Year: 1877

expect many intelligent followers.


PulwOcrystic Pavements.


Arctic discovery is certain to receive q
new impulse from the wonderful success
that attends the explorations made under the
auspices of the Scientific Street Cleaning
Bureau. The expedition fitted out by that
organization was directed to rendezvous Mt
Broome Strait, and, being fully equipped with
sledges, crowbars and picks, have COM
menced a thorough examination of the
paleocrystic ice of Broadway Sound and
Bowery Bay. It is sufficient to say that, SO
far their efforts have been entirely success
full in demonstrating the fact that bottom
can be reached in all parts of the chan
mel and estuary named. It has been
rashly stated by the leader Of another expe-
dition that the route to the North was i'm
peded by an unbroken mass of ice, the sur
face of which was rendered impossible by
vast hummocks and the heaped up debris of
old foes. This is now entirely disproved,
and we are happy to announce that one of
the present expeditionists who had ad-
vanced some distance ahead of his compan-
ions, with view to reach Cape Restaurant
for the purpose OF selecting n sNitable
spot for q cache of provisions, sud-
denly sat down in on extensive polynia
and shouted, 'Open seaw When he had
risen to his feet and expressed himself with
extreme emotion as to the discovery his COM
panions knew that the great mystery of the
North was unravelled at last. It is ru-
mored that the northeast passage to Astoria,
via Newton's Channel, has been found again.
The existence Of this route was regarded as
n myth by most modern geographers, but we
cannot offer IN opinion on the subject until
oil the facts relating to this latest exploration
are before us. We admire the energy with
which the Scientific Street Cleaning Bureau
are pushing on this laudable work. In the
face of IN exceptional season the daring ex-
plorers are slowly but surely cutting their
way northward. It is believed that by the
commencement of the summer they will
have penetrated as far as Forty Strait,
and that by the Fourth of July the Stars and
Stripes. borne by these intrepid men, will
be proudly planted at the corner of Fifty
ninth street and Fifth avenue.


How the Plan Strikes the People.


From different parts of the country come
very satisfactory expressions Of approval of
tho plan conceived by the joint committee
for the settlement of the difficulties of
tho Presidential count. and the mind
Of tho nation seems to favor the scheme
in precise proportion as it judges
sion and bias. An extreme spirit
of partisanship is never favorable to fair
views on issues of this nature, and, con-
sequently, the subject is regarded with some
suspicion wherever this spirit prevails but
wherever tho wants and welfare of tho coun-
try are considered as of more Importance than
party doctrines there is most encouraging
support of the project and faith in its
success. In the Connecticut State Sen
ate this has taken the form of
resolution instructing the Senators in
Congress to support the measure and
requesting that the Representatives viii
do the same. Although the other branch of
the Connecticut Legislature does not come
frankly forward in support of this action it
so far rerceives the general drift of public
opinion that it opposes only by way of de-
vious pretexts. The dispatches from or
ganized public bodies and from distn-
guished individuals in different sections
which were showered upon members
of Congress yesterday assumed the char
acter of patriotic demonstration in
support of the proposed course. BY the
Detroit Board of Trade it was telegraphed
that the measure received in that city the
'hearty support Of all, without regard to
party" In Boston, as declared by an
eminent citizen distinguished for his legal
attainmcnts, "the community, independent
of party, rejoice in tho proposed mode" "
1t is reported that the struggle in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature for the United States
Senatorship was decided in favor of Mr..
Hoar by tho high opinion entertained of his
efforts in the joint committee to secure tho
agreement which the country thus accepts
with outspoken enthusiasm. The best part
of this action of the people is that it has
already strengthened the plan in Congress
and convinced different gentlemen who