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STANLEY'S MARCH IN APRICA, Rapid and Successful Advance of the Herald and Telegraph Expedition. Mpwapwa, the Country of Usagara. TWENTY-FIVE DAYS OUT FROM BAGAMOYO. Pleasing Reminiscences of Former Travel. SCIENTIFIC OBSERVATIONS. The Great Dogs, Castor and Captain, Die from the Effects of the Heat, DistRicr oF Mrwarwa, COUNTRY OF Usagara, Dec. 13, 1874, Uncouth as the name of the district and the Cluster of villages whence I date my letter may appeur in writing, it ia not at all discordant to the ear. Nay, the sweet voice of a Msagara dam- Bel can even give it a pleasant sound, and, as mearasIcan make it, it ought to be written Mbambwa. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE PAST. IT can hardly describe my feelings as I revisited this spot after au absence of two years, [ frst experienced wu sharp throb of regret as I recoi- lected that it was the scene of the death of my Scotch assistant, William Farquhar, who perisned here in 1871, and as I cast my eyes toward the west over the sere expanse and au- tumnal leafage of miies and miles of undu- lating plain, I verily believe that my next feeling was one of sorrowful foreboding at the momentary suggestion that perbaps one, if Hot ll, of the white men on this expedition might find similar aphonored graves in this Strange land. These Jeelings were not of long duration, however, for the cheery voices of the guides were heard loudly proclaiming that we were approaching Mpwapwa, and the view of high towering mountains, slopes all green with wide svadowing mimosa and tamarind, hollows dark ‘with the verdant globes of foliage of sycamores, @nd the broad bed of the Mpwpa stream, washed With crystal water, dispelled evil presentiments and al) Melancholy prognostications, Thoughts ot misfortuve and dark days to come fled like a sick Man's fancies bejore the spring coloring of noble mountains ‘and the refreshing verdure of well Watered slopes. CONSOLATION. Honestly, no man has less right to begin a letter in this strain than I have; ior no man, however lucky his star may be, has more right to be proud and happy and cheerful than I have this day. For have had an unpreceaentediy successful marco irom the Indian Ocean, and surprisingly favor- able influences have attended the expedition ever since we leit Zanzibar. Nothing of tne blight and misiortune that I predicted in my last letter from Zanzibar, nothing whatever of the vexauious delays, freqaent desertions, half-hearted conduct Of tue armed escort, and various annoyances I surmised would befall us. Un the contrary, we ave arrivea at the ‘half-way hoose”’ to Unyam- Wwezi in ap iucredibly short time, asI will pres ently show you. We have saffered leas sickness, Jers trouble and, altogetner, had more good Jortune wan any expedition which ever came into Africa. THE MARCH. The expedition left Bagamoyo on the 17th of November and arrived here yesterday, the 12th Gay of December, whica makes a period of only twenty-five days! This fact, stated thus briefly, might not surprise those uninitiated with the Usual time requirea jor this march; but if I state that on my expedition in searcn of Livingstone the samo march occupied me fifty-seven days, and that it occupied Lieutenant Cameron’s party four months, even the most superficial reader will not Jail to perceive that I have every reason to be de- voutly grateful aud extremely cheerful. nd, walle considering this rate of spcedy marching, it Must be remembered that this is a very large ex- pecition, bearing such cumbersome things as the pontoon Livingstone and the cedar boat Lady Alice, and that since leaving the coast we have been travelling along an entirely new route, much north of any yet adopted. QUICK TIME. Though I may look now with pleased expression on the distance traversed so speediiy, as auguring ‘weil for the turther prosecution of the march to the unkuown lands north, and thence to the Nile | wources, the day we leit Zanzibar, with its wild Gisorder, did not promise much success, Nearly every member of tue expeditionary force was either drunk, tipsy or elevated, or, as some would Bay, ‘a litile the ‘better’ for the liquor.’? Many wer ent from muster, and a few had deserted with their advance. I consoled myself with think. ing, as 1 noticed the contusion and insolence of sume Of the most inebriated, “All right, my sable gentlemen; to-day is your day; to-morrow the reiga of discipline and order vegins.’’ : STRICT DISCIPLINE A POSITIVE NECESSITY—DE- MORALIZATIONS UNDER THE SUN. After disembarking at Bagamoyo matters were Bot mended. The men had not as yet expended all their advance, and the consequence was that betook themselves into the vile liquor shops of the Goanese at Bagamoso, and alter brataliz- ing themselves with the fire-water retailed there | they took to swaggering through the atreets, pro- Claiming that they were waite men’s soldiers, Maitreating women, breaking into shops and Smashing crockery, some even drawing knives on the peaceable citizens, and in other ways indulg- log their worst passions. | O! course, as long as I remained at Bagameyo this state ol things would continue; a few might be arresied and severely punisned, out it would be too greata@ task to watch about 300 such men Scuttered among the houses of so large a town is Bagamoyo, I was #0 engrossed with the Rove) duties of suppressing turbulence and flebauchery that I had not much time ieit ior any- wningelse. On the fith day, however, alter ar. tiving at Bagamoyo, the bugie announced the march, and, altaougl We had some trouble in coi- lecting the laggards, by nine A, M, the last man bad leit the town, AT SHAMBA GONERA, my former frat camp, the men manifested a dis- position to stop, in order to e “one more Digit of it” at Bagamoyo; but by this time, as you may imagine, I bad had enough of such scenes, aud they were bodily driven on by tue | armed guard, not withous cousideradle violence, | Arriviog at the Kingaoi Ki sections | Of the Lady Alice were screwed together, snd her powers of transportation and em. Sleucy here were well tes Lascertained that the utmost she could bear in ferrying across the river were thirty men aad thirty bales of clota, or the weight of three tous, which was periectly toryto me, The Livingstone pontoon was Mot uncovered, asthe Lady Alice proved expedi- | tious envugd in transporting the lorce across tne river, When the ferriage was completed we re- | sumed the journey, and long before sunset we en- camped at Kikoxa, TUR INTEMPERATE MEN BREAK DOWN, The intense neat of the Kingant Plains lying on either side told severely on those men who were Unaccustomed to travelling in Airica, and who bad luduiged theit vicious propensities ot Zanzibar and Bagamoyo before departure, which compelied Bs toremain @ day at Kikoka, I lad, nowever, Voken the prevantion toleaven strong guard at the river to prevent the men irom rewuruiug to Bagamoyo, oud another on the hills between Bag: aMoyo and tae Kingant Pisin, on the eastern side Of the river, fur a similar purpose. 4 LRITER FROM THR GOVERNOR, | | tendent tuen said that he was opposed to the col- | ored cadet being there, but he was on ofiicer and ‘the words paring my last letters, I was rather surprised at a Visit paid me in my camp from a party of the Sul- tan’s soldiers, the chie! of whom bore a letter from the Governor of Bagamoyo, wherein ne complained that my people bad imduced about fiteen women to abandon their masters, On mustering the people ana inquiring into their Gomestic affairs tt was discovered that a large number of women had indeed joined the expe- dition during the night. Most of tnem, however, bore free papers accorded to them by tife political agent at Zanzibar; but eleven were, by their own confessions, ranaway slaves, After being hospita- bly received by the Sultan of Zanzibar and the Arabs it was no part of a stranger’s auty, unless authorized by some government likely to abide by its agent’s actions, to countenance such s movel mode of liberating the slaves, The order was, therefore, given that these women should return witn the Suitan’s soldiers; Dut, as tMis did not agree with either the views of the women themseves or their abducters, the fe- males set up @ Getermined defiance to the order, and the males seized their Snicer rifles, vowing that they should not return. As such a disposi- tion and demonstration of hostility was not politic nor calculated to deserve my esteem, or to win for me the Arabs’ good will, this disposition ‘was summarily suppressed and the women re- turned to their masters. CASTOR AND CAPTAIN. ‘The first victim on this expedition has been the noble mastif®. Castor, presented to me by the Baroness Bardett Coutts, who died between the Kingani and Kikoka, irom beat apoplexy. The second was the mastif dog Captain—a very fine though terocious animal—who died a few days after. 1 have still toree dogs—the retriever Nero, ‘the undaunted bulldog bull and a welbred bul! terrier Jack, who so far have borne the fatigues of the march very well, though the latter is con- siderabiy exerctsed in his mind by the numbers of grasshoppers he meets in the country while en route, 4 ON THE SOUTHERN BANK OF THE WAMI. Our course since leaving Rosako nas been mainly | west-northwest, until approaching Mpwapwa we travelled due west. Yor several days we jour neyed along the southern bank of the Wami River muking the discovery that the Wami can never be Navigable during the dry season, as its channel for many mules 1s chokea with granite boulders. During the rainy season very large craft could ascend as far as the Usagara Mountains; there is ‘a rise of over sixteen feet in the river. On cross, ing the Wami we entered Nguru, which is north of Usegubba—a country studded with tall peaks and mountains, the hignest of which is a trun- cated cone, Mount Kidudwe, having an altitude of bout 12,000 feet above the sea. as we journeyed through Nguru we crossed the several tributaries of the Wamt, which are tbe Mwehweb, the Mkindo the Mvomero, the Usingwe, the Rudewa and Mukonaokwa. IN NORTHERN USAGARA. From Ngaru we entered Northern Usagara, over ground which the aneroids indicated was 4,475 feet above sea level. Tnen we descendea into lower ground about 3,400 Jeet above sea level until we came to Mpwapwa, which, I have ascertained’ has an altitude, accoraing to boiling pointand two barometers, of 3,575 feet, Three days from here we crossed three tribu- taries of some river flowing east north of the Wami, which may probabiy be the Pangani. - SOIBNTIFIC OBSERVATIONS. The mostextreme north which we reached on our journey here from the coast has been south latitude 6 deg. 49 min., which I ascertained vy taking double altitudes, This was at the village of Kitangeh. We intend to prosecute our journey to-morrow, but before leaving the Unyanyempe road for the land of aiscoveries and the sources of the Nile, which | am eager to reach, I will drop you a short letter injorming you of our march through imbospitable Ugogo. HENRY M. STANLEY. P.S.—I have omitted to state thatthe white men, Edward and Francis Pocock and Fred Bar- ker, are enjoying excellent health and spirits, Tne three have gone through their seasoning fevers witnout mach troubie. CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE NAVY. FULL ACCOUNT OF THE COLOBED CADET AFFAIR AT ANNAPOLIS—OONDUCT OF YOUNG CLAUDE-— THE ORDER OF EXPULSION COMES FROM WASH- INGTON. ANNAPOLIS, Md., Feb, 25, 1875, The presence of the colored midshipman at the Naval Academy is having one effect, at least, and that is to cause the expulsion of white youths who do not like his soctety. Only the other day. two cadets, Welton, irom South Oarolina, the ap- pointee of Congressman Elliott, colored, and Hood, of Georgia, both midsnipmen, were expelled irom the Academy on account of an assault made on this colored boy, which, if it had been perpe- trated on a white one would have been, it is prob. able, eastly atoned for. One day this week Cadet Engineer Gordon Claude, of Annapolis, was ordered by the fencing master to fence with the colored cadet. He re- fused, and was reported to the officers of the Academy. Mr. Claude was required to apologize before the whole class and then make a public ex- hibition of bimself by fencipg before the whole class with the colored cadet. ‘nis he refused. He was asked to resign. This he also declined to do, ana obtained permission to see his parents for consultation. His father, Dr. Abram Claude, of this city, put the matter in such a light that the son thought he was desired to make the apology. He then placed O letter of explanation in tue hands of the author. ities. When his father learned that he had been Imfluenced by him he at once told his son, who 13 | about nineteen or twenty years of age, that he | desired him to act as his own judgment dictated, The young man immediately withdrew the apology. In this statement he had used “colored cadet.” This Commander Euward ferry, Commandant of Midsmpmen, considered ‘disrespecitul,” adding tnat tne col- ored boy was “als equal tu every res,ect.” Mr, Claude replied “it was the frst time ue Knew it’? The letter bad not reached the Superintendent, Rear Admiral Rodgeis, out when it was with- drawn young Claude was sent Jor, and the Super- intendent informed him that ne would “make it 0 hard with Olw,’’ ‘ihe young engineer replied je Was very sorry about the uffair, but it was a Matter 01 conscience mih bim. The psuperin- under the law. He tuen said that Nr. Claude Would take colorea people gunning with him and thus put them on a social equaiity, Mr. Claude ed, “No, Admiral, 1 will explain to At this the Admiral bravely juge Lelind bis bars, saying, ‘1 did not come here to ve lectured, sir!’ Dr. Ulaude giso Went to see the Admiral and Said to him that his sou Was raised as a South- erner and Was opposed to social equality witn negroes, Jn the course OF, the conversation ‘With the fatper, Adm! Dis son was an h piled the Doctor, One stain upon 1 positio Ly im put hig honor for the Highest social or 0, i expuision of O tne Acadewy. A BLOODTHIRSTY RUFFIAN. Last evening, about 6ix o’ciock, Obaries Blair, a ari & white woman, who Was jn beu at the time, and immediately began to » She woke up on, when he drew @ knile from his pocket aad stabved her twice in the head and then again twice in the arm, inflicting some @ Wounds, which may possibly result very | riously, During this \ume she struggied with | bim, but Was overpowered. Delia Torvett, who | lives in the same now brought into | the room by the the | went tw her a the y this time peri ) rusned at | does not depend upon the existence of an open | maintained now for more than two centurt aoonbg her io th the two women which bad beeu made drew o @nd the police among thew. ‘ine two women Were taken Lo the Eighth }recioct station house in Prince #tree:, where their wounds were dreaved, wirer Which tiey Were takeu home, Delia Torbett, who was atubbed in the bick o1 the bead, i# the Moat seriously Injured of the two, and \ue wound appears to hav een nr the radian B Ww. serene aod then dea | THE POLAR MYSTERY. . An Appropriation for its Exploration to be Made by Congress. A PRIVATE FUND A CONTINGENCY. Letter from Judge Daly.on the Project of a New Arctic Expedition. How May the Pole be Reached— By Water or Land? THE SMITH SOUND PASSAGE, Mild Prophecy of the Com- ing Summer. Reasons for Doubting the Theory of an Open Polar . Sea. THR CLIMATE AROUND THE WORLDS AIIS WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1875. It ts proposed to provide a smali sum in the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill ior an Arctic ex- pedition. The Secretary of the Navy favors It, and it will Dave the tavor also of a number of Sen- ators and members. The Navy Department will be authorized in the bill to provide and to fit a proper ship, and to man 1t with officers and men already under pay and awaiting sea duty. The extra expense will be small, not more than $50,000, to the government, but it is proposed to make actton by the govern- Ment contingent on private subscriptions to the amounnt of $25,000, and it is hoped by friends of Pular research here that the New York Geographical Society will use it# influence to raise this money and will give timely notice if it favors an expedition, It is said here that we ought not to let other nations fiud their way to the North Pole by the channel which 1s peculiarly American, without making an effort ourselves. . JUDGE DALY'S LETTER. To THE EDITOR OF THE BR&RALD:— In answer to the request for my views respect- ing Arctic exploration I will give them as fully as Tam able to do at present, being very much occu- piea, Ibeheve that the North Pole can ana will be reacned. The importance of reaching it does. DOL consist merely in the geographical acbieve- ment of getting to tne Pole, but in the scientific results tbat will follow, and the large amount of scientific information that can in any event be g@athered by a well appointed expedition. There 13no portion of the globe where exploration is more important, in a scientific point of view, than in the region of the Arctic, It would take too much space in a@ letter like this to enumerate the objects of inquiry and point ut the great value to the world of exact informa- tion resapedting them and it is the less necessary as they have been set forth at length and with great clearness by Admiral Sherard Osborn, a | distinguished Arctic expiorer and author, and by Dr. Hooker, the most eminent man in England in bis particular department. LEGITIMATE MOTIVES OF EXPLORATION. Voyages of discovery, moreover, to the unknown parts ol the earth are not to depend upon the as- surance’beforehand of what they will achieve, They are not susceptible of a commercial cal- culation a8 to their results, nor is tha result of the undertaking insured as in an ordinary | voyage of commercial adventure. They are un- | dertaken because the region is unknown; because It is the interest ol man to know everything re. | specting the earth of which he is an inhabitant, and beciuse civilization, the well being of man | and ail that he now 18, 18 largely dae to the growtn | and advancement of sucn knowledge, It nas not unirequently happened, moreover, that the object | for which @ voyage of discovery was undertaken | to uoknowo regions has not been attained, but | something different and greater. The object of | the voyage of Columbus was not the Qiscovery of & great continent, nor did he suppose he had discovered one, but died in the belief that the land he had found was a part of India, Voya; jor the discovery of territory, inhabited or inhabitable by man, are now very limited, bat a thorough expioration of the Arctic may, and in my juugment will, lead to results relatively a8 important in the acquisition of alarge amount of iniormation bearing upon physical laws, now imperfectly understood, that relate to the wnole clobe, and will affect and benefit every one who is hereaiter to live upon it, THE BEST ROUTE TO THE POLE, In respect to the most feasible route by which to reach the Pole it is now pretty generally conceded that the one by the way of Smitn Sound offers the greatest advantages and is the one also where the largest amount of scientific information is to be obtained, Itis the one that Kane, Hayes and Hail have done so much to explore, and which the American Geograpnical Society uniformly for many years insisted upon as the best and car nestly advocated when, unlike the present gen- eral impression in favor of it, there were only @ few persons in the world who, ike Admiral Sherard Csborn, maintained that it was the most practicable. By that route Hall went further | to the north with @ vessel than has yet been done by any one, and did so in @ :avorable season, with- out any obstruction or difficulty, It 1s the route to be taken by the expedition to be sent by the British government next June, and, as far as such @ matter can be anticipated, the indications are that the coming summer will he a favorable one, A MILD ARCTIO SEASON PREDICTED, it has long been observed by our American Whalemen that a severe winter in tne temperate regions is generally acompanied by an unusual de- | gree of mildness In the region of the Arctic. I called atiention to this observation in my annual address to the Geographical Society in 1872, when the Polaris had long been absent without being heard from, as holding Out the hope that the summer of 1872 would be a favorable one for getting to the north, which proved to be the fact. The present winter, so far, has been one of great ity, and Captain Gray, | from his observations of the Arctic drift last sume mer, 18 of the impression that nearly the whole of the ice was during the summer driven out of the Arctic basin, His observations, however, were limited to the coast of Greeniand; out other observers have noted that the low temperature and drizzling mistiness of last summer was quite exceptional, which is supposed to be due to some unusual Arc:ic influence, such as the southward drit of large Dodies of Polar ice and possibly the removal of some of the barriers which exist bel ween us and the Pole, This suggestion is | alrengthenod by the fact ol the unusual namber of icebergs seen in the Atlantic last sammer and | their existence ta the Bay of Biscay, an unusuel | occurrence, as they generally drift southward and melt in the Middle Atlantic. EXISTENCE OF THE POLAR SEA DOUBTED. The abuity of an expedition to reach the Pole The theory of such @ sea has Leen but 80 far aa my OWN judgment could be exercised, I have never found anything in the arguments ad. | vanced to convince me of the provability of its exiatence. Isay this, however, with great defer. euce to the opinion of the eminent Arctic ex- plorers who have heretofore thought, and those | who still think, ot) i The indications, I think, irom the discoveries made, are that the | region to the Pole is, in the distribution of landand | Water, Of the same geveral character an that which bas been fuand in the most aorthern pointe yet Polar Feached—large tracts or islands northward of Greenland extending toward the Pole, among whieh there is necessarily a large amount of ice, and possibly, on the American side, a great archipelago, which will render navigation dificult Sad precarious with respect to the currents. THE POLAR CLIMATE, I doubt whether tue currents beyond the region already known have any influence in the modifica- tion of the temperature of the air or upon the formation of ice, and, irom what is known, | find nothing to support the theory that the Gulf Stream of the Atlartic and the Kuro Siwa, or warm Japanese current of the Pacific, are continued to the Poie, where they have been supposed to meet, and by the mingling and diffusion of their warmth produce an open Polar sea. it is, however, I think, true, whatever may be the cause. As to the north beyond—say latitude 75 aeg.— the climate is somewhat modified, ana the probability is that the belt of extreme cold lies below this; that toward tne Pole @ climate may be met with which, although not by any means temperate, is not so severe but that cpen water may exist. at times, to @ greater or less extent. I have, I confess, lit- tle iaitn in @ vessel being able to reach the Pole, but believe that it may be reached by dog sledges orim boats. This impression, however, 13 founded simply upon what is known, for it may be, under favorable circumstances, that the Pole can be reached by a vengel. 4 GOVERNMENT EXPEDITION URGED. +It tg to be regretted, after so much was achieved by the Polaris—tor the scientific results alone jas- thy the expedition—that our government should de so inert in the matter of Polar exploration. The route now conceded as offering the greatest scvamtages is the one opened up by the successive explorations of our country- men, Kane, Hayes and Hall. It has veen especially the American route, and as a nation we staud high before the world from what we have ac- complished in this direction, This has not been chiety due to the government, It hus sent out buatone expedition, that of Hall. The various ex- Peditions of Kane and Hayes were due to the public spirit and pecuniary meaus of private cit- izens, the aid given to them by the government being comparatively little, and even in the Hall expedition Congress did not avall itself of the services of our own distinguished Arctic ex- Plorers, nor even secure the requisite discipline by placing it under a naval officer, but in- trusted the command to Captain Hall, who had never been in tne Arctic, had mever been farther than Frobisher’s Straita and, not being a seaman, was unacquainted With @avigation. Itis gratifying to find that an oMcer Bolding the nigh official position of Ad- miral Porter thinks favorably of an American ex- pedition, and if Congress wouid belore its adjourn- Ment make the necessary appropriation, there would yet be time to despatch an expedition by next June, to reach the Greenland coast, and avail itself of the very earliest opportunity to pen- etrate the ice in the upper region of Baftin’s Bay, and reach Smith Sound by the middle of August, when, according to previous experience, there is the least obstruction irom the ice. NATIONAL PRIDE OF ACHIEVEMENT. The world is interested only in tue fact that the Pole should be discovered, and it is immaterial by what nation. The nation, however, by which this, the great geographical undertaking of our age, shail be achieved will be honored in all future time, and, aiter having done so much in the exploration of what is now believed to be the nearest route to the Pole, I think it will be @ matter of regret to our whole people that our government irom in- difference should leave to another nation what ‘was nearly within our grasp. No complaint has been made that our government, like England, Ger- many and Austria, having interested itself in Polar explorations; but I think, on the contrary, that our people have given mnch attention to this sub- Jeot aud are in favor of following up what we have | already attained. DISCIPLINE. It is desirable that the expedition should be sent by the government provided it 1s sent under the | direction of the Navy Department, in such a man- ner as to secure the proper discipline; if not, then by 8 private enterprise. The expedition of Dr. Hayes in 1860, which, under great obstacles, ac- complisued very important results, was by private enterprifz,; and one on which the most effective | discipline was preserved, Not @ single instance of insubordination occurred, and 1t was perti- nently said after the return of the Polaris that tr Congress had given the command of the vessel to bim the conduct of officers and men, instead of being investigated as @ matter of necessity at Wasbingtoo, would have been disposed of under the lee of an iceberg. So far as the Navy Department was concerned, everything was done to secure the success of the Polaris, to which and the existence of a favorable season, it owed all that it acnleved, for it was practically at an end as soon as it encountered an obstruction, I conversed last summer in Lon- don with some of the most distinguished of the Arctic explorers, who, after fally considering the facta, were of the opinion that the expedition could have got further north if a proper effort had been made, and it 18 under that conviction thas the present English expedition is to be sent out. RRAOHING THE POLE ON SLEIGHS, I see by the letter of Dr. Hayes in the HERaLD on the 25th inst., who has had very great experi- ence in siedge travelling, that he believes, even if NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAROH 1, I875.—-TRIPLE SHEET. THE FRENCH SENATE BILL. A Grand Struggle of Parties in the Legislature. THE DEMOCRACY VINDICATING ITSELF. American Ideas Pervading the Assembly. Panis, Feb. 15, 1875. The Bonapartiste have but eighteen votes in the Assembly, but they hold the balance of power. In the two critical divisions of Thursday and Satur. day last it was their action that turned minorities into majorities. On Thursday the Assembly was to consider the elavorate scheme of toe select committee for a Senate partly consisting of mem- bers ex officio, partly of Presidential nominees, and partly of members elected by the Counclis- General, which may, with an approximation to correctness, be called the local Parliaments of France, For seventeen months the ablest heads in the country had been laid together to devise, with care and even @ touching spirit of iairness, what should be an efficient check to the possible excesses Of a democratic Chamber elected by uni- versal suffrage. Like 4 HOUSE OF CARDS the whole scheme fell to pieces at the first touch, M. Pascal Duprat, of the Leit, proposed as an amendment to the first article of the com- mittee’s bill that the Senate should be elective | and chosen by the same voters as the Chamber of Devuties. To M. Duprat’s astonishment his amendment was carried ona division by 322 to 310, The Extreme Right, who have orders irom the Comte de Chambord not tu aid in the founding of @ constitution, abstained from voting at all. The Bonapartists, whose very oMficial name is “the party of uppealto tne people,” and who never lose an opportunity of showing themselves frienaly to universal sudrage, were thus left masters ot the situation, They voted with M. Duprat ana secured the triumph of his amendment, It was PREITY Lay, for they risked nothing, as will be seenin the sequel, Their tactics are Virtually tnose of the Extreme Right. Ags the latter wish to prevent the establishment of any settled government but the monarchy of Heary V. so the former will aliow nothing to be constituted but the Empire. Cniy the imperialists generally show more spirit and, it is fair to add, more unscrupulousness than the oid aristocracy of France. Hence without the slightest intention of suitering the election of airee Senate the partisans of Prince Louls Napoleon were clever enough to get the credit of supporting the ide. MACMAHON ANNOYED, Meanwhile Marshal MacMahon was annoyed beyond measure at the vote of Thursday. On the following day General de Cissey, Minister of War and Vice President of the Council, ascended the tribune and made the following declaration :— GENTLEMEN—The President of the Republic nas not deemed it right to authorize our intervention in the continuation of this debaie. the instituticn on which you are called upon to give @ decision, and wouid thus deprive the constitu. Uonal pills a8 @ woole 0: the Character which they cannot lose without compromising conservative interests, Tne government, which cannot, there- lore, uasociate itsell with the resolutions adopted in your last sitting, deems it right tu apprise you of the 1act before they become definitive. a THREAT, The only meaning that could be discovered in this studiously obscure message was a threat to do something which the sender of the message evidently had not the courage tu say openly. Was military interference menaced? No one could tell. THE DEBATE proceeded, and after some discussion the new first article of the bill, due to joint amendments of M. Duprat and or M. Bardoux,a barrister and member of the Left Centre, was adopted by 366 votes to 235. Its text was as follows:— ARTICLE 1.—The Senate is elective and is chosen by the same voters ag the Chamber of Deputies, Eacn department snall appuint ghree inembers of the Senate by @ Collective vote, ana under condi- tions of eligibility nereaiter determined, That each department should return an equal number of Senators, irrespective of its popula- tion, was, of course, @ provision borrowed irom THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, and one of the best, as well as the most liberal, that could be devised. But republicans might have guessed that their victory had been too com- plete, and won with the assistance of too doubtiul allies to pave much significance. The debate had | already become unreal. Nevertheless, it went on the North Pole cannot be reached by a ship, that | it can be by sleds or boats, provided there is a sufficient force of men—an opinion entitled to very great weight, as well as his opinion that a base of operations should be provided by estab- lishing & permanent depot of supplies, to be an- noally kept up. As respects the Geographical Society, 1 am sure it will heartily co-operate in any expedition, whether undertaken by the government or pri- vate enterprise. will be ia ita power to give any pecuniary assist- Tam not prepared to say that tt | ance. It has not, like some of the chief geo- | graphical societies of Europe, received any pe- cuniary aid from government, nor bas 11, like | many of the European societies, been tne re- cipient of liberal assistance irom public spirited citizens, appreciating its objects and contributing means to enable them to be carried out, With these views, rather hastily expressed, I am, &c OAS. P. DALY, President of the American Geographical Society. THE NEWARK SUICIDE. The ‘unknown man,’ who threw himself in front of @ train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and ‘Western Raiiroad in Newark on Saturday, aa re- reported in yesterday’s HERALD, has been identi- fled as George Townsend, @ cigarmaker and ny dealer of Washington street, that city. The dread- fully mutilated remains were removed irom the Morgue to undertaker Mul'in’s. Deceased wa unmarried and lived with his sister. There are | ample reasons for believing that Townsend was insane when he Killed nimseif. About two years ago & Chandelier tell on his bead; brain tever lowed and ever since he has acted “queer.” Bubsequent to the ‘ever his brother, who had served in the Engiish army in india, visited nim, and one day George neariy choked him to death. He would, doubtless, have y interference. Tne fit of insanity. The at once, and has uot been heard from Icis thought that remorse touching this aud, probably, killed him bat for tim assault Was made during brother | since. ly morning, it ts stated, hi hang bimseli in the Vigilance of bis sister prevented. Hi @ and very conscientious m: od is el oken Of by those intimace with bim to business, . THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. The following record will show the changes in the temperature auring the last twenty-four hours, tn comparison witn the corresponding date an yet as recorded at Hudout’s Poarmacy, r ais 1874, 1875. 1874, 1875. +23 1b “19 RALD Average Lom Average tempe laat yea average temperatare | three y for a while, and the House accepted without a division. Ariicle 2, which declared that no one cap be a Senator it he isnot a Frenchman, aged lorty years at jeast, and in possession of bis civil, political and iamily rights. Articie 3 next vecame law. 1t¢ enumerated the categories of citizens irom whico the Senate mignt ve taken. They comprised present and former Deputies, Memoers of councils general, ministers of state, ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, coun- cillors of state at the Court of Cassation and Court of Accounts, members of the Institute, of the Academy o! Medicine, of the Superior Council of Commerce and Agriculture, archbishops and bishops, members of consistories, marshals, ad- mirals, governors of Algeria, mayors of towns of 80,000 inhabitants twice elected to the Municipal Council, inspectors general, Members Oi the Coan- cil at the Bank of France and presidents of tue Chambers of Oommercs. Articles 4 to 8 of the Committee's bill were sup- pressed in consequence of the effect of tne Duprat amendment. ‘The paragraph of article 9, relative to th 10- tion of Senators by the colonies was adopted and became articie 4 of the new bill, Article 1u, which was also adopted and became article 6, borrowed ANOTHER AMERICAN IDEA and enacted that “The Senators elected by the deputies be chosen for nine years, and are renewable by thirds every ra, At each nomination aii tue vacancies which may have occurred are flied up. Nevertne- 1038 the powers of all re only conferred on them with the reserve of the right, which may be attributed by the constitutional laws to the two chambers united in Congress.” Articie 11 of the old bill declared that Senators should receive no salary or allowance, M. Bar- doux wished them to receive the seme pay as Deputies ($2,500 a year) but agreed to postpone his amendment till THE VOTE had been taken on the third reuding of the bil, which immediately followed, when there appeared for the third reading—yeas 845, nays 36¢— Majority against the bili, 23, THE BILL LOST. ‘The bill was thereiore lost and the Assentbly aiter four years has ouce more proved its inability to found @ stable constitution or indeed vo act rationally for fortnignt together, I predicted this fate for the constitutional bills and I expressed adoubtto you whether the vote of the 30th of January, which Was supposed to have amirmed the principle o1 the Repuoiio would stand the test of time. M, Rouher ana his friends voted with the majority. Their eighteen suffrages turned the | scale. THE ASSEMBLY ASKED TO DISSOLVE. ‘The sitting was not yet closed and M. Brisson, of the extreme leit, very Sibly Moved that the Assembly, being impotent to 1rame @ constitation, shouid dissolve itself and that the electors should be convoked ior the first Sunday in April to name & uew Assembly. In the course of the devate which ensued the Due Decazes, Minister for For, eign Affairs, acknowledged that the Ministers Were personally and conjointiy respousivie—a statement which had nol the slightest reference to the question under discussion, spoke rather wildiy and with scarcely his usual Cloquence, Had his speech, however, been a Masterpiece of ruetoric, combined with ciose Feasontug, it Would have avatied little to induce tne Chamber to commit the “nappy despaton’—s00 | Momoers preverring the sweets of salaried existe He thinks, in- | deed, that your last vote has aitered the nature of | ence, against 257 who may have thought them selves secure of re-election. 1t must be borne in mind that the consequence of this vote was only to reject the demand for urgency and to refer M. Brisson’s proposal to the Committee on Constitue Uonal bills, 1t may nave to be adopted before long as the only feasible solution of THE PRESENT DEADLOCK, What is to happen next it is diMcult to foresee, The Presiuent baa again consulted the Duke de Brogite; but the Duke, who 13 fully conscious ot his own unpopularity, can do potaing, least of all form a Cabinet which snould commana a majority im tbe House, M, Budlet bas been more than once Mentioned as the probavie head of the new ad- ministration; but he makes such a capital par- tigan Speaker and snubs republican orators witb such laudable and persistent resolution that the conservatives feel tbat he has been specially placed tn his righs position by the favors of Provi- dence, AS they cannot command his services both in the chair and the council together be will probably be left woere ue ia, NEW YORK CITY. John Sheridan’s trunk took fire at No. 656 West Forty-tourth street. Damage $50, There wasasmall fire yesterday morning in @ two story frame building on 110tn street, near the Boulevard. Damage $30. The “Singin Skew!” by the boys and girls of the Howard Mission will be repeated at Steinway Hali, tuesday evening, Marcn 9 Colonel Delaney, the colored member of Com gress, will deliver an address on Southern affaict in this city during the present week at the lavita: on of many prominent citizens, There 18 an apparently welkfounded rumot among the politicians that Mr. Van Nort, the Com | missioner of Public Works, will resign during the present week, aud that General Fitz John Porter Will be his successor. The third lecture of the (ree course for the mem- bers of the Catholic Union will be delivered at | Cooper Institute this evening, by Rev. Robert | Fulton, S.J., President of Bostun College. Subject, | “The Standard of action.” fi The Aldermanic committee appointed to investi, gate Comptroller Green’s conduct or rather misconduct, a8 Comptrolier, will Loid @ meeting to-day at one P, M., when several important wite messes are to be examined. A grand billiard maten will be played at Tam. mauy Hall oon Tuesday, March 2, in aid of tue | Cubano suiferers. Messrs. Vignaux, Rudolphe, Garnier, Ubvussy, C. Diou, J. Dion and Daly nave volunteered tueir services. Jonn Homan, of No, 79 Norfoik street, was Stabbed several times by the barkeeper of a saloon at Ludiow and Delancey streets on Sunday morn. ing, and it was necessary to send him to Bellevue Hospital, Tne assailant escaped. By order of the president a meeting of the Na- tional Association of Amateur Base Ball Piayers Will be held at the Revere House, Boston, oa Wednesday, the 10th day of March, instead of *\~ 17th, as was announced. The delegates will ‘! semole at ten o’ciock A, Af. Patrick McCarthy, of Eleventh street, and George Wilson, of Thirteenth street, had an alters cation at avenue B and Filteenth street on Sune Gay morning, during which Wilson cut his oppo. nent’s lip very severely, McCarthy reiused to | make complains and Wilson was not held. The Windsor Dramatic Club will give an entere | tainment on Tuesday évening, in tue Lexington Avenue Opera House, on behalf of the Helping Hana Society of the Church of the Disciples, This charitable organization is engaged in Juroishing ciotainy to the destitute of the city and will make good use of the receipts ior admission. To-morrow there will be exiibited at tne rooms of the Lotos Clab a collection of pictures irom the galleries of various wealthy collectors and cons | moisseurs of this city, in atd of the Branch Home | of the Ladies’ Coristian Umon. The exaibitioa will laat jor three days, from one until five o’ciock P. M., and the whole wiil be under the direction of tne artist Mr. George H. Story. The tickets in ad of this worthy charity will oé for sale at the Club | on ay days Of &Xaibition, aud the price is fixed at $1. A course of five lectures in the French language on “The aistory and Fortunes of the Jewish Peopie Since the Days of Christ’? will be given ia the chapel of Calvary church, Fourth avenue, be- tween Twenty-tirst and Twenty-second streets, by the Rev. E. Borei, pastor of the French Protestant | enurch worshipping tm that piace, The first lec- ture of the course will be uelivered on saturday, the 6th o! March, at eleven o’ciock A. M., and the remaining lectures at the same hour on the foay successive Saturdays—viz., the 13th, 20th and 27ca of March abd 8d of April. BROOKLYN. The Police and Excise Commissioners are again determined upon enforcing the liquor law, and | they threaten to arrest all persons in future who peek to violate it. | Alexander Grey, fifteen years of age, was caught | by Patrolman Donahue while attempting to pick the pocket of Alexander A. Granard, of No. 41¢ | Lewis avenue, on the Catnarine terry. | Andrew Smith, fiity yoars of age, fell on the sidewalk on Franklin avenue while under thein- fuence of liquor, and, cutting his head, severed ap artery. He was removed to the hospital, | "In yesterday’s issue there appeared an iem, | under the head of the Brooklyn intelligence, stat ing that Titus Barker was placed on trial, before Judge Moore, 1or burglary. 1t should bave read | William Barker. | Baward Grogran, twenty-one years of age, wat | arrested at an early hour yesterday morning by Otticer Donion while in the act of cutting @ pane | of glass out of @ window of the residence of Pres | Ident Clancey, of the Board of Aldermen. | Patrick Shea, during a dranken quarrel at ten- ement house No. 176 Water street, struck his ad+ versary, Cornelius Conlogue, on the head with a | hatchet, inflicting two severe scalp wounds. Both | men were arrested and were coiwmitted by Jus tice Walsh to await further examinauon. The resiaence of Mr. Join Gatenouse, No. 390 Washington sireet, caught fire from a defective | flue about ten o’ciock yesterday morning, causing | a loss of $2,000. The property is insured in the ' Mecnanics’ Insurance Company. ‘The ouilding | Was owned by Judah Dickson, 01 New York. | Captain McKellar, of tue Eighth precinct, om | Saturday night jest, caused a descent to be made on No, 618 Sixth avenue, where a number of people of both sexes were acting in an unseemly manner. | Charles Higney, Ellen Ronau, Thomas Von | Thomas Devine, Mary Caruly aud Peter McOue were arrested. The prisoners were remanded by Justice Delmar to await examination. The funeral of Mr. Joseph B. Richardson, for many years of the business depaitment of tue” HRRALD, took place yesterday aiteruoon from the residence of nis mother, No. 90 Classon avenus, ‘the services Were attendea by tne members of ay oe No. 704, F. and A. M., in iuil re; arly the e: and tire force of the vifice associa’ of deceased. The remains were interred in Green- | wood Cemetery, where the usual Masonic rites ‘Were periormed over the grave. NEW JERSEY. ‘The medical wards in the Jersey Uity Charity Hospital are crowded with patients, Tae other | ‘ment 1s daily filled with applicants for out dope rallel, ihe "poormacter # 8 he has neves | bad such @ rash of the poor and the sick. | Barly yesterday moroing® young man nemed | Jonn Ganley,,while passing through Ulinton street, | Hoboken, was attacked by two highwaymen, whe beat nim to tue ground and robbed him of hus money. TWO suspicious claracters, named Jong arenes and an fe gd Dba eee fant f aiterward, on, icton of hav ye , the outrage. ‘they were mitted By Recorder Bohustedt without bail to the County Jail, The Rev, Mr. Hammond, pastor of the Bergen Baptist church in Jersey City, preached his fares well sermon to his congregation last evening, At the conclusion of the sermon @ large portion of | the congreqanee Were deeply aifected and urged the pastor to eT ai | remuined stea | vl the jong ui Would trans(er the work of recone otn ‘Two-thirds of the memv Qdhered to bim throughout, His departure will put an end to troubles in the church chat some | Months ago assumed & sca! dalous aspect. | Yesterday afternoon three men from States Island entered a stable at Weenawken, used*by the Bul’s Ferry road contractors, Two of the Strangers enticed the negro ta charge out to third made away with a valuable Saree Tul to the Hovoken Fy aad A pte ceeded on rd boat en route tor New York, To the meanti he negro discovered the decepe $ tow and rod uy toward the S the pilot 10 Ue tw pido seca! agi dooce, when {ito custody and bro wae uueged by the prisoner ta nad fo the aulmal and the hearing was postpom | wuts aouday.