The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19
TREASURY STATEMENT.

TREASURY STATEMENT.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The state
ment of the United States treasurer
shows the gold, silver and United
States notes in the treasury to-day us
follows: Gold coin and bullion, $685.
S78,770; silver dollars and bullion,
S1O8,O90. 957; fractional silver coin,
$27, 962, 1881; United States notes. $44,-
234, 435; total, 1856, 107 1853 Certificates
outstanding-go S46.6S0,610: silver,
81, 100, 191; currency, S9,150,OO0.
RELIEF EXPEDITION. TO SEARCH FOR
GREELEY.
By the attorney general reports
have recently been published to the
effect that much uneaSinesS was felt
by officers of the signal service and
Arctic experts of this city, with re.
gard to the safety of Lieut.. GreeIy's
meteorological station party at Lady
Franklin bay. There is danger, it
has been said, that the relief eXpe-
dition which is now being organized,
will failed to reach its destination as
the relief expedition did last year;
that Lieut.. Greely's party will be
forced to retreat unaided down the
rugged coast of Grinnells Land next
winter, and that this enforced re-
treat may be as disastrous as that
OF Lieutenant Commander belong
through the Lena Delta The follow
ing is review of the situation of the
situation of Lieut.. Greely'S party, as
it is understood by those who have
given the most careful attention to
the subject, and of the measures which
are to be taken to insure the safe re-
turn of that party to America: Fort
Conger, which is the last meteoroiogi-
cal station established by Lieut..
Greely'S party in the summer Of 1881,
is situated on the eastern coast of
Grinnell Land and just north of Lady
Franklin bay, in about latitude 81
deg. and 40 min. 1t is further north
than the winter quarters Of any Arc
tic expedition which ever followed
Smith Sound route, with the eXcep-
ton of the PolariS expedition
and the expedition of Sir George
LareS in 1915. The coast of Grinnell
Land south of the meteorological
station is extremely wild, desOlate
and rugged, for distance of ut least
three hundred miles. Lieut.. Greely's
party is, therefore, isolated from any
local assistance, and must depend for
safety, first, upon its own exertions,
and second, upon the cooperation of
the relief expeditions from this coun-
try. 1t is more than probable that
Smiths sound will be so blocked up
with heavy pack ice and immense
bergs from Humboldt glacier, that it
will be impenetrable throughout the
short navigable season, and that
the expedition will be stopped
at the very gateway of the ice-choked
channel which leads up to Lady
Franklin bay. IN this event the re-
lief party will B84anded with ready
made house and all the stores at Life
boat cave, on the eastern side of the
sound, opposite Cape Sabine, where
they will go into quarters. The
steamer will then return to America,
leaving Smiths Sound between the
first and fifteenth of September, in
time to- escape most of the danger of
being imprisoned in the ice. If the
relief expedition does not succeed
in reaching his station this summer,
he can retreat next winter to the
headquarters of Lieut.. Darlington at
Lifeboat cove, and live there in safety
and comparative comfort until the
steamer shall be sent for the COM
bined party next winter. AS early in
the fall as practicable Lieut.. CARING
ton will open communication with
the Etah Eskimos and organize dog
sled party, with native drivers, to
cross Smiths Sound to Cape Sabine,
or Cape Hawks. and then proceed
northward to the coast of Grinnell
Land to Lieut.. Greely's station.
He could, it is thought, make the dis
lance between the station and head
quarters of the relief party in sixty
days, if he could make it at all. Off
GERS of the signal service say. there
fore, there is little or no danger of
such a catastrophe on the coast of
Grinnell Land as that which occurred
in the Lena Delta. De Long was in
a region of whose geography he was
ignorant, while Greedy will
be on a coast with which he is
well acquainted, and one whose out
lines have been carefully charted.
belong had no provisions to start
with, while Greedy will start with full
sledgeS and can resupply himself at
four different places in a distance of
two hundred and twenty and two
hundred and fifty nautical miles.
belong had no assistance or co-ope-
ration until it was too late to be of
any avail, while Greedy will be met
by relief party acting under Il writ
ten order previously drawn up by
Greedy himself in view of this very
1t is not true, therefore,
Gen. Hazen says, that great anxiety
is felt here as to Lieutenant Greely's
safety.
COMPROMISE EFFECTED.
Secretary Folger to-day accepted
the offer of compromise in the whisky
case of Bayard Il Parrena. New York.
The amount offered as compromise
was $4,000. The secretary's action
was based upon the recommendation
of the commissioner OF internal reve-
nue., which was concurred in by the
attorney general.
REVENUE STATISTICS.
During the first nine months of the
current fiscal year the internal rev.
enue receipts amounted to $l08,825,-
1893, an increase of $3.50, 1893 over the
corresponding period of the last fiscal
year; from the LIST to the 18th of
April. 1882, the receipts aggregated
$4,610,974, and from the 1st to the
18th of April, 1883, 81, 1852, 407, a de-
crease Of SS448,517, making an actual
increase for 1883, of So, 102,881.
INDIANS HELD FOR MURDER.
Commissioner Price to-day directed
the agent at Swan Siletz Indian
Oregon, to refuse to release
the Indians now held for a murder.
committed on the reservation, and
to file complaint against them before
a magistrate.
JOURNALIST DEAD.
John G. Mills. well-known jour-
nalist, died this morning of pneu-
monia, at his residence in this city.
He was son of Hon. Andrew ].
Mills, of Orange county.
IMPORTANT CASE.
CINCINNATI, o., April 14.-The So
ciety for the prevention of cruelty to
animals gained an important case to-
day, in the police court. They had
caused the arrest of several persons
engaged in shooting pigeons at
tournament. A test case was made
of one of the parties and a demurrer
filed. Judge Higley decided the word
animals" in the statute, to include
every living dumb creature, and that
the words ''torture and cruelty" in
Guided every act of omission and
neglect whereby unnecessary physical