A Washington press dispatch of the 13th says that Senators Warren and Carey were wired from Cheyenne late on the night of the 12th as to the situation at the T. A. ranch, and that they both called upon the President, arousing him from his bed. After consultation the secretary of war was called upon and that distinguished officer was induced to immediately telegraph General Brooke at Omaha, ordering relief from Fort McKinney to the imprisoned cattlemen. As United States Senators, Warren and Carey were the moving power in the case. Military history fails to record another instance where such prompt action and celerity of movement was had as in this case. Barber’s telegram to the President left Cheyenne after dark on April 12. Reaching Washington, 2,000 miles away, a consultation between the President, secretary of war and Wyoming’s Senators was held, a telegraph order was flashed to Omaha, 1,500 miles, and in turn transferred to Fort McKinney, another thousand miles, all before 1 o’clock on the morning of April 13th, or inside of six hours. Within another hour three troops of cavalry were in their saddles on the road to the besieged white caps, and before sunrise their bugle notes sounded “rescue” to the waiting barons, 15 miles from the post. The casual reader of these pages cannot help but note the strange phraseology of Governor Barber’s dispatch to President Harrison--“An insurrection exists in Johnson County.” There was no insurrection. The people were in arms, but they had taken them in defense of their homes and their lives, against an invading army that was killing citizens, burning homes and laying waste the country as it went. An insurrection is “A rising against civil or political authority; the open and active opposition of a number of persons to the execution of law in a city or state.” Johnson County citizens were doing none of these things unless the invaders were acting under orders of the executive when they marched north to murder and burn. Another passage in the telegram strikes the informed reader as peculiar--“the continued presence of the military company (Co. C, N. G.) is required in Buffalo for the purpose of protecting life and property therein.” There is no record of Company C having been called out to active duty by the governor until after the sending of the telegram to the President. The truth is believed to be that they were not so ordered out. The captain of the company being a white cap, and fearing lest some of the guns of the company might be pressed into service for use against his friends at the T. A. ranch, ordered and kept a squad of the men at the court house day and night to “watch the guns.” The company did no guard duty, as a company, in the town during the siege, and the above executive utterance was entirely superfluous. But it served his purpose, deceived the general government officials and saved his friends.