In Texarcana or thereabouts it was reported that a train of colored troopers was blown up by dynamite.

The Southern mobs seemed to pride themselves in assaulting the colored soldiers.
While the colored volunteers were not engaged in active warfare, yet they attained a high degree of discipline and the CLEANEST AND MOST ORDERLY CAMP among any of the volunteers was reported by the chief sanitary officer of the government to be that of one of the colored volunteer regiments stationed in Virginia.

It is to be regretted that the colored volunteers, especially those under Negro officers, did not have an opportunity to show their powers on the battlefield, and thus demonstrate their ability as soldiers, and so refreshing the memory of the nation as to what Negro soldiers once did at Ft.

Wagner and Milikin's Bend.

The volunteer boys were ready and willing and only needed a chance to show what they could do.
POLICED BY NEGROES.
WHITE IMMUNES ORDERED OUT OF SANTIAGO, AND A COLORED REGIMENT PLACED IN CHARGE.
Washington, D.C., August 17, 1898.
Editor Colored American: The Star of this city published the following dispatch in its issue of the 16th inst.