The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-06-04
SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1882.


A man In Real Life.
Among the many strange, eventful
histories Of men who have sought either
fortune or forgetting in our mountains,
that of Charles Jochumus, who has
Just visited us, is the strangest.
No more sudden and vivid contrasts
Of light and shade fulfilled the fate Of
Edmund Kean, the circus performer,
the starveling, the petted favorite Of
the English nobility, admired Of the
best intellectual circles o. England and
America, and king in his realm of art,
than have served to round out the
character of the subject Of this sketch.
His father, Baron John Jochmus Won
Cotiquola, was of noble italian family.
He sought fortune in a Hamburg count
ing house at 1G years OF age, but who
soon decided to WOO fortune with
the sword, and as the sequel
shows, with success. At the age
of IS he served in the Greek wal Of in
dependence, in 1927, where he rose
from the ranks to be captain and aid
de.camp to General Sir Richard Church,
commander in chief of the Greek
army. After the accession of King
Otto, in 1892, he served as captain Of
the general staff in the war depart
ment; was employed on various mis-
siOns and in several campaigns, until
the Spanish (Carlistl war Of 1885, in
which he served in the British auxili-
airy legion Of Spain, and on the field Of
Alaben he was promoted to be major,
from which grade, through many in
termediate ones, he arose to be general
of brigade; afterward was made chief
OF staff to Count Mirasol (1S37), re-
ceiving the highest decorations of that
Countrywide crosses OF commander Of
the order of San Fernando, of Isabel
the Catholic, OF Spain and of Carlos
Tercero. In 1887 he was again employ
ed by the British government on special
military service in Constantinople, and
in 1910 proceeded to Syria, where he
was appointed by Admiral Stopford to
be chief Of staff Of the combined An.
glo-Austro-Turkish army OF the Leba-
non. At the same time he raj created
by the sultan a terik or pasha Of
two horse tails, till then a dis
function never conferred oa a
Christian. He served at the siege Of
Acre, renowned for its desperate defen-
ces and its thousand sieges; for its cap
ture by the Caesars and the Ptolemies,
by Saladin and by Richard Of the Lion
Heart, and, above all, remarkable for
its successfully resisting a sixty days
siege by the great Napoleon, whom
Sidney Smith, commanding the com-
bined British and Turkish squadrons,
discounted. General Jochmus rose to
be commander in chief till the close of
the war in 1s4l. Soon after he wa
decorated with the Russian order OF
st. Anne, the Grand Nishan and was
given swords of honor by Queen Victo-
ria and the sultan and appointed to
serve In the war department at Constan-
tinople. In 154S the Arch-Duke John,
regent OF Austria, made him minister
Of foreign affairs, and in 1S49 misister
OF marine, and nominated him COM
mander Of the Austrian order of Leo
pold. In 1859 he was selected to act as
Geld marshal lieutenant in the imperial
army of the Rhine. In 1860 he was
created an hereditary baron of the EN-.
pire, after which he saw but little act
i've service, save n commission to or
gauize an army in the Austro-prussian
war OF 1886, to operate in the real of
the Prussians, when the swift campaign
which eliminated in Sadowa ended the
war.
Many minor events of thrilling in
terest and of deep Import happened CO.
incidently with the greater ones, but
want Of space forbids more than their
mention.
AS TO the son, whose career is less
distinguished. his lie is chiefly inter
esting to our citizens because he spent
many years among us. a prOiego of the
emperor himself, he srryed the usual
eight years at the IN itary academy,
graduating with distin ton. and re-
ceivlng the applause or the empress
and the oral congratnlati1n OF the EN-
peror
During the usual servi..' of a young
German officer in time ~ peace, COM
bining all there is In IT,, life of haute
s~ociete, with such excitement us garri-
son life, sham battle. drills and field
sports afford. The war Of 1866 broke
out, in which he sery i with credit.
Unfortunately generous, he went secu-
rity for IA comrades gtmbling debts,
n unable to pay the'u he resigned his
commission and emil ri in the Second
United States Caval regiment, hoping
10 win fame and pla' in this new land.
Seeing no opportuni 4, Of advancement
obtained his disr .,rge, and was en-
as ordnance clerk Mt Camp Car
ling.
Here lie mafried the daughter of an
.mpl0ye, inrurfing his fathers displeas- !