Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-10-14
Foreign News.
Traces Of Sir John Franklin Found.

AHc IolloWlnS oeScIlpSs "oal wac
found on the 9Th of May:
Most of our information was receiy,
ed from an intelligent old woman she
said it was in the fall of the year that
the ship was forced ashore; many of the
white men dropped by the way, as they
went towards the Great River; but this
was only known to them in the winter
following, when their bodies were dis
covered"
Further discoveries were subsequent
ly made:
Recrossing the Strait to King Will
liam's Island we continued the exami-
notian of its southern shore without sue
cess until the oath of May, when alb out
ten miles eastward of Cape Herschel, a
bleached skeleton was found, around
which lay fragments of European cloth
ing. Upon carefully removing the snow
a small pocket book was found contain
ing few letters-these, although much
decayed, may yet be deciphered. Judg-
ing from the remains of his dress this
unfortunate young man was steward
or officers servant, and his position ex-
actly verified the Esquimaux's assertion
that they dropped as they walked along"
After relating that near this place
were found several cairns, with moth
ing in them probably the records, if any,
had been removed by the natives, the
record continues
Con 9th May, Lieut.. Hobson pitched
his tent beside large cairn upon Point
Victory. Lying amongst some loose
stones which had fallen from the top of
this cairn was found small tin case
containing record, the substance of
which is briefly as follows:
" This cairn was built by the Franklin
expedition, upon the assumed site of
James Ross pillar, which had not been
found. The Erebus and Terror spent
their first winter at Beechy Island, after
having assembled Wellington Channel to
lat. a deg. N, and returned by the west
side of CORVALLIS Island. On the 18th
of September, 1916, they were beset in
lat. 20 05 n, and lon. SO % ".
1" Sir John Franklin died on the 18th
of June, 1847. On the 22d April, l848,
the ships were abandoned five leagues
to the N. N. W. of Point Victory, and
the survivors, 1O5 in number, landed
here under the command of Captain
Crozier." This paper was dated 25th
April, 1913, and upon the following day
they intended to start for the Great Fish
River. The total loss by deaths in the
expedition up to this date, was 9 officers
and 10 men.
A vast quantity of clothing and stores
of all sorts lay strewed about, as if here
every article was thrown away which
could possibly be dispensed with-pick-
axes, shovels, boats, cooking utensils,
iron work, rope, blocks, canvas, a dip
circle, a sextant, engraved i" Frederic
Horribly, R. N" small medicine chest,
oars, &c.
A few miles southwark, across Back
Bay, a second record was found, having
been deposited by Lieut.. Gore and M.
des Veux in May, 1847. 1t afforded
no additional information.
When in lat. So 09 N, and lon. 80 q
W., we come to large boat, discovered
by Lieut.. Hobson few days previously,
as his notice informed me. 1t appears
that this boat had been intended for the
ascent of the Fish River, but was aban-
doned apparently upon a return journey
to the ships, the sledge upon which she
was mounted being pointed in that direc-
ton. She measured % feet in length
by l-2 feet wide, was most carefully
fitted, and made as light as possible, but
the sledge was solid oak, and almost as
heavy as the boat
GA large quantity of clothing was
found within her, also two human skel-
etons: One of these lay in the after part
of the boat, under pile of clothing; the
other, which was much more disturbed.
probably by animals, was found in the
bow. Five pocket watches, quantity
of silver spoons and forks, and few re-
ligiouS books were also found, but no
journals, pocket-books, or even names
upon any article of clothing.
Two double-barrelled guns stood up
right against the boats side, precisely as
they had been placed eleven years be-
fore. One barrel in each was loaded
and cooked there was ammunition in
abundance; also some thirty or forty
pounds of chocolate, some tea, and tobac-
co. Fuel was not wanting drift tree