Washington telegraph., 1850-10-23
The following narrative of the wonder

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| paper. will be read with interest:
Our readers have already been appriset
that an Arctic Expedition, intended tt
search for the missing Sir John Franklin
has been fitted out by the munificence o
MIR. Grinnell, New York merchant
and, has started under the auspices of the
| general Government; which, by authority
of Congress, has consented that the Off
GERS of our Navy shall lead the daring
enterprise. Among these officers we OBJ
serve the name OF Surgeon Elisha c.
Kane, son of Hon. John K Kane, of this
city, who volunteered for the service, and
is now principal Surgeon of the expedi
| ton. We saw the announcement of his
name among the officers with surprise
lie has long been suffering from a com
| bination Of infirlnities, the result Of a
series OF adventures such as few men
living have undergone, and such as still
fewer would voluntarily embark in out
of pure love of dauger, and the spirit ol
seeing the woaders and the pecularities
Of other parts of the globe. Having en-
]oyed the acquaintance of this brave
young man, We are able to state what
follows OF his career, even if we should
use that which was communicated to US
in semi-conidentialin Intervals. No Amer-
can, of his age, has seen so much of the
periis of the world. or of the world itself
lie was surgeon of the American legation
10 China, and on his way to the Celestial
Regions, lie spent some weeks on foot
tramp through the orange-groveso of Brazil,
and about month in tiger-hunting near
Bombay. Hence, after a dozen unsuc-
cessiul attempts 20 smugge himself into
the forbidden lands of China, he went
over TO the Philippines, and by the aid
of the good Monks of the interior of
Manila explored its fastnesses and VOL
camc wonders. He was the first man
to descend into the great crater of the
Teal, lowered down two hundred feet
over the bring, by bamboo rope tied
round his middle, and brought back a
bottle full of its sulphur water, burning
off his boots in the lava cinders. Leav-
ing China, after a second visit, in which
he encountered shipwreck, he passed to
India as physician of the Dremandhar
Dagore. and was palanq quined for some
three mouths through the wonders of its
mountain architecture, the ancient glories
OF Candy, the stupendous passes of the
Ghaut country, visiting Madras. Pond-
cherry, and every spot that we have read
of in the trial of Warren Hastings.
Next, to Upper Egypt aud Abyssinia,
crossing the desert Oh his camel to the
basis of Jupiter Anmou, climbing. ar
r;-i, ha Of hn
sounding Colossus of Memnon. and ex-
ploring the tombs of the Pharoahs for a
fortnight or three weeks, with Professor
Lepsus and his associates. Wrecked
again while passing down the Nile, and
wounded in an encounter near Alexandria,
he pushed across 10 Greece, and travers
ed every scene of elastic interest, climb
ing to the Hippourene Springs, and sleep
ing On the shore of Marathon. He re-
turned by Italy, France and England,
only TO rest a few weeks before cruise
on the coast of Africa. Renewing here
some acuuaiutances Which had bccu form
ed in Brazil, he was allowed to inspect
the entire machinery of the slave trade,
and to pass up into the interior under
the firneau Desousa. the great inter
mediarv between the chiefs of the slave
making districts aud the Brazilian car
rers. The coast fever was his pay tor
this trip. and he was sent home by Com
modore Read, invaided: Impeflectly
patched up from the effects of this vista
ton, he volunteered for service with the
army in Mexico, and was ordered, with
dispatches, on a dare devil race through
the country our troops had left, to over
take Gen. Scott. Awaiting himself al
Perote, of miscreant escort of jail-brds,
that Gen. Worth had employed as spy
company, he got into series OF fights,
in the last of which he received the
swords of Gen. Gaoua and Gen. Torrejon,
and had his horse killed under him, and
was himself desperately wounded, whilst
protecting the lives of his prisoners
against his own men. Since then he mas
been cruising and practising photography
or the coast survey, up to the moment
of receiving his teleyraphic despatch,
accepting his urgent proffer OF services
for the Arctic Expedition. lie had the
rice fever III the Canton river, the plague
in Egypt, the yellow fever at Rio, the
congestive at Pueblo, and the African
fever OH the coast. These, and wounds,
and All organic disease of the heart
which he has had from boyhood, have
oeen his preparations for the hazards he
is enrountering now. Altogether his
history is eveutful and thrilling for SC
young man, and induces us cordially
to hope that he may return from hls last
adventures with new honors and restored
constitution
VERY HARD INDEED-A young gentle
man paid his addresses to young lady
by whose mother he was phhonorably re-
ceived.
"How hard said he to the Young