The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-22
Forslsn Miscellany.


THE UxrrED SERVICE CLys IN ENGLAND. AND
AMxaIcAH NAVAL OFyicEAs.--A report has got
about town With regard 10 the United Service Club
which we sincerely hope will receive the earliest
possible contradiction. Two foreign men WAT
have arrived in our ports freighted with Articles
for the Great Exhibition-the one IL the 81. Law
renee, from the United States; the other the Sar-
dinian ship, the Governolo. Now, II 10 customary,
we understand, with the United Service Club to
admit foreign naval officers OF certain rank upon
tb.;r cIub' distinction, however-so 1t is said
il 70 be made in this instance The ofhcers Of the
two ships arc 70 be excluded from the club be-
cause, regard being had to the service on which
thew are employed, they can only be considered AZ
merchantmen. We will not, ofcourse, undertaketo
guarantee the correctness Of the report, and most
happy shall We be to open our columns to any
authorized contradiction OF u. We viii not, until
gentlemen could be guilty of such an act OF fatu-
Qua absurdity-not to say of di:courtesy and III,
breeding. Our own navy captains arc right glad
10 get bold Of freight Of treasure on the South
American station. Il is matter Of notoriety that
they spare no exertions to obtain 20 lucrative
prcrogative; and yet they are to turn round upon
the officers Of foreign services, who arc simply en-
spcctive govcrnments-a commission to the full as
rcspectablc az firing broadsides, testing the COM
parative rates Of sailing between the ships OF an
experimental squadron. y this report Dc trusM ss
only one thing left TO wish for. which will be that
the members Of the United Service Club may be
ostracised in every geptleman's house in London
ssAacA roR sis JosN FaAkxLIN-CoMMAsDEa
PULLsn's ExPEDITIoN.-The following extracts
from letter by Lieutenant Hooper to relative at
home. II IL dated ~.
"Foar Coon HoPs, McKsszIs RIvxa.
f ia TUESDAY, July l6, 1850
ssln my letter of the 9th ult. l told you Of our
intended second trip to tho sea, and that we were
Just returning from Great Slave Lake TO Fort
Simpson to prepare for the voyage at that place.
Quarter Of an hour after that letter was sealed we
u No. IL in
opposite direction. We reached Fort Simpson on
the Sd instant and, until the llth were busily en-
gagged in getting our boats and all matters in read
meas. which, with few hands and small resources.
took I'D much time. On that day we quilted Fort
Simpson, and descended the river to Fort Nurna,
which we reached on the night Of the 9Th, stayed
there the night, and started the next morning for
this place, where We arrived tnis mo1nng.
also the last place from which can communicate
with you until our return, which will probably be
about the end of September or beginning Of Octo-
Der. a0 1eF 1855
3 "Our boats are two--thc larger one brought from
the Plovsr; tho other 10 river boat Of the Hudson
Bay Company, and called the Try Again, with
reference 10 our attempt this time. We ARE seven.
teen persons in all-Captain Pullcn, myself ten OF
our old hands, three new ones OF the company, and
two Indians for hunters. We may expect to reach
the sca about tho Esd Of tho present month, and
we meet with no detention ought TO get 70 cape
Bathurst in few days. then across TO Woollaston
or Bankss Land, a. opportunity may best serve. IT
il not impossible that we may winter in ono OF
those lands shoud provisions be plentiful there, in
order to extend our search far ~ may be.
Therefore If YOU do not receive from mo an an
nouncement Of our return, which shall not fail to
Eve II We return back this year. you must not be
alarmed at our absence, nor fancy q thousand hor-
riblo contingencies; but, the contrary, rejoice
that we have fallen upon . never .before-tr odden
land. and are prosecuting with ardor a prolonged
search. instead of combining our operations to one
briefsummer (wcare safe, know, in the great
EFT danger as In bed in the security Of our
native fsnd. and be assured not many Of our party
ara essilv daunted with trifes.) We are not san
hone A. the reeon we propose visiting il ono which
hss not before been explored, and in q direction
y which the most experienced Of Arctic voyagers
imagine TO be the most probable situation tor the
missing ships Should we lind them, what delight
would 30 ours could we but succeed in restoring
the distressed and gallant party to their anxiously-
sorrowing friends. R4a
'.Sir j. Ross Left at Port Leopold, on the land OF
North Somerset provisions sufficient tor sixty men
for twelve months, with steam launch.
s "Noyv. should we reach Banks's Land, which il
about three hundred miles from Cape Bathurst, and
find the sea to the eastward clear Of ice. with fine
wreterlv bree 70. we might perhaps, mako for that
nlscr. where the provisions would support our
srtv for four wears nearly, and enable us TO search
away properly. But this is only remote chance,
=. it - imnossible 10 sav what VIC shall do depend.
inr. a We must ON the weather, which, in these
hvnarborean regions can never be determinatcly
csiculatcd upon. We take energy and determine
ton TO the task and hope to the onset; these should
smooth ali difficulties. The issue il in the hands
of an ali. wise God To him let US leave it,
sEnclosed il q likeness Of nm Indian woman OF
the slave tribe, taken at Fort Simpson. Tho cos
tume can answer for ~ being correct. Her dress
is of smoked mooee skin, her belt Of porcupine
quilb. Her knife hangs in sheath from her neck,
and she holds in her band q canoe paddle. Her
name il Clio. hee ah-zcc, the Little Rabbit.
Tbesc Indians have very odd names; there is one
called Pas under the Ground; another Thirty
six Tonoues-I suppose from his talking dsposi-
ton. he being super eminenty loquacious.
ssThis il . noble occupation 10 save
life far more 90 than destroying it, and trust that
4 NAV never DO forced to that necessity, or at any
l~te but in . just cause s4 r s
q e., opnIrAuv IoNarvrry.-There are twenty.
ono pef.crs living Mt this time n; Hawkhurst whose
united ars, rs.cS total Of / 743 vears or An ay-
( craze Of 81 ys.rs a. e.cb ;na;v;dyaI. There are
also 40 other resiaents whoae arcs form an arrre-
gate OF 1897 years giving an average of upwards
of ~ vcars 10 each: and ont ~ about 500 per
sons. which this parish = estirnated to contain,
fuIIv 100 Il il said will prove to have reached an