Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-02-16
ROCKVILLE, Md FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 16. 1866

men run thrice their length, than th'
crest ON the right of the road, in theil
rear, suddenly bristled with sabrcs-ant
a squadron, led by Ashby in person
Numbered down, and fell, with shouts
upon the Federal rear At the same in
slant, the detachment in front, which hat
served as decoy. charged the enemy
full tilt-and caught between this double
fire, cut off, surrounded, dumb founded
the Federal cavalry-men threw Gowr
their arms and surrendered.
l was recaptured, and found myself
by Ashby's side, face to face with Col.
Wyndham. The newspaper correspon-
dent had glided into the woods and es-
capped.
shall never forget the expression Of
the Federal Colonel's countenance at that
moment. If ever rage, modification
and establishment were depicted on hui
man face, his displayed them.
When he caught my eye, he glanced
at me like tiger, and turned abruptly
away.
Ashby treated his prisoner with that
calm courtesy which characterized him,
but the Colonel would not be modified.
His face was flushed, his eyes full Of
lurid light-wrath had mastered him.
The few words he blurted out had some
thing savage in them; and when. he was
conducted to the rear, through the lines
of infantry ! heard that his wrath ex-
.ploded.
Some one among the men greeted him,
| heard, with the words: +" just look at
the Yankee Colonel p when his long
pent-up anger burst forth like torrent.
His peculiar adherence, it is said, was
to be considered g Yankee and this
was the straw that broke the camel's
back
Ashby captured sixty-four men, if my
memory serves me, by this ambush, and
these were now sent to the rear.
Your luck is extraordinary, my dear
Surry," he said, "to DO captured and re-
captured both in one day / am truly
glad to see you again. Come, tell me
about it,"
narrated all that had occurred, and
my companion said, with smile:
1.-The worst Of all possihls habits in
a commander is to boast Of what he is
going to do"
Especially when he doesn't do it."
And we rode on.
WoMAN's ASPIRATIONS UNPARALLELED
Barbarism is to be ameliorated by the
remonstrances Of those who live amongst
it, if at all The hideous practices of a
part Of the American people in distant
Territory are being energetically assailed
by daily newspaper (the Salt Lake City
Vc3cte) printed at the capital Of the
abomination
"Tbere is much in the doctrines Of
Mormonism that is abhorrent to the
noblest and most sacred feelings of the
more intelligent, especially of the young
ladies connected with the Mormon fami-
lies, revolving to their native sentiment
of refinement and to the beautiful and
tender ideals of home and Of domestic
life that the pure-minded instinctively
cherish. In every virtuous young wo-
mans heart, if not swept by the blight
ing influence of false teachings and mis-
taken views of duty and of life, there is
deep and sacred yearning after com
partnership, and in that companionship q
fullness, devotion and entireness Of affec-
ton and sympathy; yearning implant-
ed by God himself to be cherished as a
means Of elevation, and which is sweetly
satiated only when the Divine law of her
being is obeyed, but to which Mormon
ism, with all its pompous pretensions and
lofty claims, presents a dreary blank (;
nay, to which it opens up Gethsemane
Of unutterable anguish, scene of con-
tinuous crucifxion, with the wormwood
and gall Of many sights and many ne
elects. In those tender moments in wo-
mans history, when 80 much of hehuti-
full and solemn truth mingles with the
creations of fancy, when the future is
star-teemed with pleasant hopes, when
woman's nature in its virtues asserts the
laws, whose obedience constitutes the sum
of domestic felicity and guides the young
to happiness, it is the boarded wealth OF
one faithful heart that is ardently GOV.
eted. In the ideal Of noble wonianhood,
when rejecting on what God would have
her be, and her Divinely-inspired affec-
tions and sympathies have qualified her
to become, it is womanhood, radiant with
the diadem of many virtues, and glowing
with the enkindled divinity of all the
affections that fills and hallows the scene
of her anticipations, the Eden of her
delight. But in Mormonism-material,
heartless, loathsome, sneering at senti-,
ment-she finds no promises, no hope of
realization for the heaven sanctioned era
wings and aspirations of her nature
Instead Of companion and friend in her
husband to constitute, with herself alone,
the regal pair, with oneness of aim, Of
interest and affection, Mormonism PRE-
sents to her lord, master, tyrant,
the beggarly 1.-THE of man, whose affec-
tons are divided, withered, cursed"
EE At what time of life may man
be said to belong to the vegetable king
dom? When long experience has made
him sage. - ~ f7ar 'ssi