Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-17
WASHINGTON.
IMMIGRATION.

IMMIGRATION.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-The report O
the commissioner of emigration of tn
state of New York shows 363, 374 emigrant
landed at the port of New York from Au-
gust 3, 1882, to June 80, 1883, inclusive
The largest number landed in any on,
month, 6,953, was in May, 1888, and thu
smallest, S,343, in January of the sam,
year. The duty imposed on the board O.
returning paupers and persons unable tt
take care of themselves to the ports whence
they came, have been carefully exercised
and large number of undesirable per
sons have been sent back.
COMMANDER WILDE.
Commodore English, acting secretary OF
the navy, has received the following dis.
patch: 'St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 15.-To
Commodore English, acting secretary OF
the navy: To charter another foreign ship
with foreign crew for this duty, to 20
north at this late season, would simply in.
vite fresh disasters. The Proteus was
handled very unskillfully and the crew be-
haved shamefully at the wreck. The ship
must be American, manned and differed
by the navy, and thoroughly equipped
Unless winter quarters could be reached
north of the cape the attempt would be
useless. This cannot be done. Melville bay
will be impossible by October ], at least
A ship cannot winter at Upernavik, and
cannot sledge north from there. Signed,
F. WILDE,
Commanding q. S. ship Yantic."
LIEUT.. DARLINGTON.
The following dispatch from Lieut.. Gar.
lington was received at the signal Office to-
day. "St. Johns, N. F., Sept. Is. To the
chief signal officer, United States army
The stores we're not left at Littleton island
because it was not in my programme to
do so. 1t was my intention to establish a
depot at or near Cape Prescott and TO the
uorthward as recommended by Lieut..
Greedy, and to fill the gaps caused by the
Neptune's failure to get above Cape
Sabine. See Greely's letter, report and
my instructions. Five hundred and fifty
i've rations were left at . pernavik by the
Yantic for my party. Part of these met
me at point forty miles north of
resuasak. All since returned to the Yam
tic. The ultimate result of any undertak-
ing to go north at this time is extremely
problematical The chances are against
its SUCCESS, OWING to the dark nights now
beginning in those regions, making ice
navigation extremely hard work. There
is no safe winter anchorage on the west
shore of Greenland between Disco and
Pandora harbor, except perhaps Northerly
bay, the winter quarters of Saunders. How
sver, there is bare chance of success and
if nay recommendation are approved,
am ready and anxious to make the effort
Ny plan 10 to buy q suitable sealsr, take q
crow from volunteers from the crews of thu
Yantic and Powhattan, now in this hsrbor
paying them extra compensation. Lieut..
q. @. Colwsll to command the ship; tive
essigns and one enEilee to DO taken from
those who may volunteer from the sam.
ship; also to employ . competent ice pilo
here. The ship must be under United
States laws and subject to military disoip
Incl believe nothing canbe done with for
sign civilian officers and crew. In even
of not enough seamen volunteering thu
rena nder to be enlisted here, Comm andel
Wilde will communicate with the navy de
partment. If anything is to be done i
must be done at once.
II appears from the ABOVE that if thu
supplemental instructions were sent Gar
lipgton he never received them. Lieut.
Darlington has been advised that the soc
rotary of war will not authorize the pro
posed expedition this fall, but will ordel
one next year.
The dispatches received to-day by the
chief signal officer and acting secretary o.
the navy from Lieut.. Darlington Of the
Greedy relief expedition and Commando
Wilde of the United States steamer Van
tic, has excited here much comment an6
discussion. The telegram from Lieut.
Darlington, it IS said, seems TO be reply
to the categ >rioal question, why did you
not land your stores at Littleton island, II
Life Boat cove, on your way north. The
reply because it was not IN my program
me to do so, with my instruction s. Thii
reply, it is argued, seems to indicate Ell
ther that Lieut.. Darlington never
received the so-called supplemental orders
| to land his stores at Littlston Island
on his way north or that if he received
such supplemental orders he did not
| regard them as imperative and did not
suppose they were intended to supersedt
the earlier instructions not to leave his
stores at Littleton island on his way north
It seems to be generally admitted here 10y
| those who discuss the subject that thu
landing of the Proteus' stores at the
mouth of Smiths sound before the ship
herself encountered the periis of the heavy
pack north of Cape Sabine was of the ut
most Importance. Prudent arctic navi-
gators, under similar circumstances, have
always endeavored to secure the safety O.
their food supply by getting the bulk of i
on solid land as coon az possibl
after reaching their base of operations
and before running the extreme risk which
is necessarily involved to penetrate an.
part of the great polar pack. The expert
enoed arctic navigator, Leigh Smith, in hi
last voyage to Franz Josef land, two year
ago, took the precaution to put larg
part of his provisions ashore at the YER.
earliest possible moment, 80 as not to b.
entirely at the mercy of the ice. The wis
dom of this course was demonstrated onl,
a few days later by the crushing and sink
ing of his ship. If the bulk of the Fro
teus' stores and the ready-made hous
which she had on board had been landed Ii
this way on Littleton island o
Cape Sabine as soon as tn
ship reached either of those points,
would not have been necessary for Lieut.
Darlington to seek safety at Upernavit