The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1854-11-03

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voured him.
William Dairy, of Buffalo, was sentenced
on the 9Th ut., TO be hung on the last day
OF this month, tNovember) for the brutal
murder Of his wife. Dairy was an in,em.
perate man, and in lis drunken feroci,y,
literally bea, her 10 death.
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The EXPEDITION OF SIR JONI FRANKLIN.
The expedition Of Sir John Franklin consis.
ted Of two vessels, the Erebus and Terror,
the former being manned by 20 men, officers
and crew, and the latter by GS. Total 1873
men all told. The vessels were offered as
follows:
Sir John ss.ne lsss IL ee sis,' Captain.
James Fitzjames, Comdr. Edward Little
6s sa Sf,: G 9sSs i.1a a''s''
II is morally certain that every man ofthe
crew OF the missing ships, has persisted, and
the report of DR.. Rae contains evidence but
too strong and convincing, that death was
preceded by great hardship and intense suf.
fering. The report is so indefinite and in.
direct, however, that almost all the circum.
stances connected with their fate, must DO
left to conjecture.
The New York Journal Of Commerce OF.
scrs the following plausible speculations rs
to tho movements Of Sir John franklin and
his party:
"The period of this fearful tragedy is sup
posed to have been rs long ngo as The Spring
Of 1850; and its locality near the mouth
Of the Back, less properly called the Great
Fish River, in lat. co 30"., and between
long. 96 and 970. A little North OF these
parallels, the Back river, after flowing five
hundred miles in North Easterly direction,
from its source near. Lake Almer and the
Eastern Slave Lake, enlarges into bay,
from twelve to fifteen miles IN width, which
forms Southern indentaiion 10 the channel
by which King Williams land is encircled.
This channel enpties through Dease and
strait, into Victoria Strait and
King William seq, and connects, in nearly
direct northern line, with Peet sound, Bar.
rows straits and Wellington channel. At
the entrance of this latter channel, on the
Eastern shore, IRE situated Cape Kiley, and
the peninsula called Beechy island. whore
Il will DO remembered, the Grinnell ship Res.
cue and two ships under Captain Penny OF
Captain Austin's squadron, discovered. sim.
ultaneously the last signs Of Sir John Frank.
lin.
I, was ascertained from inscriptions on
the grave stones Of four Of his party who
were buried on Beechy Island, that he spent
there the winter Of 1915, and probably more
than half Of &c. From ,ha, lime no rumor
has been heard Of concerning him, until the
dispatches were received, which
we publish in this mornings paper, announ.
cling his woful end. During this long in.
terval OF FIVE years, before that melancholy
event took place, where was he, and how
was he occupied No reply can be given
10 these questions at present, beyond mere
conjecture. We incline 10 believe that he
did not succeed in penetrating, as has been
heretofore thought through Wellington
Channel into the sea beyond, and !, may
possibly be supposed that his ships were
carried down Regents inlet BY the ice, and
lost upon the North Eastern coast Of Booihia
Isthmus, whence he could have passed
overland 10 the point where he persisted.
We deem il by far more probable, how.
ever, tina, he attempted 10 sail, as he has
been counseled, in the direction OF Cape
Walker, was drifted with The ice down Peel
sound into King William sea, and that his
vessels were driven on shore and destroyed
in the narrow straits between King Viii.
liam Land and Adelaide peninsula, or a
few miles further south in The bay, at the
entrance Of Back river. James Ross strait
is channel out Of King William sea, into
which the ships could also possibly have
been Carried, and from there a long tedious
journey would have brought tho adventure
ers TO the mouth Of the Back river; but u
close comparison Of The dispatches rs re.
ceived with The last Admiralty charts, will
lead the rejecting observerio SEQ many
reasons for doubling whether such des'i.
nation would have been sought from that
point. ne,
hemmed in by the ice, beyond escape, in
Victoria strait, for very long period, per.
haps years, before his ships were actually
destroyed, and that during this time, his
provisions gone and his ships lost. he would
thus have found himself separated nearly
seven hundred miles from For. Churchill,
on Hobson's Bay, which is the nearest point
OF access for succor from civilized men. He
could rely on tho Esquimauy neither for sus.
,enance, nor for sledges by which 10 facili
tate his progress Southwark. II is possible
even that he had no intercourse with those
savages at oil. No resource was len but 10
bear with patience the attacks Of cold and
hunger, and 10 perish in that frozen wilder.
ness.
Tho locality specified as that where tho
last Of the crew persisted, Is so near inc
probable scene Of the disaster to their SHIPS,
that their sufieIings, il may DO hoped were
no, greatly prolonged. Still, the manner .,n.a
In which Inc corpses Of some VINO were
G,nd had bssn niutilaied, is said 10 have
n,ovsn evidently that their remains had
s,,n;sbed food, for some time. 10 their com.
;. n;ons. Il Il possible, nay probable, that
p ps, a. i,om Ftanklin Lake, or certainly
ho,w -. The lake with the intrepid naviga.
,o,;s name and Mac Dougalps Lake, LAT.
s 81. ioI he and his associates met their
Ses,h A spoi % far away from The regions
where he was supposed 10 have penetrated,
sufficiently explains why so many years