The New York Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1875, Page 3

t * they seemed much pleased, before bidding them adieu, '/NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. THE PANDORA'S PATHWAY, Her Brisk Run Across Melville Bay to the Carey Islands. JOURNALISM ON SHIPBOARD. A Sailor's Essay on the Merits of the Esquimau Fair. THE ARCTIC MAIL BAGS. Steering Southward for Lan- caster Sound. THE MIDNIGHT SUN. * Barrow Srrat, Aug. 20, 1875, About seven o'clock in the evening a siow, drizzling, disagreeable rain set in, giving promise of bad weather for the next two or three days. But we had, fortu- nately, got in nearly forty tons of coal, as much as the captuin wanted, and we accordingly stopped, tired, but ‘well satistied with the result of our day’s work. Had ‘we not been favored with fine weather we might have been here four or five days without accomplishing so much, We did not get up anchor until next morning, baving in the evening taken leave of our Esquimaux friends, who had set up a tent on shore, where they passed the night before returning to Yuyarsusuk. We gave the girls a number of little presents, with which Among other things I observed that Juliet had re- teived a prettily embroidered white linen pillow case, but could not find out who bad given it to her, al- though I may have had my suspicions, It is probably | Jong ere this worked up into boot tops. | AS we shall meet with no more pretty girls fn the course of our narrative I would like, before finally taking leave of these, to assure the reader that Ido not think I have exaggerated the | ebarms of the fair girls of the Arctic regions in the least, Nor am [ alone in my appreciation of them, for I found | that all my messmates were of the same opinion as my- self. Perhaps it was because these people have been so persistently misrepresented by travellers as ‘dirty” and “filthy? that we were agreeably astonished to find them otherwise, and all the more disposed to do them justice; but certain it 1 that my companions | were eveu more enthusiastic in singing their praises | than myself, Soon after leaving England we had es. tablished a little weekly paper, called the Pandora's Boz, to which everybody was expected to contribute, and the week succeediag our visit to Disco aud Yuyar- susuk the editor was considerably amused to find that every contributor had chosen one subject with a una- bimity that was somewhat embarrassing. The ccnse- quence was that the Pandora's Bor for August 17, 1875, presented a funny succession of articles about the Are- he girls, of one of which I herewith present a copy as an evidence that I have not been exaggerating. It was Bigned “Tromp,” but it is not quite certam that he is the author, as they were in the habit of sometimes signing each other’s names:— PRAISE OF THE FAIR, It is truth old as the hills that the sailor stops just long, enough in every harbor to feel the true vuluc of those whom he 1s obliged to leave behind him. Untrue it is, how- ever, that he forgets those good fairies who throw now and then a warm suubeam on his troubled path as quickly as he does the privavions which he often has to bear, On the contrary, once returned on board of his ship he often quietly remembers the lovely beauty to ‘whom he was obliged (perhaps forever) to bid farewell, and he remains a Jong ime thankful for the moments which were so dear to him. Let us then, too, in our Pandora's Box reserve a little room for the commemo- tation of these simple children of nature of the high north, who during two days have shared with’ us the joy and grief | of our hile; for it is'impossible for us to see in those kind, pretty sisters from the unknown homes of Yuyar- susuk cominon workers of acoal mine. There is no re- | semblance at all between these healthy, merry children | | | of Kudliset and the poor, wornout {aces of the miners of old Europe. Without béing aware of it they possessed all the virtues which we admire in a highbred woman— Simpheity, modesty, intelligence and refinement—and when we compared them with the ugly old woman who guarded them with the eye of an argus we regretted Very much that these lonely flowers were planted in the cold, barren ground of this bleak shore to prema turely Wither beveath its long and bitter winter. More utterly forgotien in the world none can live; but us We recall those sweet, melancholy tones of their na- Live land we are unable ‘to forget that fellow creatures were never more misplaced, Let Gs, then, finish with Wishing them all possible good, and let Our thoughts | sometimes return to those pretty little towers who flourish atteriy forgotten in the snow covered moun- tain homes of Disco Island. THE PANDORA LOOKING DIRTY. Whata miserable, dirty, disreputable looking ship the Pandora was next morning. A dull, damp, heavy fog that made the coal bluffs of Kudhiset loom up nigh and indistinct on the starboard beam; that seemed, to hang about the shrouds and rigging in festoons and trickle down the ropes in little streams and drop on the decks in puddles, where it turned to ink in the coal dust which now covered the slip like a thick coat of dirty, sloppy black paint, Her decks when she left Portsmouth, bad as we then thought them, were! clean and respectable and orderly when compared to their present condition, Coal everywhere, from the jib- | boom to the taffrail; everything was covered with it; you could not touch a rope without 00ze, nor lay your hand on anything without getting it painted black. It seemed to travel and climb, too, for it went below and invaded the wardroom and cabins, turning everything a dirty black, and I found it on the shrouds at the maintop. The Pandora, in short, was reeking with coal, saturated with coal, drunk with coul; she had greedily gorged herself until she rolled and staggered deep down in the water, as she was when we commenced getting ber under way, and groaning as though protesting against being disturbed until she had ‘digested her gluttonous meal, The dogs ran about with Hrouping tails and hair streaming with dirty, inky Water, ceeking in vain a place to lie down fn; and even ‘Mr. Hogan,” the pig, bad changed his coat of white for one of sooty black, &s though he had been disguising himself with a view of excaping to avoid attendance on a Christmas dinner to which he had long since been invited. Ina short time we were all transformed into a kind of cross be- tween @ coulheaver and a chimney sweep, and went avout glaring at each other like negro minstrels, with distended eyeballs that seemed to have suddenly turned all white, | But this wi ate of things we bad expected, and which we knew had to be endured until our deckload of coal should be consumed, and we therefore made the best of it, | NEWS OF THR RNGLISH SUIPS AT CPERNA We got out of Waigat Strait during the aay, and fol. lowing the coast of Greenland, were soon favored by light breezes blowing from the south, southwest and southeast—almost the first fair winds we had had since We got into Upernavik on the morn- ing of the 13th, but did not drop anchor, as Cuptain Young only proposed to stop long enough to leave letters and buy, if possible, a couple of dogs. The Gov. | ernor soon came off in his boat, kindly bringing with him’ his meteorological journal, by which we were enabled to see what had been the direction of the winds during the last three months—an important elemeut al- Ways to be taken into consideration in ice navigation. Ib Js upon winds more than any thing else that navigators depend for breaking up the ice and opening the way to the higher latitudes within the Arctic circle, If strong northern winds prevail during the early | part of the summer, then the ice which ‘is breaking up will be driven south through Hudson Bay and Dayis Strait Into the broad Atlantic, and the northern Waters will be found in August and September quite clear, If, on the contrary, the winds blow mostly from the #outh, the ico will move out very slowly, or Perhaps not at all, and the northerp seas will remain closed until the rapidly returning Winter locks them up again for anotner year, We found, upon looking over the Governor's journal, that northern winds had been blowing steadily from the 22d of April until the lst of June, aud that during the months of June aud July dorthern winds had for the most part prevailed, with only an occasional breeze from Wa south. which Lad, however, never lasted long, The | | | having it trickle through your fingers in a thick, dirty | | \ | nothing but a small corner of the great lone, silent, probabilities then were that the ice would have been all driven south from Melville Bay and the north part of Hudson Bay, and that this would be a favorable season for Arctic navigation. ‘The Governor informed us that the English expedition had sailed from bere on the 224 of July, baving only stopped one day td get @ mumber of dogs. It was blowing and raining hard all the time we were here, giving promise of a southwest gule, and Captain Young, anxious to get out to sea again, declined | the Governor’s repeated invitations to go | ashore. We therefore, after getting two more dogs, which were sent off to us, put to sea again, hay- ing stopped only two hours, and all we saw of Uper- navik was passing glimpses through the driving rain, ‘There are four little houses, perched on a round knoll, behind which rose some mountains that appeared to be covered with a thin carpet of grass or moss, situ- ated on one of 4 number of little islands which hem it in on all sides and make its access somewhat difficult without 4 pilot. It is a dangerous harbor with a north- west gale blowing, as it is not sufficiently protected from that side, and the Juniata, when feeling her way in, had to drop anchor in eighty-five fathoms of water toavoid running on a rock, Whether she ever got it ‘Up again is not stated. > ‘THR LAST POINT OF CIVILIZATION, Upernavik was the last Danish station at which we expected to touch, and we had now seen our last of civilization until we should return, We still hoped te haye one more chance of sending letters by some whaler we would probably meet in Lancaster Sound, but this hope was @ faint one, as the whaling ships usually leaye there about the 1st of August and we were now at the 13th, We stood out to sea far enough to be well clear of the land and then continued our course to the north under steam and sail, with foggy, cloudy weather and light Variable winds, mostly from the south. The next | morning the fog and mist cleared away, it turned out | a ‘beautiful day, and we found we were just off tho great glacier which at this part | of the cogst, latitude 74 deg., comes down to the sea. It isa great melined plane, seventy or eighty miles | long, andextends back to the interior in a smooth, icy | slope that rises higher and bigher as it recedes, until it mingles high up with the sky two or three hundred miles inland, It was of a bright, pale, transparent yel- low, like silver slightly washed with gold, and it was | immensely grand and beautiful as it lay shining in the morning sunlight a world of luminous ice. We were forty miles ont to sea, and its foot, which presents a perpendicular wall of ice rising between one and two. hundred feet above the water that washes its base, below the horizon, but we were all the better enabled to form an idea of the grandeur of the immense glacier of Greenland, large enough to contain within 1t nearly the whole of civilized Europe; for, immense as was the mountain of ice that we now beheld, we knew it was dreary world of ice beyond. . i ENTERING MELVILLE BAY, And vow we enter Melville Bay, in the northeast corner of Bafin Bay, much dreaded of whalers, and | a place of anxious expectations for Aretic explorers; for it is the place om the great highway to the north where the ice breaks up last. Baflin Bay itself never gets quite clear of tee, as it is continually filled by that which comes down trom Smith Sound, Jones Sound, Lancaster Sound, Barrow Strait and Pond Bay. All this ice moving down the middle of the great sea of Baflin keeps it filled up, leaving, however, ‘@ passage along the eastern and western shore, which in July is barely practicable for ships, but which in August and September gradua'ly widens, until it is often 100 to 200 miles, as the last of the ice moves slowly down the middle, But, again, it sometimes happens that Mel- vilie Bay never gets free, and it is often only toward the end of August that ships can get through. The Fox was caught bere about the middle of August, was carried down Baftin Bay and Davis Strait, only dnally getting free the following July, having thus lost a year without accomplishing anything toward the task she had undertaken. The ice in Melville Bay is, therefore, 80 uncertain that it is @ place of ill-repute, and navi- gators always enter it with anxious forebodings and the utmost caution. THE BAY CLEAR OF ICE. Strange to tell we had as yet seen comparatively lit- tle ice, With the exception of a few giant icebergs here and there, some aground, some drifting, and which rarely form any Impediment to navigation, we had seen absolutely no ice since leaving Waigat Strait, It was in about this latitude that the Fox was so unfortunately beset, and yeh hpre;wwhoreghere was a vast sea full of flouting ice, there was scarcely a speck to be seen. As we had predicted, the winds blowing continually from the north had already cleared out Melville Bay, and now we had only to sail forward on a sea as smooth as glass, over which the ship ghded along as gently as though she had been on some littie river. The days of the 16th and 16th were beautiful in the extreme, and I thought there coula be nothing more deiightful than navigating these still northern waters when they are clear of ice, Up to this time we had had very little sport in the way of shooting, as we had seen no seals since we left the Spitzbergen ice near Cape Farewell, and in truth they are rarely seen far away from the ice. A BEAR HUNT, Here, however, one evening Joe came running aft with a broad grin on his face to get a gun, saying there was a bear swimming near the ship. Everybody made arush for the guns, and in @ momenta lively fire was opened on Mr. Bruin, who, however, swam off under this | shower of bullets unharmed, In the meantime the Captain and Mr. Lillingston had lowered a boat and started after him, It proved to bea close race, for the bear swam with a speed I had little suspected, looking | around at bis pursuers now und then and redoubling his exertions when he saw they were gaining upon | him. I pitied the poor brute with ali my heart, for he had not, of course, the ghost of a chance, and he swam hard for his life, Soon the boat had approached within ten feet ofhim. Then there were two shots, and ho suddenly stopped swimming and lay lifeless on the water, shot through the head, It was certainly not very good sport, as the poor brute could in the water neither get away nor fight; but the trath is we were out of seal and needed him as a change from sait meat, ‘This bear betokened the presence of ice, as they never go very far away from it; and, sure enough, about ten o’clock at might, when the sun was still an hour and a half above the horizon, we suddenly came upon it, It was, however, not very formidable, as it was only in thin, loose floes, that offered little resist- | ance to the sharp prow of the Pandora, As often hap- pens, however, when getting among the, ice, we were soon enveloped in @ thick fog, which prevented our making much progress as long as it lasted, and we did little during the night. The thermometer went down five degrees, from 37 deg. to 32 deg., the treezing point, in less than an hour, When the fog cleared away, which it did very early in the morning, we found we were off Cape York, the northwest extremity of Melville Bay, with a stream of ice bofore us that looked suspiciously like a pack, We soon made out from the masthead, however, that it was only a tongue or point, that extended a few miles south from Cape York, and which, in trath, usually keeps its hold on the land wutil very late in the sum- mer, Standing south along its edge for half an hour we found, not a lead, but a place where it seemed less compact; and, as we could see the open water shining beyond at the distance of three orfour miles Captain Young pushed into it without hesitation, and the Pan- dora was soon engaged in crushing her way through the loose, rotten floes that obstructed but were power. less to completely bar the way. SCENE FROM THR PORKTOP. “How pleasant it is to climb to the foretop in the | sharp, bracing sunny air and lovk down over the fore- chains and watch the ship's head as she threads her Way industriousiy through the floating ice field, now pushing laboriously through the soft “posh”! ice, that seems to hang on her and clog her with its dead, pas- five, stubbora resistance; then knowingly making for short lead of open water, that sometimes offers a nar- row but unobstructed passage; now darting suddenly to the right to turn some heavy floe that doggedly bars the way; again veoring to the left to get into a little open lake that in- vitingly offers itself; and sometimes, when it is impossible to avoid the ice, dashing bravely at it full speed like aknight in armor, her long, sharp jibboom seeming to pierce it like a lance and over- throw it, a it breaks up and tumbles aside in great, massive pieces—pushing, twisting, butting, squeezing, elbowing, wriggling herself through like a live and reasonable being, The fat “burgomaster gulls” or “mollymawks” of the sailors come sailing around, above, beneath, in great airy circles, as you sit on your lofty perch, and down deep in the clear cold water the eye can follow the little auks that always dive at the approach of the ship, and Wateh them as they fly down | myself and four or five sailors, put off, taking two casks our sharp, light deep beneath the surface with lowered nead and out- stretched neck, as easily as though they were swim- Is not this better than even @ life of luxurious case in the dusty, sweltering cities of | civilization? } In an hour we wero clear of the ige and out in the | open water beyond the “north water” of Bafln Bay. | From here our course lay a little south of west to Lan_ caster Sound, which forms the only practicabie en. trance to that labyrinth of straits, sounds, bays, inlets and islands on the north coast of the American conti- nent. But the Pandora’s head still pointed toward the north, and all that day and the next, until six in the evening, she kept steadily ploughing the waters north- ward against a strong head wind and sea, on the track followed by all the exploring expeditions in search of the Pole. This was the route followed by Kane, by Hayes, by Hall, and last by the English expedition ofthe present year, On the evening of the 19th of August we were at the Carcy Islands, in latitude 76 deg., 100 miles north of Cape York and 100 south of Littleton Island, wheré that part of the Polaris’ crew, under Captain Buddington, passed their second winter. ‘We bad come thus far out of our course to get news of the English expedition. LOOKING YOR CAPTAIN NARES’ LETTERS. Captain Nares had left a letter at Disco for Captain Young, stating that he intended to touch ut the Carey Isiands and leave there despatches for the Admiralty. The northwest island of the group was the | one he bad fixed on, and to this one we accordingly steered, in the teeth of » strong breeze from the north, which made it a somewhat dificult job to approach, At length the ship was hove to off the south side of the island, which | rose ina high, irregular mass of stones and rock, bare and desolate, to the height of 700 feet above the water, Although we were two or three miles | out to sea we could perceive on the top a cairn, which we immediately took to be the one left by Captain Nares that we were In search of. A boat was lowered, and Captain Young, with Mr, Lillingston Beynen, full of letters for the Alert and Discovery, which we had brought from England and proposed to leave here, As arranged with Captam Nares. Hoisting a sail, little shell of a whaleboat shot through the water like an arrow, and we were soon | onarocky beach ina little bay, where we had some | difficulty in landing. We found ourselves at the mouth — ofa kind of valley covered many feet deep with large bowlders and stones, worn round and smooth | by grinding against each other as they are gradually forced down into the sea Beneath could be heard | the rushing of ’a dittle river formed by melung } snow, and on either hand rose a mountain of broken stones and rock, haaped up in a steep, ragged slope as though the tsland was one monstrous cairn built by agiant. 4 | The ascent to the cairn proved to be a somewhat long and difficult one, It was easy to break one’s legs | scrambling over the round, smooth bowlders that co’ ered the little valley, and eusier still to break your neck chmbing up the steep mountain side ona ladder made of loose, sharp, broken, jagged stones, that threat- ened at every moment to start down in an avalanche and carry you with them to the bottom. We at last succeeded in reaching the top, when we found not one, but two, cairns within a few yards of each other. But, strangely enough, neither of these cairns proved to be the one we were in search of, although this was the exact spot Captain Nares had indicated, We soarched the ground thoroughly, not only twenty feet magnetic north from each, as had been agreed upon, but in every direction, without discerning a trace of the expedition, This was a grievous disap- pointment, We had lost two days, a fair wind and several tons of coal to reach here, and had fougd noth- | ing. Had we profited by the wind against which we | had been steaming for the last two days, we might have been almost through Lancaster Sound by this, if not stopped by the ice, to say noth of the useless expen- diture of coal, to us the most precious of minerals, We concluded that Captain Nares had not been able to land — when passing here, owing either to fog or ice, or perhaps a gale, and we reluctantly gave up the search, Thetwo cairns proved to have been built bya whaler who had been here in 1867, as we learned from a paper he had left in a bettle bid away in the cairn, SOME RARE OLD RUM, He had also left a half pint of rum, which, having undergone cight successive freezings and thawings, had become as rich and mild as some fine old Rhine wine, and we drank the whaling captain's health, On thie oxtteme northwest point of the island we de- scried another cairn down Close to the water's edge, about three miles distant, and Mr. Beynen volunteered to go and examine it also, It took him quite two hours to go and return, while in the meantime the wind on the | top of the mountain was blowing a hurricane from the north, which chilled us to the marrow of our bones. We ouilt up a wing to one of the cairns to break the force of the wind, and crouched behind it, Captain | Young writing a letter to be left here for Captain Nares. | in case he should send a boat down this far next sum- mer, informing him where he would find the two casks | of letters. i ‘The view from the top of this island was very grand: | Far below us we could see the Pandora, lookingas small | as a seagull, in the great dark ocean of water that rose to the horizon far beyond. To .the north the coast of Greenland, stretching away for miles and miles until it was lost ina line of purple haze that mingled with sea and sky, almost at Littleton Island, at the entrance of Smith Sound. And as far as we could see there was not | | i | aspeck of ice; that far, at least, the way tothe Pole | was as clear of ice as the Mediterranean, The English expedition must have passed up here nearly three weeks previously, unless detained in M ville Bay; but I doubt their having got much farther than Littleton Island at this time. SMITH SOUND, Smith Sound ts rarely open before the latter part — of August; but as it was through that Captain Nares in- tended to put the Discovery into winter quarters, some- where near Littleton Island, he would, of course, en- deavor to reach there as early a8 possible. But it is pot probable that he would start up Smith Sound much before the Ist of September. It has been the mistake of all the Arctic navigators | who have attempted to reach the Pole by this route that they have started too early'in the sea- son, Where Kane and Hayes found in Smith Sound an impenetrable barrier of ice drifting south, Hall found two weeks later open water, and the probability is that, | had he been ten days later, he would have found Robe son Channel as clear as Smith Sound. The disadvan- tage of starting too early is that the ice will be met drifting down before the northerly winds that usyally prevail here, and the navigator is obliged to ny about and run before it, thus losing all the ground he has gained, or to take shelter in some iittle harbor along the coast. If he adopts the first course he has guined nothing by his early start, and besides has incurred the danger of getting beset in this moving pack and held until the season is past. If he adopts the second course he will be almost immediately frozen in by the ice which, even in August, often com- | mences forming in sheltered bays and inlets. where it is undisturbed by the wind, when the channel a short distance from the land is quite clear and open. It | would appear from the evidence of the officers of the | Polaris that not only Robeson Channel, but the water | tothe north into which it gives entrance, was open until late in the winter; and it is pretty cer- | tain that had the Polaris been a few days | later she would not have encountered the barrier | which stopped her on the 3ist of August | It would even appear, according to the evidence | of Chester, Tyson and Meyers that on the 4th of Sep. | tember, when the Polaris went into winter quarters. | Robeson Channel was nearly clear of tee, and would have allowed the passing of the ship into the open water beyoud had Captain Buddington been disposed | to attempt it. The English expedition will reap all the benefit of Hall's experience, and as the season, owing to the long succession of northern winds which have blown during the whole summer, appears to be even | a more favorable one than Hall had, there is little | doubt that Captain Nares will take his ship toas high | a latitude as it Will ever be possible for a ship to atlain. AN ANORTIVE SEARCH. | Atlength Mr, Beyuen returned, his search having | proved a bootless one, and we prepared to descend to our beat, glad to eseape the biting wind and the dreary desolation of the lonely, barren, shivering | isle, What a weird, barren, desolate, stony place it was! The peak on which we stood was 700 feet above | the water, and we could see nearly all over the sland, | which was, perhaps, three or four tiles m diameter, | and resembled a huge heap of stones covered here and there with snow, There was no sign of life to be seen, nor beast not bird nor insect; silent and lonely and desolate it stood there in the cold pale light of the mid- night sun like some old battered, weather beaten, crumbling but gigautic monument mourning for a lost and vanished world, y We leit the two barrels of letters on little knoll | overlooking the bay whore we landed, on the south | side of the island, built a cairn to mark the Cod | ‘which could be casliv soon from tho sea, ahd nut of to | | steering a fuir course along the land. | the snip with a bree: ‘as we got out of U of the island. The Carey Isiands was the highest latitude we reached, seventy-six degrees, and this was the only time we saw the midnight sun.’ His lower | mb barely touched the Rorizon, aud then instantly commenced mounting , rolling in a wide, low curve along the surface of the'sea, The next evening we were so far south again that he set twenty minutes before tweive, avd we saw-him no more at midnight, COMPLETE ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE, (Hom the Illustrated London News, Oct, 23.] The Admiralty have published the following de- Spatch:— that turned into a gal ag soon THE ADMIRALTY DESPATCH. Hike Masesty’s Sure Avert, at Caney [8Lanps, July 27—3 A. M. Alert and Disgovery arrived bere at midnight, and will leave utaix € M. for Smith Sound, after deposit- Inga depot of provisions and « boat. Ve left Upernavik on the evening of the 22d inst., and Brown Islands on the evening of the 23d, Passing through the middle ice during a calm, with- out a check, We arrived at Cape York ou the 25th mst, Tho season is avery open one, aud we have every prospect of attaining a high tatitude, All are well ou board each ship, G. 8. NARES, Captain R. N., in cominand of Expedition. THE CRUISE OF THE PANDORA, ‘Through the courtesy of Mr, Bennett we are enabled to give the following account of the cruise of the Pun- dora:— The Pandora, commanded by Captain Allen Young, | Lieutenant Lillingstou, R.N., Second, touched Ivigtut, in South Greenland, on July '30, having passed Spitz- bergen ice, off Cape Farewell, in'a strong Wind, without accident.” Proceeding close ‘to the coust we had views of magnificent scenery, which were sketched by our artist, Reached Disco on August 7. ‘THE PASSAGE OF MELVILLE BAY. We make the following extract from Captain Young's | Journal regarding the passage of Melville Bay :-— We continued through the night under canvas, and next morning, after leaving Upernavik, could just dis- Unguisn Horse's Head through the fog, whence tlocks of loons coutinually crossed us in their dight to th westward, froin which [ injerred that the middle ic was not fir im that direction, sing through a long chain of icebergs lying aground north and south, we ar- rived, in the afternoon, ut the Duck Islands, On the Loth we were deserted by every living thing, It was foggy dur- | ing the night, with occasional show showers, but at nin A.M. we had a beautiful break in the sky, and the Glacier was Yetore us, with Capes s Watker in sight, and here and there not a piece of floe ice. some loose pieces of ice trom. a berg for fresh \ We were quite out of that ne y element. W a ylorious night, with a clear, br and a te perature of 89° deg Atlantic on a fine autuinn evening, and could. scare beliwve we were in the much-dreaded M It is astonishing how great is the uncertainty It was near’ our ter, as had navigation in the Arctic seas, present position that at this time of August, 1857, we were, in the Fox, so hampered by ic and finally beset for the winter's drift m the pack; now we have dclear sea and are steering direct tor Cape York without having had even a distant view of the middle ige. We saw nothing here save an occasional fulinar petrel; not a bird, nor seal, nor whale, nor any other living thing, and the contrast between this iceless sea and brilliant sun and the absence of all animal life was most striking. We passed through a quantity of some broken up ice off Cape York and some enormous icebergs; but a dense fog, which prevented our seeing any distance toward shore, made it impossible to com- munieate with the natives, as I had intended doing. The temperature fell to 28 degrees, the rigging was covered with frost and ice crystals rapidly formed among the loose ice. And now came the anxious and critical period of the voyage. Former explorers lad found the pack on the south side of Barrow Strait blocking the entrance to Peel Strait, into which no ship had beem able to penetrate. even toenter this strait, this throat of the Northwest Passage, Or should we be obliged to turn back at its very entrance ¢ 1vsoom appeared that we were to form no exception, for-on the morning of August 27 the inevitable fog which go constantly accompanies ice arose, and our pro- gress Was suddenly stopped by the heavy pack extending across our course. We anchored to the ice until the force our way through the loose ice until night, Then we came to a solid pack, extending from Cape Rennel } to the West. northwest as far as could be seen trom aloft, with a bright iy alley trom the south to the north- west. We were again forced to anchor to the ico, taking advantage of the opportunity to fill up with fresh water. discovered a small lane of water along the southern shore, through which we forced the ship, and which apparently led to Limestone Island. A change now occurred in the weather. This morning it was freezing hard, with temperature of 27 degrees, our rigging being completely covered with’ rime. Now dark clouds arose in the south, the barometer began to fall and the wind to rise’ in gusty blasts from the southeast. Weat last succeeded in forcing our way through to Limestone Island, where we landed | aud left a record. We passed inside of Limestone Island and were toward evening again enveloped im a | thick fog, which made navigation very perilous work. Tt was dark by nine, our port beam, a solid pack on the starboard, a wind on shore, and ‘og, darkness and rain in tor- ents chat ted the coust being seen more than a’ cab length aa The sta were invisible, and, to crown all, there wi no compass, for our compasses were utterly useless, We could only grope along in the gloom, like a biind man, steering by the wind, which might change at any moment and; st us ashore, and an occasioual ghostly gleam of the b antifig pack, We nevertheless got through the night without wccident, but it was threo | before we could see that we were off Cape Granite and Early in the forenoon we passed the furthest point reached by the Fox when stopped by the pack belore returning to Re- gent Inlet, and here there was nota particle of ice to bo seen to the south in the direction we were going. WHERE NO SHIY HAD KVER BREN, We were now navigating waters where no ship had | ever been able to penetrate betore, unless, indeed, the ill-fated Erebus and Terror may have gone dowmhere on their last voyage. Ail on board were now in a fever of expectation. We were within 250 miles of King William Land, near where the Erebus Terror were abandoned, after two winters in the pack; and if we found uo ice in Peel Strait we were sure of reaching that poit and picking up more relics of the jst expedition—perbaps, even some of Sir Jobn Franklin's papers, nota scrap of which have ever been found, Ke- sides, if we reached there, we felt hopetul of making the Northwest Passage, the dream of naWigators for centuries. The wind now came round to the south- west; but as yet we had no sun to guide us or enable | us tO take angles or directions, so we followed close along the Somerset coast line. We seem to be arriving into quite another climate, for we are in an iceless sea, and the cold sting has left the air. The land was quite baro of snow, except where we gota glimpse of the high- lunds of the interior, on which can be percetved patches of snow. In the afternoon we passed a rookery of gulls, secure in their lonely isolation on the face of the rocks, ata place where the vegetation formed an extensive green patch down to high water mark. We keep a good lookout on the shore with a poweriul astronomical tel- escope; and cairns are constantly reporied, but they prove,’ upon inspection, to be huge grau- ite bowlders, with which this coast, and es- pecially the, ridges, are strewn, | At = six in ihe evening we reached Ross’ cairn, om the coast of Somerset, lett by him and McClintock in 1849, when | they came round the coast from Port Leopold on foot in Search of Sir John Franklin, After divine service Captain Young landed, found the record lett by Ross, | took it, and left « copy and another record of his own. Again that night we Were enveloped by fog and obliged tw heave to and wait until morning brodght,ciear atmosphere, Once more the sun came out cloar and bright as we again few down the Sound, rapidly diminishing the distance to Bellot Strait, It was one of the loveliest days f ever saw, rather like what one would expect on sgme sunuy southern tea than on this grim unknown Peel Strait, “Its waters were as smooth as glass, and reitected the rays of the sun in a long flash of dazzimny light that blinded the eyes; the air was as soft and mild as a May morning. ‘On the cast the low shore of North Somerset, a mass’ of bowlders and granite rocks, warn ‘round and smooth and heaped up in wild confusion; to the west the distant coast of the Prince’ of Wales Land, high and mountainons, enfolded in purple mist, lay silent, calm and beautiful in the golden light of an Arctic evening. We were now rapidly approaching Bellot Strait, and Captain Young was between coasts well known to him trom having explored them on foot and lad them down on charts during that wonderful sledge journey of his when out im the Fox. At length, low down on the horizon, we sighted Roquette Isla ten miles north of Beliot Strait and right betor Sure, we think we shall reach the strait of though we get no tarther. Some of us even calculate that we shail be there by six, and animated are the dis cussions and excited ‘our ‘expectations as we gaze eagerly south, The skipper is reserved and taciturn, however, and does pot huzard an opinion, for there 4 whitish glare on the horizon above and beyon Roquette Island, which to tim bas an om inous look. It is the dreaded ice blink, and as we advance it grows broader and higher, until at last white masses of ice begin to rise'above the horizon, At fuur o'clock on the even ing of August 13 we are at Roquette Island and at th edge of an impenctrable pack which extends right across the strait from shore to shore, We climb to the foretop, then to the fore crosstrees, and see belore us & pluin of ice extending to the horizon and jammed ap , against the mouth of Bellot Strait, It is old floe te from five feet to twenty feet thick, covered with litle hills and hummocks, jammed close together, and as solid as rock, “MAKING FOR BEHRING STRAIT, “Within two hours after we had been betting high ou the probabilities of passing through Behring strait we have suddenly come to the end c¥ our voyage. We wait | patiently or impatiently for a change, cruising along the edge of the pack, occasionaly making fast (o 1t when stopped by the fog, which envelopes us from time to time, But no change comes; the ice never moves. Toward evening we land on the island, whose summit is about 200 feet above the level of the sea, but we are greeted by no signs of open water, ice; the higher we get and tho better view we the more formidable becomes the prospect. Captain ng was close to his former encampments when travelling from the Fox in 1849, The islands, cousts and ice appeared familiar to him, and be recognized and pointed out all the points of mterest engraved on his memory while wading throngh water up to his waist on that dreadful sledge journey when he passed here scarcely able to drag one leg after the other, worn out with the tutigue of three months’ continuous travel on the ina and barely aaching the Fem A boat was sent away to collect | We seem rather to be on the | Would it be possible for us | By ten on the following morning we | We had w high’ rocky coast on’ | oor Betlot, | fee—nothing but | 3 | then wintered in the east end of Bellot Strait, before breaking down altogether. There was @ solitary ice- berg, distant ubout ten miles, itubedded in the pack, for which it was difficult to account, as it was certainly for, eign to these straits and must have either driven down from Barrow Strait or through MeChntock Channel from the nortiwest, This berg is important as bearing on the movements of the ice, For three days we went continually bac ice, which more than once’ showed a disposition to | Jam us against the pack. On September 3 there | came 4 change, which was, however, anything | but favorable, “The ice, under the tmpulsion of | & southerly wind, commenced moving north, and it | Soon began to creep up each shore, as if to cut off our At. It now became necessary to consider what we were to do, and whether we were to prepare to winter, for if we lingered much longer it would not remain in our power to choose, There was still a chance that the ive might break up if we waited and let us through, although. that now seemed scarcely probable, as the spring tides had passed. But if it did not we should be tnevitubly caught om aw plac where there could be no possible object in wintering, Will a sprmg and winter search could not b produce apy further results after the journey of MeClin- tock aud Hobson. Captain Young went ashore again on Roquette Island to have one more look at the prospect, but there was no change for the better, Away to the southeast, on the shore of Somerset, we could see the | huge towering perpendicular elif's of rock which form the monster gateway to Bellot Strait, and beyoud the asts of Boothia Felix, trending away to the south. ‘Yo the southwest @ high promontory, just on the hori- zon und southeastern extremity of the Prince of Wales Land, and all between this and Boothia, in the direc- tiou of King William Land, was an unbroken plain of rugged, hummocky ice,’ It was with sad hearts we took a look south over this ghostly plain, against whose dead, heavy, silent inertia all our high hopes, all" our "flery — enthusiasm, | cur rose-colored expectations broke in melancholy gloom.” We were only 120 miles from King William Land. We almost imagined we could see it; and if we could get there we think we are safe to make the Northwest Passuye. This pack ts probably not more than flity miles wide; and of the 6,000 miles be- | tween Southampton and Sanu Francisco there was only this one little obstucle—this mere curtain, as it were— to stop us, But this was as effectual a barrier to a ship as dfty miles of granite. NO HOPE OP WINTERING, eluctantly Captain Young decided to turn his ship's head again to the north. ‘There could be vo possible in wintering here; it would be fur better to return to England, and come back next year with a crew fresh and healthy to try it again; and this is what he de- expected to berg we had at first’ observed, ten miles off, was moved north. There was achannel in the middle of the strait sull open, and through this we hastily made our escape, The ra a heavy gale, with snow and sleet, proved to be a slow one. Jee following from the south, and atso coming down from the north next day, we were nearly jammed between them. Just off Cape Renuel the fog hited one morning and We found a high rocky coast on the star- board, two or three cables’ length oif, while the pack on about, We succeeded, and were driven back into Peel Strait. Ice was rapidly closing the outlet, and young fee was forming on the waves like oil, and rising and fulling without breaking. At last we found a “lead,” closed at the further end by a broad neck of » This we charged and got through, and finally made our accident, Captain Young then decided to try again to Ond traces Carey Islands; and, if nothing was found there, to go as far north as Lyttelton, as we thought it would be unsatisfactory, and that’ the public would be ver easy, if no news had been left, We reached Northeast Island on September 11, and were gladdeued with the sight of a cairn, The island was covered with snow, aud a furious snowstorm blowing belore we got away. Upon landing and examining the cairn we found Captain Nares? record, addressed to the Admiralty, from which it appeared that the expedition Was all well, hav- Sound, with every prospect of a favorable seasou—one Of the most favorable, perhaps, ever recorded. We reached Diseo on September 20 and leit there on the worst, Captain Young said, he ever saw. EXTRACT FROM CAPTAIN Yo! DIARY. The following is an extract from Captain Young's Journal Peet Srrarr, Sept. 1. We are in a deep bight in the ice. All southward one unbroken pack across trom side to side. Fitzroy Inlet tull. Bellot Strait packed close. The spring tides have passed away, and there is no hope of getting further south this season, for the winter has already set in with the usual accompaniment of gales, sleet and snow, and the new ice is rapidly forming on | the waters, I am very loth to turn ‘back, and am | struggling on against hope, if even to reach Bellot | Strait, where we could hold on in comparative security longer than we could possibly do here, To remain th our present position in Peel Straitis out of the question, as well as purposeless, We are hourly in danger of being beset, and, once beset, are imprisoned for the \ winter, without a harbor, and in a position | which would leave us powerless to accomplish any- thing. From this position we_could merely follow by sledging in the spring the footsteps of that veteran ex- plorer McClintock to King William Land, under the same conditions, without hope of further result, in | released next summer, and a consequent autumn re- | turn, probably ending ‘our hitherto successful voyage | in disaster. | [cannot omit this opportunity of expressing my {| gratitude to my officers and crew, Who, at this critical period of the voyage, were ouly too anxious to push for- ward, and shared equally with myself their disappoint- ment at the sudden arrest of our progress and this crusher to all our hopes of making the Northwest Pas- sage this season. A RACE AGAINST TIME, Srer, & We are running back under reefed sails out of Peel | Strait. ‘The temperature 1s 26 deg., with squalls and snow. We stop to sound occasionally the unexplored depths of this sea, on which no ship has ever been known to sul, and by the evening of the 4th we were passing around Limestone Island, the temperature fall- ing to24deg. As we approached an enormous pack which lay close to us on our port hand, and threat- ened completely to cut off our retreat, I could just see at” intervals between the — snow ‘storms a small thread of water, perhaps half a mile wide, and I determined to run a race against | time with the pack and try to pass Cape Rennel before it impinged completely on the land by the action of the northwest gale that was blowing. It was, m fact, our only chance of getting out of the strait, for bad we hesitated or stood back to the southwest we ahould ecr- tainly have been shut in for the winter; so we pressed on with the fast increasing darkness and gloom of the coming winter night, It was a dread- ful night; the. wind” increased to a violent gale, “with hail and sleet and — blinding drifts, and we threaded our way in the dark,ethe white glare of tie pack on one hand, the gleam of’ the snow- Clad land on the other being our only guide, Onc only during the night a solitary star shone out for half an hour, giving the helmsman a point for the direction of ‘the ship. As the wind increased, the temperature fell to 18 deg. Fahrenheit, and the | spray froze over the ship as it tell, and by midnight our decks were full of snow, which | whirled up in blinding drifts from the eddy winds out of the sails, We could from time to time judge our of Ross and MeClintock in their spring journey. Thus, at ten P. M., we passed the deep gorge Which separates the limestone trom the red sandstone formation—a curious geological feature of the coast, By midnight we were off Canningham Inlet, and by three A. M. we were just in the position I had xo long dreaded, The | tee pack had already impinged on Cape Rennel, leaving | not the slightest passage, and our progress in this direc- tion was stopped. Suddenly a snowstorm that had been disclosed the high, precipitous clits banging mediately over us, presenting a most ghostly appear- ance, the horizontal strata seeming like the huge bars of some gigantic iron cuge and standing out from the snow face. In fact, it was the skeleton of a chif, and we appeared to be m its very grasp.’ For a few minutes only we saw ‘this appari- tion, and then all was again darkness, We barely had room to round to between this clit on one side and the pack on the other and then hastily ranged wbout seeking some escape, Most providen- tally, after three hours of intense anxiety, a slight movement in the pack was reported from alott, giving indications of a weak place, The ship was instantly turned i that direction, and eventually we succeeded in forcing her through the weakest place i this nip, now our only hope, which was already rapidly closing | again with the formation of new ice. THK PANDORA A HUGE ICICLE Sept. 10, We have just passed through a gale wiih the tempera- ture down to 28 deg., and we were iced over all, for the heavy seas Yeat upon us and froze as they fell upon our sides and decks, and the Pandora became ove huge jeicle. Anchors, shrouds, and rigging were one solid mass, It became a serious question how long we could have maincuvred ship bad not the gale abated. We had run out of Lancaster Sound beating up to the Carey Isles, where 1 determined to make further effort to find some record of the Alert and the Diseo' 7 by searching every island of the group in detail, and, failing in that, at all hazards to make a dash for Lyttelton Island, ing how anxious the (riends of the expedition would be to bear news of their passage through the dangers of Melville Bay. | officers, who appreciated the Importance of obtaining xotne tidings of the expedition, We reached the Carey | Islands on September 10, beating up wll the way Against a strong northerly wind, and Bally reaching the group in the midst’ of a violent | snowstorm, The sea ‘here, and as fur as could be observed to the north, whore the action of tl wind was felt, was quite clear of ice, and although te was still rapidly forming in still water I think T could have been able to reach as far north as Lyttelton Island. This time we hoved to off the southeast island, on the top of which we perceived « cairn, The island, instead of presenting a view of bare stones, was now covered with a white mantle of snow, which had completely changed its appearance, It was some 700 feet or S00 feet high and very | steep; bot the snow served as a means of ascent | fu a place where otherwise it would have been impossi- | ble to get op. Lieutenants Lillingston and Beynan went ashore, and ‘or half an hour we wateved them climbing up the stecp face of the mountain, At last they reached the cairn, where they remained only a few minutes, for we soon saw them Tapidly descending to the water's edge, Ina few minutes they returned with a tin tube containing a packet addressed to the Admiralty, evidently leafs ky Alam und forward, avoiding the loose dritt | we were still too far from King | a Land to uttempt reaching it this summer, and | all | cided todo, We ‘built a cairn on the island, left a | record, and returned to the ship. The ice | had now already crept up both sho as | though tying to sarprise and cut us off,’ and | other ice came drifting down trom the north.) The | | slowly coming toward Roquette Island us the’ pack | through und out of Peo! Strait 1 | the port beam scarcely allowed room to put the ship | escape, getting through Lancaster Sound without an | of the English expedition by thoroughly searching the | un- | ing salely crossed Melville Bay and gone up Smith | | the 24th, passing Cape Farewell on October 2, and run- | | ning to the Channel belore a terrible northwest gale— | fog Infted, which was at two, when we were enabled to | | | that case wo should ram the risk of he ship.not Wing | progress along the coast by the excellent description | beating down upon us for the whole night abated and | Tn this [was fully supported by ail my | tam Neres. The Pandora was now homeward and recrossed Meiville Bay without 1 dont, and, finding it perfectly clear of ice, with a hea rolling sea, which is quite unusual iu the bay, reached Disto on September 20, where w@ remuinea | until the 24th, reeruitin We again departed, and had | a favorable passage down Davis Strait, but encoun | tered very heavy weather and violent gales in crossing the Atlantic, the ship being battened down for five days, | and reached Portsmouth on the 16th, KOSS’ RXCORD ROUND, ‘The Pandora touched at Somerset, where Sir James Ross and. MeClinwek erected a cairn ip 1849. Captain Allen Young went ashore apd succeeded in tnding Ross’ record, which he brought away with him, leavi | a notice of his own visit in its place. The follow cI the copy of the record:—‘June 7, 1849.—The cylinder which contains this paper was left here by a Party detached from Her Majesty’s ships Enterprise and Investigator, under the command of Captain Sir James ©. Ross, RN, io search of the expedition of Sir John Franklin, ané to inform any of his party that may find it that those ships, having wintered off Port Leopold, have formed @ depot of provisions for the use of Sir John Franklin's party, sufficient for six months, The party are now about to return to the ships, which as re possible in the spring wili pash forward to Melville Island and search the north coust of Barrow’s Straits, and, fuile ing to meet the party they are seeking, will touch at Port Leopold on their way bacl then return to Enyland before the w shall set in.—James C. Ross, Captain.” This paper, given as the record of a mere visit to the spot, really shows what a remarkable journey Ross and McClintock made when they travelled on foot from Port Leopold around this unknown coast in days whe sledgo travelling was in its infancy, [t also shows h strenge are thechances of Arctié navigation, for Rost was in the exact track of the Erebus and Terror, au@ but one season in arrear of Franklin's party, having | abandoned their ships; and Ross’ impression aust have | been strongly against the probability of Franklin hav. ing passed down these straits, otherwise he would have expressed his intention to follow this route with bis ships the ensuing summer rather than the north shore of Barrow’s Straits. STANLEY. THE ENGLISH PRESS ON THE GREAT AFRICAN | EXPLORER—THE WORK DONE HIS ONLY B& WARD—A NOBLE EXAMPLE OF PRIVATE EN- TERPRISE. [From the Illustrated London News, Oct, 28.] ‘The readers of the IWustrated London News, we are sure, Will not take us to tsk, even in their thoughts, | for deviating this week from the broad highways of political intelligence, studded as they are with topics of public interest, that we may call their attention for a moment to tidings which haye happily emerged from | the depths of Equatorial Africa, setting forth what has | been already achieved, and what itis hoped may still | be wchieved, by Mr. Stanley, the gallant explorer sent forth by the Daily Telegraph and the New Yor | Heraup. Two letters published in the first mentioned | journal from the hand of the iMustrious traveller be- | speak the interest not only of the scientific, but of the | civilized world. We shall be pardoned for yielding ta | the temptation unexpectedly addressed to us to select | the Stanley letters for observation, even though the Visit of the Emperor of Germany to Italy, the im- | portant speeches of M. Thiers and M. Rouher on the | affairs of France and the satisfactory diplomatic settle. | ment of the difference between England and China must, as a natural consequence, retain unnoticed. We presume that Mr. Stanley, the commissioner whe | represents the proprietors of the English and American | journals already taentioned, is sufficiently well knows as the mtrepid African explorer who discovered Dr, Livingstone when he was pretty well given up for lost, | There were some scientific men—not many we hope— | who for a short time suspected the authenticity of Mr, Stanley’s communications on that ovcasion. Th will, no doubt, be among the tirst to welcome with bigl appreciation his preseut letters He has proved him- | self to be a worthy successor of the great African ex- plorer, In many respects he resembles him. Tn cour- | age, m endurance, in energetic prosecution of the mis- sion Which he has undertaken, in knowledge of | men, in dependence upou God, be has disclosed very | much of the same typo of character which distinguished | his renowned predecessor, Lt is, perhaps, one of the | rarest charactors which men are wont to exhibit to | their fellow men, Tt demands a degree of self-abne- | gution which very few are found ready to give. It develops its highest attributes out of sight. \ WORK DONE THE ONLY REWARD, It finds its chief reward in the work which it does. It foregoes for the sake of a future, and, after all, a con- tingent, public advantage, all the blessings of civil- ization. It encounters daily dangers, where there is no eye to mark its bravery, and submits cheerfully to innmnerable privations. nse of duty fy its highest law, Hope of rendering benefit to wnankind is ite strongest stimulus, The absorption of selfish mott the work proposed to be accomplished 18 one of the main elements of its eventual success, If any men lay | their contemporaries or their posterity amder obli- gitions that cannot be adequately discharged, such men as Mr. Stanley do so. | The first letter of Mr. Stanley describes with as much brevity as the subject would admit of his prog ss from his starting point to the Lake Victoria Ni- nua. We purposely omit names of places because, unknown and uncouth as they are, they would only, in such a slight reference as this, distract attention, “The traveller very soon quitted that region of equatorial Africa traversed by his predeces-ors, His little on consisting of 300 uatives, soldiers and porters, fo their way over a forest upland for 720 miles in the course of 103 days. Creeping with laborious effort through the jungle, exposed to the depressing influence of the stifling atmosphere, encountering at almost every station the ill will of the natives, sometimes nearly starved, sometimes forced to tight tor their lives, | always, however, paticnt of evil and relymg far more upon conciliatory methods than upon the force undet his command, Mr, Stanley reached at last the coast of the great lake. There, putting together and launch, ing his little vessel, the Lady Alice, carried in sections from the beginning to the end of his land journey, he cainped his followers, reduced by sickness, fatigue and fighting to 166, ana embarked for the cireurunavigation ietoria Niyanza, which he found to be an inland sea of rhomboidal outline, about 230 miles long by 184 broad, From bis southern starting point he skirted the coast eastward and northward to the top of the Inke, went right round the north shore, down the west- ern Coast and across the mouth of the Kangera River and the southwest corner of the lake to the point from which he started, He has sent home a map of what he saw, with notes and descriptions, trom which seientiti¢ geouraphers at home can deduce trastworthy geograph- ical conclusions. We need hardly say that he hag | made an immense addition to our previous stock of | exact knowledge in regard to Equatorial Africa, i AN EXAMPLE TO BE FOLLOWED, The worth of this kuowledye we shall not here ate | tempt to difcuss. In what several ways it may bear upon the soctal and moral welfare of the nutives of that largely unexplored region of the carth we need not speculate, There will come a ume, no doubt, whea “the wilderness will blossom us the 'rose;” and per- haps, long before the advent of that foture, the name and memory ot Stanley, associuted with those of Liv- tone, Speke, Grant, Baker, and other gallant and sul explorers, will have secured undying rever- ence. This is, however, one feature of Mr, Stanley: | expedition which is specially noteworthy. He is tha | representative of two journals with which the world i well acquainted, Their enterprise planned bis mission. | Their liberality has furnished him abundantly with the means of fultiiling it, and it is through theif columns | that his success hitherto has been made known to the world. The public spirit’ which conceived and the | Deneficence which has contributed to the realization of this great undertaking demand—and, we trust, will receive—gratelul recognition. A new way of employ- | ing private means for humanitarian ends—and, we may | add, a most fruitful way—has thus been initiated. May | the example find many imitatoi RIOTOUS STUDENTS. ARREST OF TEN STUDENTS OF HANOVER COle LEGE—AN ASSAULT UPON A BOOKSTORE— WINDOWS BROKEN AND FURNITURE DAM- AGED—THE COMPLAINANT LOCKED UP BY THE STUDENTS. s Puywourm, N. H., Nov. 5, 1875, There was quite an excitement at Hanover College this morning, caused by the arrest of ten or tweive of the students. On Friday and Saturday the students | attended an auction sale of books at the store of J. B, | Parker, and, as he claims, behaved ina very unbecom- ing manner, breaking Windows, furniture, &e., amd | assaulting himself and clerk. Mr. Parker obtained in- dictments against ten of the number, and last nig Sheriff Taber, of Hanover, assisted by Sherif! Newell, of Haverhill, ‘called at the rooms of the students at one v'clock and requested them to get up and accompany them. the request was complied with, and they were locked up Ull this morning, when they were taken te the cars at Norwich station and Brought w Plymouth for trial, About 400 or more of the students accom. panied the coach containing the prisoners to the sta- tion, cheering and screeching all the way, and only | about six were leit to attend chapel service. Mr, Pars ker, the plaintiff, arrived at the depot soon after, in | tending to take the train to Plymouth; but the boya romuning hustled him into the depot, shoved him into the ticket office and locked the door, keeping him there until after the train bad left, ‘This afternoon, at a preliminary bearing, the students gave bonds for | their appearance at the March term of the Court ag | Haverhill and were released trom custody. A NOVA SCOTIA SUSPENSION. Hatirax, Nov. 6, 1875. B. Kirkpatrick & Co,, shipping merchants, of Pictou, suspended payment te-day, Their liabilities are abou NEW ENGLAND FAILURES. Bosrox, Nov. 5, 1875, The list of failures and suspensions in the Bostow Commercial Bulletin of to-morrow will show, @ notable diminution of these disasters throughout the country the past week, Among the reported failures in New England are M, Jamis and Newhall & Kimball, cigat dealers, of Boston; M. L. Fay, West India goods, and cE. Knight, realestate agent, of Worcester Cs Fiteid: West India goods, of Montpelier, Vi, and som@ cual . ‘Marblehead Aber places smo drms in Lyon, and ot