New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-29

and bioek UP the narrows about hfng w uhAins Li
caught them the l2sb Of September 1856, in at zoe
C5 " and Ion. 9se 23 WI and held them fast in their
unreenInggrp. Here 90 miles from Cape Hersehel Sir
John Franklin died the ilth Of the following JGnei
died, not, We may hope, Of starvation, not IN despair
not with any fearful foresight OF the fate that was TO
beall bic brave companions bu, quietly, and peace
fully worn out with arduous labor, yet fun Of hope
that he task was about 10 be accomplished, and with
the eh9ished and coDsong conviction that they who
bore hs last words those be loved al home, would
carry also the of that to the very brink Of
which be bad led them. But alas il was not 20 be.
The ships never escaped from their icy prison. except
TO Drift few miles further southwark After another
reason of dreary waiting and suffering which Will
never be told, with death from disease death from
starvation, death from cold staring at them from each
others ga,sy eyes and wasted faces they abandoned
the ships the I'D of April, 1913, Eve leagues
n. n. W. Of Point Victory on King Williams Island,
and the survivors, los in number, landed under Capt
Crozer They bent their weary steps toward the Great
Fish River, but they dropped by the way" and
10 perisbed, by one. In their further journeys,
Lieut. HObsOn and Capt. MeChntock (, ii in with
boat which the sufferers had abandoned, with its bow
turned toward the ship and in twere two human ske
eons, one in each end. Two guns stood against her
HOty ioaNcNf anu bdFIcl toShc1 III ihOiN WIS
fue in abundance about her, bat food, and no re-
mains Of any, except some tea and chocolate. They
found in her also several watches and some silver
spoons and forks, and plenty of ammunition. But guns
and powder were as useless as fuel and forks where
there was nothing to kill And here their sad story
ends That wilderness is marked perhaps, for many
mile with other bleaching bones, and tattered relics, as
the wanderers feI after the other in their horrible
ard hopeless march, but pious hand will ever gather
them together, and give them Christian burial, no
friendly and plying eyes drop tear upon them
The few relics brought home by Capt. McClintock
are arranged at the Museum of the United Service In
stituiion in cases upon q table, where lie also those
which had previously been found by Cap
tans Austin and Penny, in 1850, Sir +. Beleher
in 1923, Capt. McClintock and DIR. Rae in
1857 Thus all that IL known Of the expedition Is seen
at glance but shall refer only TO those recently re-
covered not only most interesting in themselves, but
because the Others which rather marine than per-
sonal relics and chiefly such any ship might drop
or throw away, have been frequently described.
In the first case is the brass sexant marked Rich
ard Hornby r. N" the mate of the Terror, almost as
bright as if il had undergone exposure, and Dip
pDg-needle in nearly good preservation. Thsma-
hopany box which contained the latter is broken and
beacbed, and the little portable cookngstove, not so
large as an od-iashioned ootstove, beside which lie
some ucifer matches, which have never been used l
rusted and broken The case also contains battered
tea-car MISTER part of Telescope apparently unnjured
and the brass plate Of gun-case.
In No lies the tsttered ensign found at the cairn
near Cape Felix by Lieut. Hobson. 1t is hardly any
thing more than mat of shreds but the cOors Of the
flag of England are still distnguishable But mere
Il !, hardly foil "a
the coolest and most Indifferent spectator the emotion
with which the poor fellows, over whom 1t once
waved, reminding them of country and home, and the
thousand cherished memories that cluster around those
words looked upon it for the last time they turned
their faces for the journey onward.
No contains some bits Of copper and iron, the sew
eral articles found with the skeleton whose position
saws Capt. McClntock, verified the statement Of the
Esqumaux, that they dropped as they went along"
These the fragments Of a stock to which are sui
cnging fow human hairs piece Of cloth waistcoat,
a bit of calico shirt, a clothes-brush, and pocket
comb marked with cross Probably they all belonged
10 him by the side Of whose whitening bones they
were found.
In No. are the books and fragments Of
books black, water-soaked, and falling to
pieces, taken from the boat. Excepting volume
Of poems and small copy OF The Vicar OF
Wakefield, they all pocket editions Of the Bible,
Testament, and Prayer-Book. One OF the Testaments
is in French. To these also are clingng few human
hairs and TO one what seems 10 be a lock Of hair.
Certainly il is fanciful conjecture 10 suppose that
such mementos may have been placed within the vol
umes by those who were bidding farewell to life, in
the desperate hope that they might be found by some
subsequent voysgers, the books identified, and these
sad tokens Of affection be conveyed 10 friends
in the distant homes which the frozen wan
derers knew they should never see. No doubt
the books belonged 10 others than those who were Ie
TO meet speedy death in the boat, and whose gsunt
skeletons were found in il. Those whose leaves are
at all preserved lie open, and Whistler by accident or
design, at pages singuarly appropriate TO the cir
cumstapees under which they were discovered.
Prayer-Book. the leaves of which seem matted
together. and to have been opened nowhere
else. presents The Morning Prayer for
the 18th day; "Psalm exxxix. Domino, probdstii"
and beginning, 80 Lord, Thou hast searched me out
4" and known me. Thou knowest my downsttins and
" mine uprsng thou undersandest my thoughts long
/" before" And on the opposite page is the Evening
PRAYER for the same day" Psalm cxli., Poee nea, od
Dom;n,,q - beginning, 81 cried unto the Lord with
my voice; yea, even unto the lord did make my
" supplcaton. ! poured out my complaints before
" Him, and showed him of my trouble" And q Tes'
lament is opened at l. Cor, w., the well-known
ehapter. %" AN the resurrection and the hs" Not lees
striking the open page Of the little volume entitled
Christian Melodies" at a poem on Family Inter-
,onr,s II il addressed 70 a mother, and commences
thus:
.F.r distant be the painful hour
Vixen shal mourn thy loss and wander Ger
Lfss desert BY mothers love anehesree
And concluding:
{. iit.l. lon-er spd thy burdened frame