The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-10
GOVERNOR GOING TO GRIFFIN.
WILL PAY HIS FIRST VISIT TO THE
TROOPS TODAY.

Is Very Much Interested i'm the Mill
tary Movement and viii Watch
Closely the Work of Formation
and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Pass
ing Through Atlanta for the
Camp-Great Faith Put in the GeOr-
gians.
Atlanta, Ca, May 9.-Gov. Atkinson viii
make his first visit to Camp Northen to-
morrow. He will leave here on the
morning train and spend the day among
the volunteers.
He is very much interested in the mill
tary movement and will watch closely the
work of formation and preparation as it
goes forward at Griffin.
Since the departure of Col. Brown and
the movement of the Atlanta contingent
for Griffin the center of military interest
has been transferred from the capital to
the camp ground.
To-day the last vestige of the war spirit
that has pervaded the capitol for weeks
past disappeared, when Capt Baker
marched out with his company to join Col.
Browns regiment at Griffin.
There now remains only squad of the
Atlanta volunteers, part of Capt Bakers
command, to be sent TO camp, and they
will leave in the morning.
Two companies, one from Athens and
the other from Gainesville, have, however,
been ordered to Atlanta for medical exam
ination, and their arrival will serve to keep
up the appearance of warlike preparation
about the capitol for short time yet.
A press dispatch from Washington this
afternoon stated that the department had
determined 20 cali upon Georgia for one
regiment of infantry for immediate service
with the Cuban expedition.
Gov. Atkinson has not, however, heard
anything on this line from Washington.
Our quota will be ready for duty when
ever their equipment arrives" said the
Governor They will all be ready for
mastering in before the end of this week
and If the department wants a regiment
to march TO Havana all they have got to
do is to send the equipment. Georgia is
ready, and not only ready, but anxious
to so to the front.
IF the President has decided to use a
Georgia regiment for the invasion, / do
not know that the department would
communicate that fact to me- except pos
slbly to hasten our preparations for mus
terins into the regular army service. You
! see, as soon as the volunteers are enlisted
and mustered into the federal service, the
Governor has no authority or control over
them. They are then subject to the orders
OF the war department, and the order to
the regiment as well as the selection of
the regiment for this service would come
through the regular army officials and not
through me-
While many of the Georgia volunteers
are raw recruits, Capt. Irwin, U. S. A..
assistant adjutant general estimated that
at least one half of them are physically
and otherwise qualified for Immediate SER
vice. The rigid physical examination
through which the Georgia boys have
/ been put before leaving their homes, puts
the force now in Camp Northen in prob
! ably better condition for immediate duty
| than the volunteers from many other
states who succeeded in getting to their
| rendezvous week earlier The United
States officers viii not receive the vol
unteers unless they come up to the re-
! quirements of the army regulations. Those
now at Griffin and moving toward that
point are expected to go through to a man.
| however, Mastering in will be a cornpar-
ativeiy simple matter If the equipment
should be delivered in Griffin tomorrow
the government could get a splendid regi-
| ment by tomorrow night or Wednesday
/ morning in an emergency
| The movement of volunteers to Chicka-
manga will begin tomorrow. The South
ern Railway passenger department is In
receipt of telegram to the effect that
the Texas United States volunteers. to
the number of 1900 encamped at Austin.
are ready to move to Chickamauga. Ii
| VIII take fifteen trains to move
these troops, and several trains to move
! their baggage.
The same authorities have advices from
South Carolina 10 the effect that the vol
unieers at Columbia, about 1000 strong,
Will leave there for Chickamauga to-mor-
! ROW
These are the first movements of volun.
teers from the states in which they were
modified and enlisted, and they confirm
the impression that Chickamauga will be
made the rendezvous for volunteers from a
large part of the country.
The fact that the Texas troops are ia
go there indicates that the Western, as
well the Southern troops, will be mob
ilized at Chiekamauga.
1t is believed that the Georgia volunteers
will so there as soon as the enlistment
now in progress at Griffin, has been com
pleted. Capt Mills. the enlisting officer
says he viii have the Georgia volunteers
in the United States Army by Saturday
night, and he thinks they will go to Chick
amauga as soon as they are enlisted. This
means that another week will see them al
Chickamauga.