the box which first
telegraphs danger, six-four, six-four, &c., six being the district
number, and four the box number in that district.

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE RESOLUTE.

[I had some opportunities, which no other writer for the press had,
I believe, of examining the Resolute on her return from that weird
voyage which is the most remarkable in the history of the navies of
the world. And, as I know of no other printed record of the whole
of that voyage than this, which was published in the Boston Daily
Advertiser of June 11, 1856, I reprint it here. Readers should
remember that the English government abandoned all claim on the
vessel; that the American government then bought her off the
salvors, refitted her completely, and sent her to England as a
present to the Queen. The Queen visited the ship, and accepted the
present in person. The Resolute has never since been to sea. I do
not load the page with authorities; but I studied the original
reports of the Arctic expeditions carefully in preparing the paper,
and I believe it to be accurate throughout.

The voyage from New London to England, when she was thus returned,
is strictly her last voyage. But when this article was printed its
name was correct.]

It was in early spring in 1852, early on the morning of the 21st of
April, that the stout English discovery ship Resolute, manned by a large
crew, commanded by a most manly man, Henry Kellett, left her moorings
in the great river Thames, a little below the old town of London, was
taken in tow by a fussy steam-tug, and proudly started as one of a fine
English squadron in the great search of the nations for the lost Sir
John Franklin. It was late in the year 1855, on the 24th of December,
that the same ship, weatherworn, scantily rigged, without her lighter
masts, all in the trim of a vessel which has had a hard fight with wind,
water, ice, and time, made the light-house of _New_ London,--waited for
day and came round to anchor in the other river Thames, of _New_
England. Not one man of the English crew was on board. The gallant
Captain Kellett was not there; but in his place an American master, who
had shown, in his way, equal gallantry. The sixty or seventy men with
whom she sailed were all in their homes more than a year ago. The eleven
men with whom she returned had had to double parts, and to work hard to
make good the pla