The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-09-15

NOW Senator) Conger, Of Michigan. adj
dressed n letter 10 the chief signal officer o.
the army, suggesting what should be don,
to keep up communication In 1882 and II
1888.
lie said, II the party does not reach here
In 1852 there should be sent In 1889 a cana
BILE, energetic officer, with ten men. eight
OF whom should have had practical sea ex.
pcrience. provided with three wbaleboat.
and ample provisions for forty persons fol
fourteen months. The list OF all provisions
taken by me this year would answer ex,
ceedingly well. In case the vessel wa:
Obliged to turn southwark she should moi
leave Smiths sound, near Cape Sabine,
before september 18th. IL should leave
duplicates Of depots, A and Il, OF 1882, al
TWO Inherent points, one OF which should
be between Cape Sabine and Baches island,
the other to be an intermediate depot be-
tween two depots already established.
Similar rules as to indicating locality should
he insisted on. Thus the Grinnell Land
coast would be covered with seven dep0ts
OF ten days provisions in less than three
hundred miles, not including the two
months supplies at Cape Hawks.
AwINTER STATION.
The party should then proceed to estab-
| lish a winter station at Polaris. winter
( quarters at Lifeboat Cove. where their main
duty would be to keep their telescopes on
! Cape Sabine and the land TO the northward.
They should have lumber enough for house
and observatory, fifty tons o, coal, and
complete meteorological and magnetic out
| fit. Being furnished with dogs, s!edges.
and native driver, party Of Mt least six
men should proceed, when practicable. to
Cape Sabine, whencea sledgc party north
ward Of the two best-fitted men should
reach Cape Hawks, II not Cape ColinSOn.
Such action, from advice, experience. and
observation. seems 10 me all that can be
| done to insure our safety. No deviation
from these instructions Should be permit
| ted. Latitude Of action should not be
given to a relief party who are searching
for men who know their plans and ders.
DISCUSSING GREELY'S CHANCES.
Lieutenant Caziarc, on duty at the Sig
nal Office, and who Is fami liar with the
whole subject, says that on abandoning
! Fort Congcr Lieutenant Greedy will have
TO Leave everything behind and rely for his
supplies as he makes his way along the
coast upon the stores already cached. The
prospect when Littlcton island is reached
he does not think is very encouraging, for
| the natives there know OF the supplies sup
posed to be secreted, and it is doubtful
what condition they may be found in.
After the perilous journey OF Lieu
| tenant Darlington and his party, there
is hope that without further aid the Lady
Franklin Bay Colony may reach a
| friendly settlement and End safe quarters
until another vessel can be sent to them.
| The practical suggestions he thinks now is
to ask Lieutenant Darlington and his party
| il they are willing TO reft and proceed rs
far north rs possible, wintering at such
point as will make it reasonably certain
that ayessel can reach them early next year.
| The Secretary OF War realizes the great inn
portancc of such immediate action, rs all
the party at Lady Franklin bay is under
| his command. OF course, he knows that
| it is too late for any vessel TO attempt 10
enter Smith sound this year, but he hopes
some way may be suggested by which a
relief party can 20 north Of Upcrnavik and
communicate with the Greedy party this
winter TO assure them OF certain succOr
next year.
TIE LOST SUPPLIES.
Lieutenant Caziarc says that the first
thing done by the Bureau on receipt OF tie
news this morning was to telegraph Lieu
tenant Darlington rs to what had become
OF his supplies. The Department was an
noycd that no official telegram came giving
information OF the fate OF the vessel, and
up TO midnight no reply had been received
TO the telegram sent this morning. The
official dispatch OF Commodore Wilde TO
the Navy Department had also bewildered
the signal officers in their calculations.
The voyage in the whalcbOatS had been
successful, while the search OF the iantic
had been bailled by the ice. Lieutenant
Caziarc thought that after such safe de-
livery Of the Darlington party there ought
to he reasonable hope of Lieutenant Gree
" and his party reaching point of safety.
THE TRACK on THE CHART.
Here Lieutenant Caziarc unfolded the
circum-Pol,r charts and one OF Smith
sound and the Greenland coast, which he
had lust obtained from the Navy Depart
ment. \ tracing had been made OF the
route OF the whaleb0ats, and the point
where the Proteus was lost was also indi-
Gated. Lieutenant Dunwoody, who is also
on duty at the Signal Office, went over the
maps with his associates. calculating the
distance Lieutenant Greely was from Lit
Teton island, marking the points where
the caches were located for his retreat, and
the probability OF his wntering il until a
vessel could find him. But until they
cot more data than was at hand up to late
hour they concluded that speculation about
| the future was useless.
(By Associated Prcss.l
| WASHINGTON, September 14.-NO addi-
tiona information has been received to-day
either nc the War or Navy Departments
with regard to the loss OF the Arctic relief
steamer Proteus and the failure OF Lieu
tenant GarlingtOn's expedition. Officers
OF the Signal Service here freely admit that
the present situation Of affairs is serious
one. but they do not regard II as III any
sense hopeless. In the first place, they say
Lieutenant Greely's party had origi-
nally a supply OF provisions which
was calculated TO last three years, or
until the summer of 1884 This supply,
they think, must have been very consid-
erably augmented by fish and game procu-
rable in the immediate vicinity OF Lady
Franklin Bay station. So that if the party
remains there it will not be in danger II
starvation before next summer. If, how.
ever, as seems more probable to the authori-
ties here, he should have abandoned his
station on the LIST Of September, and
retreated down the coast Of Grin
nell Land to the mouth OF Smiths
sound, expecting to find there relief
party and depot Of stores, his situation
NAV shortly become critical. How large q
quantity OF provisions he would find AT
Cane Sabine and Littletcn island is moi
known. but it is feared that the supplies
left there last year and the small quantity
saved from the wreck Of the Proteus would
not maintain Lieutenant Greedy and bis
men at the mouth Of Smith sound through
the coming winter, even il the party haC
shelter and fuel. Some help might be-