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A correspondent of the Army and Navy Chronicle furnishes the following informa- ton respecting the movements of the U. ! s. Drageons on our westerr frontier. The active and arduous duties required of the military in that quarter do not square with the generally received notion that the soldiers life, in time of peace, IS one of indolence.

 FoRT LEAvENwoRTH, May %, 1885.

 Dear Sir For the information of your military readers, as we'll as, those who have relatives and friends amongst the dragoons at this post, you can, f you think proper, say, in your next Chronicle, that Captain Hunter, with his company "D," about forty siie;i, and WIFE, left here yesterday for hs summers tramp, as directed by the general order for the disposition of the dragoon regiment. Mrs. II. has saddle horse and small covered dearborn for her own use, and intends passing the summer Ill the field with her husband; she IS an ainiable and charming lady, and, as you may well conceive, a good soldier.

 The officers with Captain H. are Lieu- tenants Moore and Ury, the latter acting commissary of subsistence, &c.; citizen, Doctor Wood, is employed for this com pany.

 Colonel Dodge, with the remaining three companies "A ,""C,' and s.G,o consisting of about 100 men, in all, marched to-day. The officers with him are Lieutenants Kingsbury, Acting Adjutant; Terrett, As- sistant Commissary Subsistence Lienten- ant Steen, Ordnance Officer, in charge of two swivels mounted on wheels and As sistant Surgeon B. F. Fellows, U. s. Army Captains Ford and Duncan, and Lieutenant Lupton, commanding compan- es; and Lieut. Wheelock, doing duty in company "C."

 Colonel Dodgc's route will probably be by the way of the Otto village. near the Platte river and Council Bluffs, to the "Pawnees" and sAricxarees n and from thence the colonel intends to penetrate, as far as the season will admit of, into the "blackioot country, to the north and, if