The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-10-28
The Fate of Sir John Franklin.

and Terror sailed from Woolwich, Eng
land on voyage Of discovery to the Arc
TIC sea with Sir John Franklin as the COM
mander of tbs expedition. q Every ones
cry" writes Captain Fitzjames, in his
journal, was, Now we're off at last"
No longing look was cast behind. We
drank Lady Franklin's health on the old
gentleman's table, and it being his daugh-
ter's birthday, hers too On the sth of
June following, the discovering ships part
ed company with the steamers which ac-
companied :hem to Stromness, and on the
11th of July, they babe farewell to the
transport, and sailed for Lancaster Sound" )"
THE rest" says the London Da,ly Ne1Us,
" is solemn. The last words of these de-
voted Englishmen were cheering and full
of confidence, and their last messages were
charged with love and tenderness for home.
For ten years past, all that national soliei-
tude, aided and inspired BY the most sacred
domestic affection-all that the tender hu-
man feelings Of all nations, and the chival-
rous rivalry of the Old World and the
New, could furnish of zeal, skill, courage,
eager daring, and stern endurance, to the
one great object Of seeking out the lost,
has been prodigally spent and as if in
deed it were the will Of Heaven that in
calamity there should be blessing, we
have seen not ouly our kinsmen beyond
the Atlantic, but France and Russia lend
ing no sterile sympathy to our great be
reavement. Whenever and wherever the
story Of Franklin and his comrades is told,
the names Of Bellot, OF Kane, of Grinnell
will be remembered with the names of Rae
and Richardson, Of Ross, Of Maclure, and
McClintock"
1t will be Of interest to recapitulate the
substance Of all that had been positively
known of the EreJus and Terror, up to
the date Of the late discoveries by Captain
McClintock, Of the steamer For, fitted out
by Lady Franklin. We find this summa-
ry so concisely done in the Manchester
Guardian, that we cannot do better than
to adopt
From the Manchester Guordian, Sept. 2S.
The latest communication received from
any member of the party was conveyed IN
letters from Sir John Franklin himself,
WTlILtH Only Two Il4OuluS ttALIi Llic 4C 'ai Z
ure in lS45, and dated from an Island in
Bafins Bay. The next point at which we
have any trace of the adyenturers is a
small inlet in the vicinity Of Cape Riley,
at which it is proved that they were quar-
tered during the first winter of their abb
sence, and where the inscription on the
graves Of three seamen shows that some,
a. least, of the party must have remained
until April 1s46 They were then more
than twelve months from home, and from
that time We had nothing to throw the
slightest light upon the course they had
taken until DR.. Rae, of the Hudson Bay
Bompany, came upon traces Of them IN
the Summer of 1854. which were made
known in England during that year, His
information obtained from Esquimaux on
the west coast Of Boothia, which he was
exploring, was to the effect that in the
Spring, four Winters past,-interpreteG to
mean the Spring of 1S5O,-a band ofwhite
men about forty strong were seen travel
ling southwar over the ice at a spot near
the north shore of the Island called King
Williams Land. The wayfarers who were
dragging a boat with them, showed signs
of being already short of provisions, and
they explained to the natives by signs that
their ship had been crushed in the ice, and
that they were endeayoring to reach the
northernmost hunting ground for deer.
AT later date during the same season,
the bodies Of some thirty persons were
found by the Esquimaux at point about
one days Journey to the west of the Great
Fish River, on the mainland, and five 9TH
er bodies on a small Island in the vicinity.
It was evident that the unfortunate men
had perished Of want 50 extreme that even
the severity of the climate conld hardly
have been felt to heighten or hasten its
fatal effect, and large number of articles
preserved by the EsquimauX, and bearing
initials of officers in the expedition, and,
in one ease, the fun name of Sir john
Franklin, conclusiyely established the fact
that these were the remains of at least a
portion ofth crews of the Erebus and Ter
or.
The sketch of the fate Of the expedition
which the foregoing intelligence furnished
is confirmed and somewhat extended by the
discoveries of Capt McClintock. Most OF
our readers are aware that this gallant of
ficer commanded a vessel fitted out by Lady
Franklin herself, to exhaust the field Ct en-
oniry into the fate of her husband, and
they will rejoice to hear that her affection
ate enterprise has been rewarded by the
ascertainment of new facts. Capt. Nc
Clintook returned to England on Welnes
day, bringing with him an official record
of the abandonment of the missing ships
which record had been found buried in
:, oarth not far from Point Victory; OF
,he hort""est coast of King Williams
CAPTAIN MccLISToCK's DISCOVERY OF THF
FATE OF FRANKLIN AND THE EREBUs AM
TERROR.
The following letter has been addressed
to the Secretary of the Admiralty:
YATCH Fox, RVS.
"SIR i beg you will inform the Lon
don Commissioners Of the Admiralty ot
the safe return to this country Of Lady
Franklin Final Searching Expedition, which
| have had the honor to conduct.
"Their Lordships will rejoice to hear
that our endeavors to ascertain the fate OF
the Franklin Expedition haye met with
complete success.
!" At Point Victory, on the northwest