Show THE OVER OCEAN JOURNEY so far aa as we have yet learned the tile big balloon is still on its way to europe or somewhere else the balloon which is the largest over ever started in this country had a capacity of cubic feet though mr donaldson intended to use b but ut all the fittings fitting 9 outfit and other arrangements were as complete as they could be including all kinds of warm clothing boots philosophical instrument instruments food materials for use etc the two companions of mr air donaldson the aeronaut were mr george ashton lunt and alfred ford mr G A lunt is a son of georgo george lunt esq of boston aud rud aud and formerly editor of the courier of that city mr Lunt jun is well educated a clever artist has a good knowledge of nautical ati afi affairs hirs and considerable experience in sea voyages and was to act as artist correspondent of the tho graphic mr ford is a well known new york journalist and went us as balloon correspondent of the graphic if tiie the three adventurers landed anywhere in europe I 1 mr ar ford was to rush at once to london and c cable I 1 particulars to the graphic at new ni ew york mr donaldson was certain of finding the eastern current it was up there walting for him and he would not have been surprised if it had landed him and companions in in europe in thirty hours from new york some people thought tho the current would take the b balloon aloon to sweden or e else in northern E europe drope but mr donaldson believed that the upper current would be too cold and that in the lower part art of it the balloon would drift drift moro more sout bout southward southwall hwal hwai d ind and land in france franco or spain mr donaldson is reported as thinking there could be no such suell chingas thing aa fail ile lie said my whole soul is wrapped up ill in this enterprise and I 1 shall domy do my best nothing not even certain death before me would make me turn aside I 1 sta stand nd before the pub i lie ec pledged to do this thing and if I 1 dont get over this timo time I 1 shall try it next sp spring in the magnificent silk balloon which the managers of the daily graphic are now constructing but I 1 look with a great deal of confidence upon the outcome of this attempt everything the season of tho the year included elud ed is strongly in my favor nil all is in readiness and I 1 believe we shall have a successful result we have as yet received no dispatches confirmatory or contradictory of the report of the pre premature maturo mature landing of the three thieo balloon lits in connecticut nor of the reported continued voyage of the balloon the report may bo be true or it may bo be false at any late lato people in europe w were ere on the qui diva vive for the appearance of the bai bal balloon loon over there I 1 correspondents artists and other newspaper folks were holding t themselves in anxious readiness to note and publish the first tidings of its advent on their side of the water if the dispatch received yesterday is true thley maybe again disappointed and will be likely to wait till next spring or summer before their expectant and straning str aning eyes are greeted with the sight eight of american voyagers 0 coming through the tile air to visit visit them any way ivay the impulse given to aerial navigation by these ambitious american attempts to cross the ocean with balloons will not permit the tho subject to die out at present but willi ather impel impei adventurous individuals to other enterprises in the same direction at least until this matter of extensive aerial navigation is decided to be reagon reason reasonably ably abis practicable or impracticable one way or the other |