Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1856-01-10

choly Satisfaction oil proc urlng, on tina
very spot, the fullest possible con firmatior
Of DR.. Rae's repert. They also met Esqu
imaux in that vicinity who had seen tht
whites, and gave much valuable information
Suffice it u say, that on this island wer,
discovered the remains Of a boat, whicl
had been partially destroyed by the natives
for the sake of the wood and the meta
fastenings
Although there was sufficient left to lden
tily it as belonging to the Franklin ex
pedition, one tragmen, Of the wood (nOw
as well as some other small relies, in tn,
possession Of the Hujson's Bay Company
at Lachine) having the name "Terror'
branded on it, while another piece has the
name of Mr.. Stanley, (Surgeon Of the
Erebus) cut upon il, this letter being par
of a snow-shoe, evidently of Eenglish manu-
facture, being made of oak, species o
wood no man accustomed to use snew-shoe.
would ever select for the purpose. Nc
papers or books, and no human remains
were found; nor was it likely, as four
years had elapsed since this tragedy was
enacted upon low sandy beach, exposed
to the storms Of four Arctic Winters, and
there is little doubt that either the Sea
has washed off the sand has buried sdeep
the unfortunates who perished on This spot.
The Esquimaux were verys friendly, and
freely displayed all their treasures obtained
/ from the boat, or found near it, and these
consisted principally of the oars, used by
them as tentpoles, the boat-kettles, the
empty preserved meat cases, &C., but no
papers; and the natives stated, with every
evidence of sincerity, that none had ever
been seen CT found.
! Everything portable was secured by
Messrs. Anderson and Stewart and
, brought back, and are now on .heir way
way to Canada; it would be useless to re.
count them all, but we may mention bar
! iron, rope with the Government mark on
lit, oars branded with the broad-arrows
pieces OF bunting, (remaiDs Of a fag) a
letter holder, a step Of a mast, &c.-all
clearly European and all Government sup.
! plies. Is anything more wanted!
The weather is described as having been
execrable"--constant storms, with ice, snow
rain seet, hail, thunder and whatever else
can be conceived that is dissgreeabIe 1t i.
part of the coast the natives even consider
uninhabitable- visiting it for a short
tine in Summer when the deer pass iha
way.
=, Ga tie l4th Of August, when the ex2ed
ton commenced its retreat fvom the coast
the ground was covered with fresh fiIler
snow, and the ice was forming; in fact
Winter had set in. Few further details o
the last moments of the lest party have Ueer
/ collected; we may mention one mourntul in
| ctEcHt rep ,rtrd by E,quim aux woman
who saw the las, man die; he was large ant
strong, she said, and sat on the sandy beach
his head resting on his hands, and thus the
! last survivor OF Franklin's Expedition YIELDED
up his brave spirit. Messrs. Anderson ant
| Stewart retracsd their steps TO Great Slave
Lake where The latter continued his Journey
Onward to Red River settlement, and thence
| ola the Minnesota Territory to Montreal
where he arrived on Friday evening last d.
rect from the Arctic Sea, after upward o.
5000 miles travel in open craft, and through
uninhabited regions, witho, halt a few
facts taken at random may serve to bring
home to our appreciation what the North.
west expedition accomplished aid wen,
through
In thirteen months to day, the Iroq lois
who were sent from Llchne to farm port Of
the expedition returned thither, thus perform.
ing in one year the same service that Sir
George Beck got through in ;hree' For 60
days and nights the party saw no fire, there
being no timber on the Great Fish River o,
20 o,I In, III
travelled necessarily in open craft in a
wretched climate, never had dry clothes OF
slept on dry blankets, and never eat cooked
victuals except on rere occasions, when they
made little tea by means of lamp. This
:, party OF is in all travelled in bark canoes
down orr of the most turbulent rivers know
even to Northwest voyagers; ven,ured a
mong the ice on the Arctic sea; a;%snd re-
turned to their starting point without NEE.
ting a single accident to person er proper
ty-and, withal performed all that was re-
quired of them; and had they gone ou
four or FIVE years earlier would no doub
have been instrumental in saving the live.
; o. portion of Franklin's parry.
We think the foregoing narrative il
ample corroburaliun ni the wisdum o: the
recent outcry, to put "the light men il
the right places"
One word in conclusion as the FrankliI
expedition. The two vessels, Erebus anC
Terror-lelt England in l643--were las
heard Of in 1915. They probably triet
several passages, but were bafflei by the
ice, and finally in lS4S were crushed
probably in Victoria Straits. Mtny OF III,
crews pershed, but one or more boats go
off with the survivors, who took all iht
stores they could collect and travele,
soulhward toward the Arctic coast, in tn,
hope OF reaching some OF Hndson'S Ba,
Company'S ports. The season OF lS4s
was probably spent on this dreary journey
and renewed in 1850, where they. rrache,
the coast at the mouth OF Fish River, bu
in SO exhausted state that they couiC
merely run their boat ON the beach an,
craw ashore to die. THIS seems all tha
is certain, aud all that we Can ever know
of the fate of of the Franklin Expedition
WITHDKAwH.-The celebrated horse
CAss, out ot Date by Many Years, cntere
= for years heat in 1897, is withdraw
from the race by his owner. Forfeit paid