The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-11
r.ho FrankIi

s"n.s,,an 10 be- at last, in formed
..n.ssaiv OF the fate OF sir jon" Thc a:aamsr
W an composing has crews -, Nv T.dv
Fon, Cap, Ms 90, BACK to England with the
fns.r,scuIars and many memorials Oh tho
iui irrsd exYedition. These were ionnd on
the northwest coast OF hans ~, ,,csnrrsd in the
asd,tion dated April e5th, ISIS was foand,
snS This shows that Sir John Franklin died
lime nth. tsiT, up to which time nine ofncers
and ffseen men had died; Ine su.sisofs. a"o
in number were proceeding south TO the creat
Fish River. The discovery confirms the pre-
yious reports that have been received Or.
Rae asc@rtained from the Esquimaux. in 1854,
that a party Of about forty white men wereon
King Williams Island in 1850, and few
months later they found their bodies not TAR
from the Great Fish River. These Were
doubtless the last remnants OF Franklin : pa,
~ who after the close of the record iaieis
discovered. started southwark and gradually
wasted away and persisted.
The story Of Franklin's Expedition can nov
IN told, from beginning to END, soihe"N'' 80
follows: ,,uuor
Nav asth. lsis-The Erebus and Terror
sailed from Sheerness, officers ana men mum"
Jniy astn. isis-The expedition was.seen in
A'I Inns nm ,s,s-Sir John Franklin died.
Aprii Pad, iste--The Erebus and Terror were
abandoned in the ice ia Victoria STRAIT. up
TO this time 81 OF the officers and men had per-
ished.
Spring of is50-About forty of the expedi-
ton We're seen by Esquimaux on King VIII
1iam's Island.
Summer Of is5o-The bodies of the remnant
Of the crews Were found near Great Fish
River.
There is nothing more TO be told that is es.
sentiai TO scertain the fates of the Erebus ana
Terror expedition. In five years from the time
of their sailing all had persisted. But the mar
rative of the expedition and its calamiiies will
be looked for with eager interest by the whoie
world for all civilized nations have mad thesr
sympathie excited in behalf OF Franklin ana
his lost navigators and there Will be q SAD
satisfaction In knowing what they suffered
aud how they persisted.
Sir John Franklin--whose name Will forever
be remembered by reason of his unhappy fate
was born At Spilsby, Lincolnshire, April lotn,
1886, being the youngest son OF Respectable
yeoman He was put TO school at 81 Ives, ana
afterwards at Louth. lie had an early long
ing for the sea, and entered As mids hlpmah
on the Pciyphemus in 1S00, being at the battle
of Copenhagen, April I'd, 1901. lie saw much
and varied service, and was signal midship-
man on board the Bellerophoh al Trafaigar-
He commanded the boats of the Bedford III the
fight with American gunboats at New Or
leans capturing one OF the boats and receiv-
ing wound in the action. In lcl ne was lp-
pointed to the command OF the Trent, IN the
expedition ordered 10 attempt the passage 10
India by the polar sea, north OF SpltZbergen.-
The expedition turned out unfortunately,
but Franklin gained much reputation In
1919 hs WAS sent in command of an expedi-
ton 10 explore the coast of America, east of
the Coppermiue River. The result of this was
n great add ton to our knowledge of Arctic
geo2 raphy. Franklin returned TO England in
1871 In 1925 he was ordered on another
overland expedition TO the Arctic sea, and he
had TO leave the sick bed of his young wife,
who died the day after he Went to sea. He
returned by way of New York, and landed in
Liverpool September Gath, le21. On the 18th
OF March, ISIS he was married to Jane Grit
fin, the present respected Lady Franklin. In
the following year he was knighted. In $780,
he was sent to the Mediterranean, rendering
good service to the Greek cause. In 1885, he
was made Governor of Tasmania, or Van
Dieman's Land. which office he administered
ably till Is43, when he returned TO England
In is45, no was appointed to command new
expedition TO Search for the Northwest pas
sage and he sai'ed with the Erebus and Ter
ror on the 26th of May, 1915. The record ends
with his DEATH on the 18th of June, 1917, at
the age of sixty-one years and nearly three
months.
OF the TWO wives of Franklin, the first, Ele-
anora Ann Porden, was a lady of unusual ac-
complishments and scholarship, who taught
herself Greek and Latin when eleven or
twelve years old, and became proficient in
other languages, besides studying various
branches of natural science. She wrote and
published several poems, OF which ''Tne Arc
tic Expedition" which appeared in ISIS, led
Franklin to seek her acquaintance, and they
were married i'll 1873 She died within less
than two years. of consumption His second
wife, who survives him, was a daughter of
John Griffin, and was born about 1870. Her
devotion TO him is we'll known to the whole
world, and it is to her persistent efforts that
the final discovery of his fate is due.-Phi!a-
dslphia Bulletin.