The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-07-29
BOTH OF THEM WRONG.
Fajardo the Point for Landing-"Over-
sight Corrected"

Fajardo the Point for Landing-"Over
sight Corrected"
WASHINGTON, July 25.-Adjt.- Gen
Corbin stated tonight that he had re
ceived nothing to confirm the report
that Maj.-Gen. Miles, with the troops
under his command, had arrived in
| Porto Rican waters and was landing
near Ponce.
Department officials with whom ]
talked expressed doubt as to the ac.
curacy of the report, because, they
stated, Gen. Miles was not to land neal
Ponce, but at Fajardo, on the eastern
coast. 1t was suggested that the con-
ditions at Fajardo may have been such
that landing could not be effected, but
this was not believed, as the authori-
ties are confident that the naval vessels
will be able to shell the shore at the
point selected for debarkation and that
the men can land in safety and throw
up Notifications to protect themselves.
Advices are expected here announcing
the arrival and debarkation of the
troops at Fajardo.
Gen. Miles took with him about 3, 500
| troops, Gen. Wilson about 5000, Gen.
| Schwan about 1000. The troops now
! assembled at Newport News ready for
embarlation number, officers included,
| about $500 men. There are 5,232 en-
listed men.
Orders were issued today instructing
the only three Southern regiments at
Tampa to proceed at once to Porto Rico.
These men number about 3, 600, and are
the First Florida, Second Georgia and
Fifth Maryland. BY a clerical error
Santiago was inserted in the order in
stead of Porto Rico, and thus came
about the confusion, but Gen. Corbin
today promptly had the error corrected.
Show for Southern Troops.
The administration was seemingly not
aware that the Southern troops had
been overlooked in designating regi-
ments for the front until his attention
was drawn to the fact several days ago.
Since then every effort has been made
to remove any cause of criticism.
The orders have even gone further,
and it is now confidently expected that
the First Corps at Chickamauga will be
brought to Newport News at once.
am informed that the principal reason
this brigade was selected was because
it had in it the First Georgia Regi-
ment, claimed by some to be the crack
regiment of the corps. The other two
regiments of the brigade are the Thirty
first Michigan and the One Hundred
and SiXtieth Indiana. The brigade is
commanded by Gen. Roe, with Gen. j.
5. Poland commanding the division.
Thus there will be six regiments of
Southern troops in the field.
The troops enumerated above ag-
gregate more than % 900. 1t is expected
that two more volunteer regiments will
be sent from Tampa, as well as about
1000 more regulars, which have not
yet embarked thence. This, it is
thought, will complete the army under
Maj.-Gen. Miles.
Miles Should Be There.
The distance from Guantanamo to
Fajardo is about 700 miles, or about
seventy hours. Reckoning on this
basis, Gen. Miles departure at o'clock
Friday afternoon, allowing for his stop
at Mole st. Nicholas, would probably
bring the time of his landing up to this
afternoon. In the most probable event
that the newspaper dispatches would
be allowed to come from st. Thomas,
where the English cable is subsidized
by Spain, there should be soon received
advices of Gen. Miles arrival, as the
distance to st. Thomas is only about
fifty miles. Gen. Greely has some
doubt about whether the government
messages would be allowed to come
over this line, but thinks it may be
possible, in view of the neutrality of
Denmark, of which the island of St.
Thomas is possession.
There have been no preparations
made for laying cable to Puerto Plata,
distant more than $50 miles, though
Gen. Greely says if such thing is de-
cided upon the cable could be laid at
the rate of 100 miles day at the ex-
pense of about 81, 200 mile In such
an event the United States would be in
complete control of the cable from
Porto Rico to New York.