The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-06-26
DR.. HAYES ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

CTS metallic llie boat constructed as to be readily
taken apart and put together, for the more con-
venlent transportation over the ice on sedges; the
fourth boatis only common ships boat.
BY an examination of the lattitudes, it will be
perceived that the Arctic ocean has mean dame
ter II about $500 English miles, and rudely esti-
mated, an area of 100000 of square miles. The
lands investing this grand and extensive basin form
the southern margin of a great ice belt, which is
continuous across the various channels connecting
the Arctic with the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
thus surrounding the region adjacent to the pole
with frozen annulus.
DR.. Kane, whose first voyage as surgeon under
Lieut. De Haven in 1850, had given to him much
important information upon the currents and ice
movements of Batln's Bay, carefully collated such
accounts as had been published respecting the
various efforts to penetrate the ice barrier and
thus arrived at the conclusion that the true route
lay up the then unexplored Smith strait, which
opens at the head of the bay. The second Grin
nell expedition added new proofs to this theory.
Although ice is often met in the line of Baffin's
Bay as low as the Banks of Newfoundland, vet no
serious obstruction to navigation is presented I'M
til the latitude of Upper Navick, ~ degrees 40
minutes is reached, and beyond this our whalemen
penetrate annually, and with little risk as far as
76 degrees, in order to get to the whaling grounds
about the mouth of Lancaster Sound. Between
the highest latitude attained by the whaers and
Smith Strait the water is free from ice during the
summer, and the distance, not exceeding $50 miles,
is readily traversed.
DR.. Kane's efforts were experimental, and his
winter harbor selected on the eastern side of
the channel, in latitude rs degrees 81 minutes
His subsequent explorations proved his position to
have been an unfavOrable one, for he exposed
to the full force of the polar curren the ice brought
down by the current not only prevented his release,
but in consequence of the obstruction presented BY
the land, it was broken into hummocks to the north
ward, which rendered travelling in that direction
excessively laborious. From the experience of his
predecessors and his own, DIR. Hayes leaves direct
for Upper Navick, to procure dogs and furs leaving
that port about the 2Sth of July, and, proceeding
nnOhf fha f1nIhH ln i'm aanhS
about the middle of August The first summer will
be exhausted in reaching that locality, and the win
ter will close around them early in September.
From that time until the first of the following
March they will remain inactive but upon the ear
Eest return of sunlight, the boat party will leave
the vessel. The team of seven dogs will readily
drag from 500 to 500 pounds weight upon a sledge,
ana they Will average in speed from thirty to forty
miles per day upon ration of thirteen ounces of
pemmican. The vessel will be left in charge of one
hall OF the crew. The exploring party will be in
the field during the summer season; and should Dr.
Hayes be successful in accomplishing his purposes,
he will return to the vessel before the close of the
summer. If, however, the explorations cOntin-
ued into the second winter, he will not be liberated
before the following autumn, prOlOngiDg his alb
sence to two and one half years.
DR.. Hayes is very sanguine in his hopes. He
says he expects TO the little flag he planted on
the coast of Grinne Land in 1854, and expects to
reach the open sea.
The expedition will consist of DR.. Hayes, as COM
mander Captain McClintOck, sailing master; Mr..
carpenter, artist, clerk, steward cook, and six
men.
Mr. SOntag, who was the astronomer of the Kane
expedition, will accompany DR.. Hayes. The OBJ
jects of the expedition embrace many points.
l. The further explOr alton of the open Polar sea
discovered by DR.. kane-to determine its limits
and character, and thus to settle positively
this veXed question.
2. To complete the survey of the northern coasts
of Greenland and Grinnell Land.
). 10 determine important questions relative to
the magnetism, meteroogy, natural history, and
the general physics of the unexpored region north
of Smith Strait
Indeed, there is no department of physical sci
ence to which valuable results may not be contrib
uted.
VETO OF THE HOMESTEAD BILL.-The President
communicated to Congress on Saturday his views
for Withholding his signature from the Homestead
bill lately passed. The Constitution says:
"These reasons are cogent, and to an unpreiu-
diced mind, we believe, must be convincing. The
President finds it incumbent upon himself to inter-
pose his veto on account of permanent constitution
al objections, which are of course paramount to
any considerations embracing the question of the
policy Of the measure, the benefits which may
accrue from it in any direction Upon the points
of policy, however, and in the details of the BILL
the President discovers very grave additional OBJ
Jectons to its becoming law. Among these
sons for its rejection may instance the distinc-
ton which it draws between native and naturalized
citizens, It's discrimination against those who have
already purchased lands at Government prices, its
injustice towards the recipients of military land
bounties, &c. 1t will probably surprise most of
our readers to be told, in reference to the latter
point, that "there are unsatisiied land warrants
reaching DaeK TO the last with Treat britain,
and even revolutionary times, amounting, in round
numbers, to seven and half million acres"
ESCAPE OF SLAvE.-A ship which arrived at
Liverpool few days ago, had been about ten DAYS
out from the port of departure, when it dis
covered that there was one more on board than
had been bargained for. Slowed away in the hold,
black escanpd slave had ma IN
hide himself till he knew that there was no fear of
the captain taking back the ship to put him on
shore. When the ship arrived in Liverpool, the
man was still retained on board, and some of the
passengers, including clergyman, fearing that
the captain, to avoid the penalty to which masters
of vessels subject for bringing home escaped
slaves, would take the man back with him, applied
to the police. Superintendent Kehoe at once ac-
companed the passengers to the office of the
ers, who, without the least hesitation gave
order for the mans release, which was complied
with. The captain would be liable to heavy penal
ties if the transaction known in the States, and
We therefore purposey withhold the nlme of the
ship, and the port from whence she came.-LiCer-
pool Times.
ABSURD REASON FOR REFUSING TO DELIVER UP A
FUGTIyE FROM JUSTICE. One Willis Lago in
dicted in Kentucky for running Off slave girl from
tina State. He took refuge in Ohio, where he was
followed by the requisition of Governor Magofin,
of Kentucky. Governor Dennson, of Ohi,, sup
ported by the written Opinien of Attorney General
Walcot, of that State, refused to deliver up Lago,
upon these grounds: first, that the indictment was
detective; second, that the act charged upon Lag0
not offence at common law, at the time of
the adoption of the Constitution and was not now
an offence by the laws of Ohio. Gov. MagOfhn's
reply was to the point, viz that it was not c0mpe-
tent for the Executive of another State to try the
question of the formal suficiency OF an indictment
found in Kentucky; and that it was sufficient that
| the act charged was an offence under the law of
Kentucky, without any regard to the law OF OHIO,
or any other State, on the subject
| The MOVEMENTS OF THE JAPANEsE.-The Japanese
are not going to Boston. The GOthamite daily pa
pers accusing them of all sorts of icentiousness
and innumerable amOurs, so that the proprietor of
the Metropolitan Hotel has been obliged to come
to their assistance and publish a vndicaton to the
credit of the hotel. The Gothamites, on the first
arrival of the Embassy at the Metropolitan, col
lected on the stairways and laughed boisterously
at their appearance and movements Since then
the persons having the entree to their apartments
have offended them by wearing their hats and
smoking cigars in their private parlors. The Off
GERS have been annoyed with the attempts to
drag them about to all sorts of places, that ia
panese drew his sword fellow and told him that
he was no servant. Is it any wonder that the Am
bassadors do not want to visit Boston ?-Phitddet-
phia North american.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal owing to
break which occurred in wing wall at or very
near dam No. 4, on Sunday, the 18th instant, did
but little business last week We learn, however,
that the canal will be passable at the dam by Tues
day or Wednesday at the farthest, and that, as
there has been accumulation of boats laden
with coal at that point, to number exceeding one
hundred and sixty, there will be a gut of arrivals
at Georgetown and Alexandria towards the close
of next week of more than usual extent. The
canal is elsewhere in good condition. The ship
ments of coal coastwise from Georgetown during
the past week very large, and vessels are re-
quired now to carry coal to Eastern ports.-Na-
tionaJ InteLkgencer.
A Coop IDEA.-Some of the volunteer companies
Of New York are periodically practised in harbor