Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-10-14

crop MS ehtIre crop OF corn Will be about hive thou
sand bushels Fifty bushels of Rufiin5 purple straw
wheat was sowed which produced eleven hundred
bushels Iwenty-three bushels of crate wheat wal
put in, which yielded seven hundred bushels.
AS an evidence of the method pursued, we may
state, that IN connection with another gentleman, Mr.
F, has standing order in New York, for one terct
OF seed wheat from the Baltic, each year.
The general arrangement of he farm is excellent
Fine large shelters are provided for stock-a well o
excellent water is In the barn-yard-a rem for agrcul
iural implenents-each field provided with gates
fencng III ilnc order, and all those externals wi cl
add IN appearance, comfort, and advantage large
tract of land.
The farm occupies decidedly pretty situation
running from the pines, Iii the rear, with graceful
slope, down 10 the waters Of the Rappahannock. The
mansion overooks the entire tract, and occupies az
elevation which renders it capable of being made
charming spot. 1t Is already surrounded by handsome
ornamental trees, the walks gravelled and PARTIAL,
envlroned with clusters OF sweetscented flowers
We trustt the example of Mr. Fitzhugh may be spec
Oily followed, and we shall soon have MANY handsome
and productive ta1ms rising up from where there is
nought now save wilderness OF pines, covering the
nakednesS OF the soil
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.-Slrgeon Kane, of the A mer-
lean Arctic expedition, has addressed the following
letter to the munfcen patron of that enterprise, Mr.
Henry GrinnelI:
RENSSELAER,, NEAR PHILADELPHIA
Tuesday, Oct. g. 1851
My Dear Sir You ask me whether have changed
the views expressed to you when we parted in Nav
of last year to the fate and actual position Of Sir
John tranklns party, and you remind me that then
thought the Northward passage by yelling ton chan.
nell as the one which they had most probably taken.
lhave nothing since to change this opinion but
many things to confirm it, You know that Sir Johns
instructions gave him the alternative OF this course
after making decided effort TO proceed to the south
ward and westward from the neighborhood of Cape
Walker and | need not renew to you the arguments
that have demonstrated his purpose to avail himself of
this discretion.
Now our own observation, a. well as all the in for
nation which we have derived from other sources,
makes it almost unvarying fact, that the ice
holds much longer in those parts OF the Sound which
10 the west and south oil Wellington channel than in
the channel itself should think it quite safe to say
that, under ordinary circumstances the navigation,
though siructed and difficult, would be practicable
some weeks earlier by the northern than by the west
ern route Ii seem to me, too, nearly demonstrate
rom asceraued facts that the earlier occur on
the eastern side OF Wellington channel. The currents
rom the pole toward the equator are modified Of
course, by The rotary OF the earth and our
own experience during long drift down the we tern
shore OF Bafiins Bay confirmed the representations of
all the whaers we met, tdat in the the first months f
the season the greater masses OF polar ice track he
way along the western coasts, leaving the eastern COM
paratiVely free.
The position OF Franklins party in the Winter of
lS45 e has now been detiniuvely ascerained 1t was
in the core between Cape Riley and the so.callad
Beechv Island, which, Isl in fact peninsula formino
the southeastern cape OF Wellington channel His
encampment occupied the narrow strip OF low land
between Lancaster SOOnQ tilS channel, and
manded full view OF The lce-clad water OF BOTH
The traces Of bis parties continued northacardEv
We even discovered the unmstakabe marks OF sled
ges extending towards the north. These were in one
place, we'll defined on the single limestone and
farther on, in the hardened snow OF former wears
There be no doubt, then, either that Sir John did
in fact proceed north from his first winerng ground
or that or least, he made observations in that drec-
ton TO considerable. and we do not know how great
a distance.
So much for deduction from the immediate reuIts
of your expedition, jointly with The British exploring
parties II say jointly for you are aware that ali
moved sether, and that the discoveries at and me-
Cape Riley were made at the same time by gen.
tlemen Of both nations.
Whether Sir j. Franklin had penetrated to the
southwark and westward before making habor at this
point is a question OF minor importance We know
that he wintered near the great channel, aud from
what all the world knows OF the character of Sir John
it is not in the 81 ghtest degree probable that he would
rest at Beechy alter the ice had opened along the east
shores OF Wellington inlet in the mere hope of be-
ing able to penetrate to south and west at some later
period If the did become detached he would avail
himself OF tie earliest leads, even he was resolved
to return on his track when the should be more
advanced, in order to then push his way toward Cane
Walker He certainly did leave his quarters early in
1916, and there are some marks which might support
the idea that he did so somewhat hastily as if avang
himself OF an unexpected pathway Ii there are no
traces OF HIM IN the direction OF Cape Walker as there
are OF later date than 1856 in the neighborhood
of Beechy, the inference seems TO me irresistible that
he passed northward by Wellington channel, and that
he did not return.
He might be able to do so without having encoun
tered any fatal accident. We were ourselves as you
know, caught nearly opposite poor Frankns FIST So
ourn, and borne northward In the ice for Is DAYS
directly against the theoretical currents, and with
great rapdty: We saw at this time high and dome
ike ranges OF land trendlng North Westwardy ahead
Of IN the latitude OF rs degrees, at least and pro-
1aby much farther. The axis of polar drift must then
De more or less from the Northwest and must have
is oil greatest ice accumulation along the NORTH
ern coast of what call Cornwallis's Island Into
he region north and west OF this, which for aught
We know may be open always, and which must be
open sometimes, we know, continuance of our
lrft for a few days longer would have carried the
American squadron; and it is not difficult to imagine
hat Sir John, if caught in the ice OF Wellington chan
le may have been impelled by like cause in the
same direction; certainly he was not so caught he
would follow the open water. | should say that he
8 now to be sought for north and west of Cornwall
ISIS Island.
AS to the chance of the destruction of his party by
he casualties of ice the return of party al
er something more than the usual share of them is
he only fact that can add to what we knew when
We set out. The hazards from cold and prlvation of
God may be almost look ed upon subordinate. The
the fire and light from the moss Iamp fed
With blubber. the seal, the narwha the white whale,
md occasionally abundant stores of migratory birds
would sustain vigorous life The scurvy, the worst
visitation of explorers deprived of permanent quar-
ers Is more rare IN the depths of polar Winter than
n the mllder weather of the moist Summers and our
we little vessels encountered both seasons without
osng man.
My Impressions are, think, sufficiently definite as
o the manner IN which such an expedition should
'roceed with reference to its great object, but | will
lot nlct on you longer letter upon topics which it
las not been within my official sphere to consider,
nd on which my friends the officers with whom /
ave associated, are better qualified to decide than
myself.
lam, dear sir, very truly yours,
K. KANE, p. A, Surgeons U. S, Navy.
HENRY GRINNELL, Esq New York
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