The Volunteer Army.
Washington, May 23. - One hundred and three thousand volunteers have been mustered into the service of the United States, according to the reports which have reached Adjutant General Corbin, and by the end of r.ext week the officials hope every one of the 125,000 called for wlll have taken the oath and sworn allegiance to prctect the United States government in its war with Spain. The mustering in of the regular army branch, with a view to increasing it to 60,000 men, the war strength authorized by law, continĂșes satisfactorily in all directions though reports of the officers engaged in the work are not yet at hand to indĂcate the precise number of recruits which have been secured. Arrangements are making for the recruiting of the "immune" regiments in the gulf states. A circular prescribing the mode of recruiting and the qualifications requisite for enlistment wlll be prepared and circulated freely in the south. Owing to the great rush of bus iness the probability is that a week wil elapse before anything final can be done in this direction. Six colonels fo these volunteer immune regiments were nominated by the preseident, and would not be surprising if some of the remaining colonels were given to col ored men who have been pressed fo appointment.
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