The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1882-05-11
The Ill Fated Jeanette.

Defneit tidings have been received OF the
commander of the Herald's Attic expedition
and his crew. A dispatch reached Washing
ton on Friday last conveying the melancholy
intelligence that 1t. belong and his party had
been found dead.
Lieut. De Longs party was in the first cut
ter and were as follows: Lieut.. Commander
Geo. w. De Long, Dr.. J. M. Amber, surgeon;
Jerome J. Collins, HeraM correspondent and
scientist; William Ninderean carpenter; Louis
Noras, Hans Erickson, or Henry Knock,
Adolf Bressler, Carl Gortz, Walter Lee, Neils
Iverson George Boyd, Alexia-Ah-Lom.
Lieut. De Long was born in New York, and
received his appointment to the United States
Navy from that State. He entered the SER
vice on October 1, 1861, and received his pres
emit commission after he had sailed with the
Jeanette, having been promoted from The
rank of lieutenant on November 1, 1879. He
had seen over twelve years of sea service. In
addition to this he had been on shore and
other duty for about seven years, and while
connected with the Navy had been unemploy-
ed only seventeen months out of his twenty
years service. His record III the Navy De-
partment for seamanship is among that of the
best of the United States officers. He sailed
from San Francisco for the Attic regions on
July 8, 1879.
DR.. James Markham Marshall Amber was
born in Fauquier county, Va, in December,
| 1S4S. He was the son of physician, and was
educated at Washington and Lee University,
Lexington, Va, and graduated in 1870 from
| the University of Maryland with honor. He
practiced medicine for three years in Balti-
| connection in Virginia was very extensive and
influential.
Lieut.. Chipp, Capt. Dunbar (ce pilot AL
fred Sweetman, Henry Maxey Peter johnson,
Edward Star - Shovel, and Albert Kaihue
constitute the party in the cutter still missing
After years of suffering and hardship
of well-nigh fruitless exploration among
the ice-felds of the Attic, De Long and
his gallant crew haye followed the course
OF Sir John Franklin across that shore
less sea called eternity. And this, it seems,
must be the fate of all whom love OF
| uOtOIlCtf VI lOFC VI SCicuCc WOulU GeAupI
to hazard all that man holds dear in order
that the confines of a region utterly barren
of value. so far as material advantages are in
volved, may be known. Life is sacrificed
children rendered fatherless, wives made
widows, and vast sums of money expended,
and for what? That supposed line may be
established; that human ambition and human
vanity may be said to have surmounted ma
lures toughest barriers and penetrated to the
very boundary Of the globe. If the rewards
to be attained were proportional to the sacri-
fees required there might be some reason for
these artic explorations. 1.-THE knowledge of
science already within reach would lead to the
determination that an opening up of this
hitherto impenetrable region would contribute
to the happiness and benefit of mankind, then
we might contemplate with more patience
these expeditions. But science can point to
no benefit to be gained Which is in any degree
worthy of the sacrifices that must be endured.
This land of the unknown may be in time ex-
plored, for the fate of the Jeanette will not
deter other adventurous spirits, but when that
end shall have been reached, the results will
prove barren indeed when compared with their
cost