The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1859-10-29
From the Louisville Journal.
Tidings OF Sir John Franklin.

Tidings of Sir John Franklin.
s There is melancholy satisfaction in
/ leaving that the devotedness of Lady
Franllin has been rewarded at last BY solv
mo the mystery of the fate of hershusband.
T5a steamer Fox, which was sent 70 The
Artic regions by her to search the traces OF
the expedition, returned completely success
fnl Sir John Franklin left England IN
Nav. 1845, with picked associates aud care
fuIiy selected vessels, the Erebus ana Ter
ror. The expedition was. last seen about
TWO months afterwards, IN July, l845. on
the entrance of Lancaster Sound, moored 10
an iceberg, waiting for the western passage
to be cleared. After an absence of two
Years. fears for the safety of the party be
Dan TO be experienced, and in i848 The
British Government sent out three expedi-
lions ia search for, and rescue the Survivors.
The record found by the Fox at Point
William, dated April 25, 1848. shows that
The fate of the expedition was sealed before
any exploring party had started IN ses a:ea
of it, and thai Sir John Franklin nao o'eo
the previous year June IL, 1874. a
On April s9. 1848. the Ereous ana ana ! err
.ror had been a andoned at hlng ,'iaih J
Island. FIVE hundred miles from Hudson
pau "a northeast direction. latitude %
lono;tude 90, anca. the lo6 Survivors graz
nalIy perished, in attempsl.ee 70 ieo ',,,,t,
ilized regions by making their wa 800
ward to Great Fish river.
Since 1848. expeditions have been lifted
out from Great Britain, and from the UNI
ted States also, by the munifcence OF Mr..
| GrinneN. and the deyotedness of DR.. Kane
hut the only previous traces of the fate. or
route of Franklin, were discovered by Capt.
Ommaney, of the British Navy, who. IN
| 1853. found his winter quarters of 1910 3.
at Beechey Island, and by DR.. Rea. who,
| in 1857. also when in the actual vicinity el
| the place where the Erebus and Terror had
been abandoned Two years previously, learn
| ed from the Esquimaux Indians that about
/ forty white men had been seen dragging
| boat towards the south, and provided with
sledyes. These were probably the last
remnant of the one hun ired and thirty souls
who originally composed Sir John Frank
| Inns party, and the graves and unburied
bodies seen by DR.. Rea have led 10 the IN
ference that the party had resorted to can
nibalism TO support life, And thus, one by
one they perished, for it is hardly within
the bounds of possibility that there are any
survivors among the savage tribes of n
dianS.
This gloomy tragedy of Arctic suffering
has unfolded its denouenaent, and the lonely
widow of Sir John franklin has the conso.
lation of knowing that her husband died
before the terrible sufferings of his compan-
ions commenced, that he breathed his last II
the cabin of his vessel, and doubtless had
the burial services read before the body was
consigned to the mausoleum of eternal ice
beneath which it still reposes. TIE fate o
Sir John franklin, nine of his officers. anc
fifteen of the crew, is no longer a mystery
i The log record will show the twenty-five
4 names, but the "sad caravan" of the survi
wing one hundred and FIVE, turned t.war'
the South during the long night OF l848
in search of genial sunlight, is covered
with pail of terrible uncerain;y-dark a
the inhospitable region of THEN suffering
and as impenetrable as the graves to which
they fastened.