Now York, 23rd Sept.
The New York Herald publishes the following telegram from New Bedford, Massachusetts "The Franklin Search Expedition under the command of Lieutenant Schwatka has returned here. They have discovered and brought southward relics of the two British ships, Terror and Erebus, which sailed from London, under Si John Franklin in May, 1845, The expedition successfully with stood the greatest amount of cold ever encountered by white men. During sixteen days of a sledge journey, extending over a period of eleven months, the average temperature was one hundred degrees below freezing point. In the summer and autumn of 1879, the expedition made a complete search of King William's Land and the adjoining mainland, travelling by the route pursued by the crows of the Erebus and Terror in retreating towards Back's River. They burned the bones of all remaining above ground, and erected the records of the Franklin Expedition are beyond recovery. They have also learned that one of Sir John Franklin's ships drifted down the Victoria Straits and was unwittingly scuttled by the Esquimaux, who found it off Grant Point in 1849. The expedition have brought away the remains of Irving, the third officer of the Terror, From each spot where graves were found a few tokens were selected, which may serve to identify those who perished there, They secured a board which may be of uso in identifying the ship which completed the North-West Passage."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.