Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-05
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. |GUITEAU'S CRIME. His Counsel on Hand to
 Defend Him. IA TALK WITH THE LAWYER. Insanity the Main Line of
 Defense. THE NEW YORK CONVENTION, The Factions COmferrfmg
 Without Result.
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.
The Factions COmferrfng
 Without Result.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
 Gufteau's Case-An Interview with His Counsel.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-George Scoville,
 brother in-law of Guiteau, arrived in this
 city to-day from Chicago, accompanied by
 his wife, and for obvious reasons proceeded
 at once to private quarters previously en-
 gagged for him. Early in the afternoon
 scoville called on Colonel Corkhin and had
 long interview, immediately succeeding which he was interviewed by a reporter of
 the Post, and in substance said: 1T have
 not seen my client and relative yet My first business was with the District attorney, who treated me very courteously. Colonel Corkhil1 kindly expressed his sympathy for the position I find myself placed in, and proffered me all assistance proper under the circumstances. I should greatly desire to have assist me if possible in my line of defense MT. Merrick or Colonel Totten, or both. They have been recommended to me, and the former, who is an old Chicago law yer, is we'll known to us alb When asked what his line of defence would be, Scoville said: ''If I didn't think the unfortunate man was insane I would not defend him at all If he is not insane and cannot be made to clearly appear so, he ought to hang; still,
 I shall be governed largely in my course by the advice of my associate counsel, and cannot say definitely what pleas we shall of fer" In answer as to whether his defense would embrace any allegation that malprac- tice on the part of the surgeons contributed to or was the cause of the Presidents death
 Scoville said "A good many doctors have assured me that there were good grounds for defense on such a position and have been told that Dr. Hammond of New York, who is certainly most eminent authority, asserts
 that the Presidents death is due to his treat ment, but, as I have already said,
 my strong rock of defense is the non-responsibility of this unfortunate President, and unless I am overruled by my associates that will be the position shall ad- here to-" Scoville- said he hoped to be grant, ed continuance in order to arrange his de- fense and procure the attendance of witness es He also said number Of lawyers, and some of them prominent ones. had written him proffering legal assistance in conducting the defense, but he had not yet accepted them.
 It is now proposed to bring Guiteau from jail to the court in safe like the Treasury wagon in use for the transportation of coin and bullion. The Star Route Cases-A1arm of the Ac-
 cused.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 4.-Messrs Brady, Tur- ner, French and Brown, accused members of the Star route ring, having learned that they would be arrested unless they availed them selves of the leniency of the court appeared by counsel this morning and promised to be ready tomorrow to offer bail MoDonough, who was also charged by information with l conspiracy to defraud the government, is not in town. The accused are now satis- fled that the government is serious in it's | intention to prosecute. Colonel Bliss state | ment that the cases against ex-Senator | Dorsey will next be proceeded with has | alarmed them even more than any other step. They pretend still to believe that they will | never be convicted, but they fear that 8 case will be made out against them which will l have all the moral effect of conviction. The | technicalities of the law, and the influence of members of Congress, are now wholly relied | on for escape from imprisonment. The Missing Jeanette-No Traces of the 1
 Lost VesseI-New Land for our Country
 Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.-A letter was received by Major Clar, chief of the revenue marine; to-day from Captain Hooper of the Corwin, dated Point Barrow, Alaska, August IT, and sent by the bark Legal Tender to San Fran cisco. Among other things Captain Hooper
 
 On the first of this month we landed on Her aid Island and on the 12Eh we landed on and took possession of Wrangle Land. We found no traces of the Jeannette at either place, al- though we searched carefully. I do not think she reached either place or that she will come out of the ice again on this side of the.conti- nent I believe it WAS the intention of Cap tain De Long to endeavor, in case of being shut in, to reach McClure's Straits bet ween the Banks and Prince Patrick's Land, and in that case assistance could only reach them from the Atlantic side. This has been most open season. and if she does not show herself this year the vessel will not in all hu- man probability be seen again, although it is possible the crew may. Whalers are all very positive that she entered what they call the ssHole,'' leading to the northeast of Herald Island, and that she got in. I shall not have time to write an official report from here on this new possession of Uncle Sam. We took possession, planted the American flag and now want to give it 8 new name, as I believe we are entitled to do. I propose to call it
 New Columbia The land north of the continent to the east is all named for the English, and the islands further west are called New Siberia, so it seems to me that to call it New Columbia would be appro- priate and less likely to give offense to those who are interested in old names on different charts than to give name of less national i character. Wrangle never saw land, and af- ter trying for three successive years to get sight of it refers to it as the Problematical Land of the North.' Neither was he the first to report the existence of it. The ob- iect of his cruise was to investigate the truth of reports to that effect brought by previous travellers. Kellett, after whom 1t is called on English charts, only dimly saw what he sup posed was small island and which he called ''Phoorer" island. That is where we landed at the mouth of good sized river on the east end, which now appears on our chart as Clark river. We have made some valuable connections in locations along the coast of Asia between Kolintchin Bay and Cape North, and have taken 8 good set of magnet ic observations which I think will be valuable as they extend all over the sea. should not have left the vicinity of Wrsngle Land so soon, but the whaling bark Daniel Webster was reported as being in pack to the northward the last time we were on this shore and wanted to learn her fate and as- sist her if possible She was crushed and her crew escaped to Point Baron ove1f the ice. They have all been picked up by differ ent vessels along the coast and will be taken to San Francisco. We have nine of them aboard the Corwin, hence we will go down the coast and take in some coal at our mine if the weather is smooth enough if not, we will go to Plover Bay and fill up. then we will return to the west coast and sec if we cannot get on shore again on our new pos session, which is in all respects remarkable l one. The ice is well oil shore and it is very open to the westward I suppose we might try twenty more seasons and not find one so favorable. The Rodgers has not put in an appearance yet but think will be able to reach land all right later in the season, al
 though it is not free from ice by any means.