The news & observer., 1898-05-09

date neighborhood. but also from noinrs
as distant as New York. Troon-sbips
| and transports have also either been
hired or advertised for. The crnise,
| ICharleston. now at the Mare Island na1,>
yard. has beer assigned to convoy the
expedition across the ocean, and # is
calculated that in about n month hence
the army Of occupation viii be ready to
| joint forces with Commodore Dewev's
marines and establish the s0vereignfv OF
the United States throughout the length
and breadth of the distant territory
wrested from Spain.
Among the victories of peace this
week has been the successful inaueura-
| tion of Washington's first annual horse
show Like similar exhibitions in other
cities. the event has been made the occa-
sion for n social festival, at which fair
women and ''heavy swells" draw much
more attention from the spectators than
| the blue blooded scions of the equine race
which furnish the excuse for the pres-
ence of glittering delegations of those.
who make up the human society or
Washington. The horses played their
parts well, however, and as the entrie:,
were very numerous, the show has bee,.
pronounced a great success in every re-
spect
During the week many stalwart
youths. all lovers of a life of hardy ex-
ercise. have Hocked to the standard of
Theodore Roosevelt. about to take up
his commission as lieutenant-colonel of
the regiment Of rough-riders already
known as '"Teddy's Terrors." On one
day this week forty-five recruits wert
enlisted. among them being many men
who have won fame on the football
field while wearing the cOlors of Har-
ward. Yale or Princeton, as varsity
oarsmen, and as dashing polor players
Several men who served under ROose-
welt with the New York mounted police
have also demanded the privilege of rid
ing charge with him against the Span
iardS in Cuba. and several former cav
airy men of the regular army have ea.
cerly enrolled themselves with the rest
The thirst for battle is strong in all OF
them and they believe that with RoOse-
welt they will have many opportunities
to crafty it. They are right, for if any
battle is fought ut all in Cuba, the dash
| ing Teddy will be in the forefront of it
One event which marks this week will
be writ large upon the page of history
That was the swearing i'll ON Friday to
the service OF the tHlJeu suites as
| Maior-General Of volunteers Joseph
Wheeler. of Alabama. late senior cay
airy general of the Confederate armies
and ut present Representative in Con.
gress from the Eighth district of Ala.
bama 1t will so on record that General
| Wheeler duly swore Ito bear true faith
and allegiance to the United States OF
America and to serve them honestly ano
faithfully against all their enemies
whomsoever.' but history will take note
that in addition, he received in return
the pledge of the United States that OF
all their adherents they counted none
more loyal than the old battle-scarred
veterans who have now doffed the grey
| for the blue General Wheeler. who
was known in "a as the most dashing
cavalry leader in the rebel army, has
the honor to be the first to receive this
pledge, for he is the first eX-ConfederatC
officer to bear a commission in the milf
tary service of the United States He is
also the first Major-General to be mus
| tered into the volunteer army for SCI.
vice against Spain.