Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-05-30
DE-. Knne ofthe Arntic Ernedition.


The New York Times, in an able editorial
upon Mr. Grinnell's expedition in search OF
Sir john Franklin, thus speaks Of its heroic
leader:
''Certainly no man of the age has graduated in
such course of preparatory discipline he TO
whom is now entrusted the search for the long
lost navigator lie has taken his diploma in the
College of Dangers In the brief enumeration of
his studies, we find him tramping for several
weeks on foot through the orange gIoves of Bra
I'll; then for month chasing the tiger near Bonn
bay; then, surgeon of the American Legation to
China, where, after numerous uuayailing en-
deavors 10 penetrate the forbidden portions of the
Celestial Regions, he goes to the Philippines, and
succeeds, through the good offices of the Monks
Of the interior oIbIana, in visiting It's Businesses
and exploring lis volcanic wonders; then, with
bamboo cord around his waist, descending two
hundred feet below the brink, into the great
Crater of Tael, relurnng with a bottle of its sui
phur waters, and leaving his crsped boots amid
its cinders and lava; then, again visiting China,
and encountering shipwreck, he passes TO India,
! as physician of the DremeUdhar Dagore, and for
three months from his palanqun looks out upon
the glorles OF that country which plays, prod
igaiy, lis physical wonders, and gathers around
it the most romantic associations: then we trace
him in Upper Egypt and Abyss;nia, imprinting
the temporary footsteps of his camel on the shit
ing sands, trayersing the Sahara to the base of
Jupiter Amm0n-at the eminent risk of life, APP
plying his to the lips OF Memnon, that speak
their morning words high in the couds-for sew.
eral weeks with Professor LegSius, disturbing the
ancient dust of the Pharaohs; again wrecked as
he descends the NiIe-wounded in combat near
decentralization hunting on each scene ufinter-
est in classic Greece, and sleeping under the sky
that arches the shore of Maralhon-then whrl-
ing through Italy, France and England-then
cruising on the coast Of Africa, he avais himself
Of his Brazilian acquaintance, and is permitted to
penetrate the interior and examine the whole ma
chlnery of the slave lrade-ihen fighting with the
coast fever, and though coming off conqueror vet
so disabled as to be obliged to return home an in
valld-then volunteering for Mexico, carrying
dispatches to General Scott in a mad race
through the country troops had left ; at Perote
obtaining an escort oil mlscreant spy company,
and becoming involved in series Of fights, he re-
ceived the swords of Gaona and General Tore
Jon, had his horse killed under him, and was
himself desperately wounded in protecting The
lives Of his prisoners against his own men--lhen
engaged in photographic service on the coast sur
vey-then as surgeon of the expedition in search
OF SiI John Franklin, spending long and dismal
winter on the frozen waters of the Polar seas
then returning amid the congratulations Of his
1inBll te uSSC6HuS iTO!l tne altitude OIL an
iceberg to the heat of the lecture room, and lays
before the people the results of his northern in
vestigaiions and we now see him-thus familiar
ized with every peril, aud accIimated in every
region; having successfully struggled with the
rice fever in the Canton River; with the plague
| IN Egypt; With the yellow fever at Rio; with the
congestive at Pueba; with the African fever on
the coast; with organic disease of the heart,
which has from bis boyhood been assailing the
citadel of life with dangerous wounds preparing
for yet more difficult and hazardous attempt to
reach The northern axle olthe globe.
Thus disciplined and accredited, we see this
| young, slender, aud plastic American, under the
aid of a benevolence that stretches be, ond home
and country, reighting his stout ship now in our
harbor, with the implements and mea, of sub
slstence which are necessary to enable him to un-
derlake IA second and novel expedition, to find, if
it be possible, amidst the ices of the Pole, the
form, living or dead, OF that gallant explorer
whose unknown fate attracts the liyeliest inteI est
| of the nations.
Filled with wonders are those domnons of the
north. With what interest the eye runs over the
map lines which set apart those mystic bounda.
ries Of snow and ice, and inpenetrable winter
Grander and more sublime are those defiant ga-
cal mountains, those formidable masses ofsnow,
| the weird glimmerng of the long twilight, the
ouetCHGu uul nlgnt--tle eleculC HuS0eS That Dart
to the zenith and counterfeit the day-than the
gardens of the world. where oriental sunshine,
fruits and flowers, and the gorgeous exuberance
Ofnature's vegetation lull and soothe our dreamy
senses into pleasing nerlness The imag ina
ton bounds with a new vg0r and seeks TO pierce
| the unirodden regions-the home of the Borealis
around which the gtlering ba elements of ice
stretch their eiectua guard There is rich mu-
sic to the ear of the adventurous in the wild wall
of those nournful frozen seas, those whirng
snow drifts, that cracking, crumbling ice thai
holds him momentdrily on the precipice of dan.
ger; and there is beauty to his eye IN the varying
hues that mount strangely and fiilulIy in the
aurora of the northern zone, and fling their radi-
ance Ger the dazzling minarets that shoot into
the sky.
So long as there may remain enc leaf of the
vast volume of nature to be turned over, whether
it be in the craters of her volcanoes, or on the
summits of her glaciers; whether in festive mo.
ments she lies in smiling beauty, or flowers in
verdure, or wraps herself in impervous snow
nantes, and, leaning her face against the clouds,
bids defiance to the scrutiny oreighteen centuries
SO long and there will restless explorers take
themselves, and, spurred by motives of fame, OF
curiosity, or of benevoence boldly knock at her
most cherished secrets
In these Arctic explorations, dangers. come
mick ana imminent. Columbus baptized bis
Prov in the woong influences of a genial sea-
But in the Central North the elements war will
man; he is nowhere safe, whether in lionel,
marches, isolated and frozen, on snow-shoes Oh
sledges, or amidst those gigantic bergs whose
heavy touch splnlers his little ship like thing o
straw.
Let Us wish all success to the gallant spirit
who, with his gallant company, Is now preparing
to assault the North. We hope he may restore
The lamented Franklin to his constant vile. and
TO the world. Dr. Kane more than any other
man deserves such fortune; deserves the honor of
revealing the secrets Of those regions where the
storm blast whistles the widest ;of standing alone
with the genius Of Frost, and Of carving his soil.
ltary name on the icy knob Of the North Pole"
CoNJUGAL AFFECTION OF JUROR
The jury in the case Of the State VS. the negro
girl Fanny, for poisoning the family of Mr. Men
kins, were dismissed yesterday morning by Judge
| Colt. Two Of the witnesses In the case were rs