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    GINGER CLUB AT LYON, &c.--A friend at Fort Lyon writes us that he made the opportunity "holloer" by embracing it for the purpose of dropping us a few lines from the district of the Arkansas, to inform us that a Major, a Captain, a Lieutenant, a deputy Indian Agent and a phalanx from the ranks have caused intense excitement by recently resolving themselves into a Ginger Club, and that Brown's Essence of Jamaica Ginger diluted is now doing its work of reformation all along those lines! The thing has been got down so fine that it is respected as a champaigne cocktail by the oldest connoiseure. The Red Man of Agar, with Willie and his trained Dog, "Ash-Upson Agent," are giving entertainments at the post, and said to be taking in any number of soldiers and dollars nightly, as Paymaster Fillmore came along and paid off the boys. Since greenbacks thus got numerous, a good deal of "guessing" is being done for ginger bottles and such, many of the Pet Lambs at that post being quite good guessers, for "sojers in the army!" The Paymaster escorted by forty men under Lieut. Beach left for Fort Larned on the 1st. Major Anthony also went there to take command of the post. There are five companies of our troops at Larned, one at Camp Wynkoop and three at Lyon. The musquitoes are said to be making sad havoc with horse and human flesh this season on the Arkansas. Some of 'em are big as bullocks and grown grey by dint of deviltry and annoyance, somewhat like the bedbugs in portions of our city, save a little more so. W. R. Walker is running the Suttler store at Lyon with satisfaction to all concerned. All's said to be quiet in the Department of the Green Horse! Soule is reported to have had a most successful skirmish lately with a corps of musquitoes on the Arkansas, making them hunt their holes and mortally maiming more than one of em. Still later advices state that three dead bodies were picked up on the field next morning, but whether they met their untimely end by alighting on the Captain's very auburn hair and getting scorched, or by listening to his sweet Irish brogue and getting charmed, deponent knoweth not!

    -..-The Platte is at last getting down so that it is no longer difficult to ford at many points. Wagons and buggies are crossing opposite this city.

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Source:

Unknown, "Local Matters, Ginger Club at Lyon, &c.," Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, 10 August, 1864, Page 3.