The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-22

BY night nearly 1,JUO Of the o,UUu cav
airy and artillerymen who have been or
dered to Chickamauga were encampeC
on that battlefield.
PATRIOTIC NEGROES.
Washington, ID. c.. April PA dele
CATION of the most prominent negroes i'll
the country to-day rendered the Presi-
dent the support of the colored Ameri-
cans.
DISPATCHES FOR SQUADRON.
On board the flagship New York, of
Key West. Fla, April 21.--10:30 p. NJ
The night is being spent quietly ON board
this vessel. All think it is the last they
will spend in American waters for some
time to come.
Captain Chadwick has arranged spe-
eial mail to leave for the shore at IL
O'clock and the officers and men are now
busy writing farewell letters. Captain
Sampson is in his cabin with Captain
Chadwick and Fighting Bob Evans,
who came over from the Iowa about IN
hour ago. They are consulting with re-
spect to the final plans.
Steam is up in the boilers: the anchors
are ready to be weighed and probably
soon after sunrise. if not before. the
fighting squadron will be on it's way 10
Cuba. Long cipher dispatches from
Washington are being translated as this
dispatch goes ashore.
10000 MEN FOR GULF PORTS.
Washington ID. c. April 21.-Moyc-
ments of troops begun day or two ago
were changed by direction of the de-
IN ~
conditions of the moment at Southern
posts, but in general there are Indications
that the department is actung with
the purpose of concentrating no less
than 10000 men Mt the Gulf ports with
in the next ten days ready for embarka-
ton to Cuba.
OUR FLAG TRAMPLED UPON.
London, April 21.-Mail adv;ces from
the Grand Canary Island, dated April
II says it was rumorcd then that the
stars and stripes had been torn down
from the American Consulate by the
rabbIe and trampled upon.
OUR CONSUL LEAVES MALAGA.
Malaga, Spain April 21-1'he United
States Consul, r. NJ. Bartleman, mas
started for Gibraltar.
The escutcheon and the American flag
over the Consulate have been removed
and the archives transferred to the
British Consulate.
BERN1ABE REACHES CANADA.
Niagara Falls, Ont. April 21--Scnor
Polo Bernabe and staff arrived here
this afternoon, crossing from the Ameri-
can side in carriages There was no
reception of any kind on reaching Brit
sh soil, and after registering the Minis
ter and party took lunch. The length
of their stay here is problematical.
Senior Polo will Eat be interviewed.
Is COAL CONTRABAND?
London, April 21.-In the House of
Commons to-day Michael Davitt. Irish
Nationalist, asked whether the govern
ment would consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of
notifying the British Colonies and Brit
ish merchants that coal must be consid-
cred contraband of war during the con-
tinuance of the hostilities between Spain
and the United States. Mr.. Balfour re-
piled:
Her AlajestyIS government cannot lay
down the principle that coal is contra
band in the way suggested. There is no
doubt that it very frequently is contra
band but not of necessity, or under all
circumstances"
REFUSE TO BOOK FREIGHT.
St Louis. Mo, April 21.--"All steam
ship companies refuse TO book freight
for export from this port under any cir
cumstanceS.'
This sensational dispatch was received
by one of the largest grain exporters in
st. Louis to-day from its representative
at New Orleans. Inquiry among the eX-
port houses elected the information chat
from inns time on it will probably be
lmpossiDle to make shipments to Europe
through the Gulf ports. at least until the
steamship companies become convinced
that their vessels viii not be endanger-