The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-01-24

almost as wearying infiction of countr
quarters in Ireland, where, notwith
standing the rosy pictures of Mr.. Harr,
Lorrequer and Tom Burke following
miserable snipe over some twenty mile
of bog, or exchanging glances with wha
is termed in these parts licentious
apothecary's daughter, are the sole lux
uries of life. 1t was in the sweet littl,
village of Gort, in the County of Gal
way, whose attractions are hatteriugl,
pictured in the above description, tha
Lord Cardigan performed the first feat
of gallantry which brought his name be
fore the public. ~ -
He had then been about four years il
the army, his first commission being in
the 9Th Hussars, to which he was gaz
cited as Lord Brudenell-the courtesy
title of the family-and in which hi.
wealth enabled him to rise very speedi
ly to the rank of Major It was with
this rank be found himself in command
of a squadron of his regiment at Gort
where also was stationed detachment
of the 9th Infantry, under the COM
mand of Major johnson. The Major
was blessed with a wife, considera bly,
Lord Cardigan's senior in years, bold
masculine, vigorous woman, of the
" strong-minded |" school, and without
any of those softer and gentler attrib-
utes which captivate the fancy and in
spire the sentiment of man. Seen from
the omnibus box at the Opera, his lord
ships lorgnette would not have fingered
one second on Mrs. johnson. Bu> in
the absence of any other woman, idle
ness and solitude-the fruitful parents
of mischief and of love-combined to
surround Mrs johnson with fictitious
attraction. Lord Cardigan loved, or
fancied he loved; an elopement was the
consequence, which, owing to his lord
ships rank and the many romantic in
cidents with which the imaginations of
rural Celtic editors surrounded it, Gre
ated furore. which, as usual, lasted
for few days. At the first resting spot
in their flight of love, Lord Cardigan,
to whose nostrils notoriety at at any
price is the very breath, anxious to feed
and maintain the interest of the public,
wrote to the bereaved Major, that as
he had done him the greatest injury one
man could do another, he was prepared
to give him the reparation usually ac-
corded of a hostile meeting"
The Major replied with laconic phi
losophy which had the effect at once of
extiugnishing all romance, and which
has been since much recommended to
husbands similarly bereaved:
That as he had done him the great
est benefit one man could do another in
riddipg him of so Infamous pest, he
had only to wish his lordship Joy of the
beautiful burden he had carried off
A divorce ensued, and Mrs johnson
became and now is Countess of Cardigan.
revenge; for without wishing to draw
that veil which is ever deemed sacred,
from the gentle chickering's of welded
life, it is no breach of delicacy to men,
tion what is publicly kn own in England
that almost Immediately after their
marriage, and somewhat earlier than
usual, warfare commenced which has
since terminated in separation. This
interesting comp d'cLat necessitated his
exchange into another regiment, and
his lordship purchased his Lieutenant
Coloneley In the Fifteenth Hussars, then
serving in In dia, whittier he proceeded
with his bride. He had not been a year
in India. however, before fresh troubles
gathered around him. Lady Augusta
Wathen, the wife of the Major of the
18th, and lady of high connection,
could not be induced to forgive her er-
ring sisters shame, and obstinately re-
fused to visit 1 ady Cardigan. The
consequence was that her husband was
subjected to series of prosecutions on
the part Of Lord Cardigan, which re.
suited in j court martial, disclosing, on
his lordship's side, course of petty ty-
ranny and mean espionage which would
have doomed an officer of inferior rank
to immediate dismissal. His fortune
and title, however, which seldom or ev-
er plead in vain at the British Horse
Guards, procured his escape with gen.
tie admonition,. and he obtained an ex-
change into the l1th Light Dragons,
with which regiment he returned to En-
gland.
That lnekiest of the lucky progeny
Of Cobnrg, Prince Albert, being just
about this time on his way to be trans
formed By that good fairy, John Bull,
from composing. in a two pair back in
the Marktplatz of .Coburg, those cele-
brated symphonies, Kunigunde's love
for Fridolin," or fantastical variation
upon the transcendental theme of I" FtS-
cher Frtz Frisst friSclte FiScjte,' into
a constructor of young kings and " the
rest of the Royal Family" at salary
of fifty Thousand year and the run of
the kitchen, was escorted by a troop of
the l1th Hussars from Canterbury to
London, and Immediately conferred on
the regiment the dis .inguished title of
8 Prince Albert's Own and on himself
its Coloneley, with salary of two thou
sand year, and trifing percentage
on the clothing bill. Proud of the new
insignia of his corps, and fred with an
ambition to make his regiment the par
excellence crack Husaars and nursery of
young mobiles, Lord Cardigan formed
The generous resolution to weed out,
to use his own expression, as proved on !
Court martial, those d-d Indian
officers, viz: the men who had so often
gallantly upheld her colors. With this
noble purpose, he commenced series OF
somewhat similar to those
exposed in the Wathen case.
Stung by petty tyrannies, which the
.ules of the rervice rendered them una
BILE to resent one after another gallant
soldier had to sell OF retire, until at
length the feeling of the regiment broke
into absolute mutiny in the celebrated
black bottle affair.
The black bottle story, as may be re-
runs that the officers of the
lIth being gathered one evening with
merry circle of guests around the mess