The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-06
GOV. RUSSELL DENIES IT
SAYS HE DIDN'T ASK THAT THE FIRST BE
MUSTERED OUT.
RusseIPs 'Savages" TO Pass through the
State This Week on a Vote
Getting Tour.

The News and Observers criticism of
the order to muster out the First North
Carolina regiment met with Il hearty re-
Spouse in the hearts of the people of
Raleigh.
1t was the one-absorbing topic yester-
day, and everywhere it was denounced as
nothing short of an outrage-this singing
ont the best regiment of the State to dis
miss it from service.
Governor Russell even refused to faith
or such recommendation such Il thing
an idea, emphatically denied that
he had, as the dispatches from Washing
ton claimed he had, and as the War De
pertinent tells our correspondent he did.
Unable to withstand the censure aroua-
ed by such an order the Governor yester-
day morning sent Loge Harris to Wash
ington to prevent the contamination of
such deed.
Let us hope that Loge will succeed as
splendidly i'll this as he did in keeping the
negro regiment i'll service.
And, by the way, that negro regiment
will pass through the State this week,
from Morehead to Ashevlle-through the
heart Of the State from the mountains
to the seashore-On triumphal yote-get-
ting tour. And this is one of the reasons
for its being kept in service
Forty members of the Ninth New York
regiment passed through here yesterday
morning over the SeabOard Air Line, Gu
their way home. They have been i'll
camp at Chickamauga and are off on Il
furough
This is the third squad from this regi-
ment that has passed through, going
home, within the past few days. In the
first party there were 100 men; in the
second 40, and i'll the party yesterday a
like number.
The Ninth regiment was organized in
New York city and sent to Chickamauga.
where they have been ever since.
Ninety men in this regiment have died
in the hospitals there. In one company
four died
One of these we did not know was
dead. said one of the soldiers, until we
finally found him disembOweled and with
his brains removed from his head. There
are other incidents of this kind which
will never come to light without an invcs-
tigation. Ninety of our own regiment
dead and hundreds ruined for life, yet
we haven't seen Il Spaniard."
The men are very anxious to be mus
tered out. They are Disguised with camp
life especially at Chickamauga. They
say newspaper accounts Of the condition
of the camp and the health of the troops
are not exaggerated. Out of a regiment
Of 1,200 men (the Ninth New York;. one
officer told me yesterday only one bat
TALON of 400 men is fit for duty.
If these men are mustered out, as they
probably will be, they will be ordered TO
Troy, n. Y, for the purpose.
There are now only seven regiments in
camp at Chckamauga.
Adjutant Johnson. Of the Third bat
TALON, First North Carolina regiment, is
home on ten days furlough. He ar
rived here at 2 o'clock yesterday morning
and left at noon for his home in Samp-
son county. He left Jacksonville
Wednesday, but was delayed by wash
outs Two whole days were spent IN
Savannah. On account of this he has
already applied for an extension of his
leave.
Lieutenant Johnson was greatly dis
appointed on his arrival here to learn
that the First had been mustered out and
the Second kept in service. The First.
he says, are content, with the eXecep-
ton of a few men who have business
interests calling them home. They con
slider it settled that they will go to
Cuba and they are satisfied, Lieutenant
Johnson thinks.
a letter from Captain David Clark. ut
Tybee, to his father, Judge Walter
Clark. says that the storm the other
day not only blew down the tents but
scattered the records, clothing and other
belongings upon the waters of the ocean.
The new barracks being erected there
were also blown down.
Messrs. Joe Barbee, Stanley Faison
and Sandy McGeachy, of the First
North Carolina regiment, are at home on
furlough. They report the1 soldiers Of
the regiment as in good health and
spirits, and getting along as well as could
be expected. Mr.. Edward Boykin, Of
the Second regiment, is here