The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-02-22
Eltsrarp Motitts.


lied IN THE CITIES OF THE UNION, FROM New Or
LEANS TO PHILADELPHIA, prepared by Hon. Jo-
sEPH r. CHANDLER. Philadelphia, Chds & Peter
son, 692 Arch street: London Truboner Il Co., 60
fater Noster Row, 1858.
Thanks due to Messrs. Cushings & Bailey,
Baltimore street, for copyof thisnterestng work.
Does it not make the blood stir to think of what
has been done by the sgfted subject of this me-
mor-and that too within the narrow space of thir-
ty-seven years? Dr. Kane was born ON the I'd of
February, 1920 in Walnut street, between Seventh
ana Eighth, Philadelphia. He died at Havana
10th of February, 1857. The volume will be found
equally attractive to YOUTH with its enthusiasm,
and to age, with its calm philosophy; and while
upon the everish and restless spirit of the one it
may act like tonic of bark and steel, its teachings
OF ga Divinity that shapes our ends" will prove
to the better poised mind of the other something
purer than the mere self-reliance of "manifest
destiny with fery-footed haste under any or al
its vague and impious FORMS In fact the religious
element must have entered largely into the moral
constituents of DR.. Kane's character.
The life is replete with proofs, that in the dark
est hours of Arctic difficulties and danger, he
seemed never for a moment to despair, or doubt
the outstretched arm from on High. Surely there
a0as herolsm in his yearning to crowd his life with
ACTIVITIES; but, even in the absence of open and
ChT1S-
tan heroism. With this groundwork of character,
1t Is further evident that no little of his ultimate
success may be traced to mind early stored with
knowledge in the prosecution of the profession of
MS choice. He must have been awakened to lust
appreciation of boyish waywardness as his certain
stumbling block and this acknowledge enabled
him to retrieve lost hours of ideness in earlier life
1t Is mistake to invest his life thus early with
special halo by giving point and pith to character
lstlcs common to every boy, and on which the
piographer would fain have the Scientific Explorer
OF Arctlc regions pre-fgured in the bow He was
continued at school and his education perfected
"hen his temper, very fortunately for him. was
subjected to the discipline of the Naval service
me zeal OF the biographer to get the better
OF his discretion when he INDUCES in fling at the
discipline OF the service, to which so much of good
and ennoblng influence upon his subsequent career
may justly be ascribed. There may be entire svm-
pathy for his family in their anxiety for him, ON
MS return, wounded, from Mexico, and full anpre
cation OF their disappointment in not having him
a' nome uhoer such circumstances. But ought the
rule OF seniority in the service to have been in
lringed to place an Assistant Surgeon in cbaroe of
the Philadelphia Navy Yard? 1t is better to look
10 some higher motive of action in the appointing
oiilcef when reviewing the decision of the Head of
the Bureau, than the biographer appears to do,
"hen he sets 1t down to an apprehension of "Dr.
Names dIsocating the honors of the service by il
iustratlng 1t above his degree" His reputation for
chNalry, as soldier, and generous bearing as a
man, had been too well illustrated during the bold
niaich from vera Cruz to the city of Mexico to
nlahe uisparagng words OF peers and associates in
h service IN any degree necessary for his true po-
sltlon, and these had as we'll have been spared 1t
:,
gave him tact and skill in command of others when
MS day and time came for making himself felt at
the head OF an expedition, which will ever remain
an enduring monument to national character. asso
clated with his personal fame. With so much fstern
and intleXible resolution there was n,inolod :; th
character of DR.. Kane a mild and tondor boor+
and his romantic fancy set upon brave and od,on
turous achievement, finds few parallels in modern
days He gave full sway to generous impulse h.,
deVotlng his life to the single purpose of RESTORING
the lost Sir John Franklin and his comrades 70
home and country
circum-poar sea,--clear and open-sean bv
W illlan Morton and Hans Christian, the half breed
Esqulpau&, sent forward by Dr. Kane above tba
olst oe@fee OF north latitude-''a mysterious fudi
y III the must OF vast plain of solid ice'' had
peen ueciareo to exist more than a century and =
nan ago. An honest-hearted sailor of whose
Whereabouts nothing could afterwards be traced,
had volunteered the wonderful statement in q bo.r
shop in Amsterdam, and the account has nlaca in
the valuable collection of VOYAGES bv Harris Ia
have wrung the heart out of this mystery and 70
have established beyond dispute a northwest mas
sage would have been glory enough for anv man
and even personal vanity would have been a v;rtua
in earnest efforts at such daring results II was the
kindness OF heart, to which we have alluded that
gave the cue and passion to DR.. Kane. TWAS = kim
bred feeling to that which made life valueess when
weighed against the honorable impulse of rescuinq
ms prisoners on the battlefield from attcmnted
butchery. Such was his generosity, that he was
wiling to JOIN 1t DE Haven, and endure the most
rlghtlul perlls Tor the sake of the crews of the
Ereous ana Ierror last seen, moored to an iceberg
On 'ne zoth OF July, ls45. 1t the touching
appeal OF noble-soued wife that had awaken
eo the sympathIes OF MIR. Grnne and Mr. Pea
body. 1t secured the cooperation of the Init
ed States Government and it called into action tho
chivalrous sentiment of Dr. Kane.
Sir John Franklin had 1876 picked men, Nortbor,,
Orkney men, Greenland whalers, thoroughly inured
to the hardships of the climate, and WHY not vet
think with hope of the lost, as found? They are
said to have persisted of hunger opposite Montreal
Island, in latitude $50, and while various articles
have been brought by an agent of Hudson,s Raw
Company to the United States and England. no bo
dies or traces of bodies have been found This homo
that renewed the life of DR.. Kane over and
again, under circumstances the most appalling NAV
still be realized, and Sir John Franklin and his com
panIons saved. Should the announcement be made
II VIII thrill through every heart and it is PLEASING
10 venture the belief, that in part of the civil
lzed world will 1t be received with more of exutan
JOY than by the Spanish American father and son
who, acknowledging this proves of DR.. Kane. in
the battlefield, confessed themselves doublv van
pushed by his noble generosity in risking his life to
save theirs.
The episode in the life of DR.. Kane which mic
lures the knightly courtesy and eloquent gratitude
OF Gen. Gaona and his son, distinctive of Next
can high tone must be suggestive of better thoughts
and feelings towards neighbor governments and
people, and the moral commends itself to all in our
National Councils who cannot consent to any form
fpolitical or social progress outside the limits of
the United States and the reach of actual protection
We have in DR.. Kane person of enthusiastic tenn
permanent, proudly conscious of his American birth
right; but under the shadow of the Temple of Ses-
osiris, and in the remoter points of the AngloIndian
Empire, capable of truly catholic sentiment in re-
gard to his fellow-man everywhere
Could DR.. Kane have been spared to put on re-
cord his general experiences in some form pleaspplv
instructive to children, whom " he loved with a |
woman's tenderness and mans forethought," the |
book would have mutually involved scientific re-
search with the narrative style of Stevens, broth
er traveller of worldwide name and note
This biography will prove grateful offering here
in Baltimore, where he had always sympathy and
support, and where he Familiarity known as a
member of the Maryland Institute.
In recent article on the marriage of the Princess
Royal the London Times PHILOSOPHERS as follows ON
the subject of marriages in general
"In case does the uncertainty of human affairs
chock he r,aer inati of