Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-25
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Orders Issued For Muster
ing Out Regiments.
TAKE EFFECT AT ONCE.
Preparations Already Made at
Camp Meade.

The Order Includes the Sixth Pennsylva.
MIA, the First Vermont and the Second
New York Volunteer Regiments, Also
the First Illinois Volunteer Cavalry.
Orders For tho Disbanding Of More
Regiments to Follow speediIy-The Ma
val Militiamen, with Few Exceptions,
Will Probably BE All Released From
Duty by the First OF september-The
Work OF Discharxing Them In Rapid
Progress Already.
Washington, Aug. 25.-Orders have
been issued for the mastering out Of the
following regiments:
First Vermont, First Maine, Fifty.
second Iowa, Sixth Pennsylvania, Fifth
Indiana, Second New York, Second Ne
braska, Fifty-seventh Indiana, all vol
unteer infantry; also battalion Of Ohio
light artillery, First Illinois volunteer
cavalry; Batteries A and B, Georgia
light artillery; Twenty-eighth Indiana
light battery and the New York and
Pennsylvania cavalry troops now in
Porto Rico. These are Troops A and c
Of New York, the Philadelphia city
troop, Sheridan troop and the govern
or's troop of Pennsylvania. Other or
ders to muster out troops will be an
nounced as soon as definite decisions
are reached.
Naval officials say that within the
next week all the men called from vari-
Gus states to man ships Of the auxiliary
navy Will be on their way home, with
the possible exception Of those on the
four old monitors around Boston, The
department is deluged with inquiries as
to how soon these naval militiamen can
return home. The letters come not only
from relatives, but from business firms
who say that as the war Is over they
want their clerks to return to duty.
These influences have been aided by
pressure from senators and congress-
men, and the department feels some
satisfaction in stating that all the men
will be released by Sept /, except those
on four Of the old monitors.
Di<charging Men Now.
The discharges are going on and will
continue from day to day till all are re-
leased. The Incas is discharging her
men Of the Boston naval militia at Bos-
ton. The Restless, with men from the
New York and Connecticut militia, has
been ordered from Montauk to New
York, where she will discharge her
crew. The Aileen, manned by New
York men. is under similar orders. The
Arctic, manned by Pennsylvania men,
ia discharging today at League Island
The Elfreda and Huntress, manned by
New York men. will remain at Montauk
to assist in hospital work. The Chey-
enne and Chickasaw, manned by North
Carolina men, are discharging today at
Port Royal.
The California militiamen, on the Ac-
tive. Iroquois and Vigilant, are being
mustered out today at Mare Island,
Cal. The Yankee has been ordered
north to Tompkinsville. where she will
muster out 265 men of New York naval
militia on her arrival. The Baltimore
men. on the monitor Ajax. We're dis
charged Tuesday The Rhode Island
men, on the monitor Manhattan are
now being discharged. The men on the
Nantucket also are being let Off
Thus the release Of the naval militia
men Is proceeding rapidly. The four old
monitors will be the last to release their
men, mainly from Massachusetts and
Maine, this delay being due to the ne
cessity of sending tugs to convoy the
monitors to the League Island navy
yard, Philadelphia where the crews
will be let go.