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iocrllan 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. 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