A GRAND VOYAGE OP OF DISCOVERY ad burned adjourned without doina doing anything in the direction of an arctic ex expedition p edition A bill passed the house for an appropriation to aid the bothen enterprise but we believe it did not reach any action in the senate enate there havo have 0 been several projects in contemplation for the furtherance of arctic discoveries but it does not appear as though any but one will wll receive practical attention this season beason an english expedition under sir george ia Is to sail sall for the south on an antarctic expedition but no vessel for a voyage to the extreme extremes north has sailed from an american port except the bothen this vessel the property of morrison brown a whaling araa of new brew york bet out last week for repulse bay nom from which place a company is to push northward to the point where the relics relies of sir bir john were found the main object ol 01 this expedition la Is to continue the search for the records of that ill fated mariner and ex boier tile the eather eathen is a sc schooner honner of tons burthen carrying thirteen men under the command of captain thomas barry the searching party will be under the tho direction of lieutenant Lieuten ant ani frederich frederick of the third cavalry lieutenant W H gilder glider being second in command joseph eb bering or as he is better known Esqui maux joe is also in the party the incidents which led to this on wo aie these in 1872 bome E Esqui squi m maux mauz a U X af pf tho tha Nat chilles tribe gave captain potter then on a whaling voyage visage for morrison morrn Morri son aon and brown a fork and a spoon marked with the crest of sir john franklin these Nat hatchl Hatchi chilles lies lles told captain potter that several years before 1 a of white men perished fr from om starvation at a point which they indicated where a cairn was gas built and several books and other articles were buried captain potter was shut up in the ice for about two years but ou his return he told the story and exhibited the reiles relics last fall captain barry while on similar business obtained from some a spoon patched with a piece of copper that also bore the crest of sir john branklin franklin Pran kiin klin heard froin from them the bame game story told to capt potter and learned further that the cairn where the relics relies leland were deposited was on an island to which the Esqui maux offered to conduct him on his return the evidence of the existence of the relics relies wis was considered so strong that the present expedition was projected at first morrison brown intended to send out the e expedition x tion at their own expense but b ut losing considerable money by some whaling failures they accepted aid from other sources and sufficient m means ea n s was subscribed to fit out the bothen in good style captain barry is acquainted with the Esqui E squi maux language and is familiar with the geography of the north and the dangers of arctic navigation was so interested in this mattei matter that he obtained leave of the war depart ment merit to accompany this expedition and left his hia regiment at the spotted tail agency to bhare share its perils and excitements excite ments gilder ia is now a journalist but served with credit in the tho war Esqui maux joe ia is to act 1 a guide and hunter the party in search of tho the cairn will not start out in their sledges with about loo the tho beginning of next march and do not expect to return to the me vessel until some time in ISSO 1880 luning during their absence the jothen will engage in whaling another vessel will be sent out with supplies the howgate colony scheme does not seem to have reached any practical form james gordon bennett is more likely to play polo than start for the pole this year americus Ameri amerl eus eua symmes son eon of the man who advanced the symmes hole hypothesis has received no encouragement ement to embark on a voyage to test the truth of the theory so the bothen will convoy convey the only party this year devoted to polar navigation and arctic discovery we hope success will crown their efforts the fate of sir john franklin and his doomed companions is a subject that has stirred the sym sympathy pithy athy of reading people in all nations about six millions of dollars have been spent in the search for proofs of the place and circumstances of his dec decease earme earse it is almost certain that records of his travels and observations aro lett left and quite probable that they may be discovered in the place indicated by the nat Wat chilles in them may be found new keys to the unlocking of the polar mysteries and the company of adventurous spirits spirita now on their way to the icy regions of the north may prove to be the fortunate demonstrators of the polar problem the most Inte interesting 9 question that now agitates the minds of scientific geographers