Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-23
THE JEANETTE.
Further Correspondence of the State De-
partment-Money and Supplies On the
Way to the Shipwrecked Grow.

Further Correspondence Of the State De-
partment-Money and Supplies On the
Way to the Shipwrecked Grow.
The secretary of the navy has received
from Engineer Melville under date of Irkutsk,
December 2lst, cable message from London.
To this the secretary replied as follows:
NAVY DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, Dec. %, 1881.
Engineer Melville, U; 8. NJ, Irkutsk.-Omit
no effort, spare no expense, In securing the
safety of the men in the second cutter. Let
the sick and frozen of those already rescued
have every attention, and as soon as practic-
able have transported to milder climate.
The department Will supply the necessary
funds.
[sgned] HUNT, Secretary.
The secretary of state received to-day the
following dispatch, from the charge de affairs
of the United States at st. Petersburg:
"To Frelinghuysen, Washington = Have
seen Ignatieff. The Russian government has
ordered an active search for the second cutter,
and will furnish all funds necessary to st. Pc
tersburg. For subsequent needs will draw
on you. Have long telegram from Melville.
understand the same went through last night
to the navy department. Will communicate
possible measures to find the second cutter.
(Signed) HOFFMAN"
The following additional dispatches in the
correspondence of the state department, rela-
tive to measures for the relief of the Jeanette,
have been furnished for publications:
"PARIs, Dec. 81, 1SS1.-Hon. Frederick
Frelinghuysen, secretary of state, Washing
ton, D. c.: Immediately upon receipt of the
first news from my St. Petersburg correspond
ont obout tho Tpounatfa saving that a 000
roubles were needed, 1 transferred that
sum by telegraph through Messrs.
Rothschild to Gen. Ignatrief, st. Petersburg,
with request to draw on me for any further
sums required for the succor and comfort of
Capt. DeLong and his party. Ihave to-day
received the following telegram from Gen.
Ignatrieff.,
correspondent the news from va
koutsk, and have given orders to the
governor to take the most energetic
measures for the rescue of the ship wrecked
crew, together with authority TO undertake
all necessary expenses, for which l have
promised to reimburse him.
(Sgned), IGNATRIEFF.
"You will see by this that every thing possi-
BILE is being done by the Russian government
to secure the safety and speedy return Of Capt.
DeLong and his men. II you or the
secretary of the navy have any suggestions,
l shall do my best to act upon them. intend
to send a special correspondent to meet the
party on it's way here, and as it will be some
days before he starts, perhaps you or the Sec
retary of the navy might wish to take advan-
tage of the opportunity to send dispatches or
forward messages from relatives and friends
of the party. My correspondent at ST. Peters
to the point where the crew now
are is 1000 miles. requiring
for single traveller provided with ''Papier
De Faveur" at least a month. I also learn
from st. Petersburg that the emperor has per-
sOnally given orders that all necessary cloth
ing, provisions, money and transportation
shall be put at the service OF the Jeanette
party, which gives full assurance that every
thing possible will be done for their aid and
comfort.
(Signed.) JAMES GORDON BENNETT"
"DEPARTMENT OF STATE, !
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81, 1881.
James Gordon Bennett, Paris:
Your telegram with the news of your gen.
erous provision is received Before its re-
ceipt had sent the following cable to Hoff-
man. Telegram already publshed.l
(SIgned) ~FRELINGHUYSEN,
Secretary of State.'
The following telegram was sent by secre-
tary Blaine to Mr.. Foster at St. Petersburg
the 28th of last May:
Ask the Russian government to direct that
vessels of her flag keepa friendly look out on
the Siberian coast for the steamer jeanette, ft-
ted for Arctic exploration by the muniicence of
James Gordon Bennett No disaster to her
reported, but watchfulness is deemed a wise
precaution which this government desires to
make"
WIFE OF THE COMMANDER.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, Dec. 22.-Mrs. sDelong,
wife of the commander of the jeanette,
resides in this city, with her sister, Mrs. Gen.
Glasgow. She has received dispatches from
Mr. Bennett, of the Herald, but has no news
from her husband on the expedition additional
to that already given to the public