The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-25

DEATH OF DR ELISHA K KANE "A telegraphie
iispaicb from New Osieans briggs % the Jntelli,
,rncs OF the death Of Dr.. Kama, tbs Arctic Ex.
plorer, ct Havana, on The 10th Inst. He expired
oescefnlly and gently q little child. The srees
sst sympaihy Was shown By the officials 10 He"
vana, an Of whom attended the funeral obsequiss.
iueiudne the Captain General and IN immense
coucourse Of residents and others. The corpse
reached New Orleans, Monday. on the steamer
Cahawba. aud will be forwarded to PhiladelPnia.
The following 10 . sketch Of this distns".'Ieu
mans life. which win be deeply Interesting 70 o."
bereaved countrymsp ,.,..,.,,
mr. Casbs Kent Kane was born in PhiladeIpnls 70 70
,sl2 Nearly third Of his life wa consumed y, ~
travel out Of the limits OF the Untea ss.i ="
man OF his year.. however We: more OF Bic own
,onn,rv He WAS educated at the UntveInties o.
Virsinia and Pennsy lvsnia graduating - aocsor OF
medicine in s4, F.. s as1 ' sss !. st cited
=. ,,ho1tv in the books of the p-ofsssion- lmme
T.tsIv sfsr rec Giving nts degree, he was appointed
apon The diplomatic ct. Re .ys,lsd hm.ef o. tho
Hn,ss most Of which travel. including Csmarinas
81. .bsrts are sill preserved but believe have
not h.sn published. His associate during portion
~ thu exploration. the lsmeDted young Baron Loo
Of Prussis ssnk under the effects Of the hardship
~, AZ nosure which attended upon 1t, aud led in
lava Dr. Kane devoted much attention to the vol
esnc region of Albsy expecting to connect hia OBJ
al. ,iourp among the Nesr,tes and Araturss was
one If romantic interest He was the first who de-
scepded The crater CT the Tse upon which occasion
he effected Typographical * stch of the inter Ct
this great volcano. He was lowered more than
hundred feet by ba mboo rope from an overhs uEfne
cliff and clamberne down some seven hundred feet
the interesting specimens which he had collected -
Among these were hottie of sui phurcns acid from
the very mouth of the crater
After this DR.. Kane traversed India, spending .
considerable time among the menothic structures Of
Arungsbad, (which would seem to have particularly
attracted bis notice visited Ceycn, the Upper Nile
regions which have since become the re dden ground
of European tourists A portion of this travel in
troduceo him to the learned Lei sius who was thsn
however Dr. Kane wss unfortunste IS to lose his
gabedh Ia quick lnd above Sloot. and with 1t his
entire papeis and journals CT years OF Interesting
travel
Taking profound interest in the workings of the
slave trade DR. Kane next sailed from home in tn ;
frisate United States for the coat Of Africa He
visited the slave factories from Cape Mount to tn
river Bonny and had tree access the baracoons of
Dahomey through the IL f1uence of the Infamous Da
Sowza An excursion which he Planned TO Abo-
severe attack of the coast fever from the fleets OF
which Dr. Kane's constitution has never entirely
recovered
Dr. Kane's personal ad ventures in Mexico are part
Of the history of his country. His wounds on the
field Of Napoluea, which were OF a very serious Da
ture ops ed to him the Inequalities of his prisoner
Major General Gaons, the defender Of San Juan a.
Ullos against the French, and secured to him the
gratitude of other Mexican citizens Of the highest
distinction. We believe. however, that his travels
through the Republic of the Cacua carried him lit.
tie outside the lines of military operations After
bis brilliant performance of the DUTY of carrying Pre-
sideut Poks dispatches to Gen. Scott. he was still
necessarily trsmmelled by the movements of the
American forces His bare metriesl attitudes Of Po
pocatepetl however, are Of value.
On the return of peace he was assigned to the
Coast Survey, under Professor Baths, and wss at
work in the Gulf OF Mexico when the liberality OF
Mr. Grinnell stimulated tho Government of the Uni.
ted States the first American expedition in search
of air John Franklin. Or. Kane immediately voun-
teered his services and was accepted as the Senior
SURGEON Of the squadron. Pis personal Narrative
of this uise was published 10 1852
Before it was completed for the press he had Of
fected his arrangements for the last Arctic Expedi
tion appropriating this cherished object his own
pecuniary resources, as we'll as drawing largely OF
those of Mr. Grinne and several Of the scientific ill.,
situations of the country
The history of that expedition and the remark able
discoveries to uhich it led, before the eoun
try. They constitute In themselves imperishsble
monument to DR.. Kane's fame 1t will ever be
subject of deep regret that the sufsrinRs through
which his passed achieve tho.a results should have
prevented him from reaping the full benefit OF the
hoaors to which they would unquestionabY have