Smyrna times., 1859-10-13
The Fate of Sir John Franklin.

lh- and making public the last record of the ill-f
"u TED expedition. Sir john Franklin sailed G
tn- his Arctic voyage in May, y,1845. He was la
Wy heard from in July of the same wear. Relic
ay OF his party were subsequently found anon
Ie- the Esqulmaux, who reported seeing some c
e. his men alive IN the spring of 1850, and fndn
the dead bodies some months later in the sea
- son. The screw steamer Fox, sent out il
T quest of the tidings of the Franklin expedition
eS has returned to England, with record of the
= abandonment of Erebus and Terror in April
III 1913. The record also states that Sir Johu
Franklin died June llth, l847.
Captain McClintock, upon his arrival, sent
the following information to the Admiralty:
Most of our information was received from
an intelligent old woman. She said it was in
the fall OF the year that the ship was forced
ashore Many fthe white men dropaed BY the
way, as they went toward the Great River: but
TINS was only known to them in The winter f /.
Io"lhg' when their bodies were discovered"
Further discoveries were subsequently made
" Recrossing the Strait to king Williams
Island, we continued the examination of its
southern shore, without success, until the 2ith
OF May, when, about 10 miles eastward of Cape
iIerschel, bleached skeleton was found, around
which lay fragm nts of European cloihiur.-
Upon carefully removing the snow, small
pocket book was found, containing a few let.
ters; these, although much decayed. may yet
be dec phered. Judging from the remain. Of his
dftsS' th!s unfortunate young man stew
ard or o!hcar's servant and his position exactly
verified the ExQnmaux's assertion that they
leiI as they walked along"
After ralatiDrr
found several carns with nothing in them.
(Probab!y the records, if any, had been removed |
by the natives the record continues:
"On 9Th May Li,ut IIobsou pitched his
tent beS de a large cairn upon Point Victory -
Lying am Ilgst some loose stones which had |
fallen from the top of this cairn, was found a
small TIN case containing record, the sub
stance of which is briefly as follows; THIS
calrn was built by the Franklin Expedition
upon the assumed site Of James Ross's pillar,
whlce had not been found. The Er,bus and
Terror spent their first winter at Bcechy Island.
after having ascended Wellington Channel to
lat. II deg. ~, and returned by the west side
OF CORVALLIS Island. On the 18th Of Septem-
Der, IS46. they were besct III lat. IS % and
long, 90 % w.
Sir j. Franklin died on the IIth June, lS47.
On the 22d April, lS48, The ships were aban-
doned five leagues to the N. N. w. of Pt. Vic
tory, and the survivors, I03 in number, landed
here under the command of Capt. Crozier- ,
This paper was dated 2jth April, lS4S, and
upon the following day they intended to start
for the Great Fish River. The totat loss by
deaths in the expedition up to this date was {
nine officers and l5 men. A vast quantity of ,
clothing and stores of all sorts lay strcwed {
about, as II here every article was thrown A
away which could possibly be dispensed with
plckrXes, shoves, boats, cooking utensils, iron :
work, rope, blocks, canvass, dip circle, a SEX
tant engraved " Frederic IIonby," r. ~, a I
small medicine chest, oars, &c.
A few miles southwark, across Back Bay,
second record was found, having been deposited !
by Lieut.. Gore and NJ. des Veoux in May, I847. ,
II afforded no additional information. /
When in lat. 60 deg. 90 ~, and long. 90 ;
deg. u W., we came to a large boat, discovered ,
by Lieut.. IIobson few days previously, as his q
notice informed me. 1t appears that this boat
had been intended for the ascent Of the Fish q
River, but was abandoned apparently upon
return journey to the ships, the sledge upon r
which she was mounted being pointed in that /
direction. She measured twenty-eght feet in {
length, by seven and onehaf feet wide, was
most carefully fitted, and made as light as pos
slble, but the sledge was of solid oak and al $
most as heavy as the boat 9
large quantity of clothing was found with 4
in her, aIsO two human skeletons One of these
lay in the after part of the boat under pile of
clothing; the other, which was much more dis .
turbed, probably by animals, was found in the d
bow. Five pocket watches, quantity of silver
spoons and forks, and few religious books, I
were also found, but no journals, pocket books, I
or even names upon any articles of clothing :
Two double barreled guns stood upright a
against the boats side, precisely as they had +
been placed | years before. One barrel in C
each was loaded aud cooked; there was ammu- c
milton in abundance, also 30 or 40 pounds of
some tea and tobacc Fuel was not .
wanting; drift tree lay within 100 yards of I
the boat. =
Captain McClintock says, from all that can h
be CLEANED from the record paper and the evil I
dence afforded by the boat and various articles $
of clothing and equipment discovered it ap. r
pears that the Abandonment of the Erebus and q
Terror had been deliberately arranged, and
every effort exered during the third winter to n
render the travelling equipments complete. 1t k
Is much to be apprehended that disease had NJ
greatly reduced the strength of all on board n
far more, perhaps, than they themselves were "
aware Of The distance by sedge rout from
the position of TIE ships when abandoned to the a.
boat is 65 geographical miles, and from the T
ships to Montreal Island 220 miles The most I,
perfect order seems to have existed throughout.
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THE Bible question took financial turn Fri o.
day in the public schools in New York CITY, "
1t was the pay day for teachers salaries for p
September. BY the Bible bylaw of the Board C
of Education, the principals of the schools are S
required to endorse on the pay roll that all the
rules of the Board of Education have been |
obeyed. The principals of the Fourth, Sixth "
and Fourteenth Ward schools were unable to II
make such endorsement, the Bible not having T.,
been read in any of the schools except the fe- h
male and primary departments of No. 2I, in u
Mott street, Fourteenth Ward. Mr.. Warren.
President Of the Board Of Education, according s.
ly deducted from the pay roll the salary of all Il
H. L. Il.