The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-02-17

Second Iieut, George ". BaAt6f ID
cavalry, was in the city on Monday Last,
and was registered at the Metropolitan
-RegfaeF.
Lieut.. Col Marter. who captured
Cetegayo, has been made a queens
aide-de-eamp, with the rank of colonel,
an elevation over 700 lieutenant colo
nels.-Register.
1t is announced that Gen. George b.
Mcclellan has been elected president of
the Central underground railroad COM
pany, of New York City, and that he is
TO 60 to Europe to place the bonds on
the market.-Register.
Fifteen thousand of the new cart
ridge belts for the army are at the
Watervliet arsenal, and as soon as the
buckles are obtained the distribution of
the belts among the regiments will be-
gin.-Reylster.
1t is said that British wal Office act
uaries have made the discovery that
out of every 1000 officers of the line
joining under the system of compulsory
retirement now in vogue, 400 must be
retired, because they are not majors at
forty years Of age. The Army and Nary
Gazette suggests that the authors of the
system "were members Of the Peace
society in Disguise and asks them to
imagine 400 gentlemen ''fair. fat and
forty" going about the world as retired
half pay officers for the rest of their
lives. -Register.
1t is related of u. S. Senator-elect
Van Wyck, of Nebraska, that in the
spring of 1862, when McClellan's army
lay in front of Yorktown, Van Wyck,
while in command of a New York vol
unteer infantry regiment, was also a
representative in congress from one of
the western New York districts. Al
though in uniform, he was still solicit
tous for the welfare of his many friends
in his own regiment and other military
organizations from his own neighbor-
hood. One dark, rainy night, just be-
fore ''tapsn had sounded, he happened
to step into a battery park, and a pri-
vate soldier who recognized him re-
quested him TO frank a letter. The
franking privilege was then not limited
as it now is. ''Certainly,'' replied the
soldier member of congress, II will sit
up all night to frank letters for the SOL
diers." The declaration was scarcely
uttered before it passed from SOL
der to soldier and from camp to
camp. Soldiers from every direction
brought their envelopes to Col. Van
Wyck to frank. The colonel unceremo-
niously seated himself in a suffers tent
and went to work. That suffers sup
ply of envelopes rapidly disappeared,
and when reveille sounded in the MORN
ing the colonel was still sitting on his
camp stool, with a bareback box, which
he had improvised as q table, before
him, franking letters for ''the boys."-
Register.
Mrs. Capt. Lawson is in receipt of
the following letter from a near and
dear friend of her late husband, the
well known correspondent of the Inter
Ocean, L. g. Macmillan:
CHICAGO, Feb. Z, 1881.
Mrs. Capt. Joseph Larson.
A few days ago the news was tele-
graphed here from the west, of the
death of my old and esteemed friend.
Capt. Lawson, and to-day, when the
first regrets are lingering, l desire to
express my thoughts beside the grave
of n whom l learned, in two trips to
the plains and mountains, to regard
highly. Yes, with deep affection.
Capt. Lawson was with the Black
Hills exploring expedition in 1875,
where l went with him and formed a
very pleasant acquaintance with him.
l was with that expedition as the cor
respondent of the Inter Ocean, and as
/ had never been ON the frontier before
that summer, there were many expe-
riences I had to pass through which to
me were trying in the extreme. To
Capt. Lawson's kindness in rs was due
much Of the pleasure and profit of my
frsttrip. among the dark green hills of
Wyoming and Dakota, and 1 shall
never forget his tenderness and solicit
tude on my behalf during the trying
months Sin the Hills" Our tents
were most of the time neal together,
and many an hour which otherwise
would have been weary and lonesome,
was made genial and encouraging by
my friend, who has been transferred to
the ranks in the unknown land be-
yond.
In 1876 it was again my lot to join
Gen. Crooks force, which operated
from the south against the Indians who
made up the Sitting Bull movement.
Most of the time 1 was with that COL
umn l was in Capt. :Lawson's mess.
There again we were much with each
other--I as a correspondent, he as COM
handing his company. Until then 1
had but a faint conception of his many
grand, sterling qualities. My health
was quite Indifferent, and he was as
thoughtful as a father and as gentle as
a mother. Never shall 1 forget his
care of mt after the fight on the "Rose-
bud" when exhausted with the days
work, we camped on the banks of the
stream the Rosebud had ridden
with him at the head of the company,
all through that tedious day, and he