Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — A Brief Account of Mr. Hall's Arctic Experience. [ARTICLE]

A Brief Account of Mr. Hall's Arctic Experience.

New Yobk, September 30. Mu. Hall’s detailed report bf his Arctic expedition is published. It appears that there is no longer even a shadow of hope that any one survives front Franklin's company. It is thought that pone of them reached eyen as far as Montreal Island, and their bones lie scattered along the coast of King William’s Land, some in isolates! graves, others in camping places where they died in companies. Tqe melancholy history had its crowing terror in the knowledge that they died by starvation, through the base behftvor or the. Esquimaux, and that learning their fete Captain Hall was reduced to toe awful necessity of taking the life of one-of his o#n mhtinous men. Mr. Hall states that the Erebus and Terror were abandoned. Qpe of them copsqmmatedthogfnal. northwest passage, having five tnep aboard. The evidence or the exact, number is circumstahthkl! Everything; 'about this northwest/passage ship ofSi»JohnFftrankliu’s expedition was in complete /Rdcr. ■Four boats were hanging high,up at the ship's sides, apd .one was on the quartordeex. The’Vessel Vnfs ih the winter housing of sail doth. This ▼essef whs-found by natives near G’lteilly Isiand,3atitude ,BBdegre» E. 3d degrees N., kmipfjjde 99 degrees E. >3B degrees W., euf{y m the Spring of 1849, it being frozen In the midst of a smooth and unbroken floe of ice of only one winter’s formation, v -