The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-13

port for duty in the division Of the Pa
eife.
The resignation of Capt. J. J.. CIague
of his commission as FIRST lieutenant has
been accepted.
Maj. Anson Mills, 10th U. S. cavalry,
has taken out patents for his useful in
yentions Of a loom for weaving cart
ridge belt fabric, and also of a cartridge
belt and fabric.
Capt. II. NJ. Taylor, 10th infantry,
detailed to conduct recruits to Texas.
First Lieut.. t. Morrison, 10th cavalry
relieved from duty on the mounted re-
cruting service and will join his COM
pany.
A board of ordnance officers, to con-
sist of Maj. Parker, Capt. Shaler and
Capt. Metealfe, will in New
York on Jan. % to examine the follow
ing ~lieutenants Of the line with a view
to a selection for transfer to the ordn-
ance department: SecondLieut. AnGrus,
9Th cavalry, and Second Lieut.. French,
4th artillery.
The New York Herald prints a letter
from Gen. Sherman TO Senator Maxey,
who is very Jealous to be retired as a
major general, in which Sherman says:
lie has been a prominent actor in every
war since 1880, in Florida, Mexico,
Rogue River, Oregon and the civil war.
Since about 1856, when he married in
San Francisco, he has been charged
with the expenses OF a large family.
He never attempted any speculation in
property even in the temptations of
California in 1889. lie never en-
gagged in any lucrative business to sup
plement his small pay as lieutenant or
| captain, and l am in formed that to-day
he has not laid up the money needed TO
bring his family from San Antonio to
Washington.
The removal of Gen. Scholield from
command at West Point as a conse-
| quence Of his conduct and the tone of
his report in the Whitaker case was
unsatisfactory to the same class of army
officers that sympathized with him in
the Porter matter, and the appointment
of Gen. Howard to the position has pro-
duced something like CONSERVATION.
His appointment was strongly opposed
| by army influences, and was made by
the president on his own responsibility.
1t is alleged that before the decision
was made Gen. Towards views were
ascertained and he was found ready to
undertake the task of reforming affairs
at West Point. The contemplated re-
form will be, if successful, in the ma
ture Of a revolution. At present the
| spirit of the institution is rigidly exclu-
| sive. The theory held is that there must
be no relation but that of superior and
instructors between the cadets and
| those over him. The cadets are treated
by their superiors as mere private
soldiers with whom there a be no
possible social relation or ever recogni-
ton. The cadets in turn form n society
of their own, governed by unwritten
but rigid laws, and practise tyrannies
of the most CALLING kind under the
sanction of those laws. which the Of
ficers refuse to take %cognizance of
when "a cadet is daring enough to make
appeal to them. 1t is an open secret
that Gen. Howard was not appointed
until his disposition to effect a radical
reform in this respect was ascertained.
He will probably make some changes IN
the corps of instructors, and will en-
deavor in various ways to lower or
break down the wall of caste separation
that now divides the officers from the
cadets, and these from all other grades
in the service. He knows from expert
ence the evils of the present system, for
when himself a cadet he was socially
~ostracized by his class during two
years, partly because he treated as his
social equal a sergeant on duty at West
Point who was the son of his guardian,
and partly because he was %outspoken in
his anti-slavery sentiments.
That rigid a%ristocratic exclusiveness
is not essential to soldierly discipline,
and good fighting was demonstrated by
the volunteer army during the war.
This is one of the lessons that can be
taught with profit at West Point. 1t is
fortunate for the experiment that the
volunteer general who leaves the presi-
Dental office in March will besucceeded
by another volunteer general who has
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