Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-04

general reports that well informed official
circles say the number OF victims is esti-
mated at between $4,000 and 10000. In
many OF the villages in the interior, he
says a majority of the laboring popula-
ton died, and in some instances nearly
the entire communities disappeared, go
That not sufficient effective hands remain
to cultivate the harvest crops.
FOE GRKELY's RELIEF.
Capt. Pike, of the Proteus, was before
the Arctic board to-day, and gave his
views concerning the best plan to
be adopted to secure success
by the expedition for Greely's relief.
Linden Kent, Lieut.. Garlington's counsel,
made an argument to-day before the Pro-
teus court in defense of his client. He
analyzs the evidence point by point, main
tanning, that under bis Instructions, and
in view of the objects sought to be accom-
plished, no other course than that adopted
in each case was prudent or possible.
There was no disobedience
of orders or unwise exercise Of any discre-
ton with which he was clothed.
TRADE DOLLARS.
Representative Bland had an interview
with Burchard, director Of the mint, in re-
gard to the number Of trade dollars now
in clrculation. The latter expressed the
opinion tina. between five and six millions
were out, and in the hands of tredesnen
and people generally, instead of in the
possession of spectators. The remainder
of the thirty -fveamillion nominal coined,
he thought had been exported or remelted.
Mr.. Bland says, it is questionable whether
the government having issued the trade
dollar. with the stamp Of the government
upon 1t, could not be required to take it
for government dues at the nominal value
Of one dollar.
MONEY oRDEss.
The attorney general decides that q
postmaster in order to be entitled to re-
ceive the compensation provided by the
revised statutes for the issuing and paying
OF money orders must perform the services
required in the money ordsr business IN
his office, in the sense that if the work is
not physically executed by his hand, it
muSt be executed under his immediate
supervision by clerk employed by him
for that purpose, and who is in no way
employed by the postofice department.
proper, or paid from the postal funds as
distinguished from the money fund.
wREoKAGE.
The solicitor of the treasury was notified
to-day that there will be submitted to him
certain legal questions, which have recent
ly arisen, in connection with the work of re-
covering the treasure supposed to be lying
in the wreck of the British frigate, Hussar.
at the bottom of East river, New York,
just below Port Morris. The Huzzar was
| wrecked in 1880, while on the way to Nor
wich, Conn. She is supposed to have had
on board nearly
A MILLION POUNDS STERLING,
intended as payment of the British troops,
and also seventy American prisoners
chained to the gun deck. Attempts have
been made at intervals for many years
to recover the treasure. which it is be-
lieved went down with her, but en-
on account Of the great depth of water,
and the swiftness of the tide in the chan
! nel whore The wreck lies, all such attempts
have hitherto been fruitiess. The
company engaged in the work undertook it
AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE AND RISE,
upon an agreement with the United States
government that they should have ninety
per cent. of all the money recovered, the
Uaited States TO receive sie other ten per
cent, together with all relics of value
which might be found. From the fact
that the legal question has arisen concern
ing the susken treasure, and 10 to be sub
mitted to the law Office OF the treasury,
the Inference is drawn, that there is bet
ter prospect than eyer before to recover
the money, but nothing is known definitely
about it, or about the nature of the ques-
tion raised. The argument began in the
United States supreme court to-day.