The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-07

in his sleeve whatever any may say"
The house of representatives recently
did an unusual thing in passing with
out the reference to a committee of Re-
preventative Young's bill granting a
pension to Mrs. Della Benner. wife of
the late Hiram H. Benner, Eighteenth
infantry, U. S. Army. Congressman
Young made an eloquent speech in favor
Of the bill. In closing he said: 81
would that the kindly fraternal feeling
that sem him on his mission Of mercy
might continue to flow forever from the
north to the south, like the ceaseless
tide of the mighty river that bore him
on his journey of death; and 1 would
that every wind waited to the north
might be freighted with blessings
and benedictions from the south. In
the name of humanity and Christian
charity I offer to the name and charac-
ter of Lieut.. Benner the homage and re-
verence of the whole American pc ople;
to his stricken wife I tender the sym
pathy of every southern woman, and to
his orphaned little ones the prayers and
benedictions of every southern child"
Lieut.. Greene, U. S. A, in his book
Russian Army in Turkey" says of the
Russian soldiers:
The great and pre-eminent cause of
the success accomplished lay in the al
most boundless patience and endurance
of the Russian soldiers. From the time
the movement was well under way the
men never saw their knapsacks, which
remained north of the Balkans, till some
time after the armistice. They march
ed and fought and slept in snow and ice
and forded rivers with the thermometer
at zero. They had no blankets, and
the frozen ground precluded all idea of
tents; the half-worn-out shelter tents
which the men had used during the
summer were now cut up to tie around
their boots, which were approaching
dissolution; and although an effort was
made to shelter the men in the huts in
the villages, yet always at least half of
them had to sleep out in the open air
without shelter. Their clothing at
night was the same as in the day, and
it differed from that of the summer only
in the addition of an overcoat, wooden
jacket and a bashjik or wooden muller
for the head. Their food was a pound
of hard bread and a pound and a half of
tough, stringy beef, driven along the
road; they were forced to carry six, and
even eight, days rations on their backs,
in addition to an extra supply of cart
ridges in their pockets; there was more
than II instance where the men fought,
and fought well, not only without break
fast, but without having tasted food in
t~wenty-four hours. Yet there was not
a single case of insubordination; the
men were usually in good spirits, and
the number of stragglers on the march
was far less than during the heat of the
preceding summer.
Fort OMAHA, Feb. 3, 1880.
The commanding officer Fort Fetter-
man will order Sergeant Joel G. beats,
company G, Fourth infantry, to report
in person, without delay, to the com
manding officer Fort Sanders for duty
at regimental headquarters.
Hospital Steward James Simpson
having reported at these headquarters,
in compliance with paragraph 8, special
orders No. IS, current series, adjutani
generals office, will, upon the recom-
mendation of the medical director OF
the department, proceed to Fort Lara
mie and report to the commanding
Office of that post for duty.
The quartermaster's department will
furnish the necessary transportation,
and the subsistence department com
mutation of rations for the journey,
it being impracticable to carry subsis-
tence in kind.