Morning journal and courier., 1883-04-16

tenanb Greeley'S party 1n Aaoy Franklln be1
 will consist of fourteen men, including
 capable ice pilot and three experienced sail
 ors, selected from the Newfoundland fleet
 and will be under command of Lieutenant
 Darlington of the Seventh Cavalry. It will
 be abundantly supplied with provisions
 sledges, fur clothing, and necessary equip
 ments of all kinds for winter campaign, and
 will sail from St. Johns, N. F., in staunch
 sealing steamer about July l. The vessel
 will probably reach the mouth of Smith s
 Sound before August l, and will then be
 only 200nautical miles from Greeley's station.
 It is probably that Smiths Sound will be so
 blocked with ice that it will be impenetrable by steamer in this event the relief party
 Cove on the east side of the
 Sound, opposite Cape Sabine, where they
 will go into winter quarters The steamer l will return.to America As early in the fall
 as practicable, Lieut.. Darlington will open
 communication with the Etat Esquinaux,
 and organize dog-sledge party with native
 drivers to go up Smiths Sound. Meantime
 Lieut.. Greeley will have abandoned his sta | t1on, and will have started on his retreat I down the coast, so that at some point between
 Lady Franklin Bay and Cape Sabine the two
 parties are likely to meet. Along the line of 1 Lieut. Greeley's retreat there are four caches
 to supply his party with food for fifty days. l So far as food is concerned, therefore, Lieut. l Greeley's retreat would seem to be secured. He could, 1t IS thought, make the distance between the station and the headquarters Of 1 the relief party in sixty days, if he conld
 make it at all Officers of the signal service say, therefore, that there Is little or no dan ger Of such catastrophe on the coast of Grinnen Land as that which occurred on the Lena delta. Dr. Bessels, who was chief of
 the scientific staff of the Polaris expedition, says that although sledging in Smiths Sound is very difficult work, he thinks there is no point in the Sound from which a party of able bodied men, with an experienced leader, might not reach the Danish settlements in northern Greenland
 In&ersoI at the Grave-An Grafton Over
 His Friend MIIIs-Other Matters.
 WASHINGTON, April 15.-Col R. G. Inger- son this evening delivered 8 funeral oration over the remains of his friend John G. Mills, the journalist, who died here yesterday. Mir. Ingersoll in pronouncing this parting tribute of friendship and humanity gave utterance to the following words: 'tAga1n we are face to face with the great mystery that shrouds the world. We question, but there is no reply. Out on the wide waste seas t.ere drifts no spar. Over the desert of death the sphinx forever, but never speaks. In the very May of life another heart has ceased to beat Night has fallen upon noon, but he lived, he loved, he was loved. Wife and children pressed their kisses on his lips. This is enough. The longest life contains no more. This fills the vase Of joy He who lies here clothed with the per feet peace of death was 8 kind and loving | husband, good father, generous neighbor, an honest man and these words build monu- men of glory above the humblest grave. He was always a child, sincere and frank, as full | of hope as spring. He divided all time into | to-day and tomorrow. To morrow was without cloud; of tomorrow he borrowed sunshine for tomorrow. He my friend; he will remain so. The living oft become estrang- ed: the dead are true He not Christian In the Eden of his hope there did not crawl and coil the serpent of eternal pain. In many languages he sought the thought of men and for himself he solved the problems of the world. He accepted the philos- ophy of August Comte. Humanity was his god; the human race the supreme being In that supreme being he rested, believing that we are indebted for what we en- joy to the labor, the selfdenial, the heroism of the human race, and that we have plucked the fruit of what others planted we with thankfulness should plant for others yet later For him immortality was the eternal consequence of his own good acts He  interested deed hastens the harvest of universal good. This is 8 religion that enriches poverty, that enables us to bear the sorrows of the saddest life, that peoples even solitude with the happy millions yet to be. A religion born not of selfshness and fear, but of love and hope, the religion that digs wells to slake the thirst of others, that gladly bears the burdens of the unborn. In the presence of death how beliefs and dog mas wither and decay. How loving words and deeds burst to blos- som Pluck from the tree of any barren thorns of bigotry and creed. All wish for happiness beyond this life all hope to meet again the loved and lost. In every heart there grows this sacred flower of etern- al hope. Immortality is word thet hope through all the ages has been whispering to love. The miracle of thought we can not understand the mystery of death and hope we cannot comprehend. This chaos called the world has never been explained. The golden bridge of life from gloom de not know. Fate is speeches., destiny is dumb and the secret of the future has never yet been told. We love, we wait we hope. The more we love the more we fear. Upon the tenderest heart the deepest shadows fall. All paths whether filled with and failure are the same The rag of wretch edness and purple robe of power lose differ ence and distinction in this democracy of death; character alone serves, goodness alone lives. Love alone is immortal. But to all these comes 8 time when the feyered lips of life long for the cool delicious kiss Of death. Tired of the dust and glare of the day they hear with joy the rushing garments of the night. What can we say of death What can we say of the dead Where they have gone reason cannot go, and from thence revelation has not | IQ,,k 1akv INaIfo hat dle nature bends and smiles, and lovingly | above the dead in benediction holds her out stretched hands,
 Meetings of the several colored organiza- tions to complete arrangements for the grand parade tomorrow in honor of the eman- cipation of the colored people in this Dis trict were held to night throughout the city. | All the colored employees in the departments are granted leave to participate in the fes- tivities.
 A dispatch has been received at the de- pertinent of justice from the United States attorney at Atlanta, Ga, regarding the con vietion of J. M Robinson, one of the depu- ties of Marshal Longstreet, charged with presenting false and fraudulent accounts by | falsely reporting guards where none were employed and also falsely swearing he had transported prisoners greater distances than were actually travelled, thereby defrauding the government out of the sums realized on l fees for excessive mileage.
 A report from the London agent of the Department of Agriculture makes the prob able decrease in area of wheat in Great Brit ain fifteen per cent and ten per cent. in [ France. There is also reduction of area in Russia. In Austria Hungary full breadth has been sown. The condition of the plant at the present time is not generally very favorable.
 NEW DOMINION.