The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-04-27
How the Jeanette Sank.


A dispatch from San Francisco, dated Aprili4a
10, says: The Co1 publishes letter tromlDr.lgS
H. u Ledyard, an American, now III Siberia,
10 friend III this city. At lrkutsk DR.. Led-
yard met Lieutenant .Danenhower, who gave 20
hlni Interesting details OF the loss OF the JeanrHd
nellie. Since Tie first fall they were out, When H.
they We're caught by the ice in trying to reach
Herald Island, they had never taken a course
but the vessel was held as in the Jaws OF death, a
squeezed until every timber was strained, a.
Iney were every hour in suspense, never
knowing when The ice would close upon theiIi.i
little more and the deck sank beneath them,T
Throughout this strain they were well and
tried 10 be cheerful. They worked very hard,
for the engine and the men were barely able IiiN
10 Keep the water out They had to pump ior ls
year and halt. 81,
On June IL, 1881, the crisis came The
ship showed greater straining thanfbefore, thef2@
deck qulYered and inexplicable, movements sl4F
warmed them to hasten from the vessel. They q,.,
prepared their boats and made their camp be-
side the Jeanette She rose and turned in
her cradle until the yards touched the ieesA
linen the rigging gave way and her masts lay t.s,,
PROSTATE. AT 4 o'clock III the morning the q
foe part and all went down. A cfysof alarnl
called ali 10 escape from the crevice IN theic hi
1t opened just through the captains tent. 70
Then began the retreat. For twenty nine
days they struggled southwark 800 miles Of !,
broken Ice being thus passed over. -Four
miles day Was thought good fortune. After 'ahA
one series OF fourteen days they were tWenty-taaH
seven miles further north than at first. While D. D
working over the ice and dragging three boats
they discovered Bennett Island, to- explore
which they spent three weeks OF their precious n
summer day and expended much OF their llnli7i -
ted supply of food. To this detour those VINO
survived attribute much OF their suffering and
the death OF their commander, with nineteen 9fi
men After three months OF this perilous and l,-a4
exhaustlng work they came to blue water, and y,
then with fair Winds took their course for the '
mouth OF the Lena river. Chief Engineer s-1il
Melvilles boat was stove against block of ,9lif
ice and the captains boat lost her mast and ,
sail. The captain landed with all well, but
abandoned the boat, as the water was shallow
and could not make the channel OF the riveradr
In the North american Regiew for May, Carl III
Schurz treating of .Schisms and Future Prob 8,
lens" presents many wellconsidered obsers
vations which cannot fail to interest in the "A a
highest degree that large and growing class Of :,
citizens who refuse to be influenced by obso-
lete party cries. Days with Longfellew,'' by
Samuel Ward contains personal reminiscent 't
ces of the beloved poet just deceased extend
ing over period of forty five years Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps, in an article entitled what
loes Revelation Reyeal?' seeks to prove that
he objections brought against the Bible by
modern unbeevers are based upon a miscon-
oeption of the true intent and scope of the sa-
cred volume. Lieutenant Commander Cor
ringe writes of 1.-The Navy" with abundant
of its needs, and with degree OF
rankness almost, if not quite unprecedented in -
he naval service. w. Fl. Mallock, the we'll -
known English essayist, in the first of series
Of Conversations with Solitary" very in
5eniously contrives to put the advocate of de- '''
nocracy and modern progress the defen- e''
'ive. Finally Gail Hamilton contributes a
paper, "The Spent Bullet" in which science, sal
he pulpit and the law are with exquisite wit a'
aiken to task for the part they respectively
played in the Guiteau- Garfield tragedy. 1s'