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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1869.
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No. 23.
jvr. O K, E & SO 1ST
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l^aooii Sc, Western
HAlIjROA x>.
—DAY TRAIN.—
Leave Macon 7.45A. M., arrive at Atlanta, 2 P. M
Atlanta?^ A.M.,arriveatMacon, 1.30 P. M
—NIGHT TRAIN —
Leave Macon 8.40 P.M. .arrive at Atlanta, 4£ P. M
“ Atlauta7AP-M..arrive at Macon 3.10 A.M
Macon & Brunswick Railroad.
OFFICERS.
G. H . HAZLE HURST. ........ President.
T • 8CHMIDT....... MasterTranspqrtation.
H. C. DAY Secretary &. Treasurer.
LeaveMacon 3 P.M..arrive at Macon, 10.30 A.M.
Leave Hawkinsville 7 A. M.,arrive at Hawkins-
ville,6.30 P. M.
March 1 I 186a H
Schedule of Macon & Augusta R. R.
Leaves Camak, daily, at 12.30 P.M.
“ Milledgeville 6.30 A.M.
Arrives at Milledgeville 4.20 P.M.
“ Camak 9.00 A.M.
Passengersleaving Augusta or Atlanta on Day
Passenger Train of Georgia Railroad will make
close connection at Camakfoe Lnteimediatepoints
on the above road, and also for Macon,dire. Pas-
lengersleaving Milledgevilleat 5.30, A. M..reach
Atlanta and Augusta same day,and will make
close connections at either place for principal
nointsinadjoining States.
1 E. W .COLE, Gen’l Supt.
Augusta, January 7,’ 1868 4 tf
WAND0 FERTILIZER.
T he wandq mining and manufac
turing COMPANY offers to the Planters
and Farmers of the South, their FERTILIZER,
kuow as the
“VVAND0 FERTILIZER,”
Which the experience of the past season has prov
ed to be one of the most valuable in our market.
It has for its base the materials from the Phosphate
Beds of the Company on Ashley River, and is
prepared at their works at the
EAST END OF HASEL-STREET,
in this city. In order to guarantee its uniformity
and maintain its high standard, the Company has
made arrangements with the distinguished Chem
ist, Dr. C. U. SHEPHERD, Jr., who carefully
analyzes all the amoniacal and other material pur
chased by the Company, and the prepared
FERTILIZER,
before being offered for sale. The Company is re
solved to make an article which will prove to be
a COMPLETE MANURE, and give entire satis
faction.
For terms, circulars and other information,
APPLY TO.
WM. C. DUKES & CO Agents,
NO. 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
Charleston, S. C.,Feb. 16,1869 7 3m
JOHN HARIG,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
T. H. BEHN,
COTTON and RICE FACTOR
AND
General Commission Merchant,
West of the Exchange,
BAY STREET,
September 8,1868
SAVANNAH,GA
36 ly*
SOUTH-WESTERN R. R. CO.
OFFICE, MACON,GA.,March24th, 1868-
CoLu.in.bus Train—Daily.
Leave Macon 5.15 A. M,
Arrive at Columbus 11.15 A. M.
Leave Columbus 12.45 P. M.
Arrive at Macon - , 6.20 P. M.
Etifaula Train—Daily.
Leave Macon 8.00 A. M.
Arrive atEufaula ;>.'30 P. M.
Leave Eufauia 7-20 A.M.
Arrive at Macon .... 4.50 P. M.
Connecting with Albany .Train at S nithville
Leave Smithville \Ai. P.M.
Arrive at Albany - 3.11 P- M-
Leave Albany 9.35 A. M.
Arrive at Smithville 11.00 A. M.
Connecting with Fort Gaines Train at Cuthbert.
Leave Cuthbert 3.57 P.M.
Arrive at Fort Gaines 5.40 P.M.
Leave Fort Gaines ...— - 7.05 A.M.
Arrive at Cuthbert - 9.05 A.M.
Connecting with Central Railroad and M. con
A Western Railroad Trains at Macon, and Mont
gomery A, West Point Trains at Columbus.
VIRGIL POWERS,
Engineer & Superintendent.
Schedule of the Georgia Railroad.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 29tli
1865, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
Railroad will run as follows:
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Daily, Sundays excepted.)
Leave Augusta at — 7.10 A. M.
“ Atlanta at 5 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta — 3.30 P. M.
“ at Atlanta ...--.6.10 P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at - — 3 45 P. M.
*• Atlanta at 6.45 P.M.
Arrive at Augusta ....5.30 A. M.
Atlanta 4.00 A.M.
BERZELIA PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at -.... 4.30 P.M.
“ iierzeliaat 7.00 A.M.
Arrive at Augusta - .8.45 A M.
“ at Berzelia -6.15 P.M,
Passengers for Milledgeville,Washington and
Athens,Ga., must take Day Passenger Train from
Augusta and Atlanta.
Passengersfor West Point, Montgomery, Sel-
Bia, Mobile and New Orleans must leave Augusta
°u Night Passenger Train at 3.45 P. M., to make
close connections.
Passe ugers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand J unc
hon, Memphis. Louisville and St. Louis can take
cither train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and Baggage checkedthrough
to the above places.
Pullman’s Palace SleepingCars on all Night
Passenger Trains.
E. W. COLE, Gen’l Super in t’dt.
Augusta, March 26,1868 4
Dr. Gr. W.
ShLS.ide.nt
JONES,
(Lfientist.
jitLmta AL fUfest tPaint
RAIL ROAR.
Hay Passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta - 4.4.) A. M.
Arrive at West Point.. 9.50 P. M.
D.ay Passenger Train—Inward.
Leave \Vest Point 1.30 P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 6.20 P. M.
Sight Freight and Passenger—Outward.
Leave Atlauta 4.15 p -
Arrive at West Point 11-40 P. M.
Sight Freightn.nd Passenger Train—Inward,
Leave West Point ...... 4.20 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta ........ 11.30 A. M.
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OFFICE SOUTH CAROLINA R. R. CO., ?
Augusta, Ga., March 25, 1868. )
(AN AND AFTER SUNDAY, 29th March,
' 1868, the Mai and Passenger Trains of this
Road will leave and arrive at through Central
Ocpot,Georgia Railroad, as follows:
Morning Mail and Passenger Train
^ °r Charleston, connecting Train for Columbia,
South Carolina, Charlotte Road, aud Wilming-
t°n and Manchester Railroad.
Leave Central Depot at 5.50 A.M.
Arrive atCeutral Depot ....... 3.30 P. M.
Night Passenger Sf Accommodation Train
F or Charleston, connecting with Train for Co-
*utnbia,and witliGreenville andColumbiaRail
road:
Leave Central Depot at 3.50 P. M.
Arrive atOentral Depotat 7.00 A.M.
II. T. PEAKE,
General Superintendent
ALL DENTAL opera
tions performed with skill
and care. Artificial teeth
inserted in all styles known
to the profession.
Old cases, not comforta
bly worn, can be made so.
Old Gold Plates taken in part payment for Den
tal operations.
UiPOftice, East Rooms Darien Bank building.
Milledgeville Oct. 13.1868. 41 tf
T. W. WHITE,
fftttatneLf-at-tdicLia,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
Will practice in this and the adjoining counties.
CP* Applications for Homestead Exemptions
under the new law, aud other business before the
Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention.
October 13.1868 41 tf
NEWELL & WILLIAMSON,
Attorneys act Law,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
• M^ILL practice in the counties of the Ocmul
TV gee Circuit, and iu the counties of Wash
ington and Hancock.
Special attention given to applications for
Homestead, aud other business before the Court
of Ordinary.
T. F. Newell. W. W. Williamson.
December 15, 1868 50 ly
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IN
Fine Candies,
FRENCH CONFECTIONERY,
Chocoludes, Fruits, Nuts, Syrups and
Cordials.—Foreign and Domestic
Toys and Fancy Goods.— Tin .
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and Doll Heads.
China Vases and Ornaments,
RUBBERG00DS,
Accordeons and other Musical Instru
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Work-Boxes, Dressing Cases,
Fancy Baskeis, Wiilow-
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A tine Tnfft’s Arctic SodaFo untain,
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attended to and solicited. Our motto is,
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SAVANNAH, GA.
April 20, 1869 16 tf
TAX NOTICE.
rpHE TAX DIGEST OF BALDWIN CO.,
A for the year 1869, will be opened in Mil-
ledgeville, at the Store of S. J. Kidd, on SAT
URDAY, 8th inst., where I will be in attendance
the following days, to-wit:
May 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 21st, 22d, 27th,
28th and 29th.
June 3d, 4tli, 5th, 10th, 11th, 12tli, 17th, 18th,
19th, 24th, 25tli and 26th.
July 1st, 2d, 3d, 8th, 9th and 10th.
Appointments for the County Districts will be
made hereafter.
lip 3 The books will positively be closed on the
20th day of July.
W. E. QUILLIAN, R. T. R.
May 11, 1869 19 tf
From New York Tribune 25th.
BY BALLOON TO EUROPE.
Mons. Chevalier's Balloon Trip Across
the Atlantic from New York—A Fa-
.mous Proliant.
OFFER EXTRAORDINARY!
Nearly Six Hundred Pages of the
Choicest Reading for 50 cents-
CITY TAXES.
C ITY TAX PAYERS will please bear in mind
that the Books are ready for the reception of
TAXES, for the year 1868. The Clerk will be in
his office from 9 to 12 A. M., and from 2 to 5 P. M.,
to wait on the Tax payers. Call in these hours
and settle. Don’t all call at ouce.
P. FAIR, Clerk & Treasurer.
December 22, 1868 51 tf
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January 19, 1869 . 3 tf
To the heirs of Sylvanus Prince, deceased,
late of Baldwin county.
TYTOTICE.—Three months after date, I will ap-
_L 1 ply to the Ordinary of Baldwin county for an
order requiring the administrator of said Sylva
nus Prince to execute titles to me for three liuu-
dred and twenty-eight acres of land in Baldwin
county, according to the terms of the bond for ti
tles, of said deceased, dated December 12, 1859—
said laud being the same sold to me by said de
ceased, and now in my possession.
|JOHN J. BUCK.
March 2, 1869 9 3m
D ISSOLUTION.—The Copartnership hereto
fore existing between BISCHOF & MON
HEIMER, was dissolved by mutual consent on
the 15th February, 1869.
A. BISCHOF,
H. MONHEIMER.
t3T Those indebted to above firm, will come
forward and make some settlement. Books must
be closed in some way—either by money or notes.
A. BISCHOF.
H MONHEIMER.
March 30, 1869 13 tf
Fox* Sale,
A FIRST RATE GIN BAND, six inches wide,
thirty-four feet long.
Also, Wooden running Gear for a Gin.
Apply at the RECORDER OFFICE.
Milledgeville, Feb’y 2,1869 5 tf
I N ORDER to give the people an opportunity
to become better acquainted with their beau
tiful magazine, “ONCE A MONTH,” the pub
lishers will send the first six numbers of this year
for 50 cents. Each number of “Once a Month”
contains 96 double-column pages of the best sto
ries aud entertaining and instructive reading to
be found in any magazine in the country. The
subscription price is $2 a year. Its typographical
beauty is not excelled.
Send 50 cents, and you will get this beautiful
magazine from January to June ot this year, con-
taiumg 576 pages of choice reading.
Address T. S. ARTHUR & SONS.
809 A.811 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
May 4, 1809 18 3t
"W^ool Carding-
-AND- &
JVI^XISrTTP’^.CTTTRIIsrO.
—o::o—
T HE MILLEDGEVILLE MANUFACTUR
ING CO. having refitted their WOOL
MACHINERY', are prepared to receive Wool for
Carding into ROLLS, or Manufacturing into
KERSEYS. All work entrusted to them will re-
ceive prompt and careful atteutiou.
The highest market price paid for Wool, in
GOODS or CASH.
M. WAITZFELDER, President.
Milledgeville, Ga.. May 11,1809 19 6t
DRY GOODS!
CROCKERY,
Saddlery, and Harness, &c., &c.,
FOR SALE BY
T. T. WINDSOR, & CO.,
milledgeville, ga.
T HE Citizens of Baldwin and adjoins
ing counties will find a large and
good assortment of
Brown and Bleached Goods of all quali
ties.
Calicoes, of all grades,
Dress Goods in greul variety,
Hosiery, Gloves and Shelf Goods oj all
sorts. -
The most complete assortment of
co-^VF.g^ S3
ever offered for sale in this place, consisting of
Miles & Co’s Philadelphia work; Shelley &
Bros’ North Carolina work; Butchelder & Co’s
Brogans,aud Children’s Misses’ and Ladies fine
work of all styles.
HATS, of Wool, Felt, Straw, Panama, Ac
CBOCKIRY,
A full line of everything that can be called for,
with Glassware and China in Plaiu aud Gilt Tea
Sets.
S^ID ID ILEIFLV,
From the old Army up to the fine Morgan Cavalry
Saddle
Harness-Single and Double,
Blind Bridles, Riding Bridles, Whips, &c
METALIC BTJBIAL CASES,
Plain, Half Satin, and full Satin Trimmed, iu
Plain Cases and Caskets.
In the Grocery Store next door to the Drug
Store of John M. Clark, will be found
Provisions, Corn, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Sugars,
Coffee, Syrups, Molasses, and everything found
iu a Grocery Stock, all of which will be sold at
lowest market rates for CASH.
T. T. Windsor & Co.
Milledgeville, Ga., May 18, 1869 20 tf
About three months ago a small par
agraph in one of the morning papers
announced the arrival on our shores of
a balloonist of the name of Chevalier,
who was going to make an aerial voy
age from New York to Europe. Read
ers of the paragraph recalled “Prof.”
Lowe’s money-making fiasco in a sim
ilar project a few years ago, and dis
missed Chevalier from mind as a hum
bug. Mons. Chevalier however, little
recked what such people said about
him—indeed, does not appear to have
cared whether ihe general public said
or knew anything at all of him, for
scarcely a word in his behail has been
seen iu the public prints from that day
to this. Meanwhile he has been con
sulting with gentlemen whose eounle
nance and support are worth having—
such men as Prof. Doremus and Prof.
Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute,
and a number of solid men of means
down town, and to-day the great en
terprise is in a most auspicious stale—
the balloon aud its appertenances in
complete order, the connection with
the gas pipes for supplying gas made
at Landman’s Park, and the period of
departure definitely fixed for about the
middle ol July.
Who is Chevalier f
He was-born in Si. Petersburg, in
1836, being the son of an officer of the
Russian army. The Emperor Alexan
der, himself, stood godfather at his
christening ; but Mons. Chevalier
claims a closer relationship to iho Czar
than that of godson even, for his moth
er was an Anowfrief—which is the
family name of the Grand Duke Con
stantine who ought, by the right of de
scent, to be on the ilirone instead of
the present Autocrat. After having
gone through the wars against Schamyl
the Circassian, with his father, young
Chevalier was taken to Switzerland by
bis mother, where he was placed in the
University of Geneva, to be educated
for a surgeon. He finally abandoned
surgery, however, for chemistry and
metallurgy, ami eventually followed his
brother to Australia, where they en
gaged in mining. In a few years he
had returned to Paris, where, in 1SG2,
he was studying photography with Na
dar and Disderi. From the days of his
student life, he had a penchant for 4e-
rostation, and had lavished his patri
mony on balloons of all shapes and va
rieties—fish-shaped, bird-shaped, ci
gar-shaped, cylindrical, with machin
ery and without, but beyond the grati
fication of his taste for ballooning study,
and no result, save the reduction ofhis
fortune. He finally made one inven
tion in his art, however, which will
give him an enduring fame, and which
goes far towards assuring the success
of his perilous enterprise of traversing
the wide Atlantic. This was the “com
pensator” balloon—a small reservoir
balloon placed beneath the mouth of
the main balloon to receive the gas
which escapes by expansion in high al
titudes, and which in ordinary balloons
is lost. It was during his stay in Paris
with Nadar, that Chevalier engaged in
the greatest ballooning feat in history,
the voyage of
The Famous Balloon “Le Geant."
The remarkable incidents of the as
cent of “Le Geant,” which took place
in Paris in 1864, are doubtless fresh in
the memory of many of our readers.
Chevalier had with him as compagnons
du voyage the Princess De la Tour D’-
Auvergne, a then famous “girl of the
period,” Nadar, M. Delessert, the two
brothers Godard, M. Tirion, great-
grandson of Mongolfier, and M. D. St.
Felix. “Le Geant” was 19-5 feet in
height, held 650,000 cubic feet of gas,
and was of such tremendous power,
that previously to the: final start, it took
up fifty-four soldiers of the National
Guard, or as many as could be packed
into the car and its rigging. The bal
loon was provided lor the voyage with
india rubber beds, a printing press,
from which bulletins in the shape ot
printed handbills were scattered out
during the voyage, with directions in
several languages to forward them
to Paris and London, a complete pho
tographic apparatus, and a set of the
best astronomical instruments, present
ed by various scientific societies. Le
Geant left Paris at 5 p. m., on the 16th
of September. The same night at 10
o’clock, its electric lights attracted the
attention of the guard on boundary post
between Holland and Germany, who
informed the balloonist that they were
700 miles from home. They then as
cended again, and during the night
Chevalier bad the proud pleasure of
seeing the value of his compensator
balloon practically demonstrated, as it
was at one time half full of gas that
would have otherwise been lost, and
rendered further progress impossible.
The landing was effected the next day,
at 8 o’clock, not without serious casu
alties, however, as the Princess, Nadar,
St. Felix, Delessert, and Chevalier, all
had limbs broken, and were otherwise
seriously hurt. The balloon had trav
ersed 1500 miles in fifteen hours.
Several other ascents of Chevalier’s
have become historical. 'In 1S67 he
crossed the English Channel from Dub
lin, landing in Westmoreland, after a
sail of 154 miles, done in four hours.—
In 1S63, he ascended from Hull, Eng
land, and attained the altitude of 30,-
q00 feet, a height which lie claims has
never been equaled, and beyond which
he believes it is not given to man to go.
He was privileged to witness on this
occasion, phenomena hitherto unre
corded, but it was at the expense of
the most accute suffering. At the
height of 14,000 feet breathing became
difficult, and some pigeons he had with
him were unable to fly ; at 30,000 feet
the blood started from every pore of
his body, as well as from nose, eyes,
and ears, and his clothes were saturat
ed.
How the Atlantic Voyage is to be Accom
plished.
M. Chevalier has made 156 balloon
voyages, ami may be presumed to have
a moderately good undeistanding of
the difficulties liable to a voyage across
the Atlantic. He declares that these
difficulties are not peculiar to the At
lantic voyage, except that it is one of
unusual extent and duration. They
naturally range themselves under two
heads, viz :
I. Maintaining the buoyancy of the
balloon.
II. Keeping to a direct course.
The great cause ofthe diminution ot
the buoyancy of a balloon is the rising
and falling in the altitude of its course.
In the case ofthe ordinary balloon, ev-
ery flight above the average level costs
an expenditure of both gas and ballast.
The gas is lost by expansion and con
sequently overflowing from the mouth
of the balloon, this loss of gas then
causes the balloon to sink below the
course, which in turn compels the
throwiug out ol ballast to bring it up
again. The loss of gas in fluctuations
is a verv serious consideration in the
case of a balloon of the size of that in
which Prof. Chevalier is to make his
irans-Atlantic trip. “L’ Esperance,"
tor that is its name, has a capacity for
30,000 feet the atmospheric pressure is,
say 1- 10th less than at the surface of
the earih, and the gas consequently ex
pands 1 -1 Oth in volume at that eleva
tion. Ifevery time Chevalier’s balloon
should rise 3,000 feet it were to lose
l-10lh of its contents, equal to 96 lbs.
sustaining power, it would not be two
^jays before L' Esperance would sink
into ihe sea never to rise again.
How the Gas and Ballast are Saved.
It is here that M. Chevalier’s own
invention tne “compensator” balloon,
comes into play. Attached to the low
er part of L’ Esperance is a second or
reservoir balloon, which is not inflated
at the earth, but is ready to receive the
excess ofgas resulting from expansion
at high elevation. Prof. Chevalier has
also devised an ingenious contrivance
to secure a rebound of the balloon from
the depression consequent upon one of
these flights without any expenditure
of ballast, which, of course, is most
precious on a long ocean trip. Across
the hoop, to which is fastened the net
ting that covers the balloon above and
the car below, he has extended a wind
lass made of a hollow cylinder. A
rope of sufficient strength and length is
attached to and wound upon this wind
lass. At the lower extremity of the
rope are fastened, at proper inleivals,
a number of small water-proof canvass
bags, whose mouths are kept open by
small rings. Between these, at stated
distances, are disposed a number of
small conical floats, which are intend
ed to serve the purpose ot supporting
the length ofthe rope when it reaches
the sea by the depression ol the bal
loon. As the balloon descends, the
lower portion of the rope is gradually
deposited upon the surface of the sea,
relieving the balloon of its weight until
a sufficient quantity has been thus dis
posed of to arrest the balloon’s further
descent. Suppose the balloon to have
passed through rain show’ers or clouds
highly charged with vapor, during the
night, and the ropes of the netting and
other parts of the apparatus to have be
come heavy with moisture. Not less
than 200 or 300 pounds weight is often
added to a balloon in this manner, and
if their b^sun to dry up the moisture,
the added weight brings the balloon to
the earth.
As soon, however, as the rope from
the car ol L’ Esperance beging to trail
on the surface, the balloon ceases to
fall, ann continues on its way at an un
varying elevation until the sun or wind
takes the heavy moisture out of the rig
ging, when she is enabled to regain her
precious altitude in the skies. Now
again the rope acts as a check to a loo
great ascent with its attendant loss of
gas. The water bags on the rope have
been filled as they were trailed thro’
the water, and the increased weight
prevents a high flight, and keeps the
balloon down to her work, so to speak,
with the whole original power or buoy
ancy of the rebound. By this simple
and beautiful arrangement of the rope
with its water bags, the ballast of the
balloon is diminished or increased at
will ; indeed, the ballast adjusts itself
without the intervention of the seronant,
according to the necessities of the
moment. Prof. Chevalier is confident
that by means of the compensator and
the rope ballast, with such a balloon as
L’.Esperance, constructed for the oc
casion, elevation can be maintained for
a period of one month, should circum
stances require it.
How the Direction is Preserved
The second of the two great prob
lems of the undertaking, is how to keep
the balloon on a direct course. Chev
alier is not by any means a victim to
a belief in balloon navigation. In fact
he has a perfect contempt for the bal
loon, considered as an air-ship, and
says it is good for nothing but for the
purpose of scientific observation. A
balloon, he says, so far from being a
ship, is not even a buoy let loose from
its moorings ; for a buoy floats on the
surface, but the aerial sea has no sur
face. A balloon, says the Professor,
is a jelly-fish immersed in a fluid by
whose every cunent it is helplessly
carried to and fro; the jelly-fish makes
feeble efforts to direct its own course,
with about as much success as those of
a balloon. How, then, is M. Cheva
lier to know, when he ascends from
Landman’s Park next July, whether
he is about to cross the Atlantic or the
Pacific ? The answer is, that though
Chevalier does not believe in balloons,
he does believe in currents. In every
ascent during his long career, he found
on reaching an altitude anywhere be
tween 3,000 and 10,000 feet, that ihe
wind was invariably from the west, or
rather from the northwest; however
way the wind was blowing near ihe
ground, in each ofhis one hundred and
sixty-five ascents, he found a north-
west current in the upper atmosphere.
Chevalier believes this current to be a
discovery ofhis own, and it is for the
glory of establishing his theory rather
than of sailing three or four thousand
miles over the water (which he regards
quite an every day affair) that he un
dertakes his balloon voyage from North
America to Europe,
The Guide Rope.
He will be greatly assisted in deter
mining the actual course which his
balloon rnay be at any time pursuing,
by the rope suspended from the car
described above. As the rope, when
touching the water, will always drag
in the rear, it will only be necessary to
observe its direction by the compass,
and that of the balloon is at once indi
cated. Another equally important de
termination which the guide rope will
afford, and which will noL be attaina
ble by any other means, will be the
distance at which the balloon is from
the immediate surface of the earth at
any time when the view is obstructed
by clouds, fog or darkness. The ba
rometer affords information only as to
the height above the mean level of the
sea, and, without the warning given by
the guide rope, the balloon might at
any time, When sailing too low, be
dashed against uiountainous waves;
and, owing to the velucily with whi.cb
it would be moving on the wings of a
storm, such a shock would be fatal.
Final Preparations for the Voyage.
Mons. Chevalier may be seen almost
any morning quietly at work, putting
the finishing touches on his balloon at
Landman’s Park. He is a quiet un
obtrusive, yet prepossessing young man
of 33 years, of dark complexion and
with black hair and moustache. He
has a large and kindly black eye, and
countenance which impresses one that
its owner is a stranger to physical fear.
He converses and writes in excellent
English, though he speaks and writes
in excellent French, German and Rus
sian, as well. He is very communi
cative and entertaining in elucidating
his plans and theories. He has i.ot yet
determined as to how many and what
companions he .will take along with
him on his voyage. The applications
for passage on the rare but perilous
journey, have been pouring in on him
by hundreds. An opportunity to try
the accommodations ofthe ship will be
given these aspiring candidates for ae
ronautic fame during the several pre
liminary ascents at the end of a rope,
which will be made at Laneman’s
Park, next week. The final varnish
ing of the balloon has just been* com
pleted, the valve was being adjusted
yesterday, and the Professor is busy
with the maze of knotted cordage which
forms the rigging of the silken ship. A
life-raft has been presented L’Espe-
rance, which will be suspended be
neath the car of the balloon, in readi
ness for use should ihe oeroiianl find it
desirable to take to the watery element.
The balloon is 95 feet high, 65 feet in
diameter, and has a buoyancy capable
of sustaining 8 tons.
Young Man—“Dearest, then I’ll love
thee more.”
Young Lady-—“Then yb'u’ll remem
ber me.” Now, can I depend
all these ?
upon
Young Man—Certainly *; and may !
be allowed to add, “My last thoughts
of thee?” .it.-' >*j
Aoung Lady—That’s strange. 1 was
going to say, “Why do I xtfeep for
thee ?” But perhaps we had better
say both. - - ^
Young Man—I will put thdna ’both
together. ■>
Aoung Lady—Do. I will ' go over
both when I get home, and as soon as
I can make up my mind, 1 will let you
know ray choice. Good morning. Exit.
Aoung Man—Good morning. (Look
ing over the music as she leaves the
shop.) “She is gone from my gaze.”
Thing* a Lady Never Confesses.
- That she laces tight.
That her shoes are too small lor her.
That she is ever tired at a ball.
That she paints.
That she is as old as she looks.
That she has been more than five
minutes in dressing.
That she has kept you waiting.
That she blushed when a .certain
persons name was mentioned.
That she ever says a thing she does
not mean.
That she can’t keep a secret.
That she is ever in the wrong.
That she can’t argue.
That she is ugly.
That she has a bad memory.
J hat she intended to give offence.
That she has evei been in love.
That she ever “jews” a shop keep
er.
That she is hard to please.
That.she has her wav.-
That she is vain.
That she has ever flirted.
That she is too old to marrv.
An Explanation.—A young lady
being asked how a necromancer per
formed his tricks, gave the following
answer, which may be read in 4,900
different ways :
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Commencing at the capital T at each
end of the middle line, and reading up
or down, by frequently turning corners,
the answer is constantly the same :—
“The devil helps him.”
The Language ol Music.
The following is a specimen not on
ly of what might happen, but what, no
doubt, does happen very frequently in
many music stores :
Scene—A Shop. Young Man dis
covered sorting Music behind a count
er.
Enter Afoung Lady, with a roll of
music.
Young Ladv (solily)—Oh, I’ve come
to return “Love’s W hisper.”
A r oung Man—Allow me to offer you
“The heart bow’d down.” I’m sure
it will please you.
Young Lady—Be good’ enough to
change “The heart bow’d down” for
“Happy Heart,” and then I’ll take it
I left it behind me the last time I was
here.
Young Man—If 1 had known you
had left it behind you, I would have
looked out “The Manly Heart’ to go
back with it. Shall I send it s
Young Lady—No ; I’ll take that and
the “Manly Heart” home with me to
gether. Have yon anything else very
pretty to tell me of ?
A r oung Man—Looking over stock of
music, and con multe expressione—“I
love her! how? I love her!” “She
shines before me like a star!”
A r oung Lady (also turning over mu
sic)—“Will you love me then as now ?”
The History of the Tune of
“Dixe.”—The Memphis Post tells this
story of Dixie
In the first place, the song and cho-
ius ot “Dixie” was composed and ar
ranged by Dan Emmet, a member of a
traveling minstrel party, who while at
Mobile in the winter of 1847—48, heard
some negro laborers singing on the levee
while loading a steamboat with co-Uon.
The thought struck Dan that,with a lit
tle change of measure,it could be made
a good song and “walk around,” which
generally winds up a negro minstrel
concert. Dan arranged itand produced
it. It became a success, and was sung
and played all over the country bv all
the bands.
In tbe spring of 1861, Mrs. John
Wood came to New Orleans to play an
engagement at the Varieties Theatre.
During the time she appeared in
Brougham’s burlesque of “Pochahon-
tas.” At the first rehearsal of the piece
everything went well until near the
close of the second act; Tom McDon
ough (now agent for Leffingwell) the
prompter, got up a Zouave march and
drill by twenty two ladies, led by Su
san Denin. Everything ran smooth,
but the music for the march could not
be fixed upon. Carlo Patti was lead
er of the Orchestra ; and he tried sev
eral marches, but none suited McDon
ough—one was too slow, another was'
too tame, another not enough spirit.—
At length, Patti struck up the air i<>
“Dixie.”
“That will do, Patti-tbe very thing,”
said Tom, aud “Dixie” was played,
and the march gone through with, and
the chorus by all the characters. At
night it received a double encore, and
“Pocahontas” had a “run,” and from
that timeout, the streets and parlors
rang with “Dixie,”.. The war broke
out that spring, and the military bands
look it up, and “Dixie” became to the
South what the Marseillaise Hymn was
to the French. And that’s how “Dix
ie” became the popular war song of
tbe South.
A Married Man’s Diary.—Our
“devil” picked up in the streets, a lew
days since, a married man’s diary of
his wife’s temper, as follows:
Monday—A thick fog ; no seeing
through it.
Tuesday—Gloomy and very chilly ;
unseasonable weather.
Wednesday—Frosty; at limes sharp.
Thursday—Butercoldiu the morn
ing ; red sun set, with flying clouds,
portending hard weather.
Friday—Storm in the morning, with
peals of thunder; air clear aftprward.
Saturday—Gleams of sun-shine,with
partial lhaw'; frost again ar night.
.Sunday—A slight south-wester in
the morning; calm and pleasant at
dinner- time ; hurricane and earthquake
at night.—Auguiia Press.