Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-06-30
USE THE VETERANS.
GOVERNOR TYLER WILL UTILIZE
THEM AS HoME GUARDS.
PLENTY OF GUNS IN The ARMORY.
site for MobiIixing Coiored Troops
Yet TO Be seIected-work of Mus
Mr.. Halves With Rough-Riders.

Governor Tyler will leave the city this
morning for his farm, near East Radford.
and will be gone until about the 10th or
18th of July. unless public business Of i'm
pcrtance arises 70 call him back TO the
city.
Preparatory TO his departure the Gov
ernor had long conference last night
with Colonel 10 Lane Stern concerning
military matters. and the plans for pro-
viding State militia were informally dis
cussed. 1t is not the Governors purpose
to organize new companies, but he will
simply equip those already in existence.
and where no company Is left will ask
the Confederate veterans to form them
selves into a home guard. II will not be
necessary for him to call upon the mill
tary schools for their arms, as Colonel
Stern Informed him yesterday that he
had enough rifles in the State Armory
now to equip all the troops necessary for
homo defence.
VACANCIES ON THE STAFF.
The appointment of Colonies George
Pickett and w. VI. Coulling, of the Gov
errors staff, to positions in the United
States army, will create two vacancies
on the staff. the military regu-
lations Of the State requiring off,
GERS in the State service who
enter the service OF the Genera! Govern
ment to forfeit their commissions. Mel
ther OF the colonies have yet resigned.
but both will in a few days. and the
Governor will appoint their successors.
colonel Coulling and Major Price will
go to-day to High Bridge, near Farmville.
TO view the site offered there for the
mobilization of the colored troops. 1t is
understood, however, that they do not
FAVOR the mobilization of the men at that
point, and 1t Is more than likely that
they will select a site just offered at
Mount Pleasant. on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, about nine miles east of
Boswell.
THE COLORED SOLDIERS.
Major Shanks Is making considerable
progress in mastering in the colored
troops He completed his work upon
captain Hankinss company yesterday
very few men are now being rejected, as
those who do not wish to go TO war
nave been told to stay away from the
Atmory. There will be no trouble In
making up the two battalions, for re-
cruits can be easily secured In other
cities and towns in the State. There are
many negroes in Lynchburg and Alexan-
dria anxious to enlist
Captain Bossieux and Lieutenant Klein
did not ship any recruits yesterday. The
former had seventeen men shipped from
Salem TO Jacksonville Tuesday night.
Hereafter recruits will be sent off in
patches Of three or four.
Major Price has received checks To nav
OF all or the accounts contracted in the
name OF the Commissary Department
curing the time the soldiers were at
Camp Lee. lie will have paid out. when
these checks are delivered to those en-
titled to it, the $2s, 900 for this department.
and all Of II has gone or will 20, to Rich
mond people. The Quartermaster's De-
partment has not paid any OF its bills.
RELIEF COMMITTEE.
a meeting Of persons interested in the
welfare Of the families OF members of
Company M. Third Regiment, formerly
Company H. of the First. will be held in
the Young Mems Christian Association
parlors at $50 o'clock this afternoon 10
form an organization for the relief OF
the destitute. There are several families
In need of assistance. and Captain Mills.
who has the matter in hand. has written
letters Of appeal TO many Of Richmond's
patriotic citizens
Mr.. G. Percy Halves Jr.. late OF the
Virginia Military Institute, has Joined
Colonel Woods Rough Riders at Tampa.
and expects TO 90 to Cuba in a few dlys.
This young cavalryman, like his father.
Colonel G. Percy Halves, the famous Con-
federate scout. is a fine horseman and
every inch a soldier. As first captain OF
the cadet corps OF the Virginia Military
Institute, he won a high stand as a dis
ciplinarian and tactician, and if oppor-
tunity offers he will be heard from in
the coming contests.