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is determined to sell all articles usually kept in Grocery
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"Huntingdon, Aug. 10, 1850
SALAIVIANDER SAFES. • '
EVANS & WATSON, No. 26 South Fourth Street,
P iladelphia, have on hand 1
large assortment of Fire an(
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all makes of Locks, equal to an;
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Messrs. EVANS & Warsmw—Gentlemen—lt affords us the
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we purchased of you some few months since, we saved a
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exposed to the calamitous fire in Ranstea.d Place, on the
morning of the 11th instant.
When we reflect that these Safes were located in the
fourth story of the building we occupied, and that they
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GEORGE W. SIMONS 8.; BRO., Jewelers.
Who have purchased six large Safes since.
Aueust 3, 1559-Iy.
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WILLIAM LEWIS,
VOL. XV.
THE GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE.
Mr. Haddock's Account—Three Hundred
Miles in Four Hours—Landing in the Wil
derness—The Balloon Abandoned—Four
Days without Food—Lost in the Woods—
Eating Raw Frogs and Berries—Providen
tial Deliverance.
[From the Watertown Reformer Extra, Oct. 7.1
Nearly every one in this locality is aware
that the second ascension of the Atlantic was
advertised for the 20th of September. The
storm of that and the following day obliged
the postponement of the ascension until the
22d (Thursday.) Every , arrangement had
been made for a successful inflation, and at
37 minutes before 6 p. m. the glad words,
"all aboard," were heard from Mr. La Moun
tain, and myself and that distinguished mro
naut stepped into the car. Many were the
friendly hands he shook—many a fervent
"God bless you," and "happy voyage," were
uttered—and many handkerchiefs waved their
mute adieu. Just as I stepped in my good
friend Fuel stripped off his overcoat and
pressed it upon me, saying that, as Mr. La
Mountain had had no outer garment, we would
need more than we had. I took it, and it did
me good service, but I was never able to re
turn it. Mr. Burnett, of the American, in
the kindest manner supplied us with some
eatables and drinkables. "Let go all," and
away we soared—the horses on the square
"reared and pitched!' a good deal at the nov
el sight, but in an instant all minor sounds
of earth had ceased, and we were lifted in . a
silent sphere, whose shores were without an
echo, their silence equalled only by that of
the grave. Not the least feeling of trepida
tion was experienced—an extraordinary ela
tion took possession of my soul, and fear was
as far removed as though I had been sitting
in my own room at home.
Two or three things struck me in looking
down from an altitude of half a mile. The
small appearance of our village from such a
height, and the beautiful mechanical look
which the straight fences and oblonn-square
fields of the farmers present. The buildings
in the village do not, from such a height, ap
pear to cover a tenth part of the ground.—
The poor old court-house looked like a pepper
box standing on a ten-acre lot, and the first
church-spire barely equalled in size a respec
table May-pole.
As we rose in light fleecy clouds, theylooked
betweenns and the earth like patches of snow
we see lying upon the landscape in Spring
time ' • but when we rose a little higher the
clouds completely shut out the earth, and the
cold white masses below us had precisely the
same look that a mountainous snow-covered
country does as you look down upon it from
a higher mountain. Those who have crossed
the Alps by the Sum pion Pass—or have stood
upon one of the lofty summits of Sierra Ne
vada, and gazed down upon the eternal snows
below and around them, will be able to catch
the idea lam trying to convey. In six min
utes we were far above all the clouds, and the
sun and we were face to face. We saw the time
after that when his face looked very fair to us.
In eight minutes after leaving the earth, the
thermometer kindly loaned us by T. H. Camp
& Co., showed a fall of 24 degrees. It stood
84 when we left. The balloon rotated a good
deal, showing that she was ascending with
great rapidity.
At 5:48 thermometer stood at 42, and fal
ling very fast. At 5:50 we were at least two
miles high—thermometer 34. At this point
a suggestion made just before starting, by
Judge Clark of Plessis, was found to be a
very good one. He had advised the taking
along of some cotton, with which to fill the
ears when at great heights, and my father
had procured me some. The unpleasant ring
ing sensation had now become painful, and I
filled both ears with cotton. This made my
head feel a good deal as a very large hollow
pumpkin may be supposed to, with a hum
ming bird buzzing upon its surface—a com
parison with which, doubtless, many who
read this account will hardly quarrel. At
5:52 we put on our gloves and shawls—an
extra pair for Mr. La Mountain being found
in friend Fayel's overcoat—thermometer 32.
The wet sand bags now became stiff with
cold—they were frozen. Ascending very
rapidly. At 5:54 thermometer 28, and fal
ling. Here we caught our last sight of the
earth by daylight. I recognized the St. Law
rence to the south-west of us, which showed
we were drifting nearly north. At 6 o'clock
•we thought we were descending a little, and
Mr. La mountain directed me to throw out
about twenty pounds of ballast. This shot
us up again—thermometer 26°, falling very
slowly. At 6:os—thermometer 22°—my feet
were very cold. The Atlantic was now full,
and presented a most splendid sight. The
gas began to discharge itself at the mouth,
and its abominable smell, as it came down
upon us, made me sick. I had been trying
some of friend Burnett's "sinews of war,
but everything that would come up left my
poor stomaoh in a flood. A moment's vom
iting made me feel all right again. La Moun
tain was suffering a good deal with cold.—
I passed my thick shawl around his shoulders,
and put the blanket over our knees and feet.
At 6:10 thermometer 18°. We drifted along
until the sun left us, and in a short time
thereafter the balloon began to descend. At
6:30, thermometer 22—rising. Threw over
about 5 pounds ballast. We must have been,
before we began to descend from this height,
3i• miles high. At 6:30, thermometer 23
rising. We were now about stationary, and
thought we were sailing north of east. We
could, we thought ) distinguish water below
us, but unable to recognize it. At 6:38 we
threw over a bag of sand, making 80 pounds
of ballast discharged, leaving about 120 pounds
on band. We distinctly heard a dog bark.
Thermometer 28—rising rapidly. At 6:45,
thermometer 33.
At 6:50 it was dark, and I could make no
more memoranda. I put up my note book,
pencil, and watch, and settled down into the
basket, as much at home as though at my post
in the Reformer office. From this point until
the morning I can only give my experiences
from memory. The figures in the preceding
narrative were all made sirthi3 time, and the
variations of the thermometer casi . be depen
ded upon as accurate.
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We heard, soon after dark, a locomotive whis
tle, and occasionally could hear wagons rumb
ling along the grodnd over a bridge, while
the dogs kept up an almost ceaseless serenade,
as if conscious there was something in the
sky monstrous and unusual. We sailed along,
contented and chatty, until about half past 7,
when we distinctly saw lights, and heard the
roaring of a mighty waterfall. We descen
ded into a valley near a very high mountain,
but as the place appeared rather forbidding,
we concluded to go up again. Over with 30
pounds of ballast, and skyward we sailed. In
about 20 minutes we again descended, but
this time no friendly light or "deep-mouthed
watch-dogs' heavy" bay greeted us. We
were over a dense wilderness, and settled
down over a small lake. We had our life
preservers ready for use, but got up again by
throwing over all our ballast but 18 pounds.
Mr. La .Mountain said that it was folly and
madness to stay up any longer, that we were
over a great wilderness, and the sooner we
descended the better. We concluded to set
tle down by the, side of a tree, tie up and
wait until morning. In a moment we were
near the earth, and as we fell, I grasped the
extreme top of a tall spruce, which stopped
her descent, and we were soon fastened to it
by the large drag-rope.. The touch of that
spruce sent a thrill of discomfort to my heart,
for I knew that its kind did not grow in any
well settled, nor any warm country.
Mr. La Mountain said after he looked
around and made as much of an examination
of the scenery as we could do for the dark
ness and rain, (for it had rained the past
hour,) that the Atlantic was played out—
" we were far into the woods, and if we got
out alive we ought to be thankful."
We rolled ourselves up in blankets, and
patiently waited until morning. The rain
dripped down upon us in rivulets from the
great balloon, and it was not long before we
were wet as men could be. After a night
passed in great discomfort we were glad to
see the first faint ray of daylight. Cold and
wet, and rainy, the morning broke, the typi
cal precursor, we were to learn, of many
other mornings to be spent in those unin
habited wilds. We waited until 6 o'clock, in
hopes the rain would cease, and that the
rays of the sun, by warming the gas in the
balloon, would give us ascending power suf
ficient to get up again, for the purpose, if for
no other, of obtaining a view of the country
into which we had descended. The rain did
not cease, and we concluded to throw all we
had out of the balloon except a coat apiece,
the life-preservers, the anchor and the com
pass. Overboard, then they went—good
shawls and blankets. Mr. Fayle's overcoat,
bottle of ale and a flask of cordial, ropes and
traps of all kinds. The Atlantic, relieved of
her wet load, rose majestically with us, and
we were able to behold the country below.—
It was an unbroken wilderness of lakes and
spruce—and we felt, then, that we had gone
too far, through a miscalculation of the veloc
ity of the balloon. As the current was dri
ving us still to the north, we dare not stay
up, as we were drifting further and still
further to that " frozen tide" from which we
knew there was no escape. Mr. La Moun
tain seized the valve cord and discharged
gas, and we descended in safety by the side
of a tall spruce, We made the Atlantic fast
by her anchor, and for a moment talked over
what we should do. We had not a mouthful
to eat. No protection at night from the damp
ground, were distant we knew not how far
from any habitation, were hungry to start,
with no earthly hope of raising a fire, and
no distinct idea as to where we were. We
concluded to trust to the compass kindly
loaned by H. K. Newcomb, Esq., and take a
course which should bring us out of any wil
derness we might be in. We settled in our
minds that we were either in John Brown's
Tract or in the great Canada wilderness—to
the south we thought, of the Ottawa—and
knew that a course south by east would take
us out, if we had strength enough to travel
the distance. La Mountain stepped up to the
balloon and gave the edge of the basket a
parting shake, saying, " Good-bye, old Atlan
tic," and I fancied I could see a tear in his
honest eye when he said it. He seemed
greatly to regret his inability to perform his
engagements at the Kingston and New York
State Fairs, at both of which he was adver
tised to make ascensions.
To the south-east then we started. After
traveling about a mile and a half, we came to
the bank of a small creek, flowing down from
the westward. At this point, we were agree
ably surprised to find some one had been
there before us, for we found several small
trees cut down, the coals from an old fire,
and a half barrel which had contained
pork. I eagerly examined 'the stamp. It
read : J :1
This settled the question that we were in
Canada, for I very well knew that no inspec
tion of pork ever found its way into the
interior of New York State. We traveled
all day Friday up the unknown creek, which
kept its general course to the south of west,
crossing it about noon on a floating log, and
striking on its southern bank, a " blazed"
track, which led us up to' the deserted tim
ber road, lying on the opposite side from a
large lumbering shanty. We hoped one of
the lumber roads might take us out to a set
tlement, but after traveling up them all until
they terminated in the wilderness,„we con
cluded to cross the creek to the shanty, and
stay in it all night. La Mountain got across
safely; but my weight was greater than his,
and the raft left me into the stream. I sank
in all over, and swam out, though it required
all my strength to do so, and on reaching the
bank I found myself so chilled as scarcely to
be able to stand. I took off my clothes,
wrung them, and we proceeded to the shanty,
where we found plenty of refuse straw, but
it was dry, and under a pile of it we crawled
—pulling it over our heads and faces in the
hope that our breath might aid in warming
our chilled bodies. I think the most revenge
ful, steny heart would have pitied our condi-
HUNTINGDON, PA., OCTOBER 19 9 1859.
TRAMPING IN THE WOODS.
" Mess Pork,
P. M.,
Montreal."
---PERSEVERE.-
tion then. The weary hour§ of night at last
wore away, and weleld a new council. It
was evident, we reasoned, that the creek we
were upon was used for " driving" logs in
the spring season. If, then, we followed it
to its confluence with the Ottawa, or some
stream which emptied into the Ottawa, we
would in time get out the same way the tim
ber went out. The roof of the shanty was
covered with the halves of logs, scooped out
in a manner familiar to all woodmen. These
were light and dry, and would form an excel
lent raft. Why not, then,
take four of these,
tie them to cross pieces by withes and such
old things as we could find around the shanty,
and pole the structure down to that civiliza
tion which a saw log ought to be able to reach.
Such was the course we adopted. We drag
ged the logs down to the creek and La Moun
tain tied them together, as he was evidently
more of a sailor than myself. We got under
way, and as we pushed off a crow set up a
distant cawing—an inauspicious sign and
ominous of the great trials and sufferings in
store for us. We pulled down the stream
about ten miles and came abruptly upon an
immense pine tree which had fallen across
the stream, completely blocking the passage
of the raft. No alternative was left but to
untie the pieces and attempt to push them
through under the log. This was at last
done ; tied the raft together again and poled
her down stream. To-day we ate each a
raw frog, all we could find, and began to feel
that we were hungry. But there was no
complaining—our talk was of the hopeful
future, and the civilization we hoped yet to
reach. Down the creek we went in a lake
some two miles long, and into which we of
course supposed the stream passed, having its
outlet at the lower end. We followed down
the northern bank, keeping always in shal
low spots, so that our poles could touch the
bottom, until we arrived at the bottom of the
lake, where we found no outlet, and turned
back upon the southern bank in quest of it.
On reaching the beak of the lake we found
that the current of the creek turned abruptly
to the right which was the reason of our
losing it.
We felt happy to have found it again, and
plied our poles like heroes. We passed, du
ring the day, the spot where we had first
struck the creek, and where we had made a
sight landmark; which might afterward. aid
us in finding the Atlantic, should we even
wish to do so, in order to get her out. At
night we did not stop, but kept the raft going
dawn -through the shades of awful forests,
whose solemn stillness seemed. to hold the an
revealed mystery of our darkening future.—
About 10 o'clock it began to rain again.—
We stopped the "vessel," and crawled in
under some " tag" alders on the bank, where
our extreme weariness enabled us to get, per
haps, half an hour's sleep. Rising again,
(for it was easier to poll at night in the rain
down an unknown stream, than to lie on the
ground and freeze,) we pressed on for a
couple of hours, until about 3 o'clock, when
nure exhaustion induced us to stop again,—
this time we found a spot where the clayey
bank lacked a little of coming down to the
water. On the mud we threw our little bun
dle of straw, and. sat down with our feet
drawn under us, so that our bodies presented
as little surface as possible for the rain to
beat upon. But we could not stand such an
uncomfortable position long, and as daylight
of the Sabbath broke upon us, we were pol
ling down the stream ip a drizzling rain.—
At eight o'clock we came to a place where
the stream canoned—rushing over a stony
bed, down a steep descent, between high
rocks on either bank. To get our raft down
this place was regarded as hopeless. We tied
up and examined the shore. Here, again,
we found unmistakable evidence of lumber
men, as they had evidently camped at this
point, to be bandy by the attempts they were
doubtless obliged to make to get the timber
down the canon. The rapids were about the
third of a mile long, and in all the rapids of
Black River, there is nothing so wild and ro
mantic as these. We descended the bank
and thoughtit best to try ourluck on foot. Af
ter traveling about a mile, we found the bank
so tangled and rugged, and ourselves so much
exhausted, that locomotion was impossible.—
So we concluded to go back, and if we could
get the raft down a piece at a time, we
would go on with her; if not, we would
build as good a place as possible to crawl into,
and prepare for death.
We went back, and after examining the
stream attentively, concluded to try to get
the raft down. We at once commenced, and
I freely confess this the most trying and la
borious work of a life of labor. The pieces
would not float over a rod at a time, before
they would stick on some stone which the
low water left above the surface, and then
you must pry it over in some way, and pass
it along to the next obstruction. We were
obliged to get into the stream, often up to
the middle, and there I several times fell
headlong—completely using up our compass,
which now frantically pointed in any direc
tion its addled head thought desirable. The
water had unglued the case, and it was ruin
ed. After long hours of such labor, we got
the raft down, and La, Mountain again tied
it together. Passing .on, in about an hour
we came to a large lake—ten miles long,
and six miles broad. Around it we must,
of course, pass until we should find the out
let. So we turned up to the right, and pressed
on with as much resolution as could be ex
pected. To-day we found one clam, which I
insisted La Mountain should eat, as he was
weaker than myself, and had eaten little or
nothing on the day we went up. Around we
went, into all the indentations of the shore,
keeping always in shallow water. At last
we stopped at a place we thought least ex
posed to the wind. We laid down upon the
cold ground, having lifted up the end of our
raft so that the wind might not drift it away
in the night. We were cold when we laid
down, and both of us trembled by the hour
like men suffering from a severe attack of the
ague. The wind had risen just at night, and
the dismal surging of the waves upon the
shore formed, I thought, a. fitting lullaby to
slumbers so disturbed and dismal as ours.
By this time on; clothes were nearly; tbrn off.
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My pantaloons were slit up both legs, and
waistbands nearly torn off. My boots leaked,
and our mighty wrestlings in the canons had
torn the skin from my ankles and hands.—
La. hat was gone; the first day
out he had thrown away his woolen drawers
and stockings, as they dragged him down by
the weight of the water they absorbed. We
slept but little. It really seemed as though,
during the night. we passed through the hor
rors of a dozen deaths. At daylight, we got
up by degrees—first on one knee then on the
other—so stiff and weak we could hardly
stand.
Again upon the most endless lake we went
—followed round its shore for an outlet.—
About 10 o'clock we found a broad, northern
stream, which we thought was the outlet we
were seeking, and we entered it with great
joy, believing that it would take us to our
long sought Ottawa. Shortly after entering
the stream it widened out, and assumed the
form of a lake. We'voled up the westerly
shore for about 7 miles, but found we were
again deceived. On our way up Mr. La M.
sang these pretty lines:
"Cheer up your hearts, my men ;
Let nothing fright you;
Be of a gallant mind—
Let that delight you."
His voice was hardly above a whisper, but
the song was a source of great comfort to me.
His, indeed, was a "gallant mind," which the
extraordinary hardships and dangers of our
position had not daunted. But when we
found that all the weary miles of our morn
ing travel had been in vain, and had to be re
traced, my resolution certainly failed me for
a moment, and I sat down upon my end of
the raft, and felt like shedding one tear of
genuine regret. Yet we felt that our duty,
as Christian men, was to press on as long as
we could stand, and leave the issue with God.
It had now been four full days since we
ate a meal. All we had eaten in the mean
time was a frog apiece, four clams, and a few
wild berries, whose acid properties and bitter
taste had probably done us more harm than
good. Our strength was beginning to fail
very fast, and our systems were evidently
about to undergo an extraordinary change.
I did not permit myself to think of food—the
thought of a well covered table would have
been too much. I thought over all of poor
Strain's sufferings on the Isthmus of Darien,
where he too was paddling a raft down an
unknown stream—but never believed he could
stand half the amount of suffering he did.—
Besides, he had means to make a fire—we
had none.
He was upon a stream which he knew
would lead to the sea and safety—we were
upon waters whose flow we knew really noth
ing of, and were as much lost as though in
the Mountains of the Moon. But we "could
not give it up so," and took fresh courage as
troubles appeared to thicken.
Well, we turned the raft around, and poled
her back toward the place where we had en
tered this last lake. We bad gene about h
mile when I heard the sound of a gun, quick
ly followed by another report. No sound was
ever so sweet to me as that. We halloed as
loud as we could a good many times, but
could get no response. We kept our poles
going, and had gone about half a mile, when
I called La Mountain's attention to what I
thought was a 'smoke curling up among the
trees on the side of a hill. My own eyesight
had begun to fail me to an extent, that I could
not depend upon it when a long, steady gaze
was necessary. He said it was smoke, and
that ho thought just below it, on the bank,
was a bark canoe. In a few moments the
blue smoke rolled gently, yet unmistakably,
above the tree tops, and we felt that we were
saved. Such a revulsion of feeling was al
most too much for us. We could hardly be
lieve our senses, and credited anything favor
able to our condition with the utmost caution.
Our bitter disappointments had taught us
that lesson.
We paddled the raft with the ends of our
poles directly across the lake, near, perhaps,
three-fourths of a mile wide, and made for
the canoe. It proved to be a large one, evi
dently an Indian's. Up the bank I pressed,
leaving La Mountain at the canoe to cut off
a retreat by the Indian, in case he was timid
and wished to avoid us. I came at once upon
the shanties of a lumbering wood, and from
the chimney of the furthest building, a broad
volume of smoke was rising. I halloed—a
noise was heard inside, and a noble looking
Indian came to the door. "Vous parley Fran
eais ?" was my eager inquiry as I grasped
his outstretched hand. " Yes, Sir, and Eng
lish, too." He drew me into the cabin, and
there was the head of the party, noble-hearted
Scotchman, named Angus Cameron. I im
mediately told my story—that we came in
with a balloon, were lost, and had been four
days without food, asking where we were.—
Imagine my surprise when ho said we were
one hundred and fifty miles due north of Ot
tawa—in the dense, uninhabited forest, whose
only limit was the Arctic circle. In a word,
we were nearly 300 miles in a due north
course from Watertown, in latitude 47.
Dinner was all ready. The party consisted
of four persons—Mr. Cameron, and his assis
tant, who was also named Cameron; LaMad
MacDougall—a half-breed, and his son Beau
ceil. I despatched the young Indian for La
Mountain, who came in after a moment, the
absolute picture of wretchedness. All that
the cabin contained was freely tendered us,
and we began to eat. Language is inadequate
to express our sensations while doing so.--
The clouds had all lifted from our sombr) fu
ture, and the " silver lining " shone all the
brighter for the deep darkness through which
we had passed.
Here let me state that the stream we came
down so far with our raft is called Filliman's
Creek; the large lake we sailed around is
called Bosketong Lake, and drains into Bos
ketong River—which flows into the Gatineau.
The Gatineau joins the Ottawa opposite Otta
wa City. Mr. Cameron assured us that these
streams are so tortuous, and in many places
so rapid, that no set of men could get a raft
down, no matter how well they knew the
country, nor how much provisions they might
have. He regarded oar deliverance as purely
Providential, and many times remarked that
Editor and Proprietor.
NO, 17.
we would certainly have perished but for see
ing his smoke.
Mr. Cameron was hunting timber for his
employers
• (Gilmour & f Ottawa,) and
was to start in' two days Co., for `dciwn the Gati
neau., to his headquarters at Desert. If we
would stay until he started, we were welcome,
be said, to food and accommodations, and he
would take us down to Desert in his canoe,
and at that point we could get Indians' to take
us further on. He also said that he had in
tended to look for timber.on Filliman's Creek,
near where the balloon would be found, as we
could describe the locality to him, and would
try to look it up, and make tho attempt cto
get it to Ottawa. This would be a long and
tedious operation, as the portages are very
numerous between the creek and Desert—
something over twenty—one of them three
miles long. Over these portages of course
the silk must be carried on the backs of In
dians.
After finishing up his business in the vi
cinity where we found him, on Friday Mr.
Cameron started on his return. We stopped
on our way up the creek, at• the place where
we had erected our signal by which to find
the balloon. We struck back for the place,
and in about twenty minutes found her im
paled on the top of four smallish spruce
trees, tore very much. La Mountain con
cluded to abandon her. He took the valve
as a memento, and I cut out the letters "tic,"
which had formed a part of her name, and
brought it home with me. We reached what
is known as the "New Farm," on Friday
night, and there ended our sleeping on the
ground—an operation always unpleasant, bnt
particularly so at the fall of the year. On
Saturday we reached Desert through a
drenching rain, from which there was pro
tection.
At Desert we were a good deal troubled to
obtain Indians to take us out. At last we
appealed to Mr. John Backus, a kind hearted
American trader, who agreed to procure us
a complement of Red Skins sufficient to. take
us to Beau's place-60 miles—where it was
thought we might obtain horses. Sunday
morning we started from Desert, and reached
Alexi& Beau's about 6P. M. The scenery ,
upon this part of our route was sublime and
imposing. The primeval forest stood as•grand
and silent as when. created. The Indians
we had in our employ to-day surpassed any
thing I ever beheld in physical vigor and en
durance.
• There were fifteen portages to be made
during the day's run of sixty miles. They
would seize the canoe, jerk it upon their shoul
ders with a swing, and start upon a dog trot
as unconcernedly - as though bearing no bur
den. Arriving at the bottom of the fall, they
would toss the canoe into the stream, cry out,
"Arretis la !" and away we would go again,
gliding down the stream like an arrow. We
traveled fifteen miles, and made seven porta
ges in one hour and forty minutes.
At Alexis L'Bean's we first beheld a horse
and vehicle, which they called a "Buckboard"
—simply a couple of boards reaching from
one bolster to the other, upon which the seats
were placed. Starting at 7in the evening,
we traveled nearly all night through the for
ests, over one of the worst roads that was
over left unfinished, and reached Brook's farm,
a sort of frontier tavern, in the early morning,
where we slept a couple of hours, and 'after
breakfast pressed on by the stage to Ottawa,
which we reached at 5 o'clock on Monday af
ternoon. Our first rush was to the telegraph
office, whence the trembling wires sped the
glad news of our safety to the "loved ones at
home." At Ottawa we were most hospitably
entertained. To Robert Bell, Esq., editor of
The Citizen, and President of the Ottawa and
Prescott Railway, as well -as to Joseph Au
mond Esq., we are under special
,obligations
by acts of kindness which will not soon be
forgotten. Indeed from the time we loft
Basketong until we reached home, we met
with nothing but one continual stream of con
gratulation and' proffered kindness.
At Ogdensburg, and all along the line of
the Potsdam and Watertown Railroad, we
found large crowds awaiting our arrival,
which gave unmistakable evidence of the deep
sympathy felt in our fate.
Several general conclusions and remarks
shall terminate this narrative, already too
long. " Why did you permit yourselves to
go so far ?" will naturally be asked: To
which we can only reply that the wind Was'
exceeding light when we ascended ; that we'
were soon among the clouds, and consequent
ly unable to take cognizance of our course,-
or to judge how fast we were traveling. Per
haps it is well here to remark that when you
are sailing in a balloon you are utterly un
conscious of motion, unless you can see the'
earth. Nor can you tell by a compass, in
which direction you are traveling, unless you•
are sufficient of an astronomer to judge from
the shifting angles formed by certain stars.—
In a word, if you cannot see the earth, you
cannot tell how fast, nor in which direction
you move. This will, perhaps, explain why
we unconsciously drifted off to latitudes so
remote. When we rose above the thick mas
ses of clouds, before sundown, we undoubt
edly struck a rapid current which carried
us northeast. It is my opinion that, after
we had traveled in this current about one
hour we struck another current, from a va
riation of our altitude, which bore us off to
the north-west. When we descended near
the earth the first time we ought to have come
down. But we were unwilling to land at
night in a deep wood, even though we knew
we were not far from habitations, and we
thought it best to pick out a better place.--
This was our error, and it came near being a
fatal one to us—it certainly was to the Atlan
tic. In trying to find our " better place" to
land, we were unconsciously up longer than we
supposed, and as we were traveling in a cur
rent which swept us off to the northward at
the rate of 100 miles an hour, we soon reach
ed a country not pleasant nor profitable to
•
land a balloon in.
The loss to Mr. La Mountain by the calam
ity which has overtaken him, does not stop
with the loss of his balloon. He had several
profitable engagements to fill, which must, of
course all go over, entailing disappointment
upon the public, and loss upon himself. In
his present position, in poor health, and not
"overly" rich, I cannot but hope some capi
talist will furnish him with sufficient means
to carry on his undertakings. Of course the
present mishap has not changed his views
relative to ballooning, nor has it mine. Mr.
La Mountain is a brave man; he probably
does not know what personal fear is. Such
traits will always command the respect of those:
who know that the fine temper of steel is only'
imparted after exposure to severe tests, be-'-
fore whose intensity meaner metals perish ? _
or sink into blackened and worthless dross.
Join A. HADDOCK.
Watertown, Oct. 5, 1859.
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