It is the necessity of leaving places I like and pushing on to places I don't, I dislike.

Reno was fine with a band and lots of fine fellows.

This post is not so queer but they are so young-- It makes a great bit of color though with the yellow capes of the cavalry and the soldiers wig--waging red and white flags at other soldiers eight miles away on other mountains and the Indians in yellow buckskin and blankets and their faces painted too.

I went to the beef issue to-day--it was not a pretty sight and most barbarous and cruel.

I also went to a council at which the chiefs were protesting against the cutting down of their rations which is Commissioner Morgan's doing and which it is expected will lead to war-- We went in out of curiosity and without knowing it was a Council and were very much ashamed when one of the Chiefs rose and said he was glad to see the officers present as they were the best friends the Indians had and the only men they could respect in times of peace as a friend, or in times of war as an enemy.
At which we took off our hats and sat it through.