Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-10-26
90
NeWs from the Old World,

Haven Railroad. ..,.>,-,,,.,.
THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. J.
Intelligence of startling but confused
nature has been brought from the Arctic
Regions, by the North Star which arrived
nj Spithend on Saturday the 2Sth OF Sep
tember, and by the Priuce Albert, winch
reached Aberdeen on the following Tuesday.
A report has gained ground of tile destruc-
ton of Sir John Franklin's vessels, and the
murder of all hands hy the natives aud at
though the different statements given by the
Esquimaux are very contradictory, the fear
that in the one great particular they muy he
too true, is strengthened by the fact that the
remains Of u vessel have been found, which
IN oil probability was the the Erel,us or Terror.
The North Star was beset with ice in Ju-
" last, on the east side of Melville Bay, and
during two months Of extreme peril from
the massive foes and bcrgs, drited MS far to
the northward as Woleslenholme Island.--
The sound beng free from ice At the time,
sail wns made for n secure hay, where the
slip anchored, aud w0s housed over for the
winter.
The ice soon formed n communication be-
tween the vessel aud the shore, whittier
numbers of tue crew occasionally resorted
for the purpose of shooting harcs, foxes, &c.
Some Esquimnux visited the ship, and one
man was brought on board with his feet so
frozen that they dropped off lie was at
tended and cured by DIR. Ray, hut died six
weeks nftcr, of pulmonary disease.
On the LIST of August the North Star was
liberated from her tedious imprisonment,
and she sailed from Wolestcnholme Sound.
But in Ross's Bay she again got into pick
ice, where she remained beset for days. She
then succeeded in getting through it, aud
reached on the 9Th of August Possession
Bay, near the entrnnce of Lancaster Sound,
where notices of the North Stars arrival
and state were landed. Proceeding up Lam
enster Sound, opposite to Prince Regents
Inlet, to Whder Point, she anchored there
on the 18th. She remained of Wheeler
Point, endeayorng to get in for "a hours, but
the ice wns too closely packed along the
coast and there being no chance ofa break
up, notices were landed, aud the North Star
proceeded to the opposite coust TO endeavor
10 land provisions AZ Port Bowen, Port Mel,
or Jackson's Inlet, but all these places were
no completely blocked up with heavy land
foes OF ice that the ship could not get in to
either plnce; she, therefore, bore away for
Navy Board Inlet, in lat 73e IA N, Ion.
60e so w, and in small bay named Sup
ply Bay, in the inlet, she landed her surplus
provisions--covering up the tea and other
dry articles, and leaving the proper notices
and directions of their whereabouts. She
remained here five days, and then went 10
Ponds Bay.
90 the 2lst of August, at the entrance of
Lancaster Sound, the North Star fell in with
and communicated with the Lady Franklin,
Capt. Penny, and her tender, the Sophia, all
well. Capt Penny reported that Capt. Au-
etin's ships had got drought the ice in
Melville Bay, on the 18th of August, and
she bad lett them on the 18th off
Cape Dudley Dgges; that some of the
vessels would proceed, if the ice would per-
NIT, through Barrow's Straits, to explore
BaBke's Land.
On the 22d August the North Star spoke
the Felix, Capt. Sir John Ross, an abridge-
ment of whose dispatch we now submit:
After obtaining an Esqnimnux inttrpre-
ter ni Holsteinborg, aud calling at the Whale
Fish Islands, the Felix discovery yacht, with
her tender the Mary, proceeded nortlward
through the Wargatt Strait, and overlook
her Majestys ships under the command of
Capt. Austin OH the 1lth of August; and oil
the 18th the senior officer and the second in
command having cordially communicated
with mo Oh the best mode of performing the
service on which we are mutually embark
ed, that arrangements were made aud con-
cluded for Simultaneous examination of
every part of the eastern side of n north
the missing ships could he found, documents
to that effect were exchanged, aud eubse-
guenty asseDted TO by Captains Forsyth and
Penny.
.'On tho 18th of August natives were dis
covered on the ice near TO Cape York. Lieu
tenant Gator, in the Intrepid, was detached
on the part of Captain Austin, and on my
part Commander Phillips, with our Esqui-
mnux interpreter, in the whaleboat OF tho
Felix. II was found by Lieutenant Gator
that Captain Penny had lett with the natives
note for Captain Austin, but only relative
20 the state of the navigation; however,
when Commander Phillips arrived, the Es-
qui.laux, seeing one apparently OF their own
nation III the whaleboat, came Immediately
10 him, when n long conversation took place,
the purport OF which could not be made
known, as the interpreter could not explain
himself 10 any one either in the Intrepid or
the whaleboat as lie understands only the
Danish besides his own language until he
was brought on hoard the Prince Albert,
where his information was deemed OF such
importance that Captains Omnanney, Phil
lips, and Forsyth proceeded in the Intrepid
10 the Resolute. Ii was decided by Captain
Austin 10 send for the Danish interpreter OF
rho Lady franklin which, having been Un-
successful in the attempt at getting through
the Ice to the Westward, was only a few
miles distant. IN the meantime il was known
That, in addition TO the first information, a
ship (which could not be the North Starr had
wintered in Woestenhollne Sound, called by
the natives Ourinak, and had only lett it a
month ago, This proved 10 he true, but the
interpretation OF the Dane was totally at va
riance with the Information given 10y the 9th
or, who although for obvious reasons he did
not dare TO contradict the Dane, subseauent-
ly nIaintuined the truth OF his statement,
which induced CapIoiil Austin to dispatch
the Intrepid with Captains Omnanney and
Phillips, taking with them both our interprc-
tiers, Adam Beck aud young native who
had been pursuaded 10 come ss one of the
crew OF the Assistance aud examine Woles-
tenhoime Sound. IN the meantime il had