Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-22
ATTIC EXPLORATION.

Ho hlyS cry OF INC North SedS
has perplexed the world for genera
tons. Many attemps lave been
made to solveit, and al without sue
cess. Each is 4 substantial repeti-
ton Of the same gloomy narrative.
One Of the latest was set on foot
some three years ago by Nj. James
Gordon Bennett, of New York, pro
priotor Of the New York Herald.
He procured and fitted out a vessel,
the Jeanette, and placed her under
the command of Lieutenant CONS
mauder d. G. Long, of New York,
an officer Of the Navy, assisted by
two other naval officers, Lieutenants
Chipp, Of New York, and Daumhow-
err, of Illinois. The government
took no further part in the expedi--
ton than to detail these three of
fcers for this duty at the request Of
Mr. Bonnet and with their own con
sent.
The Jeanette set sail from San
Francisco in the early summer Of
1879, passed sthrou8h Behring
Strait, bore to the Northwest
to an island they named Herald
Island, and thence towards land
Indicated by Baron Wrangel, a
Russian explorer. Then the vessel
was heard from in September 1879
and has not been heard from since.
For more than two years the world
has had no tidings of her or OF her
devoted crew About the same time
two sailing ships disappeared in The
same inhospitable ocean.
Last year the revenue cutter, Cor
win, under command OF Cap ali
Hooper, Of the United Safes Rev
e1ue Marine, Gu sed in that reg on
under irstl lotions, 10 search for The
missing vessels, bnt failed to dis.
cern either of them, This year be
reports second effort, in which hs
succeeded in reaching Wrapglt
Land, the first of civilized nasiSators
to DO so, he claims; in planting the
flag OF taking possession of it in 'h(
name Of the United States, naming
it New Columbia; but still finding NJ
trace Of the missing vessels.
Congress, at the last session, UNI
willing to abandon the Jeanette ant
her adventurous officers, ordered al
expedition for their rescue, under th'
direction Of the Navy De
par ment 4 board of OF
iicers was convened and the subjec
committed to them. Upon their ad
vice q powerfully built ship wa
purchased aud put under comman'
OF Lieutenant Robert Nj. Berry, tn
Secretary of the Board. The yesse
was named the Rogers in honor o
the veteran admiral of that name an
fitted out with all the appliances sug
gested by previous experience TO
navigation. Two reports from LIer
tenant Berry have just beon receive
at the Navy Department, sent bac
by returning whalers, one dated 80
Herald, September IA, 1881" an
the other September u, lat, II deg
55 min. north; lon. IT'S deg. l
min; vest point, it Will be seen b
consulting map, considerably
tue northwest Of Behring's Strai
These reports are full OF interest al
we have extended this prelininsT
statement Ion the better understand
ing OF such extracts as our spac
VIII allow us to make from them. l
the first report Lieutenant Bern
says:
I lied the same evening for Hel
aid Island, and Aug, %, at 7 p. III
sighted Cape Hawa.i, Wrangel Islam
bearing westnorth-wtsG, dlstal
abpt IL miles, with the ice exteu
ing about 10 miles off the shore.
$ a. IA, the next day both WIaag
Island aud Herald Island were
plain sight, and we arrived Off Il
latter at neon the same day. A bo
was sent on shore in charge Of Ma
ter Il. 5. Waringt to search for tidln
o. tue Jeanette aud missiug whalel