The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-30
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trading for Offices, compromising principle for
share OF spells, and accustoming oneself to
trade ones own prejudices against those OF q
rival whose alliance it is necessary to secure,
have ere this reduced Marcy and the rest OF his
contreres to the condition of mere political ped
lars, under whose direction, were 1t to last,
the destiny Of this country would be obvious
ruin.
No such fate is, we are convinced, in store for
US. The Marcy tribe are working out their
own defeat. A little more rope, and they will
undoubtedly succeed in arousing the country,
and provoking the establishment, on new prin-
ciples and new basis, of national party,
WHICH will absorb all existing organizations,
and scatter the present office,jobbers and con-
vention-makers like chaff before the wind
INTELLIGENCE FROM THE ARCTIC REGIONS
DISCOVERY OF THE NORTHWEST PAssAGE-Our
previous dispatches from England informed us
Of the arrival there of Commander Inglefeld,
of the ship Phoenix. from the Arctic regions,
reporting the safety of the ship Investigator,
Capt. Mcclure, concerning which much appre-
hension had been entertained and Of the dis
covery of the long sought for Northwest Pas
sage. The journals received from London by
the Asia had not contained any details of the
important intelligence, but those brought by
the Niagara furnish us with all the particulars,
and we are thus enabled to present to our
readers this morning the highly interesting ac-
counts brought by Commander Inglefeld from
the Franklin ExDadition.
No trace had been discovered on any side Of
the missing navigators, and the hope which had
hitherto animated the gallant and devoted men
who had braved the perils and hardships of q
life in the Arctic regions. was now almost ex-
tinct Thus the primary object of the expedi-
ton had failed Of accomplishment. The
secondary object had, however, been at
trance into Barrow's Strait, which estab-
fishes the existence of Northwest Passage
between the two great oceans. This discovery
was effected by Captain McClure, of the Investi-
gator, on the Goth of October, 1852, in north
latitude 73 deg. 80 min. and west longitude
ia deg. II min. On the Oath of September
previously the Investigator had been hemmed
in by ice about twenty or thirty miles further
north, and so remained up to the time when
Commodore Inglefeld left and it was by means
Of record left by party from the ship at a
place called Winter Harbor in the following
April that the fate of the ship had become
known to the rest Of the squadron. Captain
McClure's discovery settles geographical
problem but further than that it can be of no
practical use, the passage being blocked up
with ice and impracticable to navigation.
Among the Arctic curiosities noticed in the ex-
plorations of this gallant officer were smoking
hillocks, volcanoes on small scale, and petri-
fed forest He was also informed of the ex-
istence Of an extensive coal mine twenty-five
miles in the interior.
The extracts which we give to-day-including
an account Of the unexpected meeting of the
English officers on the ice, and the loss Of the
British ship Breadalbane-will be found posses
sed Of q most intense and thrilling interest to
our readers.