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I One trip te
ertrvman on 1
K>t know lie was '’kY'.’fiergyinan,
luce the passenger list <li<l not
let ray the fact, lie took a great
Tking to the ltev. Mr. Peters, and
talked with him a great deal;
Hlltim yarns, gave him tooth
of per-onal Id-
glittering ■ I
09bitily through hi garrnlon
Hrfek that was refreshing to a
■Lit weary of the dull nentrali
H* of undeeorated speech. One
■v the “I’eters. do
■Ol
■ Well-s^“
Hrl judge it aint often, by
i.woii say it. Now. yon tacliil
earne t < 11 • <■. :111 ! \.iTI!
iv. i\ ••• t •11
hot hang light on
wont understand it:
■ iiiml Itv tiling' w ill h.'gin
H?nr up, and then von would
ijKiy it down to eat.’"
I have heard that said."
J“And it’s so. too. There aint a
begins with it. It lavs
&|Hcm all. I’eters. There'
lalWnret I v tough thing m it
I ie k to
out, :UL*d w hen onee
Hi get on the in lde everything's
Bin ns day."
HlJie miracles, f
' f&u.
IS ' 2|
S k
1S! p safe
:• . ; 'V '■ sir
wonder on
Ravelling such thing* out, and
Biaturally it was too many lor
Would you like t<> have
r nip explain that thing to you,
and show you how to got at tin*
meat of these matters (”
“Indeed I “ “ 111 l —‘”iJ itjssrr; rf
1 you don’t mind.
L Then the captain proceeded as
Bellows: “I'll do it with pleas
Bare. First, you see, 1 road and
Send, and thought and thought,
1 got to understand what sort
of people they were in Bible
times, and then alter that it was
L all clear and easy. Mow, this
Lwasthe way 1 pet it up, eoneern
Big Isaac* and the prophets of
There was some mighty
Sharp men amongst tin* puhlie
Bltaracters of that old ancient
day, and Isaac was one ol them.
Isaac had his failings plenty of
them, too ; it aint for me to ap<d
ogize for Isaac; lie played it on
the prophets of Baal, and like e
nougli In* was justiliahle, consul
ering the odds that was against
him. Mo, all I sav is. twasu t
any miracle, and that 111 show
you so’s’t you can see lor your
self.
“Well, times had been getting
rougher and rougher tor prophets
—that is, prophets of Isaac's de
nomination. There was -L>o pro
phots of Haul in the community,
and only one Presbyterian; that
is, if Isaac was a Presbyterian,
which 1 recon he was, but it don l
say. Naturally, tin* prophets of
Haul took all tin* trade. Isaac
was pretty low spirited, 1 reckon,
but hi* was a good deal ol a man.
and no doubt he went a propho
Hying around, letting on to be
doing a land office business, but
’t wa’nt any use; he couldn't
rau any opposition to amount to
anything. By and by things got<
deaperate with him ; he set- liis
head to work and thinks it all
out, and then what does In* do i
Why, he begins to throw out
hints that the other parties
are this and that and t other
nothing very definite, may he,
just kind of undermining
tlieir reputation in a quiet way.
This made talk, of course, and tin
ally got to the King. The King
asked Isaac what lie meant by
talk. Says Isaac, ‘Oh, noth
W particular: only can they
down lire from heaven on
§Bi .lit ar ( It aint much, may be.
Majesty, only can they do
BBV That's llu* idea So the
was a good deal disturbed.
nnd he went to the prophets of
Baal, and tliej said, pretty airy,
if he had an altar ready,
were ready; and they inti
Riated he better get it insured,
'*B© next morning all the chit
Hircn of Isroal aim int*ii paient*-.
Hid the other people, gathered
together. Well, here
parked togethei on one
I -aac walking up and
fee . i a iii-i. pin
. !‘■ i ■ Win-! Mine V. a
|ei lie
H
wEs&MBSJfJri!*- v went It. lie
: % 7^ HPsu•"’ , '■ pi <> in- around the
Ht. very hopeful, and doing
{Heir level hest. They prayed an
hour—two hours—three hours—
and so on, plumb till noon. If
wa’nf any use; they hadn't took
; a trick. Of course they felt kind
I of ashamed before all those peo
ple, and well they might. Now,
what would a magnanimous man
do Keep still, wouldiT he * Of
course*. What did Isaac do ? He
i gravelled the prophets of Baal
every way lie could think of.
Says he. “You don't speak loud
enough; your god's asleep, like
enough, or may be lie's taking a
walk; you want to holler, you
Ik now*—or words to find effect; I
pion’t recollect the exact lan
gunge. Mind. 1 don't apologize
for Isaac ; he had his faults.
••Well, Hie prophets of Baal
prayed along the best they
S knew bow all the afternoon, and
never raised a spark. At last,
about sundown, they were all
i tuckered out, and they owned
: up and (juit.
What does Isaac do, now i He
steps up and ays to some friends
of his, there. ‘Hour four barrels
of water on the altar!' Every
body was astonished ; for the
other side had prayed at it dry.
you know, and got whitewashed.
They poured it on. Says he,
‘Heave on four more barrels.’
Then he says, ‘Heave on four
more.' Twelve barrels, you see,
altogether. The water ran all
over the altar, anil all down the
sides and filled upa I reneh around
it that would hold a couple of
| hogsheads—‘measures'* it says;
I reckon it means about a hogs
I head. Some oft he people were
I going to pul on their tilings and
go, for they allowed he was era
i zv. They didn’t know Isaac.—
! l aac knelt down and began to
pray ; lie strung along, and
| strung alone, about tin* heathen
- i .. . !i-i ;1111 iamls, ami about the
sister churches, and about the
I State and the country at large,
j and about those that's in author
ity in the (government, and all
the usual programe, you know,
! till everybody had got tired and
I gone to thinking about some
| thing else, and then, all of a sud
■den, when nohodv was noticing,
he outs with a match and rakes
it on tin* underside of his leg, and
plf! up the whole thing blazes
like a house alire! Twelve bar
rels of water! Petroleum, sir,
petroleum! that's what it was!"
“Petroleuin, captain !"
“Yes, sir; the country was lull
of it. Isaac knew all about that.
You rend the Bible. Don't you
worry about the tough places.—
They aint tough when you come
to think them out and throw
light nil them. There aint a
thing in the Bible but what is
true; all you want is to go pray
erfully to work and cipher out
how- ‘t was done."
This is ttie captain's o\\ n mistake.
Prom the Arctic Seas.
A SAII.O It It It IN OS HACK KKMC.B OK
si I! JOHN KHAN KLIN EIIOM
111 oson's It an .
fill* fate of Sir John Franklin
i and of the crews of the Erebus
and Terror has long been known.
The vail which had for nine years
hung over it was partially lifted
bv Dr. Kae in bis exploration in
i Boothia for the Hudson's Bay
Company, and after the diseove
ry of a cairn at Point Victory by
the Mct'lintoek expedition in
185!). tin* fate of the humic lead
der, at least w as finally detennin
ed. The death of Franklin, with
eight of his otlicers and fifteen
sailors, was recorded by the cap
tain of the Krebus on a paper
found in the cairn, and litle doubt
could remain as to the fate ot
the rest. A few days after the
■ discovery of the record. Captain
Mct'lintoek found, at the western
extremity of King \\ illiam's
band, a boat containing portions
of two human skeletons, heaps
of tattered clothing and a Humi
lity of other articles. No other
bodies were found, but McClin
lock eoiyectmod, and rightly,
that tlie whole expedition per
mill'd as miserably a- the two
poor fellows who w ere left be
hind in the boat. Somewhere
near the mouth of Back's Kish
River the survivors must have
died, but the place where tlieir
bodies lie buried has never been
reached.
THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
Thomas M. Barry, second mate
of the bark A. Houghton, which
was cast away on the I2tii of last
June upon the coast of Hudson's
Bay a few miles southwest of
Dupe Fullerton, has brought to
this city some interesting relics
of the Franklin expedition, which
he obtained from a native tribe
near whose homes ihe last of the
brave explorers are said to have
perished. Barry, who >peaks
the Esquimaux language fluently,
learned from the tribe that many
j years ago a number of white
| men came among them only to
; perish from starvation and ex
posure in the misery of an Arctic
winter. Barry appears to be an
honest, frank and truthful sailor,
; and the relics which he has in
his possession confirm the cor
j rectness of the story w hich he
: tells,
'The bark A. Houghton sailed
from New Bedford on the 3rd fit
May, 1 STB, for a whaling voyage
in Hudsoe's Bay. The vessel was
owned by Joint F. Richardson, of
New Bedford, who has been
largely interested in the whale
fishery for many years, and is
known as the owner of the Fatal
pa, which bore off the escaping
Fenian prisoners from Sout h Aus
tralia. The crew of the A. Hough
ton numbered thirty-one, all
told. Captain James I). Sinclair
sailing' as master and Thomas
Barry as second mate. The early
months of the voyage were line
ventful. On August 7. the bark
entered Hudson's Bay, and the
first whale was killed on the 7th
of September. During Septem
her the A. Houghton cruised a
bout the bay with ordinary sue
cess. September 17 the second
whale was sighted and killed, the
two yielding about one hundred
and thirty barrels of oil. Al
j though other schools of whales
! were seen and chased no other
i prize was made during the sea
j son. From the Ist of August to
| (heist of < Mober the bay is near
|ly free from ice, but in October
the ice begins to form along the
! shores, extending out farther and
I farther from tin* land. Croat
j floor and; il l jimmy, h i lie bay” and
Ihe daily narrowing of the lanes
of water warns Ihe whaler to pro
pare for the time when the bay
will be ice locked. In the early
part of October several Esqui
I inanx from a settlement called
| Nachilli were met while the vos
-cl was off' Whale Point, a little
spur of land about thirty miles
south of Cape Inglefield. They
were told that the hark was to Ik*
laid up Tor the winter at Marble
Island, which is a well known
station at the mouth of Rankin's
Bay. The Esquimaux said to the
whaler's crew that they would
comedown from Cape Inglefield
to the winter quarters. In the
latter part of October the bark
was laid up. and the crew made
themselves as comfortable as pos
si bio on board. The vessel was
surrounded with a wall of snow
cakes, and the hatchways were
covered with a thick blanket of
snow . The weather became bit
ferly cold, the spirit thermome
ter falling to GO degrees below
zero; but the sailors had plenty
of food and lire, and in tlieir snug
forecastle cared little for the
storms that swept over their
heads. In January several of
the Nachilli tribe arrived and
built tlieir snow-huts around the
vessel. During this month seve
ral parties of Esquimaux came
down from the north, until about
one hundred and fifty men. wo
men and children luul joined (lie
little settlement which had
grown up about the ship. Asa
matter of course they mingled
familliarly with the crew, and
showed themselves a simple
hearted, inoffensive people.—
Barry has been for twenty years
engaged in the whale iisher.v, and
had already spent three w inters
on the Arctic coast, lie learned
to speak the Esquimaux tongue
with considerable fluency, and
found no difficulty in conversing
with the natives. All of them
belonged to the Nachilli settle
ment near Cape Ingletield. and
all of them told the same story of
the mounds which marked the
graves of the party of w hite men
which had come among them
many years before. Two old
men of the tribe remembered dis
tinctly tlu* appearance of the
strangers, but none of the other
natives could speak except in n*
gard to the mounds and the rel
ics which were still in their pos
session. The old Esquimaux told
Barry that a very long time ago
how long they had no accurate
method of indicating—a large
party of white men had come to
their Settlement and lived for a
time among them. Several of the
white men had colored stripes, as
they said, different from the rest,
upon their arms and shoulders.—
They supposed that these were
the leaders. One large man in
particular they called ihe -Ili
fata,” or great chief. Ib* seemed
to have authority over the others,
and the Esquimaux respected
him especially, both because of
hi> -ize and by reason of the o
bedience which the other white
men paid to hi- orders. As
Franklin died in June, 1847, this
11 it at a was probably Crozier or
Fitz James, who were captains
of t lie Terror and Erebus.
The old men described to Bar
ry how cold the winter was which
followed the arrival of the whites
among them. No game of any
kind was to he had. and the set
tlement was reduced before long
(o the last extremity of destitu
tion. 'The natives crouched shiv
ering in their lints without fire or
food, except some miserable seal
skins. pieces of which they chew
ed. With the exception of these
bits of raw skin they had abso
lutely nothing to eat, and al
though they shared this wretched
! food with the strangers flic* white
men were unable to endure the
I miseries of the winter. The na
! fives were inured to hunger and
| cold, but many of their tribe per
ished, and it is not to be wonder
ed at that the whites should have
suffered the most and died the
soonest. One after ihe other
(he remnants of the English ex
pedition melted away until all,
officers and men, bad perished in
| the bleak huts of the Esquimaux
settlement. When the spring
! came the starved natives were
able to procure food for the set
; (lenient, but the relief came too
late to be of service to the En
glish crews. The Esquimaux
wrapped the bodies of the dead
in skins and buried them near
tin* settlement under little heaps
of stones. Before all of the ex
pedition had starved to death a
cairn was erected among the lints,
and the books and papers belong
jug to tin* explorers were careful
lv placed “ Hl.;.— —DHn-i vain
! ables were stored in the cairn
! also, which the natives told Bar
|ry had been left untouched.—
! They looked on the deposit as
| something sacred and feared to
j break into tin* mound or disturb
|in any way the relics. They had
j a number of articles in their set
; 1 lenient however, belonging to
j the expedition made of silver,
copper and iron, and many pieces
|of wood which had been used to
| construct boats or sledges.—
Some of these articles they
brought with them to the ship,
and Barry was able to procure
three large silver spoons which
were unmistakably the property
of the Franklin expedition. One
of the spoons he has now in his
possession; the other two were
given to the American Consul at
St. John, Newfoundland. The
spoon now belonging to Barry is
a heavy silver tablespoon, en
graved with the Franklin crest—
a lislfs head surrounded by a
wreath. This spoon was partly
broken off at the junction of the
handle with the bowl, and has
been neatly mended by the na
tives with a joint of copper. One
of the spoons in the possession
of the American Consul is like
this, and the other is of similar
form, but marked with nearly ef
faced letters, like three S's in a
row. Barry could not make out
these letters distinctly, but thinks
that they are S's or L's. The na
tives were willing to guide the
crew of the whaler to tlieir settle
ment, but as the journey was
nearly a thousand miles in length,
and the crew were whalemen and
not professed explorers, the offer
was not accepted. The Esqui
maux remained by the bark until
the ice broke and the crow pre
pared to begin tlieir summer
cruise. On ’the 30th of May of
tlie present year the A. Houghton
left Marble Island, and the crew
bade good-bye to the frendly na
tives. The bark was successful
in killing another whale, hut a
violent snow-storm rising while
the prize was moored alongside,
she was obliged to cut loose, and
was driven ashore on a reef about
twenty live miles southwest of
Cape Fullerton. This was on the
12th of June and eight days later
the crew were taken off by the
schooner Abby Bradford. Captain
Fisher, who landed them for the
time being on Depot Island, a
bout twenty miles further south.
The crew of the A. Houghton
lived <m this island until August
15, when the Abby Bradford re
turned and carried them to St.
John. -V F., from whence Mr.
Barry came to this eitv.
It i proposed by Morrison and
Brown, the well-known shipping
agents at 109 South street,to send
oil* a vessel next spring and make
an attempt to recover ihe relics
of Hie Franklin expedition. Mr.
Mori son. it will be remembered,
was the agent who fitted <yit the
Polaris. He estimates the cost
of fitting out a vessel fora cruise
of eighteen months at 115,000.
and if this sum can be raised lie
will undertake to provide what
ever i> necessary. It is under
stood that the British Government
have offered a standing reward of
£20,000 for the recovery of the
hooks and other records of the
expedition, and if t his offer is still
open, Messrs. Monson A Brown
are prepared to defray the expen
ses of the expedition, which will
be probably under the charge of
Mr. Barry. Piofessor Nourse, of
(lie Smithsonian Institution, has
been written to on the subject,
and an inquiry has been address
ed to the proper officials in Eng
land. In any case an attempt
will probably be made to recover
the relics, if a whaling vessel is
sent from this port next spring to
Hudson's Bay, by Morison and
Brown, as the firm propose to do
at present. can be
raised by subscriptions, the ex
penses of the expedition will then
he guaranteed and the firm will
feel able to make the attainment
of the Franklin relics their first
object. If they are obliged to
send a vessel at t heir own cost it
will be necessary for them to de
fray the expenses by cruising for
oil. Mr. Barry proposes to enter
Hudson's Bay and land at Repulse
Bay on its western coast. From
thence thejourney to Capelngle
field. of about five hundred miles,
can be made easily with sleds and
dogs, which can lie procured at
the point of landifig. Travelling
at the rate of forty miles per day
the settlement of Nachilli can be
reached in about two weeks. —
Here, Barry expects to find the
cairn untouched, and to tiring
back the precious relics of Frank
lin's memorable expedition.
The ladies in this city are intro
during anew mode of salutation.
They have done away with the
silly nonsense of kissing each oth
er, and keep all such labial exer
cises for their—husbands and bro
thers. Many, when they lfleet
their acquaintances of a few years
ago, show their meekness and joy
by turning their lovelv eyes hea
venward or over the way, and at
the same time their chins chase
their noses towards the top of
their heads. They never nod fa
miliarly, for 1 hat is very vulgar.
They toss.— Virginia (Act*.) En
terprise.
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