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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1898. PRICE ONE CENT. MORE SHOTS EXCHANGED. Yankee Heroes Keep it up. A CUBAN FORT KNOCKED OUT By the Texas, Marblehead and Suwance.

HOW OUR DEAD ARE TREATED. A GHASTLY DESCRIPTION OF SPANISH BARBARITY. Ready to Mass Troops for the Porto Rico Invasion- -Plans for the Philippines- -At Chickamauga. CAMP M'CALLA, Guantanamo Bay, June Caimanera, a point across Guantanamo Bay, five miles from here, was bombarded this afternoon. The Spaniards only fired half a dozen shots and then made for the bush.

An old brick fort was knocked over by shells from the Texas, Marblehead and Su- The Americans fired slowly, and after the fort fell, dropped shells into the neighboring thicket for more than an hour. The object of the bombardment was to create a diversion, both keeping re-enforcements away from the camp here and possibly drawing some of the Spanlards still remaining on this side of the bay to the new point of attack. SPANISH ATROCITIES. Details of the Manner in Which Our Dead Are Treated. CHICAGO, June special.

cablegram to the Record, dated Camp McCalla, June 14, says: The Spanish guerrillas investing the brush about here are guilty of great atrocities. The bodies of the American marines shot by the enemy are subjected to worse indignities than those practised by the Indians. Their scalps were taken away, their eyes destroyed, their ears and noses cut off, and their hands and feet amputated. A small squad of Cubans on their way to join us was ambushed and they were killed. The killed were disemboweled and their faces so frightfully hacked as to be unrecognizable The Cubans bring word that the Spanish declare no quarter is to given and no prisoners taken.

The belief is general here that an effort by the American troops to march inland will be contested savagely and that a campaign of two or three years will be necessary to subdue the island. A little torpedo boat went up the river from the harbor last night to capture a small Spanish gunboat. It met with a heavy fire from shore, the Spaniards using Mauser rifles. The crew returned the fire with rifles and revolvers, and killed six of the enemy, which retreated. No Americans were hurt.

AS TO A THIRD CALL. More Troops Will be Needed by Uncle Sam in August. Special to the Brooklyn Times. WASHINGTON. June weeks ago the announcement was made in these despatches that the President is preparing to Issue a third call for troops.

Since then the report has been denied on several occasions but to-day it is confirmed by Representative. Hull of Iowa, Chairman of the Committee of Military Affairs, but it is not likely that the call will be published before the first of August. Secretary Alger is anxious to guard against further criticism because of delays in Atting out the Volunteers. He is determined to have everything in readiness for the next men mustered in. To this end contracts will be let for enough in advance to assure a supply of arms, uniforms and accoutrements just as 800n A8 they are needed, by fixing the date for the call for fifty thousand more men as far ahead as the end of July.

The President gives the impression that It is his purpose to defer the invasion of Havana until September. At least a month will be required to drill raw recruits and fit them for active service. Besides, there is little probability that the operations against Santiago and Porto Rico will have been completed before the middle of August, and the President is determined to have every available warship in front of Havana when the bombardment begins. HAMILTON. NEW CAMP SITE IN FLORIDA.

Twenty Thousand Troops to be Sent to Fernandina WASHINGTON, June thousand troops are to be assembled as quick1y as possible, upon a broad platonu at Fernandina, seventy above the sea, and close to the ocean. The lew rendezvous was selected by Secretary Alger, upon the recommendation of the Commission which recently visited the place. The location 13 such that the entire camp can be promptly Isolated, should yellow fever appear in the South. The troops are destined for the Porto Rico expedition, which, it is now expected, will start within ten days or two weeks. The expedition to Porto Rico promises not to be marred by the delays which charactarized the departure of the troops from Tampa.

Quartermasters' stores, rifles and small arms are moving toward the various camps, and altogether the outlook is much more Satisfactory than it has been since the beginning of the war. The only delay which now threatens in in the securing of a sufficient number of transports. Apparently, the resources of the Atlantic Coast as regards pussenger ocean have already been exhausted. department will persist steamers, Its efforts to secure American vessels, the but the probability is that eventually the United States troops will have to sail in British steamers. THE PHILIPPINES CAMPAIGN.

One More Expedition to Leave SoonLadrones Not Seized Yet. WASHINGTON, June is stated on authority that the first expedition to the Philippines did not. put into the Ladrones and that the second expedition which left San Francisco yesterday will not call there. The first expedition carrying 2,600 men on the City of Sydney, City of Peking and the Australia, last spoken after leaving Hawali. vessels were then was, ahead of time and should reach Manila about Saturday, next.

These troops will be assigned to the fortifications at Corregodor Island and Cavite. The second expedition 3.466 officers and men, under command of Gen. Greene which left San Francisco yesterday, 19 expected to reach its destination about July 6. The third, and probably the last expedition to the Philippines, will leave about June 30. Gen.

Merritt, 1t is stated, will g0 with this command, and in case the Ladrone Islands are occupied it is believed this work will fall to this party. in case of occupation, Umata will probably be the port selected. At this place there is a fine harbor and a good location for a coaling station. CHANCES FOR PROMOTIONS. Two Hundred Men to be Examined for Lieutenancies.

WASHINGTON, June Miles is expected in Washington to-morrow morning. returning to the city at the telegraphic summons of the President. There are numerous important matters to be disposed of and the military authorities here desire the advice of Miles. The most important is the Porto Rican invasion, which will leave Fernandina and other Southern ports as soon as it can be made ready. Another subject to be taken up is the selection of new camps for troops now at Camp Alger and pa.

A third subject is the selection of second lieutenants, although in this matter, Gen. Miles will not be speedily consulted. It has been decided to permit 200 candidates to appear before examining boards, and the names of about 150 of the successful applicants will be' sent to the Senate. The President has directed be added to the for Army that sixteen commissioned officers commissions, and that those to be examined shall include the students who stand highest in the military department colleges where have been stationed any officers as professors of military science. The War Department people are being importuned for these places by Congressmen and others.

THE SANTIAGO BOMBARDMENT. Spain Officially Admits That it Was Effective. KINGSTON, Jamaica, June copy of the Diario de La Marina of Havana of the date of June 7th, just received here, contains the official account of the bombardment of Santiago on June 6th. The Spaniards acknowledge 42 casualties at Morro Castle, and in the other batteries one military officer was killed and four officers and 21 men were wounded. One naval officer and four sailors were kiled on board the ships and 20 others were wounded.

The naval officer killed was Captain Emilio Acosta, second command of the cruiser Mercedese. The Diario also cays that experiments are being made with ooal taken from a recently discovered mine at Movida. in the Santa Clara provinoe. Although it is of acknowledged poor quality the Spanish claim that it can be used by vessels, thus avoiding the heavy expense and risk of capture of colliers. THE COLOR LINE.

It is Still Drawn by Virginia Land Owners. FREDERICKSBURG, June The project of making Fredericksburg, or some point in the vicinity, a rendezvous for a colored regiment of Volunteers has been abandoned. Nobody could be found in the section who was willing to rent land for the purpose. GENERALS AT SEA. List of Those Who Accompanied Shafter.

WASHINGTON, June despatch from Tampa to the War Department states the following general officers accompanied Gen. Shafter to Santiago: Major General Joseph Wheeler, Brig.Gens. J. F. Kent, H.

S. Hawkins, S. S. Sumner, J. C.

Bates, S. E. M. Young, H. W.

Lawton and A. B. Chaffee, also Major General Breckenridge and Brig.Gen. William Ludlow went as inspecting officer and engineer officer from headquarters of the Army. TO BRING OFF REFUGEES.

The British Steamer Talbot Leaves Kingston for Havana. June The BritIsh cruiser Talbot sailed from this port this morning. Her destination is unknown, but it is stated that she is going to Havana to bring off British subjects at the request of the British Consul General there. TAMPA SUPPLY TRAIN WRECKED. Runs Into a Washout in Virginia Killing Brakeman and Injuring Others.

DANVILLE, June engine and Four freight cars on the Vir. ginia Midland Division of the Southern Railway last night ran into a washout three miles north of -Danville and were badly wrecked. The train was southbound and loaded with Army supplies for Brakeman. will John probably O'Connor die; was Engineer badly Gary, of Manchester. and Foreman Scales, are seriously Injured; Flagman Pace receiyed several painful cats.

GREAT DESTROYER. A New Element Appears in Warfare. THE VESUVIUS SHOWS HER POWER And Vindicates the Judgment of Her Designers. HURLED MISSILES OF DEATH THAT NO POSSIBLE DEFENSE COULD WITHSTAND. An Armored Vessel, Built on Her Lines, Could Beat the World, Say Naval Officers.

Special to the Brooklyn Times. WASHINGTON, June accounts received here of the result of the brief action of the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius against the Santiago fortifications on Monday are generally accepted as showing that the ship is, in her way, the most formidable engine of war afloat. Ever since the Vesuvius was built in 1888 certain experts have expressed the conviction that when she discharged her pneumatic dynamite guns, she would promptly blow herself to the bottom. These same experts admitted that the discharge of 500 pounds of dynamite, if successfully accomplished, would surely blow any ship afloat, being so struck, out of the water, and would render the best land fortifications useless. But they argued that the force necessary to propel such a charge would cause a concussion fatal to the ship that fired it, and more than hinted that such concussion would explode every pound of dynamite in her I magazine.

That these conclusions were erroneous was effectually proved by the manner in which the Vesuvius acted on the occasion of her first thorough test, on Monday night. In three minutes she hurled three deathdealing charges of high explosives, one from each of her pneumatic guns, and so silent was the discharge and so slight the jar, that those on board hardly knew that the guns had been fired, until the masses of dynamite struck. Then there ensued a roar compared to which the explosion of a ten-inch shell was as child's play. A great red glare and tons of flying earth proved the tremendous power of the missiles hurled. Two shots, and the fort that had practically resisted the bombardment of seven warships, was a mass of dust, nothing more.

A third shell sent over the hills to where the Spanish torpedo boats were supposed to be lying, completed the trial of the Vesuvius. Whether those boats still exist will only be known when the dynamite ship blazes away into Santiago Harbor, and this will probably be done in a very few days. A prominent naval official, speaking of the work done by the Vesuvius on Monday, said: "American ingenuity has again come le to the front, and, if the report of the action of the Vesuvius on Monday night is accurate, I have no hesitation in asserting that she is the greatest marine engine of death yet invented. She evidently proved the theory of her designers to be accurate, and apparently accomplished more with two shots than could be accomplished by half a dozen battleships." As a result of this test, it is said that the Government will shortly set about building an -armored ship on the same general lines, capable of withstanding heavy guns of large calibre, which the Vesuvius is not, being unarmored. Such vessel, it is said, would prove the most formidable fighting machine afloat.

"VAS DOT A TORPEDO?" Undue Alarm of German Skipper Stopped by a Torpedo Boat. KEY WEST, June torpedo boat last night cruising at sea, near Tortugas, sighted a large steamship, chased her eight miles and then fired one-pound shot across her bows. The ship hove to and an ensign boarded her and found her to be the German steamer Curytiba, from Antwerp for Galveston. The Captain met the ensign at the top of the ladder and asked: "What boat was dot "Torpedo boat," said the ensign. The skipper threw up his hands and cried: Gott, und vas dot a torpedo you fired at Naval Recruits From Pennsylvania.

ERIE, June Sixty-six more A naval recruits will leave for the Brooklyn Yard at 4:30 this afternoon to be assigned to active duty. The G. A. R. posts and veterans from the Soldiers' Home will form the escort, and the parade will be held as usual.

Lieut. Morse la very enthusiastic over the Erie recruiting sta- don. L.one leland Rallroad. On June 10th. 11th, 17th and 18th, an Ex.

press train for West hampton and stations east will leave Long Island City at 3:33 and Flatbush Avenue Station. Brooklyn, at 8:24 P. M. On June 10th. and 17th, An Express train for Riverhead, Jamesport, Mattituck.

Cutchogue, Soutbold and Greenport will lea re Island City at :03 -Flatbush A renue at 2:55 P. M. On June 11th, and 18th, the Express train for Greenport will leave Long Island City at 1:84 -Flatbush Arenue at 1:27 P. M. On June 11th.

and 18th. an aditional train for the principal stations on the Orater Branch will Avenue lea re Station, Long Island Brooklyn, City at- at 12:55 1:04 P. Flatbush GERMANY WONT INTERFERE. The Announcement Officially Made by Her Ambassador. WASHINGTON, June Von Holleben, German Ambassador to the United States, informed Secretary Day this afternoon that there was absolutely no truth in the reported prospective inerference in the Philippines by Germany.

HOBSON'S HEROISM. It Will be Well Rewarded by the Administration. WASHINGTON, June recognition of Lieut. Hobson's heroism, involved in his promotion of ten numbers in the naval constructor corps by Presidential nomination to-day, is of greater practical benefit than at first apparent, as he will thus become assistant chief constructor of the Navy in 1903. The promotion is equal to an advance of at least 250 numbers in the line of the Navy--that is, he will, rank the officers who were graduated with him at the Naval Academy in 1885 by that number.

His pay will be increased at the outset from $1,200 per annum to $2,600. CRUISER BUFFALO HERE. The Former Nictheroy, With a Brazilian Crew, Arrived This Morning. The United States cruiser Buffalo arrived this morning from Newport News, in tow of the steamer Santuit and anchored off Tompkinsville. The Buffalo was formerly the Brazilian cruiser Nictheroy and, was recently purchased from that Government by the United States Government.

The Buffalo was originally the Morgan line steamer El Cid and was sold through Charles Flint to the Brazilian Government for service as a cruiser. The Nictheroy did not see any active service during the Brazilian rebellion and was laid up in one of the Brazil ports until her recent purchase by the United States Government. She was towed from Newport News by the steamer Santuit and on reaching Sandy Hook, the Santuit cast off her tow lines and proceeded to Boston. The Buffalo was then taken in tow by the tugs Genesta and N. B.

Starbuck and towed to her anchorage, off Tompkinsville. The Beffalo is commanded by Capt. Meissner for many years in the service of the United States and Brazil and mail and steamship service. He was also one of the officers of the cruser when she left this port for Brazil in charge of Capt. Baker.

The crew of the Buffalo is composed of Brazilians. A RECORD-BREAKING ORDER. The Navy Department to Spend 000 for Supplies. Special to the Brooklyn Times. WASHINGTON, June Tuesday there will be opened in the Navy Department proposals for supplies for the Navy which in the aggregate will involve contracts larger than ever before awarded at one time.

Articles upon which bids have been invited will embrace nearly everything to be found In the storerooms of ships, or ditty boxes of crews. Some of the items are 250,000 pounds of salt beef, 200,000 tinned sausage meat, 20,000 jack knives. coarse combs, 140,000 undershirts and drawers, 40,000 pairs woolen socks, 200.000 pounds of salt water soap, 100,000 spools sewing silk, 82,000 pounds evaporated apples and 15,000 gallons of vinegar. The goods to be delivered at Navy Yards in Brooklyn and Norfolk. The total bill will be something like $5,000,000.

HAMILTON. CAPT. STAYTON PASSES. Takes Examinations Successfully and is Commissioned a Lieutenant. Sixteen applicants for the position as master of tugs, made vacant by the advancement of Capt.

Bell, of the Nina, to the place of master of pilots, were examined by Capt. Sumner and Lieuts. Carter and. Hubbard, in Building No. 7, at the Navy Yard to-day.

Applicants must possess the qualification of knowing New York Harbor, the Hell Gate passage and the Atlantic Coast from Chesapeake to Portsmouth. Capt. William H. Stayton, of the Brooklyn Naval Reserves, successfully passed examination as lieutenant In the Navy and has been assigned to the torpedo gunboat Enquirer now being fitted out at the yard. He reported to-day for duty.

The lieutenant is a sucessful lawyer Manhattan. Key West to Honor the Maine's Dead. WEST, June The citizens of West have started a subscription for erection monument to the Maine's dead who lie buried here. Members of Key West churches are leading in this movement and a Citizens' Committee has been appointed to raise funds. It is hoped eventually to remove to Key West the bodies now buried at Havana.

PLEASURE AND INSTRUCTION. They are Combined by an Englishman op a Yacht. ST. THOMAS, D. W.

June British steam yacht Kethalles has arrived here. The vessel was chartered in England by a young Engilshman cf the name of Hopkins for the douple purpose of recreation and observation of the war. From Liverpool the Kethailes first went to Spain, stopping at Cadiz and Gibraltar. Mr. Hopkins then crossed the ocean and proceeded to San Juan.

He spoke a Spanish gunboat outside and both vessels entered the harbor together. When the vessels arrived the soldiers garrisoning the forts appeared on the ramparts and showed signs of great excitement while the populace no less excited gathered on the docks, supposing that the gunboat had captured a prize. Mr. Hopkins was permitted to go ashore and upon landing found that a newspaper extra had already been issued describing the entry of the vessel, Mr. Hopkins reports that the Spantards at San Juan are in expectation of an attack by the Americans for the reason that Porto Rico in the summer months is perfectly healthy.

Serious damage to Morro Castle by the bombardment, he says, Is neither apparent nor probable. although there is not a square rod of the fort that does not bear marks of the American's shot and shells. Mr. Hopkins also learned that Welter Bett. who was said to have been the secretary of Mr.

Crawford, the British Consul at San Juan, was not expelled AS he alleges. He declares that Betts recent story of his expulsion from Porto Rico by the Span'sh authorities, who accused him communicating information to the United States authorities concerning the mines and fortifications at San Juan was purely a fabrication of his own. He WAS not the secretary to the British Consul but merely an inferior employee and Instead of being expelled by the Spaniards was dismissed by his employer for Incapacity. Meyer Kaplin, of 82 Leonard street. appeared In the Ewen Street Court th's morning as complainant against Samuel Pearlsteln, of 386 Marcy avenue, whom he charged with wrongfully withholding a bicycle.

Pearlsteln rented the bicycle couple of months ago and it alleged failed to return It. New route to Manhattan Beach and Coney Island, ria Mith St. Ferry, will not be cperated until Saturday, June 18th. SETBACK FOR THE MAYOR He Finds That He Cannot do as He Pleases. VAN WYCK DID ACT ILLEGALLY.

Old East River Bridge Commissioners Reinstated. MAYOR COULD NOT REMOVE THEM. TAMMANY COMMISSIONERS HELD TO BE INTERLOPERS. Bridge Construction a State Work Not Controlled by the. Mayor of the Greater City.

The East River Bridge Commissioners who were appointed by Mayors Strong and Wurster, and who were removed by Mayor Van Wyck to make way for six Tammany Commissioners, have won the first battle in their fight to eject their usurping successors in the control of the construction of the bridge. This morning Justice Garretson directed a verdict by the jury in the quo warranto proceedings which were placed trial before him yesterday. The judgment is unquaHfiedly favor of the old Commissioners, Col. Andrew D. Baird, A.

Sperry, Henry Batterman, Salem H. Wales, Francis B. Thurber and Richard who are declared to have been unlawfully ejected from their office. The judgment also declares that the Tammany Commissioners, Lewis Nixon, Smith E. Lane, James B.

Boyle, John W. Weber, Thomas S. Moore and Julian D. Fairchild, are in control illegally and must get out. After the documentary and other evidence had been put in on both sides yesterday the summing up began and was continued this morning.

Lawyer I. C. M. Ingraham presented the points for the old Commissioners and Assistant Corporation Counsel Almet F. Jenks for Mayor Van Wyck.

Assistant Corportion Counsel Jenks. who summed up yesterday afternoon, said: "Under the original statute of 1895, whatever the East River Bridge Commissioners were matters very little, because the second act of an amendatory character gave life and permanence in the category as officers cathem of the bridge. Under the authorities cited by me to your Honor, the term of their office was not fixed by the statute. Therefore, they held it at the direction of the appointing power. If that was so, it was 80 with Mayors.

Strong and Wurster, who appointed these men, and If the decisions of the Appellate Division are to have weight with this court, then, that power descended to Mayor Van Wyck. I make these points: "That Mayor Van Wyck had the power under the Charter and the Constitution to remove the Commissioners. "That the defendants, or men holding cognate positions, cannot claim exemption under the civil service statutes because they apply to subordinate positions only. "Assuming a weakness of the defendant's case, which does not exist in my opinion, that adds nothing to the plaintiff's case because the burden is on him and he is confronted by blame, to say the least, failures to speak moderately, absolute lapses in the march to offices. "Was the duration of the offices fixed by statute? If not, whose was the appointing power If the appointing power under the Constitution could remove, why could not Mayor Van Wyck remove and why should he not remove Where the responsibility rests, let the freedom of choice rest.

When the people say to a man: 'We hold you to strict let him choose agents, SO that he cannot turn to them and say: 'I could not take of the East River Briage because I had no power to "The proper, plainly safer and more logical provision of the statute and of the policy of the law is to say: Mayor Van Wyck, you are Mayor and you are responsible. You should not have an opportunity to say that you did not appoint your When that rule of personal responsibility is laid down, it remains for the people to say. whether they shall crown the man with laurel or sow the pathway to his door with salt." Lawyer Ingraham summed up this morning. He said the statute fixed the tenure of office of the Commissioners, which was the final completion of the work of constructing the bridge. They were appointed by Mayors Strong and Wurster.

That authority to appoint was one act only and was exhausted as soon AS the Mayors had made the Appointments. Mr. Ingraham asserted that the office was a State office and not in any sense under the control of the Mayor. It was not intended that the Mayors or their successors should have the power of removal. Because the statute gave the Mayors the power to appoint the Commissioners as soon as the statute became a law.

it did not follow that It gave them the power of removal. Once they exercised the power cf appointment they could not remove. The amendatory statutes did not give the Mayors any new power, except to All vacancies on the Commission. This meant vacancies by death or resignations. It meant that was given to fill vacancles, not to power make them.

The Commissioners, Mr. Ingraham said, were in no sense appointees of Mayor Van Wyck and were no part of his administratione The intent of the the Legislature was that the Commissioners should be entirely free from interference by the officers of the city. Mr. Ingraham said that the only complaint the Mayor had against the Republican Commissioners was that they differed from him in politics. "The Court must assume." said Justice Garretson, "that the Mayor acted from a sense of official duty.

The Court cannot assume any ulterior motive." "Counsel on the other side." said Mr. Ingraham, "admits that the Mayor wanted men of his own thinking. This case is an example of the frightful danger to the people resulting from party At the conclusion of his argument Mr. Ingraham asked the Court to direct verdict for the plaintiffs, reinstating them and ejecting the Tammany Commission- ers. On his part Mr.

Jenks made a similar motion yesterday afternoon. Justice Garretson said: "I find that removal of the relators was not within the purview of the Charter of the City of New York, which gave the Mayor authority to remove appointees within six months after his induction into office. At the time the act for the completion of the bridge was passed the Legislature had in mind not the performance of a city work, local, It true, but a work which was great in is its magnitude and importance to two great municipalities. It was intended to be a state work, to be carried out through State agents. The Legislature created this Commission and making two appointments itself, the Mayors of the two cities, it designated a way for its compleThe Mayor of Brooklyn was to tion.

appoint three Commissioners and the Mayor of New York was to appoint 3 others. The Commission having thus been made up, it became its duty as the representative of the State to carry out the work independent of the control of the Mayor except in so far as the act provided. It is conceded that these men were not municipal officers, therefore they were not subject to removal by the old Mayors and consequently could not be removed by the successor of the old Mayors, the Mayor now in office. The gentlemen who originally constituted the Commission still remain as a matter of law the Commissioners. There being no power of removal, as a matter of law, they were not removed.

I have ignored entirely the constitutional provisions cited by counsel and I think so far as the duration of the term of office of the Commission appointed under the act is concerned, it was provided or declared with sufficient definiteness for the puitose of limiting the term of service. These appointments are not exceptional, nor are they different essentially from Commissons appointed every day by acts of the Legislature or other authority. far as the power of appointment was concerned I think it was exhausted the original Mayors. The question here 1s one of great interest and concededly of great public importance. What I have said here is the result of the impressions gathered in the argument.

of course this case will go to the Appellate Division and ultimately the Court of Appeads will be the final arbiter. I direct the jury to find a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on the ground that the relators are still the Commissioners and that the respondents are not." Assistant Corporation Counsel Jenks asked for a stay of execution of the Judgment pending an appeal to the Appellate Division. It was granted and counsel will endeavor to have the case argued at the present term. AT CHICKAMAUGA. Elaborate Arrangements Made for Hospital Service.

CHATTANOOGA, June work of equipping the regiments not supplied with guns, will probably be begun late this afternoon and continued with great vigor until completed. Seven thousand rifles from the Columbia, arsenal will arrive some time to-day, having been shipped yesterday. Capt. Rockwell, Chief of Ordnance, says that at least enough ordnance will be received this week to equip three-fourth of the Aarmy at Camp Thomas. Gen.

Brooke will at once have a general corps ambulance train and hospital corps organized. Orders were issued from corps headquarters yesterday, directing the medical staffs of the majority of the regiments to report Immediately at corps headquarters for assignment to duty. Yesterday morning the commanding officers of the Third Illinois, Fourth Pennsylvania, Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Second Wisconsin. Thirty-first Michigan, Sixth Ohio, Ninth Pennsylvania and First Pennsylvania received orders, directing them to have their hospital corps report at headquarters. These regiments are now without medical officers, except one physician at each camp.

In future the sick of each regiment will be sent to the brigade or division hospital. All very serious cases have been going to the division hospital from some time. Col. Hartsuff, chief surpeon, this morning commenced the organization of a permanent ambulance train for the first corps. No orders have been received looking to an immediate removal of troops from Camp Thomas, and it is given out from headquarters this morning that no removal is contemplated for at least a week.

When the movement does take place probably not more than six or eight regiments will go and their places will be quickly supplied with other regiments. Chickamauga has been the great training school for the volunteer Army and all movements centre around Camp Thomas. Gen. Boynton says that from his information the greater part of the Army will be organized here, in fact, practically all of It. and that thousands of other troops will be sent to this school of instruction and preparation.

Rifle ranges are being established all over the encampment and the men drilled in the firearms. Col. Wilder, of the Fourteenth New York has a of three officers out to-day establishing a range for his men. Col. Wilder is very much interested in the sanitary condition of his camp and his issued stringent orders which provide for the burning of rufuse and for the purifying of every quarter of the camp, as often as may be necessary.

Regimental drills in close and extended order are being practiced daily. Every day some new defect in the equipment of the different regiments is coming to light. It is now ascertained that the guns of the First Pennsylvania will have to be exchanged for new ones and those of the Ninth Pennsylvania also In all probability. Not a third of them are fit for service. HOLLAND BOAT WILL BE BOUGHT.

Navy Department, it is Alleged, Has 80 Informed the Company. According to a statement made by Charles A. Morris, consulting engineer on the Holland submarine boat, to a party of reporters late yesterday afternoon, the Navy Department has officially notified the company owning the craft that it she can make an average of eight miles an hour awash and stay under water for two miles, the department will accept her. As it has been positively proved that she can do both, it would seem that the wonderful little boat will soon be owned by the United States. of course the department will order at least one official trial which will probably be made some time next week, said Mr.

Morris. Expert Electrician F. T. Cable was on board the boat for several hours yesterday, presumably making some alterations in the electrical appliances and ma- chinery. Special Rates for Endeavorers For the benefit of those who desire to attend or the Christian Endeavor Convention at Nashville, the Southern Railway announces the rate of one single fare for the round trip.

Tickets will be sold July 2 to 5. Inclusive. The route embraced by this line is through Washington, giving an opportunity to visit the many places of interest in and around the national capital, including Camp Alger, thence through the Piedmont region of Virginia, passing Manassas and Brandy Station, Culpepper and Charlottesville. This is the only line passing through the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. morrow, warmer, variable winds becoming southerly.

The Weather. Fair to-night, partly cloudy weather to- SPAIN TELLS THE TRUTH Which Indicates That She is in a Bad Way. MANILA SITUATION IS MOST ALARMING According to Advices Received by Sagasta, CABLE CUTTING SUCCESSFUL. SANTIAGO AND GUANTANAMO ISOLATED FROM MADRID. The Vizcaya Struck by a Yankee Shell -No Harmony in the Spanish Government -Hobson to be Freed.

wanee. MADRID, June Macias, Captain General of Porto Rico. telegraphed to Gen. Correa yesterday that matters in Porto Rico were quiet. Admiral Manterola has telegraphed to the Marine Department that a shell of high elevation struck the Vizcaya in the last engagement at Santiago, but did the vessel no injury.

The Government has agreed to exchange the prisoners who were captured by Admiral Cervera after the sinking of the Merrimac at the mouth of Santiago Harbor for a corresponding number of the prisoners captured by the Americans on board the Spanish steamer Argonauta, and Captain General Blanco has been ordered to carry out the arrangements. Advices from Manila show that the situation there is very much worse than has been previously reported. When the despatch received from Captain General Augusta was shown to Senor. Saw gasta, who was seated on the Government bench in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, the Premier appeared to be greatly agitated. The contents of the despatch have not yet leaked out, but it is feared that there has been an uprising of natives in the northern portion of the Island of Luzon as well as in the other provinces of the Philippines.

News that Manila has fallen is expected at any moment. The flight of the Archbishop of Manila is commented upon unfavorably here. The Papal Nuncio had an interview yesterday afternoon with Senor Giron, Minister of the Colonies, and informed him that the Spaniards residing in Buenos Ayres had forwarded the sum of 500,000 pesetas to the Spanish War Fund. In the Chamber of Deputies yesterday the Marquis de Corvera made an attack upon the Foreign Office, severely arraigning Duke Almodovar de Rio, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for having addressed a note to the Powers instead of making a vigorous protest against the American infractions of the rights of peoples. Duke Almodovar de Rio declared that any discussion on the part of the Foreign Office would lessen the moral strength of the Government, Gen.

Correa, Minister of War, announced that telegraphic communication with Santiago and Guantanamo had been broken. The Government was consequently without news whether the Americans had landed at either of these places. The Chambers adopted the proposal introduced by the Republicans to offer bill at the present session providing for compulsory military service. The auxiliary cruiser Cindad de Cadis, formerly of the Spanish transatlantio fleet, has left Cadiz under sealed orders. The Liberal publishes a despatch 1 from Hongkong containing advices from Manila under the date of June 8.

The churches and convents in Manila have been converted into hospitals, and filled with wounded Spaniards, the vice tims of the constant skirmishes which are taking place with the advancing insurgents. It is reported, the despatch says, that the Archbishop of Manila has gone into the interior to appeal to the Insurgents to moderate their violence. The Jesuits have taken refuge in the Province of Batangas and the nuns have fled to the Province of La Funa. Manila is not likely to capitulate, the correspondent says, until the American troops arrive. Naval orders.

Navy Depart nert. Where to Ge This WASHINGTON, June Surgeon Leach has been detached from New York Naval Hospital and ordered to be for sea duty. He will be relieved by geon W. H. Du Bose, recently of the Texas.

Civil Engineer P. C. Asserson has been ordered to the New York Navy Yard. A detachment of marines will be to Key West naval base under Capt. 14 K.

White. The Columbia is nearly ready tor Ice, having been repaired. The only sel now under the care of the tors will be the Buffalo, now in quaran tine. The machine shop ship Vulcan leave Boston at once, and will be by the Hannibal and by war vase Hampton Roads, possibly the No more shipe will be purchased by And bow to set there. Read sext Ion Eagle.

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