The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-06
CAvALRYMEN COMING TO-DAY.
THEY WILL BE READY TO GO ON
THE MICHIGAN TO-MORROW.


COIOred Paymasters May Have to
Pay Some Southern Regiments
More Soldiers Discharged Ma
More Passes Good After IL
O'cIoek-SoIdiers Must Beware OF
Pawnshops.
Six companies Of the Fifth Cavalry Reg
iment will arrive in Savannah from
Huntsville, Ala, this morning. The cav
airy left Huntsville yesterday morning
early, and will come through via the Cen
trail Railroad.
The cavalrymen will remain in the tour
list cars in which they are travelling for a
day OF two. until the transport Michigan
Is ready to receive them. There was con-
siderable cleaning to be done on the trans
port TO get her in shape for receiving the
troops. and they will hardly go aboard
before tomorrow or next day.
The balance of the regiment will prob
ably leave Huntsville tomorrow just in
time to get here before the departure Of
the Michigan for Ponce. This will make
st unnecessary for the other six troops
to go into camp. Work has been going
on all day on the transport, and 1t is ex-
pected that she will be loaded and ready
to sail on Wednesday.
The Maine artillerymen and engineers
who came down on the Michigan, are now
well established in their camp just this
side of the Second Division camps, on the
line of The street railroad to Thunderbolt.
Arrangements were made yesterday to
give them a good water supply by tapping
the mains to the Second Division camps,
and the place has been put in good shape.
There was very little of interest in the
corps yesterday. The most important fea-
ture was the continuation of pay day and
the general desire of the soldiers to get
into the city. The provost guard had The
biggest job of the day, and more prisoners
were rolled in than have been picked up
in any two days since the corps has been
here.
The Second South Carolina, Forty-ninth
Iowa and Second Illinois Regiments were
paid yesterday. Mai. Logan paid the
South Carolinians, and Majs. Wright and
Lynch were assigned to the Northwestern
regiments. Maj. Logan finished his work
before O'Clock in the afternoon, and re-
ported TO Maj. George r. Smith, who has
charge of the matter of paying off the sol
diers.
1t begins to look as II one, and perhaps
both of the colored majors will have 10
assist In paying off the Southern regiments
before the work is over. This is likely to
be made necessary from the fact that the
paymasters are required to expedite this
work as rapidly as possible. Some of the
Southern boys may, therefore, have 10
take their pay from a colored major,
whether they want to or not. A colored
paymaster was sent TO pay off the First
Texas Regiment in Jacksonville on one
occasion. A protest was made to Wash
ington, and the reply came from the war
department that the men could take their
money from him or do without IT, They
wanted the money and they took II. How
ever no trouble is anticipated from this
source.
There win be no payments to-day, not
because it is Sunday, but because the pa
pers are not in shape to continue the work
to-day. Three other regiments VIII prob
ably be paid on Monday, but IL Is not yet
known which they win be.
Mai. Smith said yesterday that he did
not know whether he would have to pay
the Fifth Cavalry or not. They are COM
ing here to-day and tomorrow, and IL
may he that they have not been paid. In
that event the payment of the other troops
of the corps may be delayed for a day.
AT ali events six regiments of the corps
have already received their pay, and the
money Is getting into circulation rapidly.
The payments this time were made in
bills of various denominations, mostly new
ones. The following soldiers of the corps
have been discharged and their pay has
been given them by Mai Smith:
Grant A. Lease, Company b, Third Ne
braska; Geo. II. Caldwell, Company II,
One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana; Roy
d. Henderson, band, Third Nebraska;
Chas. r. Mccoy Company Fl, Second ILL
nois; Ulysses G. Bush, Company Fl, First
North Carolina; Augustus l.. Gown, Com
pany f, First North Carolina; II. A. Field,
Company K, Fourth Virginia; Frederick
Z. Gavin, band First North Carolina;
Herbert A. Starr, Company B, Forty-ninth
Iowa; Frank II. Morton, Company G,
Third Nebraska; Thos. w White, Hospi-
tai steward. L. S. A.; Leon Weiss. Com
pany b, First Texas; Freeman w. Delane
Company d, First Texas; Earl c. Fischer,
Company L, Forty-ninth Iowa. Clarence
r. Nissley, Company l., Forty-ninth Iowa ;
VIM Clements, Company Il, Second Louis
lama; James Snyder Company L, Third
Nebraska; Anthony A. Montague, Com
pany B. Third Nebraska; Paul II. Peter
son, One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana;
Chas. r. Parsons, Company L. Third Ne
braslxa; Richard w. Ropeiquet, Company
D, Fourth Illinois; Lyman T. Gregory
Company D, Fourth Illinois; Richard T.
Bond Company f, Second Louisiana /;
Blair p. Wilson, Company c, Fourth Vir-
ginia; VIM. A. Hughes, hospital steward,
L. S. A; Jos. NJ Dreyer, Company L,
Second Georgia; Benjamin Remitz, Com
pany A, Second Illinois; Robt Wallace.
Company L. Fourth Illinois: Marshall
Wallace, Company l.. Fourth Indiana
Edwin Wallace, Company l., Fourth ILL
nois.
An order which will be of interest to
every man IN the corps was issued from
the adjutant generals Office yesterday
Passes have frequently been issued 10 en-
listed men TO go out of their camps "at
will" or for an indefinite period. 1t is
now ordered that all such passes shall be
disregarded by the provost guard, and
they may be taken up by the guard or
any officer on provost duty. No passes
TO an enlisted man to be in the city of Sa-
vannah will be good hereafter beyond II
o'clock at night unless the business he is
on is stated on the pass. This order will
also apply to all teamsters and civilian