Volcano weekly ledger., 1856-07-05
A New Heroine in the Crimea.

Miss Nightingale does not wear the laurels
alone. Another English woman has come
forward, challenging the worlds admiration
of her adventures in the war of the Crimea.
and for her horse "Bob.n
1.-The real hero Of the great siege Of Sebas-
topol, which includes the whole eyentful year
of struggle is Mrs. Duberly's horse, Bob,"
says the London Examiner AS the Jour
nal kept during the Russian War, in which
Mrs Duberly has recorded her experiences,
has not been reprinted in America, we must
inform our readers this heroine is wife of
Captain Duberly Of the cavalry. She ac-
companied her husband and the Army of the
East; she rode to the front of the battle;
she attended all the camp-races and steeple-
chase-the bravest of the brave when
mounted on her good horse Bob" The
following is the accounted of her ridings at
the battle of Balaklava:
Wednesday 25h.-Feeling very Ear from
we'll / decided on remaining quietly on board
ship to-day; but on looking through my stern
cabin windows at eight O'Clock, / saw my
horse saddled and waiting on the beach, in
charge of our soldler-seryant on the pony
A note was put into my hands from Henry
Cher husband, moment after. 1t ran thus
"The battle of Balaklava has begun, and
promises to be hot one. / send you the
horse. Lose no time, but come up as quickly
as you can; do not wait for breakfast"
Words full Of meaningl dressed in all
haste, went ashore without delay, and mount
ing my horse Bob, started as fast as the mar
row and crowded streets would permit. !
was hardly clear of the town before met a
commissariat officer, who told me that the
Turks had abandoned all their batteries, and
and were running towards the town. He
begged me to keep as much as possible to the
left, and, of all things, to lose no time in
getting among our own men, as the Russian
force was pouring on us, adding "For
Heavens sake ride fast, or you may not
reach the camp alive"
Turning off into a short cut of grass.
and streatching into his stride, the old horse
laid himself out to his work, and soon reach
ing the main road, we clattered on towards
the camp
Mrs. Duberly has strong nerves. as her
constant exercises in horsemanship would
naturally induce; but she does seem little
shocked when recording a steeple-chase, at
which she was present, in the Crmea. where
the English officers hotly contested the palm
OF glory to be gained by leaping a wall four
feet in height. and, out Of three who rode
most galantly, one went over safely; two
fell; Captain Thomas was terribly injured
Captain Shigner died in few hours The
lady quantity remarks: II think this has
rather made me lose my liking for steeple-
chasing" We hope so. Still Mrs. Duberly
has got courage, or great love for the
tragic. On the occasion of a fire among
the powder vessels in the harbor at Balaklava
she writes in her journal thus:
A strange exultation possessed my heart
in contemplating so magnificent death; tc
die with hundreds in so stupendous an explo
sion, which would not only have destroyed
every vessel in the harbor, and the very
town itself, but would have altered the Who'll,
shape of the bay, and the echoes of which
(the bay or the explosion?) would have rune
through the world"
The English reviewer thus comments OF
the lady's ambition: eff ever the journa
OF Mrs Dubery be dramatized at Astey's
let us hope that its incidents will be so modi
ned as to admit of general explosion in the
last scene, from the midst of which the hero
inc may dart upwards upon her favorite
horse Bob.p
But the lady is still living, and may soor
be expected to appear on a new theatre o.
glory. The British Government is sending
troops to Canada; the heroes of Sebastopo
(those who escaped from the Redan) are tC
be transferred to Quebec, to be ready for the
anticipated war with the United States.--
Surely Lord Palmerston will not neglect hi
brayest trooper. Mrs. Duberly and hel
horse will be sent to this Western World
We should be quite in despair about oul
countrys fate if we had not, fortunately
found an American lady ranger to match th
English heroine Of cavalry. American mel
would never sustain the combat against
woman; and Mrs. Duberly, on her hors
Bob" might rush through their ranks an,
claim the victory. What mercy it is L
know that we can be prepared for such
danger, as the following description of ou
Western Diana will show:
"In Texas, few miles from the city G
Austin" says an exchange paper, there live
a lady whose accomplishments for the ball o
drawlng-room, if equaled, are not surpasse
by any in the State. This lady has, in tn
last eight months, killed three bears, two O
enormous size, several deer, and considerable
small game. She has, moreover, in her pos
session, beautiful and powerful horse of tn
Mustang breed, which she caught with th'
) 'lasso' on the prairies, and broke in herself
T She will follow the mountain or 'mule-eared
rabbits over places which have caused th
heart of many an old hunter to quail. Sh
has frequently been known, when following
/ wounded deer, to plunge into the river witt