The true Democrat., 1854-11-15
LIUUC, U HII6u D J. H. MCMAHON, Esq.
Franklin and his Party-Discove-
 rieS of Dr. Rae.

The Montreal Herald, of the 22d ult, con- tains the following account of the discoveries of Dr. Rae, brief notice of which we had by telegraph:
 We are indebted to Sir George Simpson, Co., vernon of the Hudson's Bay Territory for the privilege of first publishing to the world the at length ascertained fate of the noble but i'll star red Sir John Franklin and his gallant company. Alas! that that fate should have been so sad, and that the problem which has so long occu- pied the thoughts and engaged the energies of the great navlgators countless friends and ad- mirers in Europe and America, should be solved by so painful so distressing a narrative as is con- 1 tained in the following letter. which was for warded from ' ork Factory, via Red river Our own hopes of Sir John Franklin's restoration to the world had long ceased; but who could have been prepared for the fearful reality-a misera- ble and lingering death, from literal starvation- possibly, as Dr. Rae conjectures, worse than starvaton-on the frozen and desolate shores of the Arctic Ocean. But we will not detain the reader by any reflections of ours, from the perusal of Dr. Rae's intensely interesting nara tive. York Factory is situated at the mouth of Hayes river, in Hudson's Bay, in about 56 N. lat, 99 w. lon.
 
 Fork Factory August 4, 1854.
 IMy Dear Str Georgetown several letters. public and private, of dates 18th June and lst December, 1853, and 18th and 18th June, 1854 were handed me on the 18th ultimo, on my reaching Churchill, and rejoiced to learn that your health had been benefited 50 much by your visit to the N forth.
 Let me now allude to the expedition affairs i A1 9 I party, in excellent health, but am sorry to say without having effected our object. At the same time, information has been obtained and articles purchased from the natives, which places the fate of portion, if not all the then survivors of Sir John Franklin's miserable party beyond a doubt--a fate the most eporabe-death from starvation, after having had recourse to canni- balism as means of Eolonging life l reached my old quarters at Repulse Bay on the 18th of August, and preparations Were inn mediately commenced for wintering. On the 1st September explained to the men our posi- ton, the stock of provisions we had on hand | (not more than three months rations,) and the prospects we had of getting more, etc., etc., pointing out all the danger and difficulty of our position. All readily volunteered to remain, and our exertions to collect food and fuel went on with unabated energy. By the end of Sep tember 1O9 deer, musk OK, 52 braces of Ptar- mgan, and one seal had been shot, and the nets produced 19O salmon.
 Of the larger animals above enumerated 49 deer and the musk OK were shot by myself; 21 deer by Mistegan (the deer hunter); A by one of the men; 9 by Ouligbuck, and 16 by the other four men. The mi migration of the deer termina. ted about the middle of October, and 25 more animals were added to our stock
 On the 18th of October the snow being suffi- ciently hard for building, we were happy to ex- chance our cold tents for the more comfortable shelter of the snow-house. The winter was very severe, but the temperature in our snow huts was never so low as in my winter quarters of 1846-7 Up to the 12th January we had set nets under the ice in the lakes; the nets were taken up on that date, as they procured nothing.
 On the 31stof March my sprug journey com- menced, but in consequence of gales of wind, deep and soft snow, and foggy weather, we made but very little progress. We did not en- ter Pelly Bay until the 17th. At this place we met with Esquimaux one of whom, on being asked if he ever saw white people, replied in the negative, but said that large party (atleast forty persons) had perished for want of food some ten or twelve days journey to the west ward The substance of the information, ob- tained at various times and from various sources, was as follows
 In the spring four winters past (spring 185O ) a party of white men, amounting to about forty, were seen travelling southward over the ice, and dragging boats with them, by some Esquimaux who were killing seals on the north shore of King Williams Land, which is large island named Kei-ik-tak by the Esquimaux. None of the party could speak the native language intelligibly, but by signs the natives were made to understand that their ships or ship had been crushed by ice and that the "whites" were now going to where they expected to find deer to to shoot. From the appearance of the men, all of whom, except one officer, (chief) looked thin; they were the supposed to be getting short of provisions, and they purchased small seal from the natives. ] At latter date the same season, but previous to the disruption of the ice, the bodies of about thirty white persons were discovered on the t continent, and five on an island near 1t, about a long days journey (say 35 to 40 miles) to the northwest of large stream, which can be nc