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Show rr.jt'EoOK Donaldson, of Graphic notoriety, recently made a balloon ascension from Iiarnum's hippodrome in Xew York, accompanied by five journalists. One of the lattor says: There was just lime to see the air crow while wiih nrvnumitory haiulkuivhiet's, :md clour mid ili.-liuct rung out Donald-fi'i' Donald-fi'i' voice "l.rt her go !" In an instant we tla.-hod sevt-a hundred feet, straight us uri arrow into tho air, and hung over theopnii)jr ia tlm envft3 roof of the lii'jodroino through which wo had as-ceiukd. as-ceiukd. Dut only for a moment then cheers came to u with a fnint and far- uwnv siiKgotiun when wo drifted toward tho ltuJiL-ii in a soutliwi-storly direction. Then wo fully rL-ali.-.ed tho fact lhat our .eril ship was launched on its uncertain .i,:u-e. ono wa tiled to take notes, i ,io hole being was wrapped up ia an indveribahlo l'vlmjf of (Ulight. Be-nealh Be-nealh lay New. York liko a city tf toy Mocki, tilled with a tremulous noise that caiiio up cloiriy and yet Eol'.ly . io us. Wo " could trace: every street its entire length, couM seo the people moving to and fro like Hack specks, could hear alike the hoarse mur-imir mur-imir cf Iho populace, tho twinkle of the slrV. .''ir hells, iiuj tho Utrk of a dog. Central I'.-trk was a delicate piece of velvet, vel-vet, slushed with tho silver of its lake and 8. ream; far away the ocean a Mioet of jtUw on which moved a muUituJoot white winged eraf;, with hery and theto a biaek plumed ateauier.'1 The balloon r:sc at four o'clock p. m.; at twenty minutes past four the w -yagers were 2,L0 feet above the s:a level. At twenty-sevtn minutes p.v-t four o'clock their shadow was on the Hudsoti, the elevation he:og feet, whence handfiills of colored col-ored circulars were thrown out, which slowly fluttered downward like a lioek of georgeousiy tinted butterflies. At fifty-three minutes past four Donaldson Donald-son not:tie 1 the Ave journalists thatthey timst draw lots to determine the order ia which they should be dropped, as it was necessary that the air-ship should be lightened gradually. Five pieces of paper were numbered and drawn from a hat. The highest point readied was ,." to feet. The first landing was madtf in P.ergen C?M twenty-live miles from Xew York, at haif-past 0 p.m. At o a.m. they iandal again four miles from the Citv cf lhUsou ;u;d one hundred and thirty miles from Xew York. When the ii-t('.i reporter, the first to get out, left, the W.COU continued its vov- , aP in a southwesterly direction. " |