The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1880-02-20

front of Poolesville and checked the
enemy for several hours. At last, in the
afternoon, wide line OF skirmishers
could be seen stretching far beyond each
end of those we had been engaged with,
and which moved steadily forward with a
steady alignment, very unusual for dis
mounted cavalry. I sent for General
Ramseur to come up to my position, that
the infantry had arrived, and that it was
about time for cavalry to leave. He soon
joined me, and while we were looking at
the advancing line through our glasses,
which showed their cartridge boxes and
canteens plainly-puffi puff! puff! went
their fire all along the line. There was
no mistaking the sound. The swish of
the Mimic ball was SO clear and SO evil
dent that it could not possibly come from
carbines. We held on, nevertheless,
making great show with our artillery
and repeated attempts to charge them
with cavalry, so that we delayed them un-
til their supports could deploy. By this
time, however, the enemy had bee ome
far advanced, and having been notified
that everything, including my own bag
gage and ordnance train, had crossed, I
withdrew comfortably and got into Vir-
ginia about sundown. We had been
marching, working and fighting from
daylight, July 9th, until sundown, July
14th, AZ days, or 1O8 hours. We had
unsaddled only swice during that time,
with halt of from four to five hours
each time, making nearly hundred
hours of marching. We had isolated
Baltimore from the North, and cut off
Washington from the United States, hav-
ing made a circuit from Frederick to
Cockeysville to the east, to Beltsville on
the south, and through Rockville and
Poolesville toward the west. We had
| failed in the main object of the expedi-
| ton, which was to release the prisoners
OF Point Lookout, convert them into a
! new army, capture Washington, estab-
| lish our communications across the Poto-
| mac by Manassas Junction, with Cor
! donsville and Richmond, and by making
| this a new base of operations force Grant
| to let go his hold and come to the rescue
of Pennsylvania.
| / have always considered the move
ment one the audacity of which was its
safety, and that no higher military skill
was displayed on either side than that
shown by General Early in this daring
attempt to surprise the Capital of his
enemy with SO small a force. e.--Gener'dl
| A FEMALE DEMoN.-A female demon
| of Rockland county and her ingenious
modes of child-torture are described in
the Nyac Journal Three years ago q
consumptive motheroliving in Third ave-
nue. near Eighty street gave her
six-year old daughter, named Josephine
Hylinder, who is described as girl of
unusual intelligence, into the hands of
| this woman. The father went to Califor
MIA, and the mother died within a year.
| The guardian began her cruelties imme-
diately thereafter. When it ceased to be
| an amusement to blacken the face of an
| ignorant servant and send her into the
room of the little girl, in the middle of
| the night, to inspire terror, she would tie
| the child to the bed-post, whip her with
| thorns, and then bathe her bleeding
back with salt and vinegar. Occa-
| sionally she would make the child
pass the night on her feet, with
| her arms tied to the back of chair, but
| more frequently her hands would be tied
behind her., and she would be given a
bed of a couple of pillows and blanket
on the floor. On one occasion red pep
per was rubbed in her mouth as pun
ishment for talking. She carried a
scar on her right cheek as a
record of the first whipping she re-
ceived after her mothers death. The last
was to have been inflicted on December
18th, when she was sent upstairs to un-
dress herself, the woman promising to
s'whip her till the blood ran down her
legs" Before her tormentor went up
stairs, the child jumped out of second
story window, this being the only means
L. r..
conscious on the ground, fed into the
woods. She was almost without cloth
ing and covered herself with leaves, but
in the evening was driven by the cold to
seek shelter in neighbor's barn. Here
she was discovered, and has since been
kindly cared for, while her guardian,
who narrowly escaped a coat of tar and
feathers, is now awaiting trial at the
February term of court at New City.