Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-19

WASHINGTON, Oct, 1S.-Before the Jean
nette board, Lieut.. Danenhower continued
his narrative of the operations of the
officers and men of the vessel, after she
was frozen in.
Capt. De Long told witness his purpose
was to explore Wrangers land and the ST.
berian sea; that the possibility of reaching
high latitude depended upon the CONT
nuity of the coast line to the norshward,
as having land for base was one of the
first principles of arctic exploration. Capt.
De Long never consulted with witness. nor
told why he changed his plan in entering
the pack. Witness put in evidence an orig
inal letter from Capt. De Long addressed
to himself previous to the sailing of the
Jeanette from England to San Francisco,
in which the writer states: sit is our in
tention to attack the polar regions
by way of Behring's straits
Court adjourned until tomorrow.
The secretary OF the treasury issued the
one hundred and eighteenth call for the
redemption of bonds of the per cent.
funded loan of 1881, continued at 81 per
cent. from August u, 1881. The cali is
for $15,000,OO0, principal and accrued in
terest to be paid at the treasury on the
18th of January, 1883, and interest
will cease that day. The bonds
are as follows: Five dollars, No. 55l to
$50, both Inclusive; 500, No. 4.3O1 to
1000, both inclusive, IL, 223 to 3,298, both
inC 90 NJ a. -
inclusive; No. 1924 to. 5,957, both inclu-
sive; $1,000, No. 1851 to 1850; both in
elusive; No. go, 701 to 20,759, both incln-
sue; 5000, No. 1891 to
4,124, both inclusive; $10,OO No. II. sol to
1880, both inclusive, and No. 18,4O3 to
1924, both inclusive; $4,000, No. 1901 to
1873, both inclusive, and No. 2,242 to 2,246,
both inclusive; $4,000, No. 4,6O1 to $3.50,
both inclusive, and No. 6,O34 to 6,039, both
inclusive. Total $15,OOO,OOO The bonds
described above are those last dated and
numbered as required by section of the
act of July IA, 1870.
The president has suspended iona
than Diggs, Indian agent at Colora-
do river agency, and appointed
John w. Clark his successor. Indian
agent McGillicuddy, of Uescelero agency,
hoo tCA0OlCu 1iS ~ LILO SoCIc-
tary of the interior. The secretary de-
clined to accept the resignation pending
the result of an investigation now in pro-
gress. sa
New postofices established: Rye. Adavi
county, Mo-, Richard L. Hamilton, post
master; Orlenda, Robertson county, Tenn,
John A. Croker, postmaster.
The president appointed Emma B. Hine
postmaster at Lowell, Mich, ,vice James
W. Hine, resigned.
The attention of the supervising inspec-
tor of steam vessels was called to-day to a
dispatch from Chicago stating that three
deaths from drowning, which occurred
there last Saturday afternoon, were the
result of strange ruling of the supervising
inspectors of steamboats, that tugs must
not, under penalty of $500 for each person
carried. take any passengers on board. The
supervising inspector general says no
regulations was ever made by the depart
ment or the supervising inspectors which
could be tortured into a prohibition of the
saving by tugs of the lives of drowning
people. 1t is true a penalty of $500
attaches to any steam vessel
which carries passengers without
the equipments required by statute, but to
construe this as prohibition of life saw
ing is to construe it into malice, and to use
such construction as a fendish means of
forcing change in the law. A tugboat
man in the harbor of Chicago was recently
fined by the collector of customs for carry
ing pleasure party on his tug without
equipments and life saving appliances
which the law requires. The secretary of
the treasury reunited the fine, but directed
the collector to notify all the tugboat men,
that the law would henceforth be enforced
against all towing boats, which, under
any circumstances, carried others than
their own crews without first complying
with the terms and conditions of the act
relating to the employment of passenger
vessels. After the PRONUNCIATION of the
above notice vague rumOrs came to this
Office that threat had been made by tug
| boat men that if they could not lawfully
carry passengers under any circumstances
without mourning fine of $500, then they
would not save people from drowning,
even when they could do SO. The question
of whether they could do SO
without mourning the penalty has never
been presented to this Office or the depart.
ment, and except for the statement made
in the newspaper item referred to, this of.
uCS WOulo nave Regarded Sucn question
as too preposterous to be even though of
except by a person with diseased brain
In view Of the occurrences set forth, how.
ever, this Office regrets the question has
not been propounded to it, in order
that it might have expressed its emphatic
disapproyal to the assumption that the
law, whose whole aim is the saving of life
should contemplate under any .circum.
stances the imposition of penalties fol
carrying out its own objects.
Bids we're received for the iron base fol
the postofice screen at the Gus ON house
at St. Louis. The lowest was that OF
Smead d Co., of Louisville, $2.2s7.
Secretary Lincolr,. Adjutsnt General
Drum, Col. Barr and Gen. Sherman lessve
Saturday for a visit of inspection to The
military prison at Leavenworth, Kas