Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1850-11-14
Arctic Expedition.

Intelligence of startling but confused
nature has been brought from the Arctic
regions, by the North Star which arrived
at Spithead on Saturday the % of Sep
tember, and by the Prince Albert, which
reached Aberdeen on the following Tues
day. A report has gained ground of the
destruction of Sir John Franklin's vessels
and the murder of all hands by the ma
tives and, although the different state
ments given by the Esquimaux are very
contradictory, the fear that in the one great
particular that may be to true. is strength
ened by the fact that the remains of a YES
sci have been found, which in all proba-
bility was the Erebus of Terror
The North Star was beset with ice in
July last, on the east side of Melville Bay,
and, during two months of extreme peril
from the massive foes and bergs. drifted
as far to the notrthward as Wolstenholme
Island The sound being free from ice at
the time, sail was made for secure bay,
where the ship anchored, and was housed
for the winter.
The ice soon formed a communication
between the vessel and the shore, whith-
er numbers of the crew occasionally resor-
ted for the purpose of shooting hares, fox
es, &c. Some Esquimaux visited the ship
and one man was brought on board with
his feet so frozen that they dropped off
He was attended and cured by DR.. Ray.
bat died six weeks after, of pulmonary
disease.
Ga the lst of August the Mort Star was
liberated from her tedious Imprisonment
and she sailed from Wholstenholme Sound
{ D. Il,
pack of ice where she remained beset for
days. She then succeeded in getting
through it. and reached on the Sth of Au-
gust Possession Bay, near the entrance
of Lancaster Sound, where notices of the
North Stars arrival and state were landed.
Proceeding up Lancaster Sound, opposite
to Prince Regent Inlet, to Whaler Point,
she anchored there on the 18th. She re
manned off Whaler Point endeayorlng to
get in for "A hours but the ice was too
closely packed along the coast and, there
being no chance Of break up notices
were Ian dcd. and the North Star proceed
ed to the opposite coast TO endeayer to
land provisions at the Port Bowen, Port
Neil. or Jackson's Islet. but all these pla-
ces were so completely blocked up with
heavy land foes of ice that the ship could
not get into either place; she therefore,
bore away for Navy Board Inlet, in lat
73 deg. 44 n, Ion so deg so W, and in a
mall bay named Supply Bay, in the inlet,
she landed her surplus provisions-cover-
ing up the tea and other dry articles, and
leaving the proper notices and wherea bouts.
She remained here five days, and then
went to Ponds Bay
On the 2lst of August. at the entrance
of Lancaster Sound, the North Star fell
in with the Lady Franklin, Capt. Penny,
and her tender, the Sophia, all we'll
Capt Penny reported that Capt Austin's
ships had got through the ice in Melville
Bay, on the 9th of August, and she had
left them on the 18th off Cape Dudley
Digges that some of the vessels would
proceed, if the ice would permit, through
Barrow's Straits, to examine and explore
Banke's Land
spoke the Felix, Capt Sir John Ross, an
abridgement Of whose dispatch We now
submit.
After obtaining an Esquimaux inter
prefer at Holsteinberg aud calling at the
4 Whale Fish Islands, the Felix discovery
yacht with her tender the Mary, proceed
cd northward through the Wargatt Strait,
and overlook her Majesty's ships under the
command of Capt. Austin on the | tn of
August and on the 18th the senior officer
and the second IN command having cordl-
ally communicated with me on the best
mode of performing the service on which
we are mutually embarked, that arrange
ments were made and concluded for a sim
ultane0us examination of every part Of the
eastern side Of a northwest passage IN
which 1t was probable the missing ships
could be found. documents TO that effect
were exchanged and subsequently assen-
ted to By Captains Forsyth and Penny.
! On the 18th of August natives were
discovered on the ice near TO Cape I ork.
Lieutenant Gator. in the Intrepid, was de-
tatched on the part of Capt Austin, and
on my part Commander Phillips, with our
! Esquimaux interpreter, in the whaleboat
/ of the Felix 1t was found by Lieuten-
ant Gator that capt Penny had left with
/ the natives note for Captain Austin, bat
only relative to the state of the navigation,
/ however, when Commander Philips arrived
the EsquImauX, seeing one apparently Of
their own nation In the vhsleboat. came
immeda lately to him, when long converse
j tion took place, the purport of which could
not be made known, as the interpreter
could not explain himself to any one, Ell
ther in the Intreped or the whaleboat (as
he knows only the Dutch aud his own
language until he was brought on board
! the Prince Albert, where his information
was deemed of such Importance that Cap
tains Ommanney, Philips, and Forsyth.
proceeded in the Intrepid to the Resoiute
1t was decided By Capt Austin to send
for the Danish Interpreter of the Lady
Franklin which. having been unsuccessful