Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-09-20
Dr. kanes Are,,c Exped,,,.n.


We have received pamphlet of specimen
pages OF the forthcoming account of DR.. Knne's
Arctic Explorations, from the Publishers, Messrs.
Childs & Peterson, Philadelphia. The whole
work will be comprised in two octave volumes, OF
nearly 500 pages each, aud viii be illustrated BY
twenty-five fine steel plates, about three hundred
wood engravings, and four maps. The typo.
graphy is equal to any we have seen; type large
and clear, paper very heavy and costly, the wood
engravings equal to Harper's, and the steel plates
superb. In the specimen pages before us, we
have portrait of DR.. ''Elisha Kent Kane,' a
splendid title-page, the Sc Escspe of Weary Mans
Rest" Life in the Brig" with accurate por-
traits OF five of the men in their Arctic dress.
The work will be valuable and entertaining, and
is written in the graphic, fascinating style of q
personal narrative. The publishers announce
that they have already nearly 10000 subscribers,
and will print 100000 the first year. The first
regular edition to be issued on the LIST of Octo-
Der. a 1. p 1c9 p,
We give an extract, taken at random from the
pages before US - ae a
g BREAx.UP OF THE FLoE.-At first our own
foe also was driven before the wind but in a
little while it encountered the stationery ice at
the foot of the very rock itself On the instant
the widest imaginable ruin rose around us. The
men sprang mechanically each one to his station,
bearing back the boats and stores; but gave up
for the momcnt all hope of our escape. 1t was
not nip, such as is familiar to Arctic naviga-
tors but the whole platform, where we stood
and for hundreds of yards on every side of US,
crumbled and crushed and piled and tossed itself
madly under the pressure. do not believe that
of our little body Of men, all Of them disciplined
in trials, able to measure danger while combating
it, do not believe there is one who this day
can explain how or why-hardly when, in fact
we found ourselves ahoat. We only know that
in the midst Of clamor utterly indescribable,
pets could no more have been heard than the
voice of man, we were shaken and raised and
whired and let down again in a swelling waste
of broken hummocks. and, as the men grasped
their boat hooks in the stiffness that followed,
the boats eddied away in tumultuous skreed of
ice and snow and water.
"We were borne along in this manner as long
as the unbroken remnant of the in-shore foe
continued revolving,--utterly poweress, and
catching glimpse every now and then of the
brazen headland that looked down on us through
the snowy sky. At last the foe brought up
against the rocks, the looser fragments that hung
round it began to separate, and we were able BY
oars and boat-hOoks to force our battered little
aotilla clear of them. To our joyful surprise,
we soon found ourselves in a stretch of the land
water wide enough to give US rowing room, and
with the assured promise OF land close ahead.
SEAS we neared it, we saw the same forbidding
wall Of belt-ice Us at Sutherland and Hakluyt.
We pulled along its margin, seeking in vain either
an opening OF access or an opening of shelter.
The gale rose, and the ice began to drive again
but there wac nothing to be done but get Crap
mel out to the belt and hold on for the rising tide
The Hope stove her bottom and lost part Of her
Notwithstanding, and all the boats were badly
chafed. 1t was an awful storm and it was not
without constant exertion that We kept aAoat, bal
ing out the send that broke over us, and warding
off the ice with boat-hooks.
WEARY MANS REsr.-At three o'clock the
tide was high enough for US to scale the ice-cff.
One by one We pulled up the boats upon II narrow
shelf, the whole sixteen of us uniting at each
pull. We were too much worn down to unload
but deep and narrow gorge opened in the cliffs
almost ut the spot where We clambered up; and,
as we pushed the boats into it ON an even keel,
the rocks seemed to close above our heads, until
an abrupt turn in the course of the ravine placed
a protecting cliff between us and the gale. We
were completely encaved. "a
"Just rs We had brought in the last boat, the
Red Eric, and We're Snoring her up with blocks of
ice, long unused but familiar and unmistakable
sound startled and gladdenod every ear, and
flock of elders fecking the sky for moment
passed swiftly in front of us. We knew that we
must be at their breeding grounds; and, as we
turned in wet and hungry to our long coveted
sleep, it was only to dream of eggs and album
dance.
''We remained almost three days in our crys-
tai retreat, gathering eggs at the rate of twelve
hundred Is day. Outside, the storm ragged with
out intermission, and our egg-hunters found it
difficult to keep their feet but a merrier set of
gourmands than were gathered within never sur.
feited in genial diet. - fe.-a
Con the Sd of July the wind began to mod
crate, though the snow still fell heavily: and the
next morning, after patriotic egg nog, the liquor
borrowed grudgingly from our alcohol flask, and
diluted till it was worthy of temperance praise
we lowered our boats, and babe grateful fare
we'll to 6 Weary Mans Rest" We rowed to the
southeast end OF Wostenholmc Island but the
tide left us there. and We moved to the foot"
FIGHT BETWEEN TWO City FATHERs.-Two of our
august Councilmen have again been disgracing
themselves and their constituents by engaging in
brutal fight. The parties are Councilman Ed
ward G. Mcconnell of the 18th Ward, and one of
the 4th Ward Councimen, whose name was not
ascertained. 1t appears that the two worthless had
attended political meeting in the 18th Ward on
Saturday night, and after the meeting closed ad.
journed with others to Cunningham's grocery,
corner of Clinton and Grant streets. Here dis.
pute arose between the two. and a desnerate ficht