The Jeannette Heard From

Last Tuesday Secetary of State Frelinghuyscn received a telegram f rom the charg d'affaires of the United States at St. Petersburg, giving the following iiifornintioii coneerning the Jeannette. 'The Jeannette was crushcd iu the ice June 11, in liititude 77, longitude 157. The crew enibarked in three boats, wort' sepnrated by the wind and fog. N'umber (luce with 11 men, Engineer Slelville coininandiii;:, reached the mouth of the Lena September 19. 8ubsequently number one witli Captain De Long, Doctor Ambler and 12 aan reached Lena in a pitable ooadltlon. Prompt assi-iüiice wm tent Nimbar two has not been heard f rom." It will be seen tliat the hip was cnuhed about the time that tlie vessel sent out by the United States in search of the Jeanuette sailed, so that much of tlie talk and theorizing about that time was uncalled for. It took the boats three months from the time of the accident to reach the mouth of the Lena river in öiberia. The latltude and longltude glven above would lócate the place where the vessel vu lost about 150 miles northeast of New SiUria and 300 miles from tlie nearest point on the niain land. The dangers tliat the crew must have encbuntered in traveling through these ice bound seas can not be imagined by one tliat know Bothing of that región. Three tnonths in open boats on such a sea is more than any, save a hardy seaman, could endure. The news was sent from Lena by a special messenger on dog sleds up the river to Yokoutsh, theace a Cossark courier, travelling night and day, to Irkoutsh, the capital of.Eastern Siberia, and then from there to St. Petersburg by telegraph. It has taken two to make tbll journey, and in all probabiilty the explorers will theuiselves reach that city before a great while. The third boat may yet reach some tiiliinr station on the coast, if it has not already reached one. It will not, at any rate, be long before we shall liear a report of the journeyings of a crew for whose safety the civilized world lias been so anxious for the past six uionths.