Morning journal and courier., 1883-10-20
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. LOST IN THE ARCTIC. The Last Cruise of the
 Proteus. LOSS OF HER STORES. A Thieving Raid by the
 Crew. STATE OF THE PENSION ROLLS. A Fine Showing for the
 Bureau.
TATE OF THE PENSION ROLLS.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Lost Protsus-An OmcIaI Report o1 Her Last Cru1ss-Ths Crew Turn Thieves When the Ship Went Down l The Worst Lot of ScOundreIs Ever Got Together.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-Lieutenant GarIing- toms report of the Greeley relief expedition
 was given to the press late this afternoon. He gives detailed account of the voyage of the Proteus. On the 22d of July the Proteus entered Pandora harbor. The weather was
 warm and no ice in sight, so he determined, if these favorable conditions remained un- changed, not to leave a record at Littleton Island. but to take advantage Of the open
 water and press north as far as Cape Pres cott where he intended to leave the first
 cache of proVisions and whale boat. Lit tleton Island was therefore passed, but soon afterward an unbreken front of ice was en-
 countered and 1t was decided to go to Cape
 Sabine. Prayer harbor was reached. at 3:30
 D. m that day and while on shore he saw the
 ice pack had broken. Cape Sabine was
 rounded, but notwithstanding their efforts to
 save the Proteus the ice closed about them on
 the afternoon of the 23d. The boats were
 cleared and the provisions removed and at
 6: :5O D. m., after the ice had crushed through
 the Ahip's side, the vessel was deserted. At
 7:15 she began to sink slowly and passed out
 of sight. Lieutenant Darlington speaks of
 the careless manner in which the vessel was
 navigated. When there vas no longer any
 doubt of the loss of the Proteus he ordered
 the men to throw overheard the stores
 Many of the boxes went under the ship and
 in this way perhaps one third of the stores
 were lost. Concerning the alleged bad con
 duct of the ships crew he says that
 with the exception of the chief en-
 gineer, Nil. Carmichael, and Boatswain Taylor
 none of the crew lent any assistance in sav-
 ing property. At the first alarm those on
 duty abandoned their posts and all rushed to look after their own property and did noth-
 ing toward saving the provisions until after
 their bags had been packed and safely put on
 the ice. As soon as tho stores began to go overheard they broke open the boxes and
 appropriated whatever suited their fancy.
 from the start and seemed to think they had
 right to take anything they wanted. Lieu
 tenant Darlington thinks, however, that if their own officers had taken the proper steps that there would have been no difficulty in
 preventing stealing. He protested to Cap tain Pike, who said he was powerless to pre- vent the crews from stealing adding ''They
 are the worst lot of scoundrels ever saw
 These men, Lieutenant Darlington remarks,
 were shipped under English law for an En-
 elish ship, and claimed that as their pay
 stopped when the ship went down their shipping articles were no longer in force.
 To avoid any unnecessary collisions
 it was agreed that the crew should
 take their three boats and the Gar
 Iington party the two whalaboats. Land was
 reached at Brevoort on the 25sh of July and
 here a record was left. The prime object of
 the expedition was defeated and the best
 course to follow, looking to the relief of Greeley, WAS the problem to be solved. It
 was impossible to go north in small boats. If the Yantic should reach Littleton Island or Pandora harbor clothing, stores, coal and canvas could be secured and station could
 be established at Lifeboat Cove. Taking into
 consideration the condition of the ics and the instructions of Commander Wilkes not to en-
 ter it if he thought there was no chance of the Yantic's getting here, while he thought the Yantic would have reached Littleton 1s- land if consistent with the safety of the ves- sel, he did not think she would get through Melville Straits, but if she should reach Iittleton Island she would find the record, learn of the disaster and pick them up soon, It was therefore decided to cross Smith Sound to Portunity and proceed south At Cape Sabine large quantity Of clothing was 1 recovered from the crew of the Proteus, but they surrendered it with bad grace. although 1t was explained that it WAS ! necessary to leave everything possible for ! the Greeley party. The dangers encountered and the narrow escapes made in the retreat are recounted until the Ysntic found the par | ty on the 2d of September. Lieutenant Gar I lington concludes his report by calling the attention of Chief Signal Officer Hazen, to whom his report is addressed, to the mani | fest injury he has received by the publiea- | ton of certain statements purporting to have | been authorized from the signal office to the ! effect that Lieutenant Darlington had positively disobeyed supplementary in | structions" which had been furnished him prior to his departure from the United States. Respecting this accusation he says: The only instructions I ever received are 1 the original instructions published at the \ time. An unsigned, written paper was en- \ closed in the envelope with my instructions. | This paper is simply an unauthsnt1cated | | fee was informed that this memoranduua ua l was to have been furnished to the Secretary | of the Navy to form a basis of instructions to be given the commsnder of the vessel ordered l to accompany the Proteus. When found | it among my instructions at once carried it | to you and called your attention especially | to that clause relating to landing supplies at 1 Littleton Island. You said in substance that 1 you did not know how that paper had gotten | in there and impressed upon methe necessity of carrying out as far as possible the instrue- ! tions I had received. These instruc- | tions were based upon the letter of Lieutenant Greeley and you called my attention to the fact that Lieuten- ant Greeley strongly urged that the officer commanding the relief party should have no | latitude of action The paper was not ad l dressed or signed. indeed bore no official I marks whatever. I did not then nor have I at any time since regarded it as an order and was surprised to find the statement pub ! lished that this paper was the supplementary instructions '''
 In transnittine Lieutenant Garlington's re- port to the Secretary of War General Hazen says: ''The question of supplementary orders that Mr. Darlington refers to ss bayino been raised in unfair- ness to himself is in substance correctly stated by him. After Lieutenant Greeley arrived in Lady Franklin bay in 1881, he wrote out and sent to this office full directions for the party that might be sent to relieve him ending as follows: No deviation from these instructions should be permitted. Latitude of action should not be given to 8 relieving party who on an unknown coast are searching for one who knew their plans and
 orders This made it 2 matter of the great est delicacy to give any directions that in any manner might change the programme l there marked out. Afterwards it was ar ranged to send the Yantic with the Proteus
 as a convoy and this, General Hagen says, stso far obviated tho absolute necessity of first stopping to unload at LittIeton Island, the convoy itself being adepot, that it was thought best that Lieutenant Greeley's in- structions should remain as Eeutenans Gar 1ngton's guide and that it be suggested only that the landing be first made. The great del-
 icacy of imposing positive directions in case
 like this seemed to make the simple sugges- ton in that paper sufficient"
 The State of che Pension Holls.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.-The annual report
 of Pension Commissioner Dudley submitted |. -T