The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-10-31

| sides the forty weapons, &c.i provision
for several months, monument prepar
ed in this city, to be erected on the spo
where Sir John Franklin and party ar
supposed to have perished
The party journcyed north over ic'
and snow at the rate of sixty miles pc
day, amid a scenery described as awful,
grand; the li9itless plan presenting Il
the eye one vast barren waste, and say,
the dismal moaning of the Arctic wind
silence everywhere prevailed. At length
after incredible toll, further progress
was intercepted by vast open sea, ex
tending in front and on either side unit
lost in distance.
The thermometer had for several day!
indicated gradual increased temperat
ure until it had reached Zero; on the
shores of this Northern Sea, it indicated
much higher temperature. The wat
ers of this Sea, as we'll as the adjacent
Soil, indicated temperature of from
40 10 45 deg. a species of grass and
firm weep on the shores and great mum
bers of herbiferous and other animals
and birds, hitherto unknown to natural
lists, were feeding or roaming in fearless
Indifference.
The Relief has brought home living
bird resembling, in somo respects, the
Silver Seagull. This bird was caught,
while young, on the shores, and has be-
come entirely domesticated, and seems
highly pleased with its new aequaint-
ances.
FATE OF THE ADVANCE.
The Aczuance had been frozen in the
ice for two winters. During this long
weary Imprisonment, fuel became short,
and Captain Kane was compelled to con-
vert tie floors, inner planking, spars and
finally the very floors to the cabins, in
which himself and officers lodged, into
fuel.
AT length loosing all hope of escape
by the breaking up the ice, bis provis-
ions growing short and men sick, the
boats were dragged over the ice to .he
open sea, and with his feeble but boone
companions, betook themselves to the
open sea in their boats. After suffering
all but'death itself and the loss of three
of his boone companions, including the
carpenter, Captain Kane reached Dan
ish settlement sometime in June last.
Of the sixty dogs taken out by Cap
tain Kane, all perished >bu: two, which
he has brought home with him.
Prior to embarking for home in the
Relief he was desirous of ascertaining
what was the fate of the Advance. In
of the ice he was unable to
within some twenty miles of
his ship, and it was deemed. imprudent
to hazard his men, in their feeble con-
ditioo, in a journey to the imprisoned
ship over the ice.
A seal fisher was fell in with, when
Captain Kane by signs, inquired coz
cerning his ship. The Esquimaux re-
piled by signs. Thrusting his spear be-
tween the ice in an erect position, he
Captain Kane that the ship
was still in the icc
In answer to further inquiry as TO
her condition, be was informed that the
sails had been taken off for tents, and
the ropes for fishing purposes by the
natives And, holding the bowl of his
clay pipe between his hands, with the
stem erect, pointing in the direction of
the Aezuance, he crushed the bowl be-
tween his hands, the stem still contin-
uing erect, meaning to communicate
that our ship was still embeded in the
ice; that her masts were still standing,
but the hull had been crushed by the ice.