The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-15

Washington Notes.-The Greeley
Expedition.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.-The Pres
ideut will leave for New YORK th's
afternoon.
Pensacola advices state there were
no new cases of fever and no deaths
yesterday.
A special from Wilmington says a
| hurricane on the 10Th and ll'h inst.
was the worst ever Hn IN that
vicinity, much damage being done 10
buildings and shipping.
Surveyor General, Main. OF the
| hospita, service, # ceived an affidavit
sworn to by fit. en- pilots on Pensa-
cola Bay, residing on the naval res
| ervation at Warrington and Woolsey,
acknowledgements navy yard, deny
| ing the published charges that yellow
lever had been int Oduced into the
Pensacola navy yard through their
negligence. They say they did not
board vessels with yellow fever on
board, did not order any vessels to
! the quarantine station at Ship Island,
and they have not doLe anything by
which yellow feve' might have been
introduced to the naval reservation
As the appropriation for the trans
| portatien of fractional silver coin
will be exhausted by the first of DC
tober, express charges on such coin
forwarded from the Treasury on and
after that date will not be paid by the
government, but must be borne by
the consignee.
The motion for r%epreiving, filed by
the Attorney General of the State Of
California in the case OF the Pueblo
and San Francisco survey was re-
ceived at the Interior Department
to-day.
No additional reports have been
received to dayat either departments
from the officers returned from the
& eeley relief expedition at st.
Johns. 1t seems to be generally
conceded by those who have given
the most attention to the subject that
the compl+ te and disastrous failure of
the relief expedition is mainly due tn
the permission given Lieut.. Calling
Lon to land his stores ut Littltton
Island or some other iceberg north of
Smiths Sound before attempting the
hazardous navigation beyond. If he
had done this the destruction to the
Pro!eus would have been a COMPARE
lively trifing misfortune and would
no necessarily i'nperiIeo the lives of
either her crew or party. They were
sen north to the rescue. AS it is
now there is no party at the mouth
of Smith Sound to Cooperate wi h
Greeley, and no considerable food
there for him. The retreat upon the
fatal mistake which Gailirgton
made was in plunging into extreme
ly dangerous Ice on smiths Sound
with ut having established At the
mouth OF that Sound a depot of pro-
visions and a house upon which he
could fall back. In case Of disaster,
however, they would seem Justlfia-
BILE in the course they p irsued. An
order issued him by Hazen on the
7sh of June reads as follows: 'If It
should become clearly evident that
the Vessel cannot be pushed through
'Ou will retreat from your advanced
position and land your partyand stores
a. or near Life Boat cave. These Or
ders clearly imply directions O not
land his house until he should
have run ali the risks ofSmith Sound
and tonnd itimpossible oget through.
They virtually direct him to land
his stores late in the season on hi.
retreat, and not early in the season
his way up. This would seem to
have been the more prudent course,
Gen. H. J. Hunt, commanding the
South, was placed OF the
army retired list to day, having
reached his 9th year, and was in
structed 20 turn ove his command to
Gen. Hancock. who will assume
command temporarily.
A large number If government rec
Ords were lost in the fire that de
stroyed the land Off e at Olympia,
Washington Territory, yesterday.
Over 100 CO) pages of the records be-
tn the surveyor generals Of
flee. and a large number of plates
were consumed. The original pa
pers for certified copies, however, are
among the archives of the general
land office and copies can be made to
the Olympia office. The conn
Of the general land Office
expresses the opinion that this work
will require the employment Of a
number of clerks at east a wear,
Those supplemental orders, which
never been made public, were
AS follows: "The naval tenders to
join the Proteus at St. Johns, N f..
and to proceed with her to the vicin-
rf itftct.p T.JonI "ho n-
is toss land her stores. except
supplies for more northeriy depots,
at Littleton Island on h way uorth.
II she succeed in reaching Lady
Bay she is to pick up the
except the house and depot, if
possible, or her return and the naval
Iender will await the return of the
Proteus at the neighborhood of Lit
Island. and on her return will
south in company until she
reaches the southern limits of the ice
pack, when the vessels may separate.
Should the Proteus be crushed in the
neighborhood Of Littleten Island,
he tender will bring to St.
John'-, N. F., the officers and crew
the Proteus. The rest of the party ;
viii remain at LittletOn
until the Proteus ;
returns or her crew and an expedi-
ionary force succeed in reaching
here. The Tender may go to the
''uth, leaving 'ull particulars at Lit J
Teton island. Signals by flags, hello |
:raph and guns should be precon-
and communication by this !
means should he maintained between I
'essels as long as possible after they :
re separated in the passage north Of I
he Proteus. Nothing in the nortn- I
ward movement must be allowed to l
the progress of the Proteus. !
t is of the utmost importance that /
he take advantage of every lead to a
1T up t" Lady Franklin bay" $
from all the information thus far Q
it would appear that Mr.. I
.sailington either disregarded or l
ound it impracticable to obey these v
supplemental orders with regard to o