Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-10-23
Return Of the American EXpeOI-
iiOu in seaSch for Sir 5Ohn
Franklin.

We copy the follwing account from the
n. Y. Journal of Commerce Since the ar
ticle was written the Rescue, the companion
of the Advance, has arrived in safety at New
York. Too much credit cannot be awarded
to Mr.. Grinnell who betrayed the whole eA-
pense of the expedition, which although un-
successful has demonstrated almost to GER
tainity the fact that Sir John and his COM
panions are still alive, and that they will in
the end be rescued from this Imprisonment
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.-This intrepid navi-
gator, if alive, will soon enter upon his seventh
winter in the polar seas. The Advance, one of
vessels fitted out from this port to rescue him
and his gallant comrades from their perils,
reached our harbor yesterday morning, and
now lies at the navy yard in good condition,
having lost only her bulwarks and part other
false keel in her long and hazardous voyage.
The Rescue, from which she parted in gale
on the 18th of September, is expected soon.
The expedition was unsuccessful in the hui
name and noble object for which it was set
on foot. but the hearted officers
who went out in the Advance still entertain
hopes of the safety of the missing vessels, and
trust that the benifcent exertions still in pro-
gress for their safety may be crowned with
success. We have learned from them that
there is abundant material, in food and fuel,
in the region in which Sir John Franklin is
supposed to be, for the sustenance of his par
ty. 1t is found in the game which migrate
to the Artic seas, and in the seal and other
marine mammalia found there, the latter fur
nishing both food and fuel.
Although the expedition has not been sue
cessful in the object for which it sailed, the
effort is creditable to the humanity of the age,
and should be continued till all hope is extin-
guished. To our fellow-citizen, Mr.. Henry
Grinnell, a large debt of gratitude is due for
his noble and we'll planned endeavors. The
two vessels, the Advance and Rescue, after
being prepared with great skill to resist the
pressure of ice, set sail from this port, under,
the command of Lieut. De Haven on the Odd
of May, 1850, with orders to return to this
port during this fall. They were well fitted
and equipped, and after sailing along the
Greenland coast, and up Barrow's Straits,
reached the region of Artic discovery in the
month ofAugust, 1850 They found at Beechy
Island. or Its vicinity, traces ofSir John Frank
lin, for 1t was here that three of his men had
been buried; but nothing was ascertained to
Indicate the direction he took from that point
in search of the northwest passage. An at
tempt was made by Lieut.. De Haven to reach
the open sea, which is supposed to exist at
the extreme north, but it was unsuccessful.
The vessels of this expedition were within
about seven hundred miles of the supposed
position of the Enterprise and investigators.
the two vessels which entered into the same
seas on the opposite side of this Continent.
through the Straits between it and Asia.
The rapid approach of winter forced the
squadron to seek for winter quarters, and they
attempted to do so; but the ice gradually
formed about them when off Wellington Chan
mel, and on the 18th September, 1850, they
were completely fastened in. The vessels
then commenced, what was wholly unexpec-
ted, northern drift, and reached by lst of
October the high latitude of IS deg % min,
the highest latitude ever attained in that me-
rldlan. The drift is owing to the combined
action OF the wind and tide, which, in the lst
OF October, turned the vessels in a southern
direction, IN which they continued for the ex-
traordlnary period of nine months and until
they had fioatcd distance of / ,O7O miles,
ne Ice about formed one vast plain, but it was