Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-01-21

BY Our SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.
SAN FRASCisCo, December 2S.
A visit to the Merchants Exchange APP
priscs me Of the fact that the u. g. Murray
will be dispatched for Honolulu o-day at
high tide. and as she may occupy from IL
to Is days on the trip down, will prepare
summary of the principal news-topics in
case the favorite old packet should put in
an appearance too late to admit of the
usual selection Of news most suitable to
Island readers
Just as the mail steamer ZeaidHdid was
leaving the harbor, on the Goth, n short
hut uncertain dispatch come over the wires
announcing the loss of the Arctic explor
ing steamer Jerhnet,c and the landing Of the
greater portion Of the crew on the East
crn coast OF Siberia. The brig j. u.
.Spreckei., which left the following day, took
this bit Of news along, but it was not until
the next morning that we received any
ting like definite information here. The
ncws Just come through the Royal Geo
graphical Society of London, and much
Indignation exists in consequence of the
contemplate meanness and the repre-
hcnsibe conduct OF the President Of the
Administration of Eastern Siberia, who
refused to telegraph the announcement of
the arrival of the survivors Of the JedHHstte
because they were without funds. The
first news of their escape was consequently
delayed ten weeks. The American Minis
ter Mt St Petersburg, in conjunction with
the Russian Government, took immediate
action in the matter, and james Gordon
Bennett has since telcgraphed all the
funds necessary for the relief of the gal
liant Captain De Long and his noble com
panions. So far, we are still in doubt as
to the fate OF the third boat. De Long is
universally credited with having engi-
ncered one OF the most successfully man
aged escapes known in the history of the
various Arctic expeditions of this charac
ter. The prompt rescue and relief of the
two boat parties by the Russians, at the
mouth of the Lena River, at much expense
and hardship, adds another debt to the
many that we owe that country. A cor
respondent places no faith whatever in the
Geographic reports that the Russian of
iicials in Siberia had secretly withheld in
formation concerning the Jennnetts from
the public for long time before the dis
closure of the date and place of rescue,
and the methods of transportation from
there to Irkoutsk, the nearest telegraph
station, during the winter season, makes
such an idea untenable. A New York
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appears in this mornings papers says: To
arrive at the mouth of the Lena, the boats
of the shipwrccked JeaARette must have
passed between New Siberia and the Island
of Fadiwskai, which is inhabited only
during the summer by nomads, who ar
rive at the close of the winter in sledges
drawn by dogs Further on in her course
was Isle Petite and the Island of Hell
bovoi. Tho distance is about five hundred
miles from the locality of the shipwreck
to the mouth of the Lena. The mouths
of this river are situated in the most
dreary and desolate part of the confines of
Northern Siberia. The place where the
boat No 3 landed is situated between the
graves of Lieutenant Lassirius who per
ished in 1876, with thirty-tive of his com
panions, and that of Lieutenant Prout-
schischcff and his wife, who persisted in
1886. From this point to Yakutsk the
distance is more than 1000 miles, through
a desert country, completely destitute of
population.
On Friday afternoon the business por
tion of the community were greatly ex-
cited by n startling dispatch from Wash
ington, saying that private advices re-
ceived from South America states that
rumors are rife there that the United
States steamer Ataska had been fired
into and struck twice, damaging her so
severely that she had to return to Callao
for repairs. Commodore Walker Chief
of the Bureau OF Navigation and Repairs,
says the reports are absurd, and if there
had been any foundation for it the Navy
Department would have been so informed
long before this rumor could have been
reported here by letter. Later dispatches
from New York say Panama advices of
thotI
H. Prescott and Walker Blaine arrived per
steamer Colon from New York and sailed
for Callao on the afternoon of the 18th, on
board the United States steamer Ldckdudnd.
Intelligence reached them here of the
death of Gen. Fitzpatrick, u. $. Minister
to Chile. So this puts an end to that
sensation.
The appointment OF ex-senator Howe,
as Postmaster General, creates some sur
prise, inasmuch rs his SON in law is con
nected with the defence in the star route
cases, and this fact had much to do with
the reconsideration of his name for the
position Of Attorney General and the APP
pointment of Brewster.
Yesterdays Washington dispatches an
nounce that Senior Martinez, the Chilean
Minister. has issued n seventeen page
pamphlet on the difficulty between Chile
the other. The work, he says, is not to DO
considered an official document, but is
issued To correct many errors and give
light to Congress, to which body he hears
Peru and Bolivia propose to appeal, hay
ing failed to influence the State Depart
ment. These countries, though small, are
entirely Independent, and neither the
Monroe Doctrine nor any other recognized
authority, would justify interference in
the present state OF affairs, save in an
eminently pacific and friendly way.
News from Washington, both through
the Press dispatches and private sources,
is to the effect that ex-senator Sargent
will be invited to the Cabinet, with the
portfolio of Secretary of the Interior.
There is no doubt but the position has
been rendered Mr. Sargent, though his
name has not yet been sent to the Senate.
The New York Tribune thinks the activity
displayed in the building of railroads in
the Far West one OF the most remarkable
features of the present era Of national
prosperity II says; Ina short time there
will be five through routes to the Pacific,
where few months ago there was only
one. These will be the Northern Pacific
Railroad, the Union Pacific, with its OK
tension now building to Baker City, Ore