The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-25
MATTERs.

Camp Munson, on Grand River, Col.
via Lake City, Col, June 24--Ambrose
Cooper, company "K.n 4th cavalry,
was drowned in the Gunnison river on
the Goth. He was attempting to cross
the river, while hunting, and his body
was not recovered. The deceased came
from Baltimore. Nc.
Says a Black Hills exchange: Col.
Benton, the hero of the heroic 7th, was
up from the post this afternoon. The
colonel is getting ready to go to New
York City in response to a detail to
serve IN a board to examine magazine
guns. He will be absent from three to
twelve months, more or less. Mrs.
Benton and his son Freddie will accom-
pany him.
Adjutant General Stevenson, of Colo
RADIO, is very tall and a well formed
man. wearing long side whiskers, and
while off of duty always dresses in black
broadcloth. He is Of a commanding
stature, and his tall form can always
be seen above the rest of the troops.
Major Gen. James Jourdan is COM
mander of the second division of the
New York state militia. This is the
section of troops whose duty it is to
take care of the lives and property Of
the people OF Brooklyn and Kings
county. lie fought well in the war, but
he is a hard hearted brute, for he ex-
poets the men who enlist to help him
play soldier, to suffer hardships which
are expected only by real soldiers. On
Decoration Day he called out his alleged
troops and made them march in honor
Of the dead heroes of the war. He
dragged them under the boiling u of
a May day at the killing rate of two
miles per hour, until the surgeons told
him he was killing these toys, and they
were dismissed. This tyrant had given
his victims only two halts, and it is no
wonder that they tainted and left the
ranks. He ought to have had more
heart than to have dragged his play
things out of their congenial armories
to wear out their tender feet on the
rough ways made for horses and COM
mon clay such as real soldiers are made
of. But this Gen. Jourdan has never
got owe his war training, and now that
his militia are just recovering from the
blistering heat of that awful May day,
taunts them as though they were x
pected to do such duty as regular SOL
diers are called upon for. He tells
them that they became panic stricken,
and that they begged for permission ''to
take shelter from the heat of a beautl.
full May day" He insults the pride of
the city of churches by telling them
that ''they are absolutely unable to per-
form the duties of a soldier" and con-
tinues: "As, however, they are in, they
should be Immediately discharged upon
certificates of physical disability This
hard hearted monster caps the climax
by recommending that the pretty uni
forms of these toy soldiers be changed
for something more serviceable; that
the full dress, cotton stuffed dress
coats are intolerable for summer, and
should be replaced by horrid flannel,
and that those darling white cross belts
ought to be discarded. being "more
suitable for the harness of mules than
men," This man is evidently only fitted
to command real men, men who can
suppress riot and ~insurrection, and who
a smell powder and do some march
ing on hot May days; he can't play SOL
dier with any success.