Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-01-04

Ano, IN VAN OF the suffering endured, E-nd
the noble lives sacrificed IN fruitIess effo.ts
to widen the bonds Of human knoElefiee,
we be,iese it to be the prayer Of all n a,
I that 90 they may remain forever. -
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The Finding Ofshs Rr8tish ship Esesoibse.
We yesterday made note Of arrival Of this
I ship, and nos make some extracts from the
narrative Of Capt. BUDDIScToE, as furnish
edithe New York Herald. 90
On the 10th of Septembef, latitude eT
n, andsShile IN thefeld Of ice, Capt. Bad-
dington discovered ship in the Distance,
bearing northeast, about 20 miles from Cape
Mercy. He assembled the rigging Of lis
craft, and, looking at her through The ellass,
pronounced her from her appearances, % bo
an abandoned vessel On the 9Th day after
making the discovery, and when the ship
was about seven miles Off Capt. B. ordered
the two mates and two Of the crew TO pro
eeedto theabandoned vessel across the pack
ice and after inspecting her to return to the
bark as soon as practicable sa5 . ~
T. In two days they returned, reporting the
vessel 10 be the Resol,its. The Capt. know
ing the history of Sir Edward Belchers ex-
pedition 20 the Polar seas, at once OWNED
the reason of the vessel being left IN that
conditions and knowing that the safe con-
veyance Of that vessel to some port would
be better than catching whales, and know
ing withal that it would be quite a piece Of
glory to hand back the Brifishers vessel
long since abandoned by them as being lost
to the Queens service forever, determined
at all hazards, to Try the bold and arduous
He commenced Immediately to search
the vessel, in order to ascertain if she was
sea-worthy. On descending the hold it was
found to be entirely full of water up to the
floor of the first deck. A gang of men were
set to work and for three DAYS the pump
was kept busy. On the third day all the
water was cleared from the hold, and the
attention of the captain was turned towards
extricating the prize from the dangerous po-
sition she was then placed in.
The cabinwas strewcd with books, cloth
! ing, preserved meats, interSpersed here and
/ there with humps of ice. There was scarcely
any thing on board the abandoned vessel
that was not more or less DESTROYED. There
was great lack Of fuel on board. although
in the course of the search throughout the
vessel, little coal was discovered in the
hold, but the quantity was very small and
entirely inadequate to supply the vessel
more than week. Of provisions there was
enough perhaps to last crew Of seventy-fye
men, (the number originally carried by tho
Resolute, for nine months The salt meats
were the only articles that were at all in
state ofpseservation. Every thing had gone
to decay. Even the ships sails, found be-
tween decks, were so rotten that. the sailors
could thrust their fingers through them ike
so much brown paper. The lower hold was
found to contain the library Of one Ofthe
officers of the expedition, valued at over four
thousand dollars. The books were entirely
valueless when discovered by Capt Bud
dington, and subsequently thrown overheard
as worthless rubbish. rsae
Capt B. decided to sail the vessel him
selfand aeeordinglys taking eleven men with
him from his own bark, he began in good
earnest to release the abandoned vessel from
her ice-bound situation. Capt B. was in
great dilemma for proper navigating instru-
ments, and the wherewith to bring him to
New London. after being released from the
ice. His compass was very uncertain, and
not at all trustworthy: he was without a
lehronometer, and be had no other mapor
chart to steer by than rough outline Of the
great North American coast, drawn on
sheet of foolscap. With his lever watch, a
quadrant, and miserable compass, the brave
fellow bade adieu to his comrades in the
bark Geoege Henry, and, trusting to prov
idence and his experience in those latitades,
prepared to bear home the prize he hadso
cleverly won.
From the time that Capt Buddington
took charge of the Resolute, up to the 10th
of October she continued to drive in south
west direction with pack of ice, when she
succeeded in getting clear. Wishing to be
in company as long as possible with the bark,
Capt B. waited on the outside Of the foe
for three or four days with the hope of
meeting her, bnt the vessels missed one an
other and did not meet again during the
remainder of the eventfnl voyage.