The Portland daily press., 1881-12-23
THE JBANNRrTE.
Belief That the Second Boats
Crew is Safe.
sUoooR FOR THE SURVIVORS.

LONDON, Dec 22.-The Standards ST. Peters
burg correspondent had an interview with the
Governor of Siberia, who expressed the opinion
that the remainder of the crew of the jean
nette had been fallen in with by natives and
Hospitality treated.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22,-The Secretary of
the Navy has csbled the following
To Engineer MelUilIe, U. S. Cikwf9k:
Omit no effort ana spare expense In securing
the safety of the men in second cutter. Let the
sick and frozen of those already rescued have every
attention and as soon as practicable have them
transported to milder climate. The department
will supply necessary funds.
-" (Signed) Hunt, Secretary.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22-The Secretary of
State received to-day the following dispatch
from Charge de Affairs of the United States
at st. Petersburg
To Freli11ghunse1, Secretary of State, Wash
ingto7a, Dec. %, 1881;
Seen Ignatieff, and the Russian government
has ordered active search for the second cutter
and will furnish all funds necessary to St.
Petersburg for subsequent needs. will draw
on you Have long telegram from Melville.
Understand same went through last night to
Navy Department. VIII communicate with
Melville through Ignatieff as regards possible
measures to find second cutter.
The following additional dispatches in the
correspopdence of the State Department with
Mr.. Bennett and others, relative to measures
for the relief of the Jeanette, have been fur
nished for publication:
Hon. Mr. FrelinghuySen, Washington, Dec. %,
1881.
Immediately upon receipt of the first news
from my St. Petersburg correspondent about
the Jeanette saying that six thousand roub-
les were needed, transferred that sum by tel
egraph through the Messrs. Rot hschilds, to
General Ignatieff at st. Petersburg, with re-
quest to draw on me for any further sums re-
quired for the succor and comfort OF Capt.
belong and his party. I have today received
the following from Ignatietf:
Have FASTENED to communicate to your correspon-
dent the news received at Yakoubsk and have given
orders to the Governor to take the most enusgDsic
gether with authority to undertake. all necessary
expenses for which / have promised to reimburse
him.
COUNT IGNArIEFF.
You will see by this that everything possible
is being done by the Russian government to
secure the safety and speedy return OF Capt.
belong and his men. If you or the Secretary
of the Navy have any suggestions shall do
my utmost to act upon them. intend to send
special correspondent to meet the party on
its way and as it will be some days before he
starts perhaps you or Secretary of the Navy
might wish to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to send dispatches or to forward mes
sages from the relatives and friends OF the
telegraphs me that the distance by wagon to
the point where the crew now are is four ii gu
sand miles, requiring for single traveller
provided with pdpier de fdUeur at least a month.
also learn from ST. Petersburg that the En-
peror has personally given orders that all
necessary clothing, provisions, money and
transportations shall be put at the service OF
the Jeanette party which gives full.assurance
that everything possible will be done for their
aid and comfort
JAMES GORDON BENNETT.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, Dec. IL, 1881.
To James Gordon Bennett, Paris:
Telegram with news of your generous pro-
vision received. Before receipt / had sent the
following cable to Hoffman.
(Then follows telegram already published.)
FRELINGHUYSEN,
Secretary of State.''
The following telegram with regard to the
Jeanette was sent BY Mr.. Blaine to Mr.. Fos-
ter at st. Petersburg on the 28th of last May:
To Foster, Minister. st. Petersburg.
Ask the Russian Government to direct that
vessels of her flag keep friendly lookout on
the Siberian coast for the steamer Jeanette,
fitted for an Arctic exploration by the munif-
cence of james Gordon Bennett No disaster
to her is reported, but watchfulness is deemed
a wise precaution, which this Government de-
sires to invoke. BLAINE, Secretary.
About Some of Jeannette's Crew.
NEW YORK, Dec. 22,-Louis Noras, who was
in the first cutter of the Jeanette, belongs in
Fall River, where his father now resides.
Capt. William Dunbar, who is reported as be-
ing in the missing cutter, was the ice pilot OF
the Jeanette, and resident of New London.
He commanded the schooner Flying Fish when
she was abandoned in September, 1868, near
the South Georgias. The schooner was then
mass of ice and was expected to go down mo-
mentarily. Her crew were taken OFT by a
Dutch barque, and Capt. Dunbar arrived home
in the winter of 1879. He was engaged for the
Jeanette on account of his hardy enterprise
and well known record in the higher ATTITUDES
in both hemispheres.