The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-12-15
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 70, 1856.
lrssressius News from the North - Discovery
Of the Remains Of Sir John Franklin and
Fariy.
Mr.. j. D. Stewart, lady and suite, arrived
at the American House on Monday evening,
and left in the stage yesterday afternoon for
below.
1t will be recollected that DR.. Rae has
been employed by the Hudson Bay Com
pany for the last four or five years in an eff
fort to discover any traces of the remains OF
the fate of Sir John Franklin and his party
that he has made two expeditions into the
Arctic regions for that purpose, and that he
was so successful in the last expedition as tc
discover evidences of the fact that party
Of white men with ships and boats had
persisted in that far-off hyperborean region
several years ago, which DR.. R. concluded to
have been the ill-fated expedition he was in
search Of Beyond the finding of some
spoons and other trifes among the Esqui-
maux bearing the name of Franklin" and
the above tidings which he gathered from
the inhabitants, his expedition amounted to
nothing. In pursuance of his object, the
Doctor has passed through this place twice
once on his way to England, and again when
he returned to 60 on his second tour.
1t will also be recollected that soon after
the conclusion of his last tour, the Hudson's
Bay Company sent out another party to elic-
it still more facts on this point, and that in
pursuance of this design messenger was
sent from their headquarters in Montreal
(which messenger passed through this place
about fourteen months since) to Governor
Simpson, at the Selkirk Settlement, to make
the necessary arrangements for that purpose
Mr.. j. D. Stewart, whose arrival in this city
we notice above, was the person selected fol
this duty. Mr.. S. was we'll calculated fol
this hazardous undertaking, having lived ir
the Arctic regions for the last ten or twelve
years at one of the mostextreme of the Com.
pany's posts, and able to endure any amount
of fatigue consequent upon exposure and alb.
sence of food.
Mr.. Stewart started with fourvoyageurs and
arrived at Slave Lake during the early part
of the season, and proceeding up one of the
streams that flow into that body of water
from northeast direction till he came to
latitude GO, he was completely successful in
his efforts. He here learned more fully and
particularly of the fate of the lamented ex-
plorer than any account yet published gives
The fact that party, some forty in number.
of whites, who came into that region in ships,
but which were destroyed, and that they
endeavored to proceed on their way in the
ships boats, and that the boats were also af-
forwards destroyed on the rapids of strait
which they were endeavoring to navigate,
Mr.. Stewart will undertake to demonstrate
to any PERSONS satisfaction. 1t was Mr.. SIS
opinion that the party was making an effort
to reach one of the posts of Hudson's Bay
Company at the time of the destruction Of
their boats. Their remains were found in
the sand along the coast for several miles in
leugth, and the drifting sands of each sue
cessive season were burying them still deep
er. 1t had been five years since they had
persisted, and it was impossible to distin-
guish as to the persons of one of the crew.
This is described as most dreary region,
not sign Of vegetation being any where
visible, and that the party of Sir John
Franklin met their death by starvation is
not to be questioned. The Esquimaux, from
whom much information was gained, when
questioned on this point, significantly placed
their hands upon their stomachs, endeavor-
ing thereby to indicate their horrible fate
This point is ON the coast opposite Montreal
Island. Mr.. S. brought with him many
relics taken from the Esquimaux which they
had obtained of the ill-fated exploring party
among other things piece of one of the
boats belonging to that expedition.
Mr.. S. was accompanied to this place by
several voyageurs, (halfbreed Chippewas,
part of whom went with him on his tour
below, and the others are stopping at the
American. We understand it to be the in
tention of Mr.. S. to proceed directly to Eng.
land. lie has performed this whole journey
in comparatively short space of time, being
only thirteen months since he first fitted out
for it. He represents the cold weather as
being intense in that region, in some instan-
ces it having reached point Is degrees
below zero. a.,
IL Mr.. G. w. Curtis, of New York
who knows how to turn an honest penny by
writing pungent lectures all summer, to be