Order Is Significant

Washington, March 29. - By direction of General Miles, commanding tho irmy, orders have been issued for the transfer of the Twenty-fifth regiment cf infantry to the Dry Tortugas. The iact that this regiment is made up of colored troops ia regarded as quite significant in showing the purpose of the war department to concéntrate colore'! troops in the vicinity of Cuba.inasmueh as it is recognized that the negro is better able to withstand the Cuban climate than the white man. There are three other colored regiments in the army. Their aggregale colored strength is 2,188. The regiments are the Twentyiouith infantry, all at Fort Douglas, Utah, Colonel J. F. Kent, commanding. the Ninth cavalry, Fort Robinson, Neb., heaöquarters, Colonel David Perry. commanding; the Tenth cavalry, headquarters at Fort Assiniboine, Mont., Colonel Guy V. Henry, commanding. The Only Colored Ofticer. The only colored offlcer outside of ■ehaplains, is First Lieutenant Charles Young of the Ninth cavalry, who at present is on duty at the Wilberforce university. The four colored chaplains are attached to the colored regiments. The Twenty-fifth regiment is now looated at Forts Missoula, Assiniboine and Harris, Mont., where they have :been for the past eighteen years. There are about 450 men in all under the command of Colonel A. S. Bird. The movement will begin in about two weeks and the troops on arriving at Tortugas will go into camp, there being no regular barracks accommodations at that place for them. It was announced some time ago that the department would detail a company of artillery to man the improved caliber guns, which the ordnance bureau intends to mount at Fort Jefferson. The colored troops rupon their arrival, it is presumed, will be instructed in artillery practice and thus will be enabled in case of necessity to assist the artillery company in 3ts work.