Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-30


! lector of Internal revenue from Santa
Fee, n. NJ. to Albuerque They have laid
| the matter before the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, who is now considering it.
1t Is not probable he will decide the cues
ton until the citizens of Santa Fee are
given an opportunity to present their
views on it.
| NOT A JUDICIAL COURT.
Secretary Folger has decided that the
treasury department. is not the place in
which to settle the question whether off,
GERS of the army and navy who resigned
| or, were dismissed and subsequently rein
stated were legally in the service during
the period preceding their reinstatement
and before regularly appointed, and has
referred the matter to the court of claims
| for settlement.
yANDERvoORT.
| Paul Vandervort, late chief clerk of the
western division of the railway mail SER
vice at Omaha, who was removed for mat
| tentiou, called upon the First Assistant
Postmaster General Hatton to-day. Upon
| the return of Postmaster General Gresham
ne will make personal appeal.
SALARIES RAISED.
The quarterly readjustment of post
| mnsters' salaries has been completed by
the postofflce department., and the post
offices below named have been raised to the
third grade and the postmasters' salaries
increased to the figures Siven: Decatur,
Ala, $1,000 Tuscumbia, Ala, s1,1oO;
Brooklyn, Oak, $1,1OO; Lisbon, OAK,
$1,000; Parker, Dak., $1,100; Plank1nton,
OAK, $1,000; Tower City, OAK, $1,1OO;
HALEY, Idaho, $1,000; McLeansborough,
Ills, S1'100; Thornton, Ind, $1,000; Tip
ton, Ind, $1,1O0; Spirit Lake, Ia, $1,1OO;
Mayfeid, KY, $1,000; Bayou Para, Ga,
$1,000; Sault Ste Marie, Mich, S1,1OO; Wy
more, Neb., $1,1O0; Oonneantiville, Pa,
$1,100; Salisbury, Pa, $1,10O; Hearne,
Tex, $1,000. Since Sept. Is the postofice
department has issued 102,605,OO0 new
two cent Hostage stamps.
JOHN RoACH's BOARD BILL.
John Roach has presented bill to the
secretary of the navy for $21, ZOO, for tax
ing care of the United States steamer
Roanoke from 1877 to the present time.
The charge is made at the rate of So day.
Bills were opened at the treasury depart
ment to-day for construction of a marine
hospital at View Orleans. The bidders are
j. NJ. Marshall, Washington, So, s42, and
Ferdinand Rensch, New Orleans, S63, 443.
SPAIN AND LIBERIA.
new commercial treaty has been pro-
posed to the government of Liberia by the
government of Spain. The specially novel
apd important feature of the treaty is
that Spain agrees to guarantee as full and
complete protection to life and property
to free negroes visiting, for any lawful
purpose Cuba OF Porte Rico as has hereto
fore been grant ID any foreigers visiting
any port of the panish dominions.
ARCTIC oRl Sc OF THE YANrIo.
The secretary the navy has just re-
ceived from Com lander Frank Wildes, of
| the o. s. steamer Yantic, full report Of
| the cruise of that vessel up the western
| coast Of Greenland last summer, while
serving in the capacity of reserve ship
for the Greedy relief expedition, under
| command of Lieutenant Darlington. The
first part of the report describes the voy-
| age up Bafin's Bay as comparatively un-
| important. On the I'd of August the Yam
tic arrived at Cary Island. Here was
found. a cairn containing the record left by
| Lieutenant Darlington, stating that the
| Proteus had passed Cary Island July 21st,
| twelve days in advance of the Yantic:
| After leaving another record in the csirn,
Commander Wildes pushed on northward
through loose streams of ice and on the
Sd of August reached Littleton island,
where cairn was discovered in which was
| found the records left by 1t. Darlington,
| announcing the wreck end total loss of the
Proteus on the 23d, giving brief account
| of the movements of his own immediate
party. A copy of the record will be found
below. The Yantic then ran down to
pandora harbor, where Commander Wildes
discovered another cairn containing letters
from both Pike and Lit Darlington, stating
the whole expeditionary force of the ship
wrecked Proteus had started sonthward in
small boats. Hoping to meet the Yantic
coming up or find the Swedish steamer
Sophie at Cape York, Commander Wildes,
upon discovering these records, started at
once southwark in track of the retreating
boats, searching the coast carefully for any
trace Of the missing men. Finally on Sept.
goth, Wildes found Lit. Darlington
and the Greedy relief party and Capt.
Pike and crew Of the crew Of the Proteus
at Upernavik, and on the same day sailed
for St. John. In concluding his report
Wildes says: I earnestly represent to the
| government the inadvisability Of again
sending vessel north Of Newfoundland,
unless built and equipped to encounter
| heavy ice, and provis1oned and clothed to
spend the Arctic winter. Had the Yantic
been of this description there was nothing
to prevent my forcing passage into the
fast ice about Cape York and remaining
there or maintaining our position, unless
opened or moved off shore. I purposely
| put this vessel on several occasions
into the edge of the pack to get
some idea of how she would behave and
the result was not encouraging. Tho dam
age to screw, rudder and rudder post was
greatly feared. All the vessels which
cruise in these waters carry heavy iron,
two heavy bladed lifting screws, as we'll as
spare ones, and spare rudder, Attached
to the report are copies of the records left
by Lit. Darlington, at Pandora harbor and
Littleton island, giving an account of the
wreck of the Proteus and the subsequent
movements of the party. The first record
found indicates that Darlington was acting
on instructions given when he left Wash
| ington to force his way as far north as
possible and in case he failed
to meet the Greedy party to
leave provisions at Littleton island
on the way back, for he says under date of
July 22d, on the day before the Probeus
| was wrecked Weather perfect" If it con-