Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-05
THE THIRD VIRGINIA.
NOT YET SETTLED WHEN 1T WILL
EMBARK ron PORTO RICO.
SECOND CORPS TO MARCH AROUND.
II Will Encamp for a Week or More
at n Time at Different Points fn the
state, and May Eventually Reach
Richmond.

|
cial)-The Third Virginia Regiment
United States Volunteers. one OF the COM
mands under orders for Porto Rico. is
still at Camp Alger, but may leave on
the march for Manassas tomorrow or
next day, with other troops OF the bril-
is not yet settled at the War Department
when these troops will embark for Porto
Rico. 1t may be week. ten days, or two
weeks. before they will embark at New
port News for their final destination. In
the mean time, they will be taken away
from the typhoid-stricken camp in Fair
fax county. 1t will be just as easy and
convenient to transport the Porto Rico
troops from Manassas. which is on the
line of the Southern railway and the
Chesapeake and Ohio, as from Dunn
| Loring, and the former is probably the
point from which they will leave for New
port News.
There is the best authority for the
| statement that 1t is not the intention or
the War Department to make Manassas
a permanent camp for the Second Army
| Corps now on the move there from Camp
Alger.
! MARCHING ORDERS.
This corps will be moved from time to
time in light marching order, with Skin
mish and fanking pickets deployed,
wagon-trains, hospital service, and pro-
vost guard, just as in regular cam
paign The corps will march over the
routes traversed during the sixties by the
Army OF Northern Virginia and the Army
| fnv ynal .Nr
| more at a time on some of the historic
battle-feds The troops may remain a
longer period at Remington, on the banks
of the Rappahannock, than perhaps at
any other point, and will then probably
move up TO Fredericksburg. A short stay
would be made there. as now contem-
plated, end If the services of the corps
are not sooner required in Cuba or Porto
Rico, this march. with frequent changes
OF camp, might be extended to Richmond.
By this plan the men would be thorough
ly Injured to the hardships of a regular
campaign, and by the time they reached
your city the unhealthy season in the
West Indies would be over. and they
would be ready for any service required
Of them, either in Cuba or in Porto Rico.
MCAULL PROVIDED FOR.
IT can now be almost positively stated
that Colonel p. II. McCauli will be re-
warded for his valuable party services by
appointment as one of the ten extra In
ternal-revenue agents authorized by the
war revenue bill. This is a good position,
paying $40 day and all travelling ex-
penses, and is much preferred by some
TO a regular internal-revenue collector
ship.
Colonel McCaull was again at the de-
partment to-day, and was congratulated
in advance by those in the secret of his
appointment, which, It Is expected, will
be announced in a few days.
DR.. WISE ON THE WAR-PATH
Dr. Dick Wise was actively engaged to- |
day in stirring up the Navy Department |
and the Department of Justice about the |
delay in the purchase of the Cedar-Groye |
property. 1t seems that some construc-
ton of the law has to be given by the |
Attorney General before the appraisement |
Of the property by the commissioners
can be considered by the Navy Depart
ment. The usual promises were made TO
hurry the matter up.
The Doctor also went for the United
States Army Engineers about the deepen
ing and widening of the channel from
Hampton Roads to the Norfolk navy
yard, but 1t is not thought he expedited
this important naval connection, as Gene
raj Wilson is very deliberate, red-tapeical,
and methodical.
ACCIDENT TO A VIRGINIA LADY.
Miss Sallie Stevenson, formerly of Fred
ericksburg, but now of this city, where
she has been living at the Metropolitan
for twenty years past. met with severe
and painful accident few days ago.
Early in life she became the victim of a
spinal trouble, which had necessitated
the use of crutches ever since. While
rising from a chair on the polished floor
of a store on July 18th last she slipped
and broke her left leg. She was at once
taken to the Metropolitan, where she had
prompt medical attention. Miss Steven
son is the sister of the late Major-Gene-
raj Stevenson, of the Confederate army,
and is a relative of the Herndon family
Of Fredericksburg, into which Chester A.
Arthur, afterwards President of the
United States, married. She has been
clerk in the revenue division OF the Urea
sury Department for great many years
and is we'll known, highly respected, and
beloved over the entire Treasury build |
ing She Is great favorite with the
guests Of the Metropolitan. and has the
warmest sympathy of a large circle OF
devoted friends.
TOBACCO IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mr.. H. McHodge OF Darlington S. c.,
a veteran of the First Regiment from
that State In the civil war, writing to a
friend in this city, says he would like TO
try 1t again. but fears the war is virtual
~ over He remarks that he is still farm
ng (Which is better than fighting), and {
avs that Darlington has developed into
a great tobacco-growing county. He is
planting the weed on a limited scale, :
hough some of his neighbors plant over
100 acres each Cotton is no longer king :
in Darlington. The planters find that to-
,acco pays much better than the former
,reat staple product of the South.
ARMY ORDERS.
Private Zachary 7. May, Company F.
Fourth United States Volunteers. now at
Va; Private Harmon
Brown, Company II. Second Virginia Vol
Inteers, now at Jacksonville. Fla. and
sergeant Henry c. Snead, Company e,
bird Virginia Volunteers, now at Camp !
Alger, Va, will be discharged from the
ervice OF the United States by the COM
handing officers OF their respective sta
ions.
Lieutenant Colonel Jacob H. Smith,
'welfth Infantry, now at Fort Monroe,
"a, will proceed to his home. and upon
trivial there will report by letter to the Z
djutant-general OF the army. and await
riders.
Second Lieutenant Bryant II. Wells, (
econd Infantry. will proceed from Fort {
fonroe. Va. to Salt Lake City. Utah, /