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swung loose from the balloon and dropped on the roof. Had he not done this he would have been borne into the air, and a horrid death would have awaited him, as he was holding by his hands, whose strength must soon have given out. A large crowd was present, anxious to see the ascension, and all were greatly relieved when he alighted safely.

PROFESSOR WISE.

  THE PERILS OF BALLOONING.--Professor Wise the æronaut, attempted to make an ascension in his balloon, at Wetumpka, Alabama, on the 3d inst., and narrowly escaped death.  The balloon having been inflated, he stepped into the basket and gave the word to 'let go' and was not obeyed, but immediately afterwards when he was not ready, they did 'let go' and the wind blowing from the west, the balloon with lightning speed, was borne upwards, he swaying forward and back, with but one foot in the basket.  It first struck a wood pile, then a fence, then the side of Coosa Hall kitchen, then the eaves of the kitchen, knocking off the shingles, and afterwards the eaves of the Coosa Hall, when it threw him some feet from the basket, and he dangled in the air, holding mainly by his hands to the ropes. With great presence of mind, on arriving just over Coosa Hall, while some eight from the roof, he swung loose from the balloon and dropped on the roof. Had he not done this he would have been borne into the air, and a horrid death would have awaited him, as he was holding by his hands, whose strength must soon have given out. A large crowd was present anxious to see the ascension, and all were greatly relieved when he alighted safely.

Perils of Ballooning.

To the Editor of the New York Sun:
  SIR--In your paper, a few days ago, you published an article, under the above caption saying, 'Professor Wise, the Æronaut, attempted to make an ascension in his balloon, at Wetumpka, Alabama, on the 3d inst., and narrowly escaped death.' Then a description of sundry knocks, jams, scraping over kitchen roofs, hooking upon fences, dangling over 'Coosa Hall,' and many other well defined æronautic evolutions following, leaving the impression that it was me who had undergone this ordeal of experience. Permit me to correct the error, and say, through your journal, that 'it was not I who done it.'
  I would, however, beg leave to say that I have done just such feats when I was acquiring the art of æronautics, some twenty years ago, but now, having learned the nature and characteristics of the wild and fleety air steed, I can as a general rule, manage him better. Balloons are very graceful and amiable things in calm weather, but, in high winds, they are terrible and troublesome, when in contact with the surface of the rough world. But, in their proper element, above the solid obstacles of the earth, they are more graceful and more manageable than the gentle dove.
  Being posted to ascend on the anniversary of 'Her Britannic Majesty's Birthday,' from Kingston, Canada, you will do me justice to sap that I am in good condition for the coming event. It will be one of a series of ascensions undertaken for the purpose of raising the means with which to finish my outfit of aeronautic machinery to cross the ocean with.
    Respectfully yours,
      JOHN WISE.
Lancaster, Pa., March 16, 1860.

Daily Alta California.
SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, JAN. 20.

Letter from John Wise, the Celebrated Aeronant.
  By the last mail steamer, Mr. Amos McCartney, of this city, received the following letter from John Wise, the celebrated aeronant, and which was furnished to us some days ago for publication, but has been unavoidably crowded out until to-day. Mr. Wise, it will be seen, proposes to start from San Francisco on a new aerial voyage, if sufficient encouragement is extended to him from the citizens of California to do so:
      LANCASTER, Pa., December 8, 1850.
  Since my St. Louis trip, I had, and have, fondly hoped to be able to raise the means with which to build an outfit, for the purpose of demonstrating to the world that balloons can be used, economically, in making long voyages from west to east, in the temperate zone of the North, so as to carry passengers and the lighter sorts of merchandise in such systematic order as to bring it in a very few years the favorite and popular means of transit across the continent, from California to the Atlantic seaboard cities, and across the Atlantic, as also across the Euorpean and Asiatic continents, and the Pacific ocean. I have some prospect of getting the means provided in New York, but am required to give freehold security to the reimbursement of the necessary outlay in the construction of the balloon and rigging, in case it does not pay for itself, which I am willing to do. My particular friends, however, (Profesor Porter and Charles D. Wetherill, analytical chemist,) urge me to make my first main experiment across our own continent from the city of San Francisco to the Atlantic seaboard. They urge it with so much good reason and advantages, that I have, therefore, come to the determination to give their idea a just consideration, and learn through you the probable encouragement and assistance that I might possibly secure in San Francisco, towards such an enterprise. Heretofore, and yet, my aversion to the San Francisco scheme has been the dearness, costliness of things in the Pacific States. It would probably run up to twelve or fifteen thousand dollars, while in the East, here, it can be done for six, or, perhaps, five thousand dollars--a mark within the reach of my property guarantee. I wish you could take time to make the requsite inquiry of the matter, and advise me of the prospects, and I will not fail to respond in a proper spirit to your admonitions in the matter. I write the more freely to you about this thing, because you know me so well, and because you know I never propose to do what I have any doubts of--that is, particularly, in the line of my profession. I wish you to understand that my object is not to make money out of it, but a success, i.e., proof that ballooning has within its known elements the means of turning it to useful account. It only wants a few pioneer demonstrations, a little better than our St. Louis manifestation, because in that there is not a sufficient charity evinced by the popular mind for the storm we incidentally encountered. A trip from San Francisco to the Atlantic seaboard, within three days, can be very easily made, and made in such a manner as to demonstrate that it can be made to pay in the establishment of a pioneer weekly line of postal transit. When you write me please inform me what the capacity of your gas-works are in gas storage, i.e., gas-holders. Please also inform me whether there are any heavy Chinese silks imported into your city. There is a kind of heavy pongee that is good for large balloons, and if there is any in your city, you will do me a great kindness by sending me samples, two inches square, with cost per yard, and the width of it. I have fully determined to make another demonstrative voyage next summer, from some place; and if I cannot get assistance to fit out in a very substantial manner, I will try it on my own resources, and give it effect in a very cheap outfit, which will render it somewhat more prolematical as to its success than would be the case if I could get it in a more perfect mechanical shape. I should have written to you long ago about this matter, but for the abeyance in which I was held by the Lowe party, which eventually turned out to have been a quackery and inflated pretension, to say nothing worse of it.  Yours truly,  JOHN WISE.

  Formal announcement is made that the big balloon is collapsed for the winter. Lowe, the æronaut, has been made the victim of Gilbert and Wood, who compelled him to waste all the good weather in October in exhibitions. The stormy season is setting in, and the air is too cold for a comfortable trip; so the enterprise has been abandoned, and Lowe will not go to Europe. People say the whole affair is a humbug. This is true enough in one sense, but untrue in another. I have good reason for believing that Lowe has been made the victim of a party of speculators, who meant to make money, and cared very little for him. He may circumvent them yet, but it is quite possible that the business will end in the smoke--or gas, which is quite as unsubstantial. The "City of New York" now reposes in a shed near the Gas-Works, at the foot of Sixteenth street, and is to lie there till next June at least.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29,

CITY ITEMS.

JONATHAN TO LOWE.
BY JACQUES MAURICE.

I've seen your Gas Bag, Mister Lowe,
And paid a quarter for the show.
I hevent hed so grand a treat
Sense Blondin come his circus-feat.

Inside that fence you've got a thing
That's made the 'varsal country ring!
Silk b'iled in oil, they say; all new;
And cost a thaöusand dollars, tew!

You've b'en some years a-buildin' it:
How did you make the pieces fit?
Who cut 'em out? who sewed 'em in?
When was you put up to begin?

I swow! the thing is such a whopper,
I'm blamed if I know how you'll stop her!
Once-t fairly up, prepared to go it,
You'll snub the moon before you know it!

If Mars objects, why, you kin fist him!--
Why hang around the solar system?
Ge-whillikins! down with the bars--
Your nag may crop among the stars!

But when will you inflatuate?
The season, Lowe, is getting late--
You said you would, some time ago,
Yet you continue for to show!

You stay, and stay, and feather your nest, 
While Vic., and Nap., and all the rest,
Are waiting for your flying visit:
It ain't a dodge, nor nothin', is it?

Perhaps you dread your trip romantic,
For fear you'll souse in the Atlantic:
"Make hay in sunshine," is the rule--
If that's your tune, you ain't a fool.

I've heerd it w'ispered, Mister Lowe--
I re'ly hope it is n't so--
I'm sure I do n't pretend to know:
They say--you never meant to go.

A man is lucky that's got brass--
A man is lucky that's got gas:
With brass and gas, and backers, too,
A smart man ought to w'iggle through!

BY TELEGRAPH.

SUNDAY NIGHTS' DISPATCHES.
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NEWS FROM THE AERONAUTS.
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The Balloon Safely Landed.
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GROUND REGAINED AT NORTH ADAMS,
NEW YORK.
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NO PARTICULARS RECEIVED.
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      CINCINNATI, July 3.
  The Balloon Atlantic, landed at North Adams, Jefferson county, New York, at six o'clock yesterday afternoon.
  No particulars have yet been received, in consequence of the heavy storms prevailing on the Eastern lines.
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The Ballooners Landed after a Voyage of Twenty-four Hours.
  By consulting the telegraphic advices, in another column, our readers will satisfactorily learn the course and termination of the aerial voyage, which began on Friday evening, from Washington Square. It is principally grateful to remark that the voyageurs landed in safety. It will be seen that their course was, in the main, northeastwardly to the region of Niagara Falls, and thence nearly eastwardly to North Adams, the place of descent in Jefferson County, New York. The air ship seems to have floated for twenty-four hours! The course was more northwardly, and the average rate of speed less than appears to have been anticipated. It was hoped to descend on the Atlantic seaboard, nearly East of St. Louis, soon after sunrise of the morning following the ascent. Still, the aeronauts distinctly announced that only an approximation to these results could be relied upon. The experiment is valuable, as indicating what may be done. It will, probably, be followed by other trials, the ultimate issue of which can scarcely yet be predicted.

THE REPUBLICAN.
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ST. LOUIS.
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MONDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1859.
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POST OFFICE, St. Louis July 2, 1859. 
  Notice - As Monday is the Fourth of July, this Office will be closed at 9 o'clock, A.M. No mails arrive here on Monday mornings. 
jy3    JOHN HOGAN, P M
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  No paper will be issued from this office tomorrow. This is the Fourth of July, and our people claim the privilege of being patriotic as any body else.
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THE GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE COMPLETED.
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REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULT.
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  The greatest ballooning feat ever attempted or dreamed of, has been accomplished by Professor WISE and Messrs. LAMOUNTAIN and GAGER, in their huge air ship, the Atlantic. This immense air vessel has not disappointed public expectation, but on the contrary has far exceeded the anticipations of the most sanguine and the dreams of the most visionary. America now has fairly won the honors for air navigation, and the successful result of the trans-continental air voyage from St. Louis, Mo., to the State of New York, on the Atlantic seaboard, is worthy of a distinguished place among the archives of the country.
  We will soon begin to indulge in the belief that there is no enterprise connected with the earth, sea, or air, which may be suggested as within the range of possibility, that American ingenuity and daring cannot accomplish.
  There were from the first many believers in the capacity of the aeronauts and their air ship Atlantic, to perform all they promised, and the friends of the undertaking materially increased on the day of the ascension, but there were many skeptical persons who still hoped for their success, and all will now join in one grand shout of joy for the safe passage of the balloon and its living freight through the favoring heavens a distance of nearly 1,500 miles, in twenty-three hours, which is by far the quickest time so great a distance was ever accomplished by man.
  Who can imagine the feelings of Prof. WISE, who has for nearly twenty years cherished the idea of crossing the continent in the air, without having previously received sufficient encouragement or assistance to carry his design into effect? The triumphant aeronauts must at this time be the proudest men in the world, and the thrill of ecstacy which has ere this exhilarated their souls, was