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Show ' A Bulloou Banli. I The following extraordinary state-! state-! men: appears in a B'leian j aper called the Xouk Ls ri" Jour. Irom one of their correspondents at the sea: of war. which note was conveyed to Brussels by a carrier pigeon : rati-. October 1;. Nauat return.. d yesterday to I'aris. Ills i.-turn was jnot e.i' ced witl'.o'jt iu;i-h trouble, although his la loon was favored by a good wind s:i:ce bis departure from Xouri. but I wiil narrate the facts in j their chronological order. He left Tours at 6 o'clock in the morning, and I the bold aeronaut arrived in view of I Pari- at 11 o'clock, floating about I ij.pt meters above the foit of Charen-teu. Charen-teu. At the same time as the Intre-pi.ie Intre-pi.ie which was the name of Xadar's la'loon appeared a second balloon wa ol'-ervc't in the horizon. Xadar was I seen to display a streamer with thy j Fret'eli tiational colors Immediately 1 another national flag floated from the car of the other lalioon. Vigorous hurrahs and criei of "l.' est Durouf ' proceeding fpnu the garrison of the i'oit, greeted the appearance of the two aeronauts, who-e balloons gradually gradu-ally approached. When they were within a short distance of each other, suddenly a loud report was heard in the air. followed by a series of exp'o-sions. exp'o-sions. These were at first thought to be demonstrations or signals of victory, until Nadarwas seen to fling himseli into the network of his balloon and to cling to its sides. During this time the other aeronaut continued discharging discharg-ing shots at Xadar. which were tmced in the sky by their luminous effects. The lntrepide descended rapidly, and it appeared to the spectators below that some incomprehensible event had taken place above. But mark what the French flag iu the neighboring balloon has come to. It has been removed, and a black and yellow standard was observed to be floating in its place. Then all was explained. ''Trea on ! It is a Prussian balloon ! He ha-fired ha-fired on the lntrepide ! Xadar i-lost i-lost I'' were the cries that burst simultaneously simul-taneously from the French people. But Xadar was sale; lor he was seen tt) descend rapidly to bis car, and the balloon to near.y reach the earth, lie cast out the babaM. and reascended. having slopped tile hole made in his balloon by his adversary. Then shots were rapi.liy fired from the lu repide into the Prussian balloon, which one, losing all power, descended to the earth with giddy velocity. A detachment detach-ment of uhlans who were in the plain, and who had been following theaeiia) combatants throughout the exciting .-trugele, ru.-hed forward, and, surrounding sur-rounding the balloon, received their champion God knows in what conditionand con-ditionand then all hastened off at full speed to the Prussian advanced post.-. la the meantime Xadar descended de-scended safely at Charenton, where he still remains. |