The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-03
LADY FRANKLIN.

dressed to the President of the United States.
She apologies for troubling him again upon
a subject so deeply interesting to her. but in.
Inmates that she cannot consent to relinquish
the hope to which she has so long chung, and
which seems to be almost part of her exs.
tence. What q man must Sir John Franklin
have been, to have excited such deep devotion
in the bosom of such womanl We hardly
remember case like it in history.
With ell her feeling on the subject, however,
Lady Franklin has not lost sight of reason
and common sense. If she be monomaniac,
as some say she is, she undoubtedly has
"method in her madness" The views pre-
scented in the three following paragraphs,
would do no discredit to Herschell or Arago,
or Lieut.. Maury, or any philosopher or navi-
gator of them all.
"Tbe results of the late operations OF the
allied souadrons, though falling short OF our
hopes and expectations, are neither inslgnih'
cant nor devoid of great encouragement iof
the future. They prove, in the FIRST place. ,nat
the missing ships escaped all the catastropnles
which the faint-hearted and despairng mac
predicted of them in their outward voyage,
and arrived in safety at the first winter quar-
fers where were the graves OF these men be-
longing to the Discovery ships, and buried APP
parentIy with great care and decorum, attest
that the rest of the ships companies were not
only in life, but las other unmistakeable signs
combine to prove) in circumstances OF secu-
rity, comfort and plenty. and full OF vigor.
Again, the future field of search has been mar.
rowed, the explorations OF Captain Austin's
officers over the ice carried on with a spirit
and perseverance which make me proud that
they are my countrymen, having shown that
our ships could not have pursued a southwest
course, while the discoveries of Captain Pen.
ny, conducted with equal energy and spirit in
northwest direction, leave no room to doubt
that the clear water he there came upon was
first opened by my husbands ships, and that
they pursued their way to wards Behring Straits
in high northern latitude. Thus our future
efforts have more confined and definite aim.
1t may be affirmed that the lost navigators are
now to be looked for, with every hope OF sue.
cess, in the space lying between 100 deg. and
108 deg. of west longitude, and any parallel
of latitude north of rs deg. 1t would appear
therefore, that to secure the completeness OF
the search, il should be commenced simultane-
ously at both ends, and that no single expedi-
tion going up Wellington Channel should be
considered to have exhausted its work till it
emergediin Behring Straits, or, in other words,
accomplished a northwest passage; nor any
expedition starting from Behring Straits deem
its object attained till it comes out in Yelling
ton Chancellor Baffin's Bay, or in other words
performed the northwest passage. Our own
Government, fear, intend to limit their efforts
TO an eastern expedition up Wellington Chan
mel. There remains for the search by Beh-
ring Straits only a small private expedition,
set on foot by a generous individual in this
country, who is devoting his private means
and his personal efforts to the enterprise.
Another fruit of the late expeditions is the
knowledge they have e iven us of the power of
steam to overcome obstacles before supposed
10 be insurmountable. So successful has been
the result that it is probable powerful steam
er might be able, in one season to make pro.
gress which it would take successive years to
accomplish without, or which might never be
accomplished at all.
Scarcely less satisfactory is the experiment
that has been made of long journeys by
sledge and on foot over the ice in winter and
spring weather. Hundreds of miles of coast
have been thus examined. Lastly, we derive
Infinite knowledge from the proofs which the
late expeditions have given us that considera.
BILE resources exist in these northern positions
of the Arctic regions which have now been
approached for the support of human life, and
very satisfactory also is the additional expert.
ence gained in confirmation of all former evi.
dence that the Arctic climate is in itself favor.
able to health, and that the loss of life attend
ing the expeditions is, in spite of all risks and
accidents incidental to them, far less than the
average of mortality in any other portion o
the globe. With these facts before US, ano
with no proof or even sign of any sudden ca
lamity having oversaken them and cat shor
their progress, it seems not presumptuous, but
within the bounds of reasonable and modes
calculation cf probabilities, to conclude tina
the lost nayigators have only not beer
found because they were already beyond ths
reach of the efforts which have been made to
come upon their track, limited as their efforts
have hitherto been to the duration of a single
season. The discovery ships were yaers ahead
oil all their pursuers, and while the latter had
advanced hardly beyond the starting post, they
were struggling towards the goal. Ii misfor.
tune has indeed overwhelmed them-and how
should dare refuse to believe in such proba.
billy Tit has been in the strenuous ard ar.
dent pursuit of their duty, and not in the early
and timid abandonment of it, as they would
seem TO imply who gratuitously suppose tina
our brave countrymen turned back al he enc
of single winter, and persisted on their way
home! 1t was the known determination O
my husband, land is recorded by him in hi.
Hast letters from the borders of the ice) to re-
new his attempts year after year. and if foileC
IN one direction to'try another"
Mr.. Grinneii has had his ships oyerhaulec
: and repaired, and they are now ready for sea
while Mr.. Geo. Peabody, distinguished Anne
rican merchant, resident 10 London, has furnish
ed ten thousand dollars towards fitting out tn.
expedition. That there is communication
between Wellington Channel and Baffin
Bay, we think evident, from the fact that
species Of whale found in thief ormer alone
IL sometimes seen in the latter, it being per
fectly evident that il is straggler, and has NJ
kindred any where else than 10 the quarter in
dictated.
MRS. AND Mr.. OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT
We learn, from the New York Musica
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