The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-12-06 00:00:00

MAJOR WCASHEY'S DIFFICULTIES.
By in may hour in the morning I was informed in
000,04 not very formal document, that the mem-
' vy coort•martisl were already cloaca : that
br:
•co silt is number—the president • Lieutenant.
W rear a name somewhat formes in the hit-
pawl justice end speedy eseeutioce. A
of the °holm alleged against me acorn.
I rod alevow r. and saw what in ame isore I was
yre la—that Is visit to the Imperial camp,
1_1.`,54 become arid atteetices them bottomed spout
• *poem* I had Oen as to the sawdust of the
110! dbo element of coofidesee I isejoeed with the
his generals, my position of trust nrl a um-
15,,, eternity, taken in conjunction with my
VS' cossintanes with the German armies,
armareseta. id ressurees, and niy pretence
p•
et stemma seder No gates of a mete oboe wer,
„flop • mats of evideems width, to any one an.
;lowa witabpalle.He end kabfits, might veg 7 well
Indil I IPS wad MUSS a gigot quarter of is
regard thee* relierldne--st • greeter length, I
Yor,thee nerve gimp& the Ns pow here—• nue
earl pe erred me with • whiting cord "Mr.
• 1.12=6" of A* 'Spray Dispatch' re-
Ott et wdting ow Count IrOaskey."
▪ sold!, "I am te bsisEurvteaed I Belies; II
k the his el an ppressetalve urn. Bieraarek and
Bost have reap The peon diet Holy father
had lie share, and how le Miles ll'Oaskor to oott*
'let bla eras la mid I; sad there entered a
b‘d/o rd-Isroklist and well-lbserded roan, with
the mann gg gag or g scald my, show any °old.
nos or limareSl to me, and look out for yeareelf in the
"Speedy Demerit."
" I have takes am gems liberty to mli early, Count
IrCerey„. mid hosrmg proforsidly, "as I jut
Melted bare."
esseAshialli yew ilms was ••
"I am afraid," replied " that I scsre.ly anima-
-1 end you I was sot ewers of an immediate
asollailawm. um of floe ow court- martial had
tried me, the eralietee befog, to be shot this
aftentele at Orem Hi added. 'Eight litgaro and
• sose.tleetosessace left behind to carry oat the ses•
Moe. sad I have determined to wait for the 'meet,
and take dove say little stremeate you would like to
kiss pabliebed, or to aim say humble services in my
power-at this harried ntrisrat."
"Anything more considerate, mit. in noll possible to
conceive,,
It is Use waft, Corget—it is the snit doci that for
o, Aid then," said be, with a bland smile of a man
,iyessiss to a weakness—" and then, I do like this
Set 4dalf."
"Indeed, sir r
Tee," mid be, releetisAly. " I never mimed an
Old Bailey for sighting, years. I was then on an ilium-
trilled weekly, ' The Hearth sad Home,' and our Muck
theme was ' Celeraltiasa.' I saw May y Manning harried
off. 1 dwook hands with Courvoisier, rind I should be
donned with that honour from you.
While I meowed him bow metsfulle I felt to the
happy micidest that had mewed me seek Oompooloo•
Alp, I horsed that be had not breakfasted, arid would
gledly join miss. There ware still three betties of
Sam" remaining, and there was aortaiely pow se
wiegusio moos to spare thorn. I ordered, therefore,
e nonmetal rod, sad we sat sad smoked while it was
bAng made ready. A cheerier, pleasanter sompanien,
no man need have desired. As to the mystery of his
AA. he was !manses itself, not impossibly in-
fluenced by the fast that in the place whither I
wee . Wend for, ',indoor would not cosine/fly
batons dingoes& "There are two kinds of
correspondents, raid be. " The sinumetantial and
sensational," perfectly distinct and quite unlike.
We have one public likes that kind of thing,
ki'Cadry," said he, "and they will have it. They fancy
It. is wbolesseese -like their raw beef, and their bitter
bete ; bet I an proud to say we have another and a
larger rabble, who are warmhearted, glowing poetical,
and imaglestive, who like the battles done pictorially
before them, who don't eare • rub for statistics, but
lore as Wordlist It is • pleasure to write for three
people. It is at once high art and all the comforts of
the situation. Tb • Stook Exchange, and • few official,
want fasit.—dry, hard, naked, and tingenial ; but the
genial public, especially in the counties—the people in
osinfortable eireuntsiances, leading uneven I.
lives—they' go in' for sensation. Beniparlibee are
uniformly food of battle44lb ; and respectabl, water-
kne•plasse ma somsely be overoapplied with the egresses
of the soldiery, and the outrages that follow a town
'Atte by assault."
I was almost sorry when the arrival of breakfast out
short the torrent of my friend's eloquent confessions,
and lost me what I should have preferred to cutlets—
his (Athol exposition of his own art. "I shall be
'distressed, sir." said I, " If, in the great eajoyment of
yoor satiety, Isbell be the ebalie of your losing what
is now going on at Worth."
" What do I ears for Woerth, M'Oaskey ?" eried he.
" Aren't you better to me than many battles Weald
.1 sot rather have, with a good heading of large print,
" A Last Horsing with Count N'Coakey, than • defeat
lof the whole Prussianarmy, or the total demolition of

Neiman:Ps divides r
Yoe BMW me, R—," mid I, bowing.
"No, epee my We, nothing of the kind. You are
well knows is Baghted. They talked freely about you
In than Endes sislr • maple of years ago. All the
English who winter at Rome speak of you. Garibaldi
writes to you, Care into leGasky. Pelmenton ooze
milled you the ineorruptibie vagabond who had stab
inflows In the Vatiese In • word you are • eogoete
nuntbar and that I 'Wield ham hit *pea the day you
were earesed for • spy and senteneed to be shot is,
with all its adages, com al the luckiest incidents of •
fortuities life°
" I am prised, dz. to bays attend into any eombina-
lion whisk bee the fortune of Mfordlag you satisfaction.
May I fill year glass ="
" Whore did you maim Nom, WCaskey I
had ealmdated in las Meg this alter the lack of Frank.
lout; hat geeing that the was has goes the other way I
had !swiped myself to red wises till we should reach
Rheims. I have here "—precluding an mormous leather
pookeabook as be spoke--" I have here the addressee
of eight hems' In the wise Inds who have privies
milers, of whieh I moss 'ne report on arriving ei
Rheims. Here's Hiseoisar Reardon near the ramparts
with a appeal mach ieslie his Creme de Bossy and
'en extre' lavish I pl.4g. sty &mom as a pntlentsa
1 Mali detok to s;ear memory."
By the way,' said " you hays not yet oxpleisod
to me how you 4 NNW to mass readily hers. I should
have it might lesal mask difigeltiss _about
sdaitting a strews lie me me."
"Nat with that, IrCsakey—not with that," oriel be,
as he gang towsrde ine • green card which he took
how tho monwes el his pookethook, and which fell to
the does heals es•—• aitenia•teaes that, owing to all
the wise he bad drank, asessiossid him no remark.
" That card, signed by aloha*, and countersigned Von
Boon, smarm &detainee to 'the hewer SKr. R—to
all headquarter staffs and thief oeminaoding stations in
the army.' Our people of the • Despatch' managed
that; it, I'm taken • deal of wine already,
they au de whet they like with Me Government at
home, for they maid be ugly—you know what I mean
ll'Oaskily--prosioes ugh, if they were to go with the
Rade lest sr-a. and so they seat over to us to say—to
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