The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-06

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN,--W With regard to the mea.
sures which should be adopted for the rescue of Si
John Franklin, surprising the accounts of the Es-
quimaux to be correct, which place him in Regents
Inlet confined by ice, the Lendon Herald suggssts;
Nothing canrb be done for them, nor helpaaofdy
eddy human means for The next six or eightmOnths.
lnthe mean time, it behoves the government 10
make the most strenuous and proper preparations
for sending OUT suclIvessels as may be available;
i0rTendering the brave men efficient Service and
saving them from prOtFacted and untimelysdeath
Not less than four vessels should be despatched in
the ensuing spring; two of these should be strong
Whale ships, IN charge Of Intelligent officers Cap
tain Parker should III, he choose, command one Of
them They should be manned by seamen aecus-
toned to the icy seas, They should have an Adj
miraly agent on board, and be partly loaded with
provisions, and partly with Goals, The other two
vessels should be strong steam-yessels, capable of
going about seven or eight knots. They should be
Of 800 or 400 tons, and not draw more than i Of
Effect water. ~. ff-'
In the spring ofthe year, as soon as the state Of
the ice would allow, one steamer and one whaler
should proceed to Ponds Bay, and endeavor blythe
means of the natives to get up communication
with Sir John Franklin, whose vessels it would APP
pear are on the northeast Of Regents Inlet the
distance overland from Ponds Bay to the shore Of
the inlet not being more than about 200 miles. This
communication if il did no other good would cheer
up the spirits Of the imprisoned Mariners and they
could know help was at hand In case of a break
up of the ice in Lancaster SORnd the steamers could
proceed on at any time, though the whaleF might
not be able to contend against adverse winds and
currents The other steamer and whale-ship might
keep as near tote barrier of ice as prudence might
dictate, and this steamer might also take advantage
ofany partial channel made by the breaking Of the
iceS and proceed into Regents Inlet These steam
ers would also have the advantage Of being able to
get out of the inlet against northeast wind and
strong current, when a sailing vessel. could not
move. By some such means as the above the Door
seamen may perhaps be liberated. The country ia
much interested about them, and economy in a case
of this description ought not 70 be considered.
The Admiralty, in the spring of the year 1913,
dispatched vessel, the Plover, commanded by
Capt I. =. l.. Moore, in search of the absent dis
covery ships. She was sent TO Behring's Straits
The PioveT being a very slow vessel and having a
long passage round Cape Horn, aud up the South
and North PaGifies, did not arrive al Behring's
Straits soon enough to commence Operations that
year but this summer, although she will not find
the lost ships, she may make some important dis
coveries 10 our opinion, the North west passage
should have been sought for by all discovery; YES.
sells coming IRON west to east~-Vig; commencing
at Behring'S Straits, aud coming east. There aFs
good and cogent reasons in favor Of this plan.
During the summer months the westerly winds
| generally prevail--that is, during the monihs Of
| July, August and Sepiembe-, and the currents u
the Arctic Sea set usually 70 the east and south.
east Vessels coming from Behring's Straits 10 The
! the eastward would generally have a fair wind
and current in their favor, while ships from Bafin's
! Nay going 10 the westward have generally a foul
! wind and adverse current to contend against No
intelligence from the PlOvsr has yet reached The
Admiralty nor can any report of her proceedings
! be expected from that distant aud unffeausnted
| part Of she world for many mouths, for il is very
doubtful that Capt. Kellet, who has also been dis.
patched to Behring's Straits in her Maiestys shir
Herald, and who sailed frem the Sandwich Islands
IN May last, will have the good fortune 70 fall ia
turous iellOw-countrymsn have still lives rs be
rescued by the intrepidity of tleir fellows, who
would willingly peril theirs for the Accomplishment
/ Of the object That the Admiralty will make the
! eitoti' 10 retrieve them we do not for a moment
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