May last, and ap
pointed three citizens of this bounty to attend
an American Congressional Conference, as
conferees. Jones would now desire to,wipe out
the existence of that• Convention, by modest
ly asserting that it leas never held. It is true
_that the Conferees did not attend such a Con
ferenCe; but does that ignore the fact that the
Covention - was held. Certainly, not. The
_Conference was held, and there being no au
thority to compel the attendance of the delin
quent Conferees, others were substituted by
the Conference in their places. This is what
john penn jones esq., editor of the Hollidays
burg Register, Associate Judge of the several
Courts of Blair county, Treasurer of the Poor
Fund of said county, and general recipient of
all the favors of the party, and Dictator and
Commander-in-Chief throughout his . whole
Bailiwick, denounces as ",A HIGH HANDED
OUTRAGE' UPON him, AND A VILE GREAT."
But who are the men thus reviled by JOHN
PENN JONES! John B. Simons, Esq., than
whom a more honest man does not live,—
James A. McCahan, Esq., son of John Mc-
Callan, Esq., deceased, who twenty-two years
ago, took Jones off a canal boat and loaned
him money to buy part of the very press with
which he is now reviling the son. As to Mr.
Brotherline, we will forbear for the present.
If the base ingratitude of Jones towards him
does not trouble his conscience, I can not by
anything I can say, reach such a conscience.
James Gardner, Dr. MePherran, Landon
Reeve, George F. McCabe, and the other gen
tlemen composing the Conference are all
worthy, honorable men, of good standing,
whom Jones cannot succeed in branding suc
cessfully as.cheats. They are all far above
his reach arri ^llfar better r"en thnn b. is.
But why does Jones attack these gentle
men? Does he think by demolishing them
he will finish the American party, and have
built up completely, on its ruins, the Repub
lican party. In this we think he will be
slightly mistaken. The American sentiment
will still be hovering about to annoy. More
in No. Q . AN AMERICAN.
Hollidaysburg, Sebt. 20, 1858.
Terrible Tragedy---A Mother Murders
Her Four Children and then Commits
Suicide
A terrible tragedy took place near Grove
City ; a village, 9 miles from Columbus, Ohio,
on Wednesday, the particulars of which, we
take from the Columbus Statesman :
A woman, by the name of Christiana
Schilling, residing with her husband, about
half a mile from Grove City, yesterday morn
ing, about one o'clock, during the absence of
her husband,. murdered her four children—
three girls and a boy—by throwing them
into a well, 35 feet ,deep, and afterwards
jumping in herself. It appears that Freder
ick Schilling, the husband, was attending a
wedding party, near Grove City, when the
deed was committed, and that the wife,
Christiana Schilling, conveyed the children
from their beds to the well, a distance of 100
yards, while they were asleep, and then
pitched them into it, and afterwards flung
herself in. Neighbors passing the house,
which is a
,miserable log cabin, standing
about a quarter of a mile from the main road,
say that they heard the mother and her chil
dren singing a hymn gbout 10 o'clock at
night.
The husband and father, it seems, did not
return from the wedding party until day
light, and before that time, a lady neighbor,
having occasion to draw water from the well,
had discovered the bodies of Mrs. Schilling
and her lour children, floating on the sur
face. She immediately gave the alarm, and
several gentlemen came to the spot, and
raised the mother and her four children from
the well. The family consists of a boy
named Valentine, 10 years of age ; Christi
ana, a girl, 12 years •
_Caroline, 5 years, and
Augusta, 3 years of age. Mrs. Schilling
was about 36 years of age, and. was, to all
appearances, an intelligent, healthy, and
handsome woman. When our reporter visi
ted the house, the dead bodies of the five un
fortunate beings, were laid upon two beds,
in the only sleeping apartment in the cabin,
and a more melancholy spectacle, it has
never been our misfortune to behold. The
children all looked healthy, robust and beau
tiful; and, with the exception of a slight scar
on the forehead of the boy, no marks of vio
lence were visible. A crowd of both sexes
were in the room, all' awe-stricken by the
horrible catastrophe.
No evidence elicited by the jury of in
quest, goes
. to show that any other person
than the mother, could have committed the
deed. It is generally believed, that she was
laboring under a fit of insanity, as it was
stated, that she had, about a year ago, at
tempted to commit suicide, during a fit of
phrensy, to which she Was subject.
Too TRUE.—The Recorder of Chicago, Il
linois, in charging the grand jury, recently,
said :—"During the past five years that I
have held this Court, it has been my un
pleasant duty to try, and sentence to the
State prison, several hundred persons; and I
am sorry to say, that while it is an easy mat
ter to find jurors', who aro ready and willing
to punish poor offenders, without position or
friends, it is with great difficulty that jurors
can be found, who appreciate the fact, that
one bad man of position and wealth, can do
more harm than one hundred poor men can,
who aro in thd huilible walks of life."
Terrible .Adventure---A Man Seated on
the Valve of a Balloon Carried into the
Clouds.
[From the Detroit Tribune, Sept. 18.]
.We •have learned full partichlard of tila
Ballwin ascension at Adrian on Thursday, its
subsequent descent, and its second ascension
and a.linaway with the wronant while beyond
his Control. It is a brief narrative, but of
thrilling interest. A man lost in the sky I
There can scarcely be a more terrible thought.
It makes the flesh •creep and sends a shudder
through every nerve.
The first ascension 'took place about 9 o'-
clock in the morning. It was on the occa
sion of a large Sunday school celebration at
Adrian. The Balloon was, a .very large.and
well constructed one, being about the height
of *a' two story building, when inflated and
ready to
.cut loose from its fastenings.—
Messrs.' Bannister and Thurston took seats in
the car, attached to the balloon, and ascended
safely and •steadily.. After remaining about
forty minutes in the air, sailing toward Tole
do all the time, they alighted in the woods
near the town of Riga, Lenawee county, near
Knight's Station, on the Southern Road, dis
tant about eighteen miles west of Toledo.—
Several men came to the 'assistance of the ad
venturers, and they proceeded to prepare the
balloon for packing to be taken back to Ad
rian.
In doing this the monster balloon was turn
ed over and partially upside down to disen
tangle the netting and to reach the valve.—
To do this Mr. Ira Thurston, one of the atro
pants, took off'his coat, and got astride of the
valve-block. He then suggested that the car
be detached from the balloon while he should
hold it down with his weight. This proved
a fearful calculation, for no sooner was the
slill inflated body relieved of the- weight of
the car, than it shot into the air with the sud
denness of a rocket, taking Mr4hurston
along with it, seated upon the valve of the
balloon, and holding on to the collapsed silk
of the air-ship in that portion of its bulk.
In this perfectly helpless condition the ill
fated man sped straight into the sky in the
full sight of his companions, even more help
less than himself. So far as is known, there
was no means for him to secure his descent,
whether safe or otherwise. The part of the
balloon filled with gas was twelve feet above
him, so that there - was rio chance -for him to
cut it and escape. lie could only cling to
his precarious hold, and go withersoever the
currents of air should take him.
Without regulation and control of any kind
the balloon continued to mount upwards, sail
ing off in the direction of this city and Lake
Erie. The fatal ascension took place about
11 o'clock, and at a few minutes past noon it
was seen in the town of Blissfield, Lenawee
county, apparently full three miles high, and
about the size of a star .in appearance. It
W'as still going up and on. At a quarter past
three o'clock it was last dimly visible going
in the direction of Malden, as ascertained
by compass bearings taken by parties observ
ing it.
What is his exact fate, baffles conjecture ;
that it is horrible, almost beyond precedent,
there can he no doubt. There is not one chance
in a million for a successful escape. Wheth
er the unfortunate man was carried up so
high as to become benumbed and senseless,
death ensuing, or 'whether he fell off at length
from his 'tremendous attitude, to have his
breath sucked from him in his fearful descent
and to be sunk in the lake oaL, dashed into a
shapeless mass upon the earth, it is doubtful
if any save God will ever know. The mind
stands appalled in contemplating this fearful
disaster and blindly gropes in mazes of won
der at where his place of sepulchre shall be.
Mr. Thurston was an experienced balloon
ist, having built several ; and this being his
thirty-seventh ascension.
Seprnm I>ER 23:—We change our heading to
day ! Lost is a fearful word to say of one
who but now was in our midst in the high
tide of life, strong, bold, full of hope, with
troops of friends about him. " Lost ! It
sounds like the wailing of the wind in the
tops of the pines !" All hope of ever finding
poor Thurston alive is blotted out, and we can
only bemoan him as lost.
Mr. Banister, his companion, returned this
afternoon, and can only bring the worst tid
ings. The balloon he identified, and sent the
silk of which it was composed to this city
last night. He himself remained to search
for bis friend. To-day he comes back des
pairingly. He states that the balloon valve
on which Thurston sat is torn out from the
silk of the balloon three-quarters of the way
around, indicating unerringly that the weight
of the unfortunate man was to great for the
strength of the sides, and that the silk gave
way, when , he must have dropped off. His
only remaining chance would be to cling to
the smooth material of which the balloon was
made, and he could not have sustained him
self in that manner. When this occurred we
can only conjecture, but that it must have
been within an hour after he started seems
highly probable. The balloon was seen for
nearly two hours with a glass, but it must
be remembered that this great body, full sixty
feet high, was only the size of a man's hand,
when thus visible and would be utterly im
possible to;',see the ill-fated man if he had not
dropped off. Mr. Bannister feels quite posi
tive that he must have fallen before.reaching
Canada at all.
The stories that are so' plentiful that a man
was seen in the balloon as it came down near
Baptiste Creek, he wholly discredits, as we
have from• the - .first. He has investigated
these rumors pretty thoroughly, and puts no
faith in them whatever.
Six gentlemen came up from Adrian to-day
to go down to search for the body of Thurs
ton, but at 3 o'clock P. M. they were not de
cided what course to pursue. They inclined
to the belief that his body, if not in the lake,
would be found between. Knight's Station,
where he started, and Monroe. The only
hope now left is that the body may be found,
and-the hand of affection be permitted-to lay
it in its final resting place. We earnestly
trust this may be—the poor. and only boon
left for aching and sorely-smitten hearts to
crave. • •
13Er General Winfield Scott, who is now
stopping at West Point, met with a severe
accident week before last, which may con
fine him to his bed for-some . time. lie was
about attending a dinner party given by Col.
Delafield, when,. on going , down the stairs,
his foot slipped , and he fell to the bottom.--
Owing to the bullet in his shoulder and the
sword wound in his arm, he was unable to
arrest his flight, and the fall-wrissevere. To
a person of his advanced years and large
frame this is a most serious affair. The Gen
eral was taken to his bed, cupped and leeched,
and though he feels better, he is still suffer
ing intense pain. This accident to the old
General will be generally regretted through
out the country.
Children Carried off .by a Balloon, and
Supposed to be Lost. •
[From the St. Louis Republican, Sept. 21.]
Our correspondent at. the Illinois Fair, at
Centralia, acquaints us with the following
thrilling odeurrence :—Mr. G. W. Brooks,
of this city, an aeronaut of considerable dis
tinction; was adVertised-to make an ascen
sion from a spot contiguous to the. Fair
ground, on Friday evening, after the closing
exercises of the Fair. Instead; however, of
going up hiinself, he - yielded to the solicita
tions of a young man who has been travel
ling arOund with him, learning the theory
and practice of ballooning, and who be g ged
that; as the evening was so fine,' he - miglt'be
allowed to test the value of his knowledge,
by a little experience. The young man,
whose name has escaped the recollection• of
our informant, made the ascensiork.in a-beau
tiful style,, in ,the presence of thousandS of
admiring and wondering people. The at
mosphere,was so quiet, that he rose almost
vertically to a great height, and then, when
it was supposed he would descend, the 'bal
loon passed into 'a_cprrent.of -air, which bore
it away to the sotitteast, and finally carried
it out of sight. It Was' said that Mr. Brooks
was much annoyed at his pupil, for refusing
to descend before striking the current of air
which bore.him away from the scene of the
ascension. Ife did not return until Saturday
morning, about daybreak, and then commu
nicated an account of his most thrilling ex
periences. The current of air, which bore
him off to the south-east, carried him a dis
tance of about twenty miles, before he thought
of descending. By means of his grappling
irons, the descent was made with safety and
ease, and he found himself alighted near a
farm-house, the inmates of which, regarded
him with the greatest wonder and gratifica
tion.
The balloon was made fast to a fence, and
after a. short conversation with the farmer
and his wife, they were persuaded to make
an ascension of a few hundred feet, one at a
time. The balloon, relieved of " all extra
weight, rose readily, and was easily pulled
down again by means of the anchor rope.—
The farmer and his wife were highly pleased
with their trips, and . while expressing their
gratification, two of their children, one five
and the other three years of age, who had
been looking on with astonishment, scram
bled into the car, and cried out, "Lot me go
up—let me go up I"
The aeronaut proceeded at once to gratify
them, but from some carelessness or accident,
as.he was letting them up, the rope slipped
from his hands, and the balloon mounted up
wards with the velocity of a rocket. The
frantic agony of the parents and the conster
nation of the aeronaut, may be imagined.—
In a minute or two, the balloon had passed
entirely of sight, and was lost in the blue
depths of the sky. Nothing could be done
but to hasten back to Mr. Brooks, at Centra
lia, and ask for advice.
Our informant learns that Mr. Brooks ex
pressed his opinion, that the balloon would
remain in the air about an hour before com
mencing to descend, and while at its greatest
altitude, the children would probably freeze
to flPath, xvoless, in their fright, they had
precipitated themselves from the car.
Mr. Brooks, early on Saturday morning,
set out in the direction the balloon had taken,
in hopes to recover it, and find some trace of
the lost children. We have, up
. to the pre
sent time, heard nothing of his success.
LATER.
THE CHILDREN FOUND.--We now learn,
that on Saturday morning, at daybreak, a
farmer near New Carthage, forty-three miles
from Mr. Harvey's place, discovered the bal
loon suspended in. the air, attached by the
grappling-rope to a tree in his yard. He im
mediately hauled the balloon down, and
found the youngest child asleep, in the bot
tom of the basket, and the eldest, carefully
watching over her little brother. They had
been wafted about by different currents of
air, throughout the night, and had come to a
halt but a little while before they were re
lieved.
The story the girl told, was, that, as the
balloon ascended, she cried piteously to her
father, to pull it down. She said she passed
over a town, where she saw a great many
people, to whom she likewise appealed at the
top of her voice. This place was Centralia.
The ballon was seen to pass over there, but
the people little imagined it carried two per
sons in such danger: Her little brother
cried with cold, and the heroic little girl took
off her apron, covered him, and got him to
sleep. In handling the ropes, she happened
to pull one, which had the effect of bringing
the balloon down, and, although not under
standing the philosophy of the movement,
she was quite content to keep the valve open,
so long as by so doing, she found she ap
proached the earth.
The youthful aerial voyagers were in the
balloon about thirteen hours and a quarter.
It may easily be imagined, that among the
neighbors, where they landed, they were ob
jects of much curiosity and interest. The
girl's presence of mind and loving considera
tion for her brother, may well be remember
ed, while the incident itself, was of such
a remarkable character, that we opine it will
not soon be forgotten in that section. The
boy and girl • were conveyed home as soon as
practicable, and, it is needless to say, were
received with outstretched arms.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT-A HOT SC dragging a
dead body three weeks .—Early in August, Jno.
Rawle, a lad of sixteen years, living in Vul
can°, Amader county, California, who had
vainly been endeavoring to obtain his father's
consent to go to Fraser river, disappeared,
taking with him a valuable horse belonging
to the family. It was supposed he had start
ed for Fraser river, and so little anxiety was
felt in regard to him. On the 25 of August
his body was found in the Buttie Ditch, a
few miles east of Jackson, attached by a
"lariat," to a half dead horse. From ap
pearances, the boy, on the night after leaving
home, lay down to sleep, with the horse tied
to his person, to prevent his escape, The
animal, becoming unmanageable through
fright during the night, had run off and
dragged his master by the rope until the boy's
life was extinct. Afterwards the horse - had
continued to graze around, dragging the body
along for three weeks. • Finally the corpse
bad been dragged into a ditch, where it be
came entangled beyond the horse's strength
to extricate it. In his efforts to pull lobse,
the horse bad cut his neck to the t bone with
the rope. The boy's remains were horribly
mutilated. Most of his limbs were broken
and the flesh rubbed bare from the bone.
WORTII A TRIAL.—An exchange says that
children laboring under a whooping cough,
obtain considerable relief, by breathing the
exhalations from lime which has been used
in gas works.