Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-04
THE AMERICAN SEARCHING EXPEDITION.

Our readers have been already apprized that the
brig Aduance, one of the vessels sent out by Hon.
HENRY GRNsELL to search for Sir JOHN FRANK
LIN, returned to New York on Tuesday. She is
under the command of Lit. De HAVEN, Of the Y. 8.
Navy, who commanded the expedition. The
Commercial Advertiser publishes the subjoined
particulars of her cruise, derived. from DIR. E. X.
KANE, the surgeon of the expedition. 1t will be
seen with regret that nothing has been learned of
the fate Of FRANKLIN
It viii be remembered that the latest previous intelligence
from the American vessels, the Rescue and the AdUance was
to the 18th Of September 1850, received through the Eng
sh papers On that day they parted company with the
English squadron mentioned in the dispatches Of Capt
Penny.
On the same night they were frozen in at Wellington chan
nell From that point commenced their northern drift and
they carried up the channel latitude rs rs. the great
es. norhing ever attained in that meridian.
Prom that latitude they commenced drifting again to the
SOUTH and 10 November, $780, entered Lancaster Sound
During this time the violence Of the erupons Of the ice
great they could keep fires regularly liz
Of the moton of the vessel The mercury in the ,hermome-
fell below The bedding froze in every apartment
and the coffee and soup became coDgealed
taken of the fire.
It was at this time the scuvy broke out attacking all
the crewssnd officers, Capt DE- HAvIS and DR.. KANE n-
cuded BY dint of ssduous attention and constant vgi
lance however Dr. Kane succeeded ia keeping down the
disease and fortunately brought them all through the disease
without losing single man. Any who Dr. Kane's
eye when he nnodesy mentioned this gratifying fact would
readily believe that his attention to his charge would be alike
enthusiastic and unremitting. Efl
The principal eruptons in the ice, may here mention,
occurred the lh of November and the 9th of December
1850, and the 18th of January 1851 which latter day
the expedition entered Bsn's Bay During their rontinu-
on bxt
sir faat eight inches with life Narboard Of
two feet eight nches the dscoms and Inconvenience
which mayswell be imagined:
Dung this whole time also the had TO have their
knapsacks constantly prepared we'll sIeighs, &c not
knowing but that at any the vessels strong they
might be crushed by the ce They three weeks
without taking off their clothes Fortunately the ice lifted
up rather than crushed the vessels which ley often
siderable elevation the Of the upheavng ice.
From this ice the vessels emerged the 10th Of June,
1851, after imprisonment Of nine months During this
time they had dfed thousand and sixty mies-a polar
drift OF unprecedented extent The ony in any way
analogous with it, we believe that Of Capt. Back in
Hudsons Bay which, however, did compare with it in
extent During this whole imprisonment in the ice the
vessels suffered comparatively little damage The Advance
her bobays and part Of her false kee the Rescue had
her cutwater and bowspnt literally chiselled of.
Having got both his vessels liberated, Capt DE- HAVEN
determined again to try to prosecute his search, and turned
the Advances head to the northward. He succeeded in
reaching the upper Melville Bay region but again
hemned in by ice. From this he liberated until the
18th Of August which time the advanced
that impossible for him to proceed and accomplish his
purpose, supposng every thing should be favorable and
ice intervene He therefore reluctantly determined to
turn home
The Advance called the Greenland ports where she OBJ
tanned full supplies of fresh meats, vegetables fruits &c.
and Dr. Kane had the happiness of seeing the scurvy
entirely disappear. Capt. De Havens the severe
attack and afforded singular illustration of Of the pecu
liar features of the disease. small wound bis finger,
made when school boy, by blow from cane, and many
years ago completely healed and forgotten re-opened by
the disease similar result attended a wound which DR..
Kane received 10 the Mexican war; and indeed every
exhibited similar illustration of this phase of the disease
The American vessels last the English ship Prince
Albert at eleven o'clock A. M. the 2h of August stand
Ing south southeast having given up, Capt De Haven
concluded all hope Of getting round the bay c and making
the southern passage Capt De H. thinks probable that
she would reach Prince Regents Inlet
Not having had time visit the Advance cannot speak
of her appearance after her hazardous voyage Dr. KANE
exceedingly intelligent and aable gentleman looks we'll,
although somewhat weather-beaen. He thinks after seeing
the regions and the Shore that Sir John Franklin
and his crews probably yet alive. The Advance has
brought home the relics of Sir Johns visit the place where
three Of his buried also two three Esquimaux
dogs Of them not many weeks DID, apparently very ne
and intelligent animals
DR.. KANE speaks in the highest of Capt De
ana INIT mr. GRIHEKLL icr proud s.ss-
faction in having set on foot the expedition.
We learn from Mr.. GRIssELL that Lady FRAxKLIE en-.
terains the opinion Dr. Kane with respect to her
noble husband.