Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30
ACCOUNTING DAYS.
THE PITIFUL STORY OF SUFFERING
RETEALED BY DE LONGS
NOTE BOOK

| NOTE BOOK.
| Drifting Helplessly in an Ice Pack 1,3OO
Miles, kinging in the New Year in q
Foundered Yessel--The Criminality OF
Arctic Exploration Feelingly Depicted
"A Budget of Washington News.
WAsH1NeroN, Dec. 29.-De Longs re-
port, found beside his dead body, has been
made public It makes 5000 words, and
details incidents of tho cruise from the de-
parture from San Francisco in 1879 to
January, 1881. Its principal feature is an
elaborate account Of De Longs view in
regard to the expedition. He considered it
good judgment to head for Wrangle Land.
His idea was to adopt that land as a sup
port for the first winters campaign. He
embodies the story of how land was
sighted and how he expected to reach it;
graphically describes how on the next day
the Jeanette became beset In the ice,
never again to be relieved, and says the
party was compelled to make a virtue of
necessity and stay where they were.
Sometimes all night, and sometimes
day and night, from Jan. 10 to Feb. 4,
Sweetman and Ninderman stood down in
the forepeak, icy water flowing around
them nearly to their knees, working faith
fully until their work was accomplished,
and the good results of that work were evi-
dent in the gradually reduced amount of
water coming into the ship, and our ability
to control the leak without such ruin
Gus expenditure of fuel as
had been necessary Heretofore. 1t is
for these reasons that have had the honor
to recommend these two men for medals
OF honor, as recognition of heroic con-
duct under the most trying circumstances"
Capt De Longs record of the remainder of
the winter and summer of 1880, is for the
most part monotonous record of storms,
ice movements. constant anxiety, and al
most unbroken disappointment AS the
short Arctic summer drew to a close with
out setting the Jeanette free, and
another dreary winter ap-
preached, Captain De Long evidently
began to revolve in his mind the question
whether it would not be better to abandon
the ship and make for the northern coast
of Siberia over the ice, than to run the risk
OF second winter in the pack. Under date
of Sept. 20, 1880, he says: II dislike natur-
ally to dwell on the idea of the abandonment
of the ship. We have come through SO much,
it gives me hopes of surviving more. As
long as enough of the ship remains to
shelter us, sticking by that fragment is
preferable to camping on the ice, and
can conceive of no greater 'forlorn hope
than the attempt to reach Siberia, say 24O
miles distant, over the ice that surrounds
as, and with ths winters cold sapping ones
life at every step. OF course if We were to
lose our ship We would make tho effort to
get there, but our chances of success would
be extremely problematical. The last
entry in the record is dated Dec.
81, 1880, and is as follows:
'Ninstrels and ringing in New Year in
latitude 73 degrees 4S minutes north, lon
gitude 1T degrees 80 minutes east.
During the past sixteen months we have
drifted 300 miles, far enough, if We had
been in straight line, to carry us to and
beyond the pole, but we are yet only 22O
miles northwest of where we were first be-
set. We have suffered injury, and danger
often confronted US. We have been
squeezed and jammed, tossed and tumbled;
we have pumped the leaking ship
for a year, but we are
not yet daunfed, and are
as ready to dare everything as we ever
were, and we face the New Year firmly,
hoping to do something worthy ourselves,
of Benefits enterprise, and of the flag
above u.s. In less than ten months after
these words were written the Jeanette
was at the bottom of the Arctic ocean and
De Long lay dead in the Lena delta.
The ways and means committee devoted
the entire session to-day to the considera-
ton of the tariff commissions schedule of
wool and woolens, less than half of which
was completed. None but verbal changes
were made except in the item sswoolen
rags, shoddy and fiocks'' which rate was
changed from twelve to ten cents per
pound.
Senate combinations: Robert G. Camp
bell, of Louisiana, United States consul at
Monterey. Postmasters-Franklin Taylor
at Fowler, Ind; L. c. Teed, Austin, Ia;
John s. Sitman, Ogden, Ia; Emerson b.
Kimball, Audubon, Ia; B. b. Hardness,
Humboldt, Ia.
In the star route trial this morning, ar
gument was resumed on the variances of
petitions set out in the Indictment and
those presented by the prosecution. The
defense maintained that these differences
barred the documents.
The defense objected at every step of
the testimony, and secured many excep-
tions. The court adjourned until Tuesday
Ratifcations of the convention of the
United States and Belgium for the OK
change of money orders after Jan.1, were
formally exchanged between the post
master general and Belgian minister to-
day.
Lieut.. Danenhower, now ill, will as soon
as able appear before the Jeanette board
on behalf of Jerome ]. Collins. .......
Mr.. Hayes, of the tariff commission, to-
day expressed himself confident that the
tariff would be revised this session on the
plan recommended by the commission and
modified by the committee of ways and
means. He thinks tho commission will re-
port in two weeks.
Indian Agent Porter, of Fort Peck,
Montana, telegraphs the Indian bureau,
that the Milk river country is overrun with
white hunters slaughtering buffalo by
thousands. The Indians are becoming
restless, and the agent fears trouble. The
presence of the military is requested. Mr..
Price informed the agent that white hunt
ers have no business on the reservation;
that the secretary of war will be asked to-