Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

l THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. 1 The Retreat Across the Ice-Hardshfps 1 of the .1eannette Crew in Their Flight l --The Heroic Act of Lieutenant Chfpp 1 -~Unms,le to Travel He Mntreats His | Comrades to Push Ahead and Leave Him Alone to Die-Other Matters.
 | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1O.--Engineer Melville's I story of the sufferings of the Jeannette party
 was continued to day. Several ladies' rela
 tives of lieutenant Chipp, were present and
 were much affected by Melvilles story Mel
 vile in describing the incident in which he 1 threw himself down unable to proceed fur
 ther and requested the party to go on with
 out him very affecting and the ladies bursting into tears left the room unable to listen calmly to further details. MelvilIe's
 account regarding the management of the boat differed somewhat from Danenhower's and showed that on one occasion some feel 1 ing was shown by Danenhower because of ] the fact that he was continued on the sick l list and not allowed to take active duty His description of the retreat acr oss the ice was as follows: The retreat began June IS, the l men working by night to avoid the glare as 1 much possible, and also for the reason l that they could sleep warmer during the day Every person except the sick assisted the ! first day in moving the boats and sleds Be- 1 fore starting the second morning the captain l told MT. Danenhower to remain with the sick people. On this days march MT. Col l lins and Machinist Lee were taken with cramps. The party succeeded in moving all the boats and effects as far as the first cutter had previously been advanced. The ice was very much broken with frequent leads, and great difficulty was experienced in keeping everything together and preventing getting separated. The whole working force at this ! time had to pass back and forth about thir- l teen times to make one full trip ! with all ths baggage. That is to say. it was | necessary to march thirteen miles for ! as the party would start the medical tent would be first advanced, and the sick people 1 would remain there and bs cared for until | the entire party had come up. During all this time the men wereconstantly wet up to | their knees and frequently up to their shoul- ders- The supply of clothing necessarily be- 1 ing limit d and few opportunities occurring 1 to make change, great suffering ensued During the first few days the party subsisted entirely on the loose provisions, consisting of l canned chicken, pigs feet, mutton broth and other canned goods. 1t was understood at the start there were sixty days 1ations of bread - half pound per day per man, and the i issue was made daily by the carpenter. Wit ness directed Seaman Gortz to divide the ra- tions Tn his (witnessD tent daily, putting the
 
 with the others. AS tho summer advanced and the sun became stronger, the snow melt ed and ran off the ice, making it much easier l to draw the loads and diminishing the num- Der of trips. In was impossible to march in any direction in a straight line. The ice flags were set up by compass, then l the best roads through the hummocks were picked out. Sometimes the boats and sleds had to be drawn over the hummocks, and in- clined planes had to be made on either side. IT, kLo I11A quently lose control of them, when more or | less damage would be inflicted, particularly the whale boat, owing to her protruding at either end over the sled. When ponds of water were encountered on the march the party generally waded through, but ith the bread sled this was avoided as much possible by | making detours. After the march had con- 1 tinued about sixteen days Captain De Long got an observation of the sun, and told wit ness he was very much surprised to find that ! they had drifted so far so the northwest. Mir. Chipp at this time was barely able to stagger ! along. The captain told witness not to re peat what he had said to him (witness), as he did not want to discourage the people. Dr. 1 Ambler was present at the time. All hands at this time were bright and cheerful, the ! men singing as they hauled the sleds. When ! the sledding got better two sleds-generally | the lightest-were started out ahead to break ! the way for the heavier. The whale boat l was the hardest to haul, and the men com plained more in moving her than the first ! cutter although the latter was the heavier boat. After while they were able to move l two boats at once. At that time witness was | in charge of the working party.
 The board Of audit the expenses of President Garfield's illness held meeting l this afternoon and began the work of for nal consideration of claims. No progress was made further than to authorize the l employment of a clerk to make up list of 1 claims and put them in shape that they
 can be passed upon without delay.
 \ The President upon his arrival from New ! where he will remain until the meeting of Congress.
 Secretary Folger this afternoon issued the l 10th call for bonds, it being for fifteen mil l lions of 34 per cents of July 14, 1870, and
 January 20, 1871, continued during the plea from August 13, 1881. as follows: $50, l Nos. B 479 to B $50 and Nos. B 1 1,Go5 to B 1,6o9 $1oO, Nos: B 3,561
 to B 4.3OO and Nos. B 13,299
 to l, a31 $500, Nos. l,951 to B 2,25o
 and 5'94s to B 5,es4; $1'o9o' od Nos; los
 2, 5o1 to 2,soo and 5,soi to 5,s10 $10,- OOO Nos. B 1O,OO1 to B II, 500 and B S.458
 to B 16,465; $2O,OOO, Nos. B 1,538 to B l 1,6OO and B 2 2,247 to 2,24S; O,OOO, Nos.
 B 3,9o1 to B 4,6Oo and B 6,O4o to B 6.O4s. l This call natures February 10, 1883. Many bonds originally included in the above num- l bers have been transferred or exchanged and | cancelled, leaving the above only outstanding. Henry George in an interview with Secre- | tary Frelinghuysen this afternoon at the l State department was asked if he desired the government to take any further steps in ob | taining reparation from the English govern 1 ment for his treatment in Ireland. He re- piled that he pc feotly satisfied with the 1 apology England had made, especially so af- ! ter seeing the correspondence which has re
 gently taken place between this government l and Minister Lowell.
 The annual report of the Hampton, Va, | Indian school shows that 30 Indian girls and | 54 Indian boys are in attendance. The stu
 dents made 20, 900 pairs of shoes and 75 sets | of harness besides other articles during the
 past year. It is recommended that each stu
 dent be allowed 25 cents day for the work
 done an incentive, one half of the amount
 to be retained until they complete their
 course. Thus far $59, TIA have been received
 from private sources and $35, ,359 from the
 government for this school The report of
 the Forest Grove, Oregon, Indian training
 school shows 54 boys and 37 girls now stu
 dents $1, ,38O worth of work has been done
 by the students in the blacksmithing and car
 pentering departments, besides csltivating
 over one hundred acres of land. The girls
 made l, POO garments during the year and in
 all the studies the students exhibited interest
 and made satisfactory progress.
 The department of agriculture reports ex-
 cept1onally fine weather during the past
 month for maturing and harvesting cotton
 and returns of the estimated yield of acreage
 of each State are as follows: Virginia, pounds
 of lint per acre IFS, North Carolina 1sO,
 South Carolina 183, Georgia 152 Florida
 117, Alabama 15o, Mississippi 19O, Louisiana
 235, Texas 24o, Arkansas 233, Tennessee TO,
 These figures suppose continuance of aver
 age weather for the six weeks of the harvest
 season yet remaining. The injury by the
 caterpillar or ball worm is not appreciable
 except in 8 few counties. In four-fifths of
 the localities reporting the presence of either
 they have hastened the maturity of the crop
 without lessening the yield.
 The corporation of Dublin has again re.
 jected the proposal to grant Sir Garnet
 Wolseley the freedom of the city.
 Carrie E. Davis of Philadelphia, aged
 thirty three years, of highly respectable