Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-07
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES.

of the age has graduated in such course of pre-
paratory discipline he to whom is intrusted the
search for the ongost navigator lie has taken his di-
ploma in the college of dangers In the brief enumera-
ton of his studies find him rampng for several weeks
foot through the orange groves Of Brazil then for
month chasing the tiger Bombay then surgeon of
the American legation China, where, after
unavang endeavor penetrate the forbidden portions
Of the Celestial regions, he goes TO the Philippines, aud
succeeds through the good Offices of the monks of the in
terror of MANILA in visiting its Businesses and exploring
its volcanic wonders them with bamboo cord around his
waist descending two hundred feet below the brink into
the great of Tae returning with bottle Of its
sulphur waters and leaving his crsped boots amid its
cinders and lava then again, visiting China and encoun
terng shpwreck he passes India physician of the
Dremendhar Dagore and for three months from his pa
lanqun looks upon the gores of that country which
displays in prodigality its physical wonders and gathers
around ii the most romantic associations then
him in Upper Egypt and Abyssnia imprntng the tempo
rary footsteps of the camel the shifting sands raver
ing the Sahara to the base Of Jupiter Ammon at the i'm
minent risk of life, applying his 10 the lips of Mem
that speak their morning words high in the clouds
for several weeks with Professor Lepsus disturbing the
ancient dust of the Pharaohs again wrecked he de-
4 scends the Nile wounded in combat Alexandria
then hunting out each Of interest in classic Greece
and sleeping under the sky that arches the shore of Ma
rahon; then whirng through Italy, France, and Eng
land then cruising on the OF Africa he ayails him
self Of his Brazilian acquaintance, and is permitted to
penetrate the interior and examine the whole machinery
Of the slave trade then fighting with the fever
and though coming of conqueror yet disabled to be
obliged 70 return home invalid then volunteering for
Mexico carrying dispatches to General Scott in mad
race through the country troops had left at Perote
obtaining an escort Of mscreant spy company and
becoming involved in series Of fights he received the
swords Of Gen Gaona and Gen. Torrejon had his horse
killed under him, and was himself desperately wounded
in protecting the lives Of his prisoners against his
men then engaged in photographic service the
survey then, surgeon Of the expedition in search of
Sir Johs Franklin, spending long and dismal winter
the frozen polar then returning amidst
the congratulations Of his countrymen he descends from
the altitude Of ceberg the heat Of the lecture
and lays before the people the results Of his northern in
vestigatens and him, thus famiarized with
every peril and accmaed in every regon-having sue
cessfuy 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 an organic disease Of the heart which has
from boyhoos been assaing the citadel Of life with dan
gerous wounds Thus disciplined and accredited we see
this young slender and plastic American under the aid
Of benevoence that stretches beyond home and country
freghting his stout ship now in our harbOr, with the
implements and means Of subsistence which ye necessa
ry to enable him undertake second and novel expedi
ton to find If be possible amidst the ices Of the pole
the FORM living or dead of that gallant explorer whose
unknown fate attracts the vees interest Of the nations