The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-31
The Hare. Arctic Exp.di.l...

The Halifax Journal gives the foIlowins par.
ticniars OF the cruise and the arrival Of the
Hayes Arctic Expedition
"Up TO the tme Of their arrival nj this
porr, the party had been fof oyer Il moe thu
Witaout receiving news from home, except.
ing. however. SIP gle solitary English news
paper obtaincs, at ,Jp4raayic. wh,e:, ,,ou.
sslned prfsiaeAt Lsaeoins proclama .ion for
an extra session of Congress IL nv ia
readily imagined how esser were o.iicsrs and
crew to possess them selves Of newsptpers
con taiaiag news from me Since thsir fs
parture the storm cloud, the.i n mere s,.,ck
on the political horizon, hiss spread over the
y, ~hois heavens, aud plunged the country into
the horrors CT civil war Events have fol.
lowed one after ihe other in qack succession.
and TO shsse Arctic voyagers il must seem "a
u me occurrences OF an ordinary lifetime nd
oetn compressed INTO the few months Of their
aesaace.
'srne United States saiisl from ~. q,
July, Isdo She reached Uperna,ic after a
short passage, and proceeded from thence 70
smiths straits, where she remained uatl
July ~, 1851
t',1n the l4th OF Apzil, however n party left
the vessel. consisting OF thirteen men and six
fte. dog, win boats n siedges. The leader
~ this dog team is now on hoard the United
Statss, sa Is fine specimen Of the species The
parry reached latitude - in the Middle Smiths
otfa 3 aud here the party d'viled--Dr HAYES
mo ti,r.e others went rs far as latitude 81
oeg. 10 min, vest sid. of Kennedy Channel.
sad ~Src then obliged to put back their pre-
Visions bein.. exhausted I,r. HAYES reached
hts .oS sci oia the = Ia OF May TN the 18th
July, 1861, they proeeeted 10 Littleton Island.
whore the vessel rem aineu an til the q tn -
sailing hom thence III noIthsrly dire etion,
tney were mei by immeDse packs OF ies, " wnich
lie YtSSel could NOT peiietrate. She then
ina,ta ior Cape Isabella, on the west side OF
SInli n s Straits, which was safely reached -
Boat parties wcr. sent out from here to ex-
siore, nut the ice was 80 stiid that no chance
vas ituna f)r proceeding. The United States
.isAt came 10 an anchor 1T the Esuuiulaux
ettl'ment OF Eatlik Northumberland Island.
he coast of t;reeaiaad
After surveying Whale Sound the vessel
aailed tJr Upernayic, on the voyage home ar
ilSibs there on the tth OF August lSSi after
passing through one hundred and fifty miles
OF field ice in Melville Bay. Hans an Is.
pHiinaux, on whom DIR. Kane placed great
,,rpendence, who is frequently men toned in
Dr. Kane 8 book, and who deserted that ex-
petition while in the ice i'll the far North.
vas found al Cape York by the crew of the,
United States and returned in the vessel TO
Upernayic, from whence he started with Dr.
name. The expedition went as far North as
II degrees, % minutes Il latitude which Is
said t" have been before reach ed only by Perry
ia ISIS. On the coldest day experienced tn,
theim ometer was down to IS degrees below
zero. The vessel was proyisioped fer two
wears and her returning now, without hey-
ing had any serious disasters inclines us to
the belief that the party have IN ade Some i'm
portiint discoveries which they are not de-
81 cas- OF conmunicl ting here. If So i. will
be iaid before the public ere long"