Show A Letter irom Danenhoircr Washington 16 Mrs Danenhower has a long letter from her son Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Danenhower of the Jeannette ex plorir g expedition dated Yakoutsk Siberia December 30th It contains no news which has not been anticipated by telegraphic dispatches but gives some interesting details with regard to the life of tbe Jeannette survivors at Yakouuk The lieutenant says the death of Garfield Gar-field is a topic often mentioned and from accounts hera I learn that he was shot by Guiott on the train at Long Branch A great deal of interest and sympathy is manifested by the Russians Last evening even-ing I saw at Tomsk a newspaper which said the Alliance had made a cruise after the Jeannette and had reached latitude 800 55 on the west coast of Bpitzbergen Had our ship held together she would probably have drifted out in that vicinity vi-cinity About 900 miles south of this place there lives an Englishman named Lee and from him I hope to learn a good deal of news Written on a separate strip of paper and dated next day is a postcript Melville arrived just as I finished my letter yesterday He made the journey to the north of Culun in search of DoLong and Hardy He found the ships log and instruments that were stowed near the place where they landed but did not find the people Search is now going on and is limited to a very narrow strip of country to which the party have been traced On our return to the United States we have 4100 miles to make before reaching a railway station sta-tion |