The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-01-28
MILITARY mArTsKs.

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MILITARY MATTERS.
Hospital steward Chas. F. Earring
ton, has been ordered to proceed to Fl.
Omaha, Neb., and report to the COM
handing general department of the
Platte, for assignment to duty.
Capt. G. II. Belcher, assistant quar-
termaster, having reported at head
quarters, department of the Missouri,
has been assigned to duty as depot quar-
termaster at Fort Leavenworth, Kan
sas.
Capt. Thomas Britton, 9th infantry,
having been discharged from attend
ance before the general court convened
at Ft. Hays, Kansas. has been ordered
to return to White river, Colorado.
Lieut.. C. A H.. McCanley, Sd cay
airy. has been appointed captain and
quartermaster.
The army register for 1881 is being
hurried to completion as rapidly as cir
cumstances will permit. Some of the
promotions, consequent on the yacan-
cies and appointments up to Dec. 81,
1880, have not been confirmed by the
senate, and delay is. of course, unavoid-
able. The clerical work, reading of
proofs, etc., is well advanced.-Journal.
The orders from the headquarters of
the army of Dec. 81, 1880, changing
the stations of the following officers of
the subsistence department, have been
revoked: Lieut.. Col. Amos Beckwith,
Capts. f. +. Whitehead, John J..
Clague, VIM. A Eiderkin and Thomas
Wilson.
BY direction of the secretary of war,
the new post on the Rio de Ia Plata,
Colorado, has been named Fort Lewis,
and the name of the temporary camp at
Pagosa Springs, COL, has been changed
from Fort Lewis to Pagosa Sp ings.
The commanding general, depart
ment OF Texas, has been ordered to re-
lieve Lieut.. Col. John S. Mason, 4th
infantry, from duty as acting assistant
inspector general of the department, to
take effect Jan. 81, 1881. On compile
ton Of the duty assigned Col. Mason as
president of the board to examine Capt.
Ames, 10th cavalry, he is ordered to
join his regiment.
The following order from the war de-
partment has been published for the la
formation of all concerned: "The re-
commentator of the academic board,
under paragraph 9,of the regulations of
the military academy, that 1.-THE gen.
eral principles Of the constitutional law
in the United States, by Thomas NJ.
Cooley, LII. D., be adopted as a text
book in the law course at the military
academy, in place of 'Kent's Common
taries,' has been approved by the Sec
Rotary OF war;"
Army appointments:-The president
has made the following nominations:
Maj. David G. Swayne. of the corps of
judges advocate, to judge advocate
general; Lieut.. Col. George L. Febiger,
deputy paymaster general, to be assist
ant paymaster general, with the rank
of colonel; Charles Henry Whipple
and William II. Comegys to be paymas-
tiers with the rank of major; Lieut..
Col. Samuel Ii. Holabird, deputy quar-
general, to be assistant quar-
termaster general, with rank of colo
mel; Maj. William Myers, quartermas-
ter, to be, deputy quartermaster gener-
al, with rank of lieut.. colonel; James
Gilliss, assistant quartermaster, to be
quartermaster, with the rank of major;
Lieut.. Colonel Charles II. Tompkins,
deputy quartermaster general, to be as
sistant quartermaster general, with
rank Of colonel; Maj. Charles G. Saw
telle, quartermaster, to be deputy quar-
termaster general, with the rank of
lieutenant colonel; Capt. Theodore J.
Eckerson, assistant quartermaster gen.
eral, to be quartermaster, with rank of
major; First Lieuts. Charles r. Bar
nett, 9th artillery, and Charles A. H.
McAuley, 3rd cavalry, to be assistant
quartermastcrs, with rank of captain.