Osage Valley banner., 1881-10-27
The Iennnelte.

The fate OF the Jeanette Is mys-
tory that may ere long be ACCOMPANIED
I by the same feeling of public suspense
which followed the disappearance Of
/ Sir john Franklin Two years have
I passed since the gallant little vessel
4 passed from human ken Il was on the
( 81 OF September, 1879, that she was
/ last sr9ken by whaler. She was then
heading North in the direction OF
Wrangell lani, well pruyisioned for q
cruise Of three years, manned by n
I picked crew OF thirty-two men, and
| commanded by an officer Who had had
/ experience in Arctic exploration There
has been no sign since that day. The
/ two messing whalers. which we're seen
/ about the same time. were driven by
the ice foes toward the Asian coast, one
/ wrecked and the other abandoned.
/ There is still good ground for believing
/ that the Jeanette reached Wrangeli
I Land. The Corwin, following her
course SO far as the records ran, APP
| preached that mysterious coast year
/ ago without catching glimpse Of her,
/ and now the news comes that the at
/ tempt has been repeated and landing
I effected, but that no traces OF the
/ missing steamer have been found. The
! coast was too extensive 10 be thorough
/ ly explored, and the COrwin too fFagilo
n craft to bo detained ia such dangerous
/ waters. so that the evidence that the
( Jeanette did not reach her lirst desti-
I nation Is by no means conclusive She
[ may have wintered there and then
! headed northward. The presumpt on
( that she was compelled to look else
/ where for winter quarters is, however,
| greMly strengthened by the Corwin's
/ fruit,esS search.
While il was Lieutenant De Long )
/ expectation that he would be able to
/ skirt the eastern edge of Wraugc,l
/ Land and winter there, It was also his
/ fixed determination 10 take advantage
I OF open water aud TO push uorthward.
/ The COrwin has deserted on this latest
/ voyage an open sea leading no one
knows whittier, save ia the direction of
/ the Pole. IL Is possible that the Jean
/ nette's commander was tempted by the
/ clear water 10 push ahead and 10 search
1 for harbor ia the unknown seas near
/ er to the Pole II he succeeded ia fore
/ ing an entrance and in finding an en-
/ chorage beyond the horizon which
/ closes in upon Wrangell Land, he would
have had the opportunities for explora.
/ tion of which be was IN quest So open
+ season as the present on1 would,
/ however, have enabled him TO set his
I face homeward, aud the Corwin would
| naturally have seen traces OF the Jean
uetle in the vicinity OF Herald Island,
/ The safest conjecture that can be made
/ under the circumstances is that the lit
I tlo vessel was carried by the ice toward
/ the east, and that her commander, find
I ing that il would be impossible 20 push
north. has directed his energies 10 max
I ing his way TO the Atlantic. The fact
that the Siberian coast has been tolcr-
ably well explored this senson dimin-
ishes the chance that the Jeaunette was
swept away with the whalers and
wrecked in the quarter where they have
been found. It ia certainly premature
TO assume that the fate Of the Jeanette
is already sealed by the Corwin's dis
closures.
/ Wraugell Land, it must be borne In
mind. is o coast line OF undetermined
exteut. The Admiral whose name IL
bears never caught IA glimpse of il, but
merely reported its existence from
statements made to him by natives OF
the mainland Captain Hooper, of the
Corwin, who was 50 fortunate a year
ago as 10 approach it ON very clcar
day, described IL in his official report
as covering at q distance OF twenty-five
miles an arc OF the horizon ot abou,
fifty degrees. At the southern eXtrem.
ity were three mountains apparently
5000 feet high and entirely covered
with snow, while northWari was 9
chain OF rounded hills gradually ap'
prOaehing the sea level. 10 was Cap
tain Hooper's opinion that NrongeiI
Land was large island, and possibly
one OF chain Of islands passing IN.
tircly through the Polar regions tc
Greenland. That there are other isl
ands lying north Of il in the direction
of the open water which he has himself
deserted this season there can be it'll,
doubt. II is possible. therefore tina
tho Jeannet,e while unable TO land il
the quarter which has been visited by
Captain Hooper, went forward beyont
the reach OF any relief ship, and tha
she will yet reappear bearing tldings o
, remarkable discoveries. The eXpedi
/ tion under PAYER and Weyprecht 70
turned few years agO from the Fal
North after Us existence had beer
, despaired OF, and although the ship ha,
been lost very high ATTITUDES had beer
/ reached, and an entirely new group o
/ islands and stretch of coast line eN
. plored. IN. \. lriJUHe.
On the premises OF C~.Snel j. II
Tatum, on Mobile Bay, is a naammot
9 Zig tree, being nine feet SIX inches s
g circumference at the smallest part q
, the main trunk. Its top is nearly fort
8 feet high, presenting TO the beholde
y one vast dome of foliage and fruit.
/ bears at the rate of from one hundre
!. | in fhrae hnndrah hnahnls of irlit ne