. ,ws . turn NEW SERIES, VOL. 9, NO. 34. SUNBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, VA -SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1856. OLD SERIES, VOL- 17. NO 8 3 I 61 it TTho Sunbury American, rCHMSHEO Vf lATCDAt BY n. B. ltfASSER, Market Square, Sunhunj, Penna. ... d a ft v HIIHSCRIPTION. 1 a i 1,1 w - .. rOM.A-R9 per milium to he paid linlf yearly hi tWniice .a. it ... 1-1 - ..Inill.a 51)0 -rl.r ponies ' 1 ... ..1,1..... 10(1" V,nMU l.i "Wane, will Pr th'" " , tiplion to " d frnnk Saw Uhl ! iSi ItalUome. UW. . mj a 11 V KRT18I N 0 . , ii.... "I llincn. 1' Oiiprnnmcoi i mho-, - . Vv,rv luiwrq"""' "ertion, (inefq'.""! 3 nwnlhs, Six m 'nthe, linn '' , , Piv. ijrtpn. ppr enn'iitl 31)0 Slid 300 ve,.T, with the priv.lo o. . ...unB )(lfl() JOU PRINT1NI1. . MTfll wiith win eS a. to exPCto Mlw-tnl J"" ... .1 ,i,.tv of nriiilinK. in the nemtwi sfcji, c.j , r r: T.T1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, Business attended to in the Counties of Nr Ummhorlaiid, Union, Lycoming Montour and Coiumbiu. Inferences in VMUiMjili'm : Comers Nl0ilm.s, I-". llh to " ' L0 TJST IICUUTAIN COLLIERY S U P E U I O H W II I T E A S II ANTHBACITB COAL, From the Mammoth Vein, for Furiiaces, Fou ml rirs, Steamboats and Family use, MT. CaKMKI., NoKTIIl'MBEKLASU PoCXTr, 1 A. SIZES OK COAL. LUMP, for U!st Fr.rnarea and Cupolas, STEAMUOAT, for Steamboats, Hot Air Furnaces and Steam. yj!'' ?ot f'rlr'. s'.vt, nJ stc' 8TOVE, For Stoves, !team and burning NUT, Lime. 1'EA, for Limeburnern and making Steam. Or.lcra received at Ml. Cermel or Nortliuin berlind Wharf, will receive prompt attention. M. B. UKl.I., 1). .1.1. KWIs, WILLIAM ML'IK. My 3, iar.f..-tf DILWOKTn ERANSOH & CO. Hardware Merchants, Having removed from No. 59 to No. 73 Market Street, Philadelphia, Are prepared, with Rreaily increased facilities, to fill orders for HAKDWAKK of avery variety on bebt terms, fiom n full assortment, including KailroaJ Shovels, Picks, 4C. Country merchants and others ill ind it to their interest to call and examine our stock be fore purchasing i lrfcn licre. April 12, I H&C ly . XT. S. OF"a. 't'.'ixl ami our Xatirc Land." (Ti;fQi;r.lIANNA CAMP, No. 5'.', of the O. 3 oftheC.S. A. holds its stated sassioua every Mnn.(i evening in their New Hall, opposite E. Y. H rights store. Sunbury, Pa. Inilitution and regalia, $!!,00. JOHN fl. YOl'NU, W. C. E'i. 'Wilvkut, R. K. . Sunbury, Julv 12, lUf.r.. oct 20 'S5 SCNBVRY CtlUNCIL, No. 3d, O. of I'. A. M. meets every Tt:si.ay evening in the American Hall, opposite E. Y. Hriaht'a flora, Market street, Snnbury, Pa. Members of the order are respectfully requested to attend. VM. A. HKUNEK, C. G. W. Smith. R.S. Sunbury, JuIvS, 1850 Oct 30, '5S. OF Jr-. "IVfASI! INOTON CAMP, No. 19 J. S. of A holds its stated mcetinja every Thursday rveniiiR, in the American 1111, Market Street, fiuiuury. w jivssELMAX, P. A. A. SlIISSLKU, It. Sunbury, July S, lSSfi. tf. JURE OLIVE OIL for table use two size at 37J and 02J cents jiiat received ny VM. A. BKL'NEIt, June 21, '60. SUE K M, fish, tanners, flaxseed and pina Oil, paints, glass, putty, copal varni.h.'spts. tur pentine, fluid and paint brushes for kilo bv May 31, '56. E. Y. lUUtillT & SON ISlackheri-y Eiranti) ! JUST received a fresh supjdy of blackberry llrandy and invaluable remedy for Summer coinplaintB by WM. A. UKUNEU. Augusts, 1P50 ' NEWabODS " AT V. W. GRAY'S STORE, A larue assortment just received from Phila delphia, and sold cheaper than ever for cash or country produce. Among his stock will be found Fancy nrcxs Goortu, of nil kinds and the latc.-t and most fashionable atiles, lllack and Fancy Hresa Silks, Challies, Uraizo He Lains, Ginshams, Lawns, Shawls, Prints, Hress Trimmings, Hoso Olives, Stocks, JJlotlkS, t'asaimeies, VestinRS, Linen Drills, Irish Linens, MujUiis, Parasols and Umbrellas, &c.., c. II A RDWAKE a general assortment. CaKOCEKIES, Fish,('heese, Raisins, Tobacco and Cigars, Queenswaro, Hoots, Shoes, Hats and Cai.s. and a general variety. 13?" PLEASE CALL AND KEE,J P. W. UK AY. Sunbury, May 21, 185C tf FOUSALK! s7 fcTEAM ENGINES 00 Horse power each, Zfl with boiiers. Would make excellent pump ing iingiuea, together with 2 Isrge blowing cylin ders, suitable for a blast furnace. Apply to HENKV LONUENEOKER & CO. bhamokin Iron Worka. Shainokin, Pa. Shamakin, July 21, 1855, STOVES' iTOR gALE an excellent second-hand Cook iiiK Stove, also aeverul Cylinder Coul Moes. Empiire at this oliice. "CTnilllla UcmiNi A fresH assortment ' j received by WM. A. HKt'NEll. June 21.' 185(1. relic (fojKAttttoiL (From the New York Trihnnc KANE'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Afptic Kxplotions. Tliefteconu Orlnnell Kxpeilitmii in rienrch ol H.r John Franklin. By Klihu Kent Kuiie, M. D., U B. N. vols. 8vo. rhilailelpliia : C'liiMs & Peterson. ))r. Knne is one of the singularly fortunate, men who ore permitted not ouly to petTorm noblo octious, but to leave a worthy record of their history." Tho admirable tpualities which ho hns displayed in the discharge of his official duties area sure pledge of perma nent fume. Courage, wisdom, fertility of resource, power of endurance, devotion to an idea, and skill in accomplishment, ore Btampod on his intrepid career of Arctic research. 1 ho lulness ol monuooa gives a lofty character to his adventurous course. He might well bo content with his exploits, which have culled forth tin honor of talent, that is rarely combined with tho conditions of liter ary excellence. Histinction as a writer was unnecessary to give brilliancy to his achieve ment, liut in the composition of these volume?, lie has gained a new titlo to the admiration of Urn public. If thoy presented merely a narrative ot other men s pertorm- iinccs, they would be counted as productions of remarkable interest, for their graphic vigor of description, and the richness and novelty of tho information which thoy impart. Hut us n trunscrii.t of personul experience, they, occupy a unique place in literature. Written with rare moilhety ol tone, great simplicity of expression, and a certain cordial frankness of manner, Securing the sympathy of tho r. B'h r. which at the same time is evidently taken for granted, they possess 'a pectiliiii cliarni, apart trout tneir unquestion able value as memorials of maritime discov ery. . I no spccilic lentorcB ol l'r. Knes,pian of research consisted in making the land- masses of the north of Oicetilund the basis of operations, assuming, from the analogies of Kooeraphu'iil structure, that Greenland was to be regarded as n peninsula approach ing the vicinity of tho Pole, rather than os a cougeries of islands connected by interior glaciers. On this Hypothesis, the course was to pars up lialliu s Hay to the most northern attainable noiut, and thence, pressing on toward the Hole, as far es boats or fledges could reach to examine the coast-lines for vestiges of th lost party. Tho Kxpedilion which sailed in the Advance consisted of 17 meu, besides the commander. The equip, ment ws simple. A quantity of rcugli boards to serve for bousing tlio vessel in inter, soma lnma-rum.crand ennrnss tents, and several strong sledges, built on a con venient model, completed the outiit. . i or provisions, they took a liberal supply of peimiiieun, a parcel of Horden's meal-biscuit, soino packages of prepared potato, a store ot uricu iruitf and vegetables, besides pickled cabbage, the salt beef and pork of the Navy ration, hard biscuit and flour. A moderate supply of liquors mado up the bill of fare, although the party were pledged to total abstinence from this article, unless dispensed by special order. Leaving New York on tho ?.0. of May,! 1P53, the Advance arrived at tho harbor of l'iskernaes on the 1st of July. They pro ceeded gradually along the coast, until on the 27th of July, they ncared the entrance of Melville Hay. Here they encountered their first serious obstruction from the ico ; Dr. Kane promptly decidtd to attempt a passage through the buy by a new truck, and after a rouch transit of eight days, the wisdom of the plan was confirmed by its success. In less than a week they entered Smith's Sound una am intr near Liittietou jsionu, oeposueu n boat with a supply of stores, with the view of securing retreat in case of disaster. " e found to our surpuso mat wo were not the first human beings who has sought a elter in this desolutu spot. A lew ruined walls here and there showed thut it had once been the peat of a rude settlement ; and in the little knoll which wo cleared iiway to cover in our storehouse of valuables, wo found the mortal remains of their lormer inhabi tants. ' Nothing can bo imagined more sad and homeless than these memorials of extinct life. Hardly a vestige of growth was trace able on the bnro ice rubbed rocks ; and tho huts resembled so much the broken fragments that surrounded them, that at first sight it was hard to distinguish one from the other. ulius bones lay about m all directions, showing that this uuimal had furnished the staple of subsistence. There were some remains, too, ol the tux and tho narwhal ; but 1 found no signs of the seal or reindeer. These Esquimaux have no mother earth to receive their dead ; but they seul them as in the attitude of repose, the knees drawn close to the body, and inclose them in a suck of skins. The implements of tho living man are then grouped iiptund him ; they nro covered with a rude dome of stones, and u cai in is piled above. This simple cenotaph will remain iuUct for generation ufter gene ration. Tho Esquimaux never 'disturb a grave." On tho western Capo of Littleton Island, they erected a cairn, which might serve us a beacon to any following party, wedged a staff into tho crevices of tho rocks, and spreading the American Hug, hailed its folds with three cheers as thoy expanded in the cold midnight breezo. They immediately resumed their course, beating toward tho north against wind and tide, und soon arriving ut the regions of thick ribbed ice, where they were compelled to moor their vesel to tho rocks. Among tho petty miseries which they row began to suffer, was a pack of some fifty dogs, which furmed a very iuconvenient ap pendage to the travelling party. Theso uniiiials wore voracious as wolves. It was no easy matter to supply such a hungry luinily with food. They devoured a couple ol bears in eight days. Two pounds of raw flesh every other day was a scanty allowance ; but to obtain this was nlmost impossible. The peminicun could not be spared corn meal or beans they would not touch und suit junk would have killed them. The timely discov ery of a dead narwhal or nuieorn proved an excellent relief, affording six hundred pounds of good wholesome tiesh, though of a rather unsavory odor. Hut a more serious trial was at hand. The vessel had been released from her moorings, and hud fought her way through the ico for several days, when the sky gave tokens of un approaching storm. On the 2Uth of August the tempest came on with unmistakable Arctic fury. Its effects cau bo described in do other words thau thoso of tho jouruul of tho dauntless commander : " Hy Saturday morning it blew a perfect hurricane. We had seen it coming, and wero ready with three good hawsers out ahead, and all things snug on board. ' Still it came on heavier and heavier, and tho ice began to drive more wildly than 1 I icujht 1 bad ever seen it. 1 had just turned in to warm and dry myelf, during a 1 momontary lull, and wns stretching myself oat in my bunU, when 1 heard the sharp twangling snap of a cord. Our six-inch hawser had parted, and wo were swinging by the two others tho gale roaring Hue a lion to the Southward. " Half a minute more, and 'twang, twnngl' came n second report. 1 knew it was the whale line by the shrillness of tho ring. Our noblo ten-inch matuiia sun neiii on. J was hurrying my last sock into its seal-skin boot, when McOary came waddling down the com panion ladders ' Cnptojn Kane, she won't hold much longor ; it s blowing the devil uiinsoll, and 1 am nlraid to surge. "The raanilla cable was proving its, excel lence when 1 reached the deck, and the crew, as they gathered round me, were loud in its praises. 'We could hear its 'deep Kolenn chant, swelling through all the rattle of the running gear and moaning ol tbo shrouds. It was the death song 1 The strands gave way with the noiso of a (hotted gun, and in the smoke that followed their recoil, wo were dragged out by the wild ice at its mercy. "We steadied and did some pretty warp ing, and got tho brirf a cood bed in the rushing drifts but it nil como to nothing. w o then tried to bent back through the narrow ice-clogged water-wny, that was driving a quarter of a mile wide, between the shorVund tho pack. It cost us two hours of hard lubor, I thought skillfully bestowed ; but at the end of that time we were at least Tour miles off opposite tho great valley in tho centra of liedevillo Reach. Aheud of us, farther to tlio north, we could seo the straight growing still narrower, mid the heavy ice tables grinding up and clogging it between the shore-clifl's on one side and the ledgs on the other. Tbero was but ono thing left for us, to keep in some sort tho command of the helm, by going freely where we must other wise be driven. Wo allowed her to send under a reefed foretopsail j all hands watch ing the enemy Its we closed, in silence. ' At 7 in the morning wo were close upon the piling masses. We dropped our heaviest anchor with the desperate hope of winding the brig, but there was no withstanding the ice torrent that followed us. Wo had only time to fnstcn a spar as a buoy to the chain, j and left her slip. Ho went our best bower ! "Down we went upon the ralo ne-uin. I helplessly scraping along a lee or ice seldom less than thirty feet thick : ono floo. mens. tired by a lino as wo tried to fasten it, more man torty. j Had seen such ice only once before, and never in such rapid motion. One upturned mass roso above our gunwale, smashing in our bulwarks and depositing half a ton of ice in a lump upon our decks. Our staunch little brig bore herself through all thiB wild adventure ns if sho hud a charmed life. " Bnt a new enemy came in sight ahead. Directly in our way, just beyond the lino of tioo ice against which we woro alternately sliding and thumpiug, was a group of bergs. We had no power to avoid them ; and the only question whether we were to be dashed in pieces ogainst them, or-whether they might not oner its Borne providential nook of refuge from tho storm. Hut, ns we ncared them, wo perceived that they were at some distanco from the floe edge, and separated from it by un interval of open water. Our hopes rose, ns the galo drove ns toward this passage, and into it ; and wo were ready to exult when, from somo unexplained cause probably on eddy of the wind against tho lofty icewalls we lost our headway. Almost at the same moment wo saw that the bergs were not ot rest ; that with a momentum of their own they were bearing down upon the other ice, and that it must bo our fate to be crushed between the two. "Just then a broad scpnce-piecp or low wutpr-wiished berg came driving up from the southward. The thought flashed upon me of one of our escapes in Melville Bay ; and as the scone moved rapidly close alongside us, McO'ary managed to plant m, anchor on its slope, and held on to it by a whale-line. It was an anxious moment. Our noble tow-' horse, whither than tho pale horse that seemed to be pursuing us, hauled us bravely on, the spray dashing over his windward llauks, und his forehead plowing up the lesser ice as if in scorn. The bergs en croached upon us us wo advanced Our channel narrowed to a width of perhaps forty feet ; we braced the yards to cleur the impending ice-walls. " We passed clear; but it was n close shave so closo that our port quarter boat would have been crushed if wo had not taken it in from the davits and found our selves under tho lea of a berg, in a compuri tively open lead. Never did heart tried men acknowledge with more gratitude their merciful deliverance from a wretched dontb. "The day lad already its full share of trials ; but there were more to come. A flaw drovo us from our shelter, and tho galo soon carried us beyond the end of the lead.. We were ngain in tho ice, sometimes escaping its onset by warping, sometimes forced to rely on the strength ond buoyancy of the brig to stand its pressure, sometimes scudding wildly through the half opened drift. Our jibboom was snapped oil' in the cap j wo carried away our barricade stanchions, and were forced to leuvo our little Erie, with three brave fellows and their warps, out upon the floes behind us. " A little pool of open water received us nt last. H was just beyoud a lofty cape that rose up like a wall, and under an iceberg that uuchored itself between us and the gale. And here, close under the frowning shores of Greenland, ten miles nearer the Hole thau our holding-ground of the morning, the meu have turned in to rest. " 1 was afraid to join them, for the gale was unbroken, and the floes kept pressiug heavily upon our berg at one time so heavily as to sway it on its vertical axis towurds the shore, and make its pinnacle overhang our vessel. My poor fellows had but n precarious sleep before our littlo harbor was broken up. They hardly reached the deck w hen we were driven astern, our rudder splintered, and tho pintels torn from their boltings. ' Now began tho tiippiugs. The first shock took us on our p r- ,u.n ter ; tho brig bearing il well, and, ulter u moment of the old-fushioned suspense, rising by jerks hand somely. The next was from a veterun Hoe, tongued and honeycombed, bnt floating in a single table ovet twenty feet in thickness. Of course, no wood or iron could stuud this ; but the shoreward face of our iceberg hap pened to present an iucliued plane, descend ing deep into tho water, ond up this the brig was driven, as if some great steam screw power was forcing her into a dry dock. " At one time 1 expected to see her carried bodily up its face and tumbled over on her side. Hut one of those mysterious relaxa tions, which I have elsewhere called tho pulses of the ice, lowered us quite gradually down again into tho rubbish, ond we were forced out of the line of pressure toward the shore. Here we succeeded iu curying out a warp and making fust. We grounded as the tide fell, and would have heeled over to seaward but for a mnss of detached land-ice thut grounded alongside of us, und, although it stove our bulwarks as we rolled over it, shored us np." We must also give Lis account of the soqnei : " I could hardly get to my bunk, as I went down into onr'littcred cabin on the Sunday morning after our hard-working vigil of vim ij-riA uuiiio. jaga oi doming, looci, tents, India-rubber blankets, and the hundred little personal matters which every man likes to save in time of trouble, were scattered around in places where the owners thought they might have them at hand. The pem micun had been on deck, tho boats equipped, and everything of real importance ready for a march, ninny hours before. "During tho wholo of the scenes I have been trying to describe, I could'not help be ing struck by the composed and meanly de nienuor of my comrades. The turmoil of ice under a hoavy sen often conveys tho impres sion of danger when the reality is absent; but in this fearful passage, the parting of our hawsers, the loss of our anchors, the abrupt crushing of stoven bulwarks, and the actual deposit of ice upon or docks, would have tried the nerves of the most experienced icemen. All officers and men worked ulike. Unon each occasioti of collision with the ice which formed our ice coast, efforts; were made to carry out lines; and some narrow escapes y.cro incurred, by the zenl of the pr.it ies lead ing them into positions of dancer. Mr. Hon- still avoided being crushed by leading to a floating fragment ; and no less than four of our men ut one time were curried down by the drift, and could only be recovered by a relief party after tho gnle had subsided. "As our brig, borne on by the ice, com menced her ascent, of the berg, the suspense was oppressive. The immense blocks piled against her, range upon range, pressing themselves uuder her keel, und throwing her over upon her side, till, urged by the succes sive accumulation, she roso slowly, end as if with convulsivo efforts, along the sloping wall Still there was no relaxation of the impelling force. Shock alter shock jarring her to her very centre, she continued to mount steadily on her precarious cradle. Hut the groaning of her timbers, and the heavy sought of tho floes, we might have heard a pin drop. Aud then, as she sett.ed down into her old posi tion, quietly taking ht-r place amonrr the bro ken rubbibh, there was a deep-breathing si lence, ns though all were waiting lor some signal beforo tho clamor of congratulation und comment could burst forth." Hythe22dof August, they had reached the latitude of 78-' 41' a distance greater tliuu had been attained by any previous ex plorer, except Parry on his Spitsbergen foot tramp. Abont this time some of the party began to exhibit symptoms of discontent. The rapid advance of winter, the deprivation of rest , and the slow progress of the expedi tion, tended to produce depression. One person volunteered an opinion in favor of re turning to tho south, and giving up the at tempt to winter. It was no time fur half-way measures. Dr. Kane at once called a council of hio olliaoru. nnd listened to their vinwa in full. With but a single exception, they de clared their convictiou that a further progress to the north was impossible, and urged the propriety of returning southward to winter. The commander maintained the opposite view. Explaining the importance of securing a position which might expedite future sledge journeys, ho announced bis intentiou of WArp iug toward tho northern headland of the bay. Onco there, he could determine the best point for the operations of tho spring, and would put tho brig into winter harbor at the nearest possible shelter. His comrades received the decision with a cheerful acquiescence, and zeulously entered upon the perilous duties which it involved. During tho progress the gallunt little vessel ran aground, "und in the night hud n narrow escape from fire. A sudden lurch tumbled the men out of their berths, and threw down the cabin stove, with u full charge of glowing anthracite. The deck blazed up violently, but by the sacrifice of a heavy pilot-cloth coat the lire was smo thered until water C ni d be passed dowu to extinguish it, The powder was not fur off. A few moments more might have brought tho expedition to a sudden close. About the 10th of September the vessel was brought into a sheltered harbor between tho inlands of tho buy, in which she had been lying for some time, and all hands prepared for wiuter quarters. Of their mode of life during the long darkness of nn nrctic winter, a vivid idea is given by the following extract from Dr. Kane's journal : "How do we spend tko day when it is not term-day, or rather the twenty-four hours ? for it is either all day here, or all night, ot a twilight mixture of both. How do we Bpend the twenty-four hours? "At six in the morning McGary is called, with ull bauds who have slept in. The decks ore cleaned, the ice-hole opened, the refresh ing beef-nets examined, the icu-tubles mea sured, and things aboard put to rights. At half-past seven ull hands rise, wash on deck, open the doors for ventilation, aud come be low for breakfast. We are short of fuel, and therefore cook in the cabin. Our breakfast, for all fare alike, is hard tack, pork, stewed apples, frozen like molasses candy, tea and collee, with u delicate portion of raw potato. After breakfast, tho smokers take their pipe till uiue, then all hands turn to, idlers to idle und workers to work, Ohlsen to his bench, Hrooks tohis piepurutious in cauvas, McGury to play tailor, Whipple to make shoes, Hou sull to tinker, Baker to skill birds and the rest to the 'officu !' Take a look into the Arctic Hureau. One table, one suit pork lamp with rusty chlorinated flame, threc btools, as many wnxeu freed men with their legs drawn under them, the deck ut zero be ing too cold for thoir (Vet. Euch bus his de partment; Kane is writing and sketching and projecting niups; Hays copying logs and tneteoroloyiculs ; Sunt.ig reducing his work ut Pern Hock. A fourth, us oue of the working members of tho hive, bus long been defunct ; you will hud him in bed, or study ing Little's Hiving Age. At 12, a business round of inspection, und or 'ers enough to Mil up theduy with work. Next tho drill of the Esquimaux dogs my own peculiar recrea utiun a dog trot, specially referring to legs thut creak with every kick, und rhcumutic shoulders tkat chronicle every descent of the whip. And so we get ou to dinnertime; the occasion of another gathering, which misses tho tea and ootl'ce of breakfast, but rejoices iu pickled cubbago aud dried peaches instead. " At dinner, as at breakfast, the raw potato conies in our hygienic luxury. Like doctor stuff generally, it is not as appetizing us desirable. Grating it down nicely, leaving out tho ugly red spots liberully, ond udding the utmost oil us a lubricant, it is as much as 1 can do to persuade the mess to shut thair eyes ond bolt it, like Mrs. iBqneers's molasses und brimstone at Dotbeboy'g Hull. Two absolutely refuse to take it. 1 tell them of the tiilosiuus using its leaves as spinach ; of the whaler iu the South beat getting drunk ou tho molussea which had, preserved tho lurge potatoes of the Azores ; 1 point to this gum, so fungoid aud angry tho duy before yesterday, and so flat and amiable to day all by a potato poultice. My eloquence is waited j they persevere iu rejecting the admirable compound. " Sleep, exercise, amusement and work at will, carry on the day till our tt o'clock sup per a meal something like breakfast and something like dinner, only a littlo more scant, and the officers come in with the re- fiorts of the day. Dr. Hays shows -trie the og, I sign it; Sontng, the weather, 1 sign the wouther; Mr. Housull the tides aud thermometers. Thereupon comes in mine ancient Hrooks, and I enter in his jonrnal No. 3 all work done ninler his charge, and discuss his labors for tho morrow. " McGary comes next with the cleaning up arrangement, inside, outside and on decks, and Mr. Wilson follows wth ice measure ments. Aud last of all conies my own record of the day gone by; every line, as I look buck upon its pages, giving evidences of a weakened body aud a harrussed miud. " We have cards sometimes, aud c??h sometimes, and a few magazines Mr. Littelfs thoughtful preseut to cheer away the evening." Towards the end of April, tho arrange ments for a iournev of exploration were completed, and leaving the brig iu charge of a trustworthy detuchment, four able-budied and six disabled men, the commander, with seven others, set out upon the tour over the ice. His plan was to follow the ice-belt to the Great Glacier of Humboldt, and from llmt point to stretch alonir the face of the glacier to the northwest, and muke an attempt to cross the ice to the American side. The stores of the party consisted of pemmican, bread, and tea, a cuiivssh tent five feet by six, and two sleeping baus of reindeer skia. "1'he sledge was light, built of hickory, and but nine feet long. A soup kettle, lor melting snow and making- ten. was arranged to boil either with lard or spirits., A subdivision of the party with another sle Ige started two days before the departure jf Dr. Kane, which toon place on the 27th. He reached the Ureut Glucier in safety. The coost of Greenland in the vicinity is ef a highly picturesque character. The red suuddtouo present un impressive contrast with the blank whiteness, associating the cold tints of the dreary Arctic Laudscnce with the warm coloring of more southern lands. The dif ferent layers of the cliU' have the appearance of jointed masonry, and the narrow line of greenstone caps them with natural battle ments. At one place rose the dreamy sem blance of a castle, flanked with triple towers. completely isolated aud defined. To these ut. Kane guve the namo r the "Three Brother Towers." A still more striking object was a single cliLf of greenstone, uortii of latitude 7'J degrees, which reared itself from a crumbled buse of snnditones. like the boldly chisseled rampurt of au ancient city. Ou one extremity stands a solitary column or minaret tower, as sliurply Cuished as if it had been cast for the Place Veudome. The length of the shaft alone is four hundred aud oitiitty Lot, n it ,ieea uu u plluiti or pedes tal itself two hundred and eighty leet hij:h. " 1 remember well," says Dr. Kune, " the emotions of. my party ns'it first broke upon our view. Cold and sick us 1 was, I brought back a sketch of it, which may have interest for the reader, though it scurcelv sucirests tho imposing dignity of this magnificent landmark. Those who re happily familiar with the writings of Tennyson, and have communed with his spirit in the solitudes of a wilderness, will apprehend the impulse that inscriueu tue scene wim nis name." No description can do justice to the Great Glacier itself. Hising in solid glassy wall, three hundred foot above the water level, with an unknown unfathomable depth below n, us curved lace sixty miles in length Troiii Cape Agasir. to Cape Forbes vanishes into unknown spaco at not more thau a siuule day's railroad travel from the Pole. The interior with which it communicated and from which it issued was nu unsuiveyed sea of ice apparently of boundless dimensions. The journey, however, failed of success iu forcing a passage to the north. On the sixth day the party were attacked by scurvy, from which they hud suffered terribly during tho winter. Two of the number were taku with snow blindness, and one was condemned ns altogether uufit for travel. To crown their discomfitures, they found that the bears hnd got hold of their peminicun casks, aud thus destroyed their chances of recruiting their supply of provisions nt tho several caches. Dr. Kane himself was seized with violent illness ;' his limbs became rigid, and certain tetanoid symptoms made their ap pearance. In this condition he was unable to make more than nine miles a day. He wus strapped upon a sledge, aud the march con tinued ; but he was soon so much reduced us to find the moderute temperulure of 0- below zero intolerable. His left foot wns frozen tip to the ankle joint, and the same night it became evident that the difficulty in his limbs was caused by dropsical illusion. The next day he grew delirious aud fainted when ever he was taken from the tent to the sledge. Every man in tho party was so far gone as to make the continuance of the journey impossible. Scarcely uble to travel, they bore the coiiiiiiuiider back to the brig, w hich they reached by forced marches on the fourteenth. Dr. Kune was entirely prostra ted for abont a week. The firat business after his convalescence was to urrunge new parties for exploration. They returned in safety, with ample experience of the perils of Arctic discovery. Passing over tho remainder of the summer, without further extracts from tho interesting narrative, we find the little party prepared to encounter the terrors of a second winter in that dreary region. The brig wns fast in the ico, and every effurt 'for her liberation had proved unsuccessful. At this crisis Dr. Kane called till hand.i together, und ex plained to thiMii tho reason which had decided h'iui not to forsake the brig. He left it to tho choice of each man, however, t9 attempt un escape to open water, or to stand by the fortunes of the expedition. Eight of the seventeen survivors of tho party resolved to remain with their coutnmndcr ; the others were fitted out with every appliance that could bo furnished, and departed on their utmost desperate enterprise. Tlicy curried wilh them every assurance of u brother's Welcoiliu eliould ll.ry bo OriTun tu.U , k. 1, wus not until ufier many weury months of trial und hardship thut they were, seen again. . The arrangement of the Winter-quarters now occupied the whole attention of the little baud. Dr. Kanik-determined to adhere to the rontine of observances which had mado up the sum of thoir daily life. No accustomed form was to be surrendered. The importance of systematic employment was fully appreciated. The distribution and details of duty, the religious exercises, the ceremonials of the table, the fires, the lights, the watch, even the labors of the observatory and the notatiou of tho tides and the sky, it wus decided bIiouUI go on as they hud before. In the material arrangements, many useful hints wero borrowed from the Esqui maux. The brig was thoroughly lined and padded with moss ond turf. A pile of barrels on tho ice contained their supply of water-soaked beef and poik. Flour, buuns, and dried apples, formed a quadrangular block-house. The boats and spare cordage were placed along an avenue opening abeam of the brig. There was but a small store ol vegetables. . Tho pickled cabbage, dried apples and peaches bud lost much of their anti-scorbutic virtue by constunt use. The species were all gone. Nothing re mained but a few small bottles of horsera dish to season the standing faro of bread, beef nnd pork. A kind of root-beer was brew ed by thu Doctor from the.'branchcs of the crawling willow, of w hich a stock had bnen laid iu some weeks before. The gun procur ed them an occasional supply of fresh meats. Hear's flesh was a fovorito dish, but the liver of that animal proved poisonous. A less noxious article of diet was the rat. A per fect warren of this tribe was on board the brir. They had become impudent and fierce with their increase of numbers. Nothing could bo saved from their racity. Furs, Wool lens, shoes, specimens of natural history, were gnawed into and destroyed. They har bored among the men's bedding in the fere castle, and at last become itilollcruble nui sances. Dr. Kane took his revenge by deci mating them for his private table. His com P'.iuioiis did share his taut, and he thus had the frequent advantage of a fresh meat soup. To this inviting fare ho ascribes his compara tive freedom from scurvy. The want of fuel before the close of winter compelled them to rely upou their lamps for heat. Pork-tat, boiled to les.-tn its salt, whs the substitute for oil ; and hy the use of me tallic reverberator, a sinule wick was suffi cient to keep liquid ten ouuees of lard with a surrounding temperature ot JU Deiow aero. Haw meet was now voted the most agreable diet. A slice of blubber or a cbuuk of frozen walrus-beef was taken with infinite relish. The liver of a walrus eaten with little slices of fat was a dainty morsel. The flesh and blubber of that animal is stated to be "the very best fuel a nun cau swallow." Hut of the savors viands the party were now desti tote. The sick begun to suffer for waut of meat. They were reduced to three dnys' al lowance of frozeu flesh, at the rate of four oz. a day for each man. In this emergency, Dr. Kane determined on a trip over the ice to a Bettllemeut ot Esquimaux huts at tho distance of about a hundred miles, lie was accompa nied by Hans Christem, a native Esquimaux, uud five dogs. During the journey, a fright ful storm came on. Uefore it had fairly com menced, the party succeeded in reaching an old hut, which hud been abandoned by the Esquimaux. Tuking in the dogs, with the blubber lamp food and bedding, which form ed part of the burden of the sledge, t'uey clo sed up the entrance with blocks of snow. They were hardly housed before the storm broke out iu all its fury. Completely cut off from the outer world, they here passed many miserable hours. They could keep no note of tlmn. Tim oLly Indication of the stute of the weather was tho whirring of the drift against the roof of the kennel. The time was divided between sleeping and preparing cof fee, which they drunk with a relish. When warned by their instincts of the lapse of 1 2 hours, they treated themselves to a meal, di viding impartial bits out of the hind leg of a fox to give zest to their biscuits spread with frozen tallow. It wua 2 duysbeforelhey weie released from their uarrow prison, reckoning the time by tho increased altitude of the moon. Unon attuiiiotiuir to resume their journey, they found it impossible to work through tee piles ol drillod snow. Sludge dogs and drivers were buried in the attempt. The two travelers harnessed themselves to the sledge, and "lifted, livered, twisted and pulled," but ull iu vain. They were compel led to give it up, and returned to tho wretch ed hut. Tukinir the back truck, they reach ed the brig the next morning, and fur sever al days were incapable of the slightest exer tion. On the lust duy of January Dr. Kuuo writes in his jauruul : Our sick uro worse, for our traps yield no thing, and wo are still without fresh food. The ubseuce of raw fox-meat for a siugle day shows itself in our scurvy. LUmori huge are becoming common. My ciow I have uo crew any longer the tenants of my buuks cannot bear me to leave ineui a single wutcu Yet 1 cauuot muke l'etersou try the new path which 1 discovered and found practica ble. Well, the wretched month is over. It is something to be living, uble to write. No one bus yet mude the dark voyage, and Janu ary the 41st is npou us. One week afterward we Dud the following entry. What a world of misery does it re re veu I ! ' Still no supplies. Three of us have been out all duy witlicut getting u shot. Iluns thinks he suw a cuuple of reindeer ut a dis tance ; and his eyes rarely deceive hiui. Ho will try for them to-morrow. 1 have fitted out for him a tent and a Bleeping bag on thu second table laud ; and the thermometer is now so little below zero that he will be able to keep tho field for a steady hunt. Our sick are sinkiug for-thu waut of fresh food. It is the only specific. I dislike to ute the unpuil osophieal term, but iu our cued is the truu one. In large quantities itd.aaipalea the disease; ill ordiuury rutious it prevent its tc cunence ; iu smull doses it checks it, w lulo sustaining the patient. We have learned its value too well to waste it ; every part of ev cry animal has its use. The skin makes the busis of a soup and the claws cau be boiled to a jelly. Lungs, larynx, stomach and en trails, nil are available. 1 have not permitted myself to tui-te more than an occasion en trail of our lust half dozen rabbits. Not t at 1 am free from symptoms of the universal pest. 1 am conscious of a atill'uees iu tno loudous, uud a ahoiiness of breath, and a weariness ot the bones, that should naturally attend the eruption which covers my body. Uut 1 have none of the more fearful signs. I can walk with euui jfy alter 1 get wuimed up. 1 have no bleeding of the gums, and, better than all, than God, 1 uin without thut horrible ilispoudeucy which the dueuso nour ishes and feed on. 1 sleep sound ami ilreuin ploasuully genorally about succotaus in tho hunt, or double ration ut ruiudeer or puUruii- gun: On Sunday tho twt'ity-fifth of February a vliinnbH was obtained ot the returning sun. ' To-day, blessed uo wt a,.--. ,r Liuht! Ihiiveoiicu more looked upon the . ' . . j: ... .l.,,.l- ( l,!tiL- il, ir ,v..r suu. 1 was aianuiuj; ou in-m, .' our prospects, wheu a lauiiliiur ooig, vimcu had long been hid in shadow, Hashed out, in sun-birth. 1 knew this berg ngm wen ; ii stood between Charlotto W ood Fiord aud Little Willie's moiiuineut. One yeur uud cuo day ago 1 truveled towurd it from Peru Hock to catch the sunshine. '"'Then 1 bd to climb tho hills beyond, to get the luxury, batnug in its brightness ; but now tuougti tue euu was but a single degree above the true hori zon, it wus so much elevated by retraction that the sheen stretched across tuo v.""b" the fiord like a flaming tongue, 1 could not or would uot resist tho influence. H wub anuu- day act of worship- I started oU at an eveu run, and caught him as ho rol!cd slowly along the horizon, and before he sank. 1 was ngain the first or my party to meditato in sunshiue. It is the third sun 1 have seen rise for a mo ment nbovo the long night of on Arctic wiu ter." ,. It, wns not until tho 20th of May that Ilia party wsreenablod to leave the vessel, which, lias irrecoverably imbedded iu tlio ice, and take up tho line of march for tho settlement on the Greenland coast. During the inter vening timo they had not been idle. On cv, cry respite from their incredible sufferings by cold, fumino and disease, the search was con tinued for tho object of tho Expedition, but after various fruitles attempts, they wero obliged to reliqnish all Lope of success. We navo no npneo to detail the perilous journal to the Danish settlements, at which they ar rived about tho 1st of August. The expedition under Dr. Knne, although not sncceeding in the groat purpose for which it was despatched, has contributed important and yaluublo addition the geography of the Arctic regions. The highest point reached was nearly eighty-one nnd a half degrees of latitude, within about live hundred miles of the Pole. . In the different explorations by members of the party, the northern coast of Greenland was surveyed to its termination in tho great Humboldt Glacier this glacial mass was cx nmiued nnd described as tar as its northward extension into the new land named Washing ton a largo tract of I.md forming tho exten sion noi thwurd of tho American continent was discovered and the existence ascertained of an opeu and iceless sea toward the Pole. mak ing nn area, with its channel, of over four thonsand miles. The discovery of this Polar Sea is ono of tho most interasting iesulta of Arctic exploration. It had long been sus pected thut such a truct of w ater was to ba found in the vicinity of the Pole, and the sus picion was confirmed to somo extent by actu al or supposed discoveries. Hnt hitherto no satisfnetory proof of the fact had been obtain ed Tho evidenco which Dr. Kano has had the rare good fortune to collect is founded on facts of immediate observation. Tho cnust of this mysterious sea wbb traversed for niu uy miles the water wus viewed from an ele vation of five hundred and eighty feet, pre senting the suHie limitless spectacle, moved by a heavy swell, free from ice, aud dashing in surf egainst a rock-bound shore. In con nection with this discovery, several fact3 wero brought to light indicating a milder climato near the pole. Crowds of murine birds, tho advance of vegetable life, the melted snow np on the rocks, uud the rise of the thermome ter in the water, suggested tho supposition ofacliinntie melioration towards the Pole, although Dr. Kane declines engaging iu thu discussion of the question. in concluding our extended notice of this work, we cannot but repeat the expression of our sense of the heroism, energy and intelli gence of the intrepid chief of .the Expedition. His modest narrative has a certain autobiog raphical fascination, unconsciously revealing the highest order of manly qualities, whilo in the interest of its incidents, it is almost super fluous to say, it surpnssess the most exciting wonders of romance. A vein of beautiful hu manity pervades its composition, and oven iu the describing of the most desperate scenes, a lurking humor often peeps lorlh, showing the importance of uucogeniul circemstances to depress an elastic nnd generous nature. The ethical lesson of the volumes ic a no loss precious gift to the reader than its scientific iustructiou r.nd picturesque declinations. Pradlv ErrECT ok Nicotian a Tabaotm. W e are indebted to Hon. O. E. Potter, of this city, lor the following instance of tbo deadly effect of icn!finl ''tlftn flint u-liinl. came under his notice recently. In tho lm- iiiini iti-ii latai uose ot tobacco rarely manifests itself in nntng t,f d,u ,,lt.,.t.,a of animal life, while in tha lower animals in which the motory muscles are more strict- if uimer uio junuence ot tne spina( fystem, such a remit is moro common aud eus'ily ac counted for. " A bluek snake, about six feet iu length, which hud been enptured, was grasped byotio l,..,,.l n ..I ,1. 1 1 . , ! . ...m niuilliu ll.H I1BCK B11U SOI110 lOOaCCO JU1CO thrown into its month. After writhing spas modically a few moments, the snake bocamo rigid, and after its death actually retained the position in which it was held, its head el evated from tho ground and its body curled around beneath. The experiment has been tried successfully on several smaller snukes, und other reptiles, iu propuring them for cab inet preservation." ,Y. JIuwp. Journal of Med. Foisox of tub Smdkr. We tare- no!!c?t in several instances recently serious results attributed to the bite of a spider. The latest occurred in Cincinnati, on Thursday last, which is stifled to have resulted fatally. A young mun named Wiliam Haughton, employed in a dry goods store was taken to a physician's office in a stute of great sntl'erin" caused by a spider's bite near tho abdomen, received a few hours before. The sufferings of Mr. 11. continued to increase until lutein the afternoon, when he died, apparently from the effects of the bite. Tho case has excited considerable attention in the medical profes sion and the physicians of that city state that it is the only ulf.iir of the kind which lias ev er come within their knowledge. To Mcatnrc drain in Hindu, multiply the length and width together, and that product by the heigth in cubic inches, nnd divide by 2,150, aud you have tho number of bushels. To Kftork Stainkp Lixrv. Rub the stniu on each side vitli wet brown soap ; mix somo starch to a thick pasto with told water and spread it over the soaped plac.-s ; then ox p...e the linen to the oir. If the stain do noi then disappear in three or four days, rub o'f the mixturo and repeat the process with the soap and starch. Then dry it, wet it with cold water nnd wash it. A VOIlllf l.ldv hv tkn IKim. i,nr,,n,ni.. i. o j ... , ui,i,tji-ir was tiiii-d s.V in A 11, Lin- r t',;,i.. r... ting in another lady's face. Nic-j buisness for CuvKru Hi'HKR.r. Tlio I ulIiPrniiChurfli at Loss !.V00Uori20,0,ia the i;rL'fliiVwhioi Oiit (Will w i a nUn I'nnsnmml tv lt K ,1 "' - ------- . nu Mil UU j fiing building, (in which the fire oii 'hiatal) i... I ,,. I,.l, l,'.,l;. l. .. ..' ur.niittiiig iv vv.iu j-uguou, SHUSH lOS? Jft fsfiUOO. 71, T.nttrr ft 7'.in nf TTnt. On 1,r,n,ln...l cubic of buy, in a soli j mow or stuck, will ucigu a ion. The Springfield Republican savs a had was caught iu the, Connecticut, river on Tues day, by a Mr. Converse, whilo li.uiug for yio-" keicl. Two lioircba.ida uriinw Kllfrnr tin first, fit- the crop were received ut New 6ileaus cn the .'1st nit; i
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