Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-07
Return of the Bark Resolute Her Appearance
When Found.

Congress; has been. thereby defeated.
Return of the Bark Resolute He Appearance
When Found.
W. find in the New Haven Palladium a graphic
and interesting account Of the discovery and re-
turn Of the British Navy bark Resolute, which
was brougb, into New London on The ODD inst
The Resolute is a vessel Of about five hundred
tons. She was sent out new. in search of Sir
John Franklin in 1850. returned in 1854, and
was was sent out again in Belcher's expedition
in April. 1853. under the Immediate command Of
Captain Austin. In August. 1852. she sailed
from Belcher's Island for Melville Island and
had not since been heard of till discovered by
Capt. Buddington. of the whaling vessel George
Henry, which sailed from New London on the
Goth of May last. -
THE REsoLUTE WHEN BOARDED
1t will be- remembered that Mr.. Qunle, the
mate. and three men boarded the Resolute for
the frs, time, September 18th. The ice round
her was from twenty five to thirty feet thick
Getting on deck, they found everything slowed
away in proper order for n desartion-spars haul
ed up to one side and bound; boats piled togeth-
or. covering snow-sleds. matches closed. &c, &c.
Everything was silent and dark in the cabin but
thsy broke in the hatchway DOR. and felt their
way in darkness to the table. On it they found
matches and candles, and the decanters Of the
officers, with excelentl liquor in them. glasses
standing around, Just as they had been left So
many months before.
A dry mould had gathered over everything.
The iron water tanks in the hold had burst from
| extreme cold, and the water they mud held had
flowed over the bottom of the hold. Everything
between decks was covered with moisture. a
sort of perspiration had risen from the water un-
derneath, aud settled above. Many articles Of
apparel were found - wringing wet The par
ty made "A fire in the cabin, aud the mould soon
began to drip down npon them.
ON BOARD THE REsoLUTE.
On boarding the ship the fist Impression is
one Of admiration at the massive strength Of
everything connected with her build. On the
windlas of the vessel, in large letters, is cut the
Injunction; England expects every man TO do
his duty"
Indcrd. everything has been kept "a undi--
iufbed aspossible throughout, since her fist di--
covery in September.
Almost everything Of n prrishable nature j. al
most entirely ruined. a. the reader will see here
utter. Glue has dropped out f locker joints, all
arising from the dampnrss consequent upon ina
ptlsonment for 81 long II time in that climate.
with 50 much water in the hold. Tn. hammocks
are all ruined. \ cover was thrown oh the
forecastle hatch yesterday, and everything la it
was covered with rust aud mould. Going below
we entered first
THE CABIN.
This was. of course. tho captains room. and il
Is fitted ur in the very substantial aud eleg ant
manner of English navy vessels. In two places
in the room are cabinets filled with valuable
books. 1t is estimated that even now there axe
about two thousand volumes, all standard read
ing, on board. We noticed u full set of Ree-'
Encyclopedia, Agnes Strickland's Lives Of the
Queens Of England, Shakespeare several Volame~-
&c. &c. Here we saw the log OF the yee>rI
the first of September, 1853, to April 81, l55a
We copied one entry, n fnll"ws:
IT, NJ. S. "Resolute," I7th January, 1854.
ga. IN. mustered by Divisions.
People taking exercise on deck.
y. IN. Mercury frozen.
The hook in which these records were kept
was quite musty, not to say mouldy. Others
in the cabin were in very good state. But we
saw fine books Nil over the ship, covered with
mould so thickly ~ to be disngreeahly handled.
One of them which we took up IN the wsrGronm
was II bible and ON the fly Leaf. the ink turned 10y
the lapse of time and dampness was written:
civilian ABRAHAM SURREY,
with Jmo. Daltnn's best wishes
In the cabin we found books of ia lily pray
crs. books with forms "f prayer, especially pre-
pared for the expedition by the Church of Eng
land a "PiIgrim's Progress" with "Ma>ter q.
lieii's' name ilr 1t; Il copy 1T " lha Christian
Visitor with the autograph inscription Of Cap
tain krlletl's sister. by whom it was lresented Ia
him. The chiuaw0rc which we found III II cio>rt
here. with decunters filled with the choicest L.
quors, is f vcsy heavy and costly style. The
ct.lars were covered with mould. directly be-
low the cabin il
THE MAGAZINE.
Here are stored shot aud she'll, hand grenade,
rnckets, Nc, and 5000 tn J 900 lbs. powder.
which is still in good conditions. The Re>nlutc
j. rated on her own books as haviHg two guns.
We passed to the
WARD ROOM OCCUPIED BY OFFICERS.
Here thu state rooms were almost wet with
damp. and the smell was hardly tolerable. Over
head tn" paint is pecling off from the p%lanking.
he finish of these rooms wa. evidently of the
FIRST order. We II IN then to
WHAT Is 10 he Done WITH HER.
The iie.olute is a legal prize if not claimed by
Great Britain. Application has been made 10
Her Mnlesty's Consul at New York. aud the own
crs of the George Henry are wait NJ his answer.
The news of its discovery and scizure had been
carried Ia England 10y English wlalemen, who
spoke her, aud it was probably known there be-
fore she arrived at New I.nRdon. More than II
year age the English government advertised that
they still claimed all their for>nkcn vessels in the
Arctic sens. Shonid they he entitled to this,
however, they must pay an enormous salvage,
nearly equal To the worth of the vessel. about
S5O,OOU. Of this, about two-thirds would go to
the owners of the George Hen, v, and the re
inaindrr be distributed among the officers and
crew.
RUSSIA CHECK ON E~NGLAND.-In the Cor
re,pond"nce "t Henry Clay" recently Published
Is II letter from james Madison 10 Nh, Clay, un-
der the date Of October Both, 1915. which shows
that. before there was any apprehension IF an
Angio-Rus>ian war. or any expectation of IA An
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