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The Mississippi Arrives With
a Mixed Lot Of
Troops.
MOSTLY FROM PENNSYLVANIA
A Large Delegation of Quak-
ers Met and Board
ed the Ships.
ENTHUSIASM WAS RAMPANT
Troops A and c of New York
Were Also Among the
Arrivals.
ENTHUSIASM WAS RAMPANT

The u. S. transport Mississippi, Cap
tain Goudie, which sailed from Ponce,
Porto Rico, September 3, arrived at Quar-
antine at eleven A NJ. and after brief
inspection by Health Officer Doty, pro-
ceeded to the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's wharf in this city. She brought
Troops and o of New York, the City
Troop of philadelphia; Battery A, Gov
ernor's Troop and the Sheridan Troop of
Pennsylvania, comprising a total of %
officers, GAO men. IS civilians, including
four newspaper correspondents and 242
horses.
An anxious crowd waited at Quarantine
to greet the returning soldiers. They
went to Quarantine yesterday. and some
stayed there all night, so as to be on
hand promptly In the morning. Mr.
Calvin Pardee, of Philadelphia, enter
tanned party of friends, several of whom
were ladies, on the tug Klondlke. Mr..
Pardee's son is member OF the City
Troop.
The Pennsylvania Railroad tug had on
board the citizens committee of Phila-
delphia which was appointed by the
Mayor to welcome the City Troop and
Battery A. The committee was as fol-
lows: Wendell Hartman. General Edward
Morrill, Lieut. w. Howard Pancoast,
Captain ]. c. Kilmore, James L. Miles,
William Van Osten, Murdoch Kendrick,
The tug RI J. Barrett had large party
of PhiladelHhians, headed by Mr.. c. Fl.
Cramp, the Jship builder. Mr.. Cramps
party was composed of men who had sons
or. other relatives among the troopers and
artillerymen. AS one Of the party put it,
THE Belvidere carries the City Fathers,
The Starin steamer Ridgway Park had on
board large party of friends of Troop A.
The mississippi was the first reported
at $40 A. NJ. outside the bar, bound IN,
and at IL O'Clock the transport passed
through the Narrows, greeted by whistles
and cheers from the passing craft and
their passengers. The troops Shouted and
cheered, called out to friends on board
the attending tugs, and the greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed. The transport was
flying guidons of each Troop and Battery
from the foremost head other masts dis
played code signals, and from the after
or jigger mast, was flying the homeward
bound pennant.
Health officer Doty boarded the steamer
and promptly permitted the waiting
friends of the soldiers to board the trans
port. They swarmed up the accommo-
cation ladder like bees. One of the City
Troopers had his head out of a portfolio
shouting, Here comes the recruits The
men crowded the decks, rails and rigging
perched upon boats, cranes and every con-
could see, shouting and yelling, chatting
each other, all happy healthy. bright fell
lows fit for anything that comes.
Twelve Of the soldiers are i'll with slight
attacks OF malaria and general debility
brought on by the work of the cam
paign- Lieut.. T. R. Coudet of Troop A,
is among those i'll. The general condition
OF the troop is excellent. The Mississip-
p experienced very fine weather during
the. voyage, but her bottom being very
foul was unable to steam at more than
knots an hour during the whole pas
sage. The following is a list of the
troops on board the transport
Troop A, two officers, IS enlisted men,
two civilians and 90 horses: Troop c, 8
Officers. 81 men. 3 civilians and 92 horses;
battery A, 3 officers, ISL men, civilians:
Governors Troop, officers, 81 men, 3
civilians. and horses; City Troop, 8 of
ficers, SO men. civilians and horses;
civilians and horses; II orderlies of the
First Army Corps and IS horses; % civil
ian mechanics, two discharged soldiers, 8
12 enlisted men, men of the Hospital
Corps, 2 Signal Service men, 4 newspaper
correspondents and "a private horses.