Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-11-02
DATE OF MUSTER OUT.
THE THIRD WILL BIZ DISCHARGED
TOMORROW OR FRIDAY.
THE REGIMENT GETS 4 LARGE sun.
The Aggregate May Reach Hum
dred Thousand Dollars-The Sixth
May he Mustered Out-Negroes
whit on the Governor.

The Third Regiment will be mustered
out OF the service probably Thursday,
certainly Friday.
This information was received from the
War Department yesterday. The pay
! master is expected to arrive tonight
| The regiment will not be mustered out
by companies, as Major Price, the muster
out officer. desired. The regiment will
be mustered and discharged in a body.
The discomfort of the men is beginning
to border on the serious. They are very
anxious to get home, and they have
reached a point where soldlerly forbear-
ance seems to have ceased to be virtue
with them, and they grumble openly.
The condition of the old Exchange, where
| they are quartered, is anything but in
viting.
WILL HAVE PLENTY OF MONEY.
The officers and men are now almost
entirely without money but when they
are all paid off the enlisted men OF the
regiment will have in their possession
sum aggregating about 100000, possibly
a little more, possibly something less.
Each man will receive nearly three
months pay, and in addition thereto will
be given clothing Communication, which
will make the average to each man foot
| up not far from $50, probably $50.
The officers of the regiment, knowing
| from sad experience the tendency Of the
| private soldier to part with his money in
a hurry, are daily beseeching their men.
| with tears in their eyes, figuratively, to
| get home as soon as possible after being
| paid off. Several of the privates in the
| regiment say they know of cases where
sharps are deliberately planning to get
the money of the men before they leave
the city. Captain Rowe, of Company X.
| has arranged TO take his company home
! in body on the day they are paid Off,
and other company officers hope to be
able to do likewise, though they have no
authority over the men after discharges
| are issued.
However the boys are arranging 10
| buy a great deal of clothing in this city,
| and one clother states that in his estab-
lishment there are eightynine suits
wrapped up and marked with the name
| of the purchaser, a soldier in every case.
to be. called for when the men are paid
| off.
| Colonel Male has appointed a board of
survey, TO examine into and appraise the
damage done to the hotel building by the
| soldiers. There has been considerable
| DETACHMENT Of property, but no very cost
| ~ damage. The board consists of Cap
| tains NJ. b. Rowe. Company *, chair
| man; j. r. Hutchins, Company A, and
| j. D. Allen, Company c.
MAY MUSTER THE SIXTH OUT.
| There is thought now to be a strong
! probability of the Sixth Virginia Regi-
| ment (coloredD being mustered out of the
| service.
This belief is more or less general
| among those familiar with all the cir
| cumstances and Governor Tyler is known
| to share it, 1t is said that the opposi-
| ton of the negroes to having white Of
| ficers appointed to the places made vacant
by those negroes who resigned when an
| examination TO test their competency was
| ordered will have this result
One of these officers says he intends
to do everything possible to have the
regiment mustered out. that he will have
| the help of the other eight men who re-
| signed, and that he will also have the
support of several influential Republi-
| can politicians.
A NEGRO DELEGATION.
A delegation of negroes called on Gov
| ernor Tyler yesterday to inquire into the
| appointment of the white officers to take
the places of the negroes. The Governor
| explained to them that the designations
] of the negroes were rendered and accept
} ed, and that ii was then his duty TO supply
/ their places with good men; that he was
| ready to promote men to the places, but
that Northumberland Croxton, com
mander of the regiment, informed him
| that it was impossible to find in the en-
| tire regiment colored men who were cap
| able of making good officers. Thereupon
| nj nf-
| ficers, instead of selecting colored men
| from the regular army. The Governor
| is confident the negroes will fare better
| under white Virginians than under colOred
regulars promoted from the ranks. The
! delegation was with the Governor c. long
while.
Whether they were satisfied at the re-
| suit Of the visit remains to be seen. The
negroes who called were James Hayes,
John c. Clinton, DR.. II. l.. Harris, Rev.
! Thomas Briggs, Rev c. A. Holmes, Rev.
w. l.. Taylor, president of the True Re-
formers Bank; W. l. Johnson. and Ed
ward Ellis, Jr.
| APPLICATIONS FOR THE ONE PLACE.
Meanwhile. applications for appoint
ments to the regiment are coming in with
out ceasing The number of applications
from the Second and Third regiments is
| almost DeyOHu COuHliIbs TIC ppNtAhy'
! has repeatedly stated that he will not
now fill the vacancy in the regiment, an
| appointment to the place of one OF the
| captains not having been made.
A delegation from Fredericksburg called
on the Governor yesterday in the interest
of Sergeant Rufus King, of Company h,
| Third Regiment. They asked the Gov
ernor to appoint young King to any va"
cancy in the State military which might
exist The delegation consisted of Sena-
| tor Wallace, Colonel +. Dorsey Cole, OF
| the Governors STAFF; Delegate A. Z.
| Embrey, Captain Terrence McCracken,
Mr.. H. H. Wallace, and ex-senator Horace
| f. Crismond. They returned to Fred
| ericksburg yesterday afternoon. first call
| ing on General Lee, who used to be their
| neighbor when he resided in Stafford.
TWO SHAM BATTLES.
| There will be a sham battle between
| Company and Company Nj, OF the Sc
| cond Regiment, at the foot of Chmbo-
| razo Hill this afternoon. The battle will
be fought or at least everybody Is to
imagine a battle is being fought, in the
| vicinity OF the spring.
Two soldiers of the Second Regiment
| stationed at the Armory, had difficulty
| Yesterday morning. 1t was not serious
| but Il would not be settled. Words only
| added to the feeling. Arbitration would
| not work Only blood, or a chance for
| blood. would satisfy either party. Final
| ly their friends determined TO allow them
| to crafty their bellcose desires, and ac-
| hv about fifty Of their conn