BALLOON VOYAGE, inf myself ami horse, preparatory to my visit to [From tho Poughkeepsie Kagle, Dec. ai.J Bangor, the grand object of my visit. On the third day I went to Bangor. But to astonishment. I That successful aerial my very voyager. l'ro- could see no village, now the city. I tied my hor.-e fessor S. A King, made a splendid" balloon to a bush fence, and descended the precipice, just above the Hatch which was then a ascension from KUenville. Ulster cotmtv, a present House, mere frame, where I found one James Thomas short time since, and his of his description Mr. Thomas was kind enough to pull a paper out is so that it is trip interesting worth publish- of his pocket, on which he shew me the great so ing. city of Bangor. 1 was so disappointed and inorti* Soon after rising from the tied that I at once made up my mind to return starting point, home I the whole of Ulster. Sullivan and Delaware in the most direct way immediately. the mounted my horse, returned to HamlKlen, dined, counties, Catskill Mountains, and bound- and started for Belfast. At the Marshmill settle- aries ot Pennsylvania and much more were ment, they told me that the road to Belfast wa< brought into view. The new and rather blind, but they tho't 1 could get Professorseonipan- came nal art the name town ion populous, thriving and wealthy. Ii soon be- of incorporation, of the is the little in 1778, that a load a sloop. Wood was then worth but through t<> the settlement before dark. So I grew enthusiastic, and hi- x< imafious A D settlement, September, ] large push- DRESS, gan to send forth colonies. Dining tin period of left blank. A dispute arose about the name. Many large British force was from Canada, the cents- a cord. The roads were from ed on. But before l reached house, were in coining eighty leading any night wildly accordance Three-fourth of the but Miller was strenuous came me. At /hr Centennial ('clebration of the Settle- twenty-live years proceeding Revolution, preferred Londonderry, following spring, by the time the leaves were ns Ilalf-way Creole around Fish Cove to the Wegcott upon I lost my road once or twice, but the to the of the eleven distinct settlements were made for its to that of his as a was way top Shawaugunk Moun- non! Oere),ibu 1870. by emigrants present appellation, perpetuate large mail's thumb nail, prepared to drive all Stream, and from I.ittle Itiver to Sandv Beach, before twilight gone, f came to an owning and of Belfast, 21, from its all of which arc now influential birth in Ireland. The was at last I tains they noticed a long steep precipice, and limits, place difficulty before them who refused allegiance to King George. ! where the railroad buildings stand. Near Sandy a log house, but found no one in it, nor any path and important towns. Not the least unworthv settled by tossing a penny. This rumor the So when they reached the top found there I'.v IION. JOSEPH WILLIAMS* >N proved substantially correct. The | Beach, around the “town landing,’’ was the prim-i- out of opening. I tied my horse to a stump, they scion from the parent stock is our own city. According to Macaulay, Belfast, Ireland, is “one had been a of business until about anil the and took for I found in a wide English long sensible that military sta- pal places iso:!, up my lodgings the' night. plateau, on which was a of of the and most seats of indus- ! pond The faculty of looking before and after, which be- JOHN MITCICELL, THE FOUNDER OK BEl.i AM greatest nourishing tion on the Penobscot, would be of the utmost ser- western part of the town was better known as the house a good bed and a cat. and could hear water. ■ Isles. Higher and higher ro- the balloon, long- to us us rational cannot be better em- try in the British A busy population of vice in checking the ravages of American “The Beach,’" than by another title. As this cowbell in the distance. 1 was thirst} beings, Among the first settlers of was pri- | part extremely the blood of than in to Londonderry, eighty thousand souls are collected there. The du- vateers, and in increased in t> !t find no water. I then the aeronauts ployed, calling up grateful recollection, one restoring the inhabitants to loyalty. population, the truth of James Miller's could laid myself coursing through John Mitchell. He brought with him from at the j their *m the toils and suffer- ties annually paid custom house exceed the in a force of about one I which he made to John Mitchell, in t!n;» lied, and endeavored to get some veins at tremendous till sud- appropriate occasions, Ireland, a son of years Accordingly, June, 1771), prediction, up<»n sleep, speed, the same name, then live dutie< annually at the custom house ot Lon- ! ing- of those, to whom, as a community, we owe paid thousand men arrived at Castine, or Bagaduce, as 1770, that the village would be upon this side, be- but it occurred to me that the country was then in denly the aerial entered the douds sev en old. The latter became duly apprenticed to a most ship our existence. It is a office to the don, in the prosperous years of the reign of it was then and commenced a fort on to he realized. The earliest of the state of insurrection the and pious past; and as late as himself a I called, erecting | gan recognition against proprietors, minutes and a halt alter its from housewright. 170L calls Charles the II. Other Irish towns departure and who is there that can still the fond hope within may present the heights of the peninsula. One of the first acts ; claims of the Beach people appears by the record that house might be the rendezvous of the insur- joiner. I£c was skilled m the higher branches of to earth. the air became that when the sun has for a hundred more picturesque forms the eye: but Belfast is o the British was to send a of 1701, when it was voted that future warrants for and that me there Suddenly slinging him, again and soon a commander, proclama- gent'. finding asleep they might mathematics, acquired high reputation town in in and the weie year- its circuit of the tin* only large Irish which the traveler tion, ail the male residents of Belfast to town “be on the other side of tic- tak- mo for a and do me some harm before 1 cold, voyagers compelled to performed mighty heavens, asfa practical In 17(m, while on the pas- requiring meetings posted spy, us surveyor. Mot the loathsome and odor of on as that turn their coat and each of in this assemblage, shall alike have disgusted by aspect repair hoard the fleet, within five days, and to river well as this.” The next year. the growing could explain mvself. So 1 got but little sleep up collars, and to rub their sage from Passamaquoddy. where In* had been lines of human dens, tar inferior ii. been for years laid low—our children’s children, in long comfort take the oath of allegiance, or to expect the most importance of the western portion was more dis- night. At early daylight 1 (pushed on, and soon cars and noses to them from making survey* under tin direction of