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THE REAL BELLE BOYD.
1118 WAS NEVER CALLED AN IM
ronnk
An IDftHtliif llnnk and home E
tract* From It—A Fleaaaat Rftff
• nrr to Bishop Elltnll-Wlir
(iranil Army Veterans Should Not
Mar ell Again—The Position Takes
That They Mill C'oarinae In Hnve
n Procession Annually—The Sprc
tnrle the Combined Veterans of the
South anil North Would Slake.
Some Colquitt I'amlly History.
Other Matters of fieiternl Interest.
I inn Greet Villa. Maitland. Fla., Sept
en that a Mr Louis Spencer Daniel
has been writing "from personal experi
ence" .about Belle Boyi. the Confederate
spy. He falls Into an error, however.when
he says the newspapers often called her
an Imposter." The real Belle Boyd was
never called this, but there was a bogus
Belle Boyd, years ago. traveling In the
South, whom MnJ. Bt. Clalr-Abram* and
myself vigorously denounced as "an Im
po ler.” It Is evident that Mr. Daniel has
confounded the two characters Having
known the teal Belle Boyd In her prime,
and being familiar with her later and sad
der carver. I was prompt and persistent
In my denunc aliens of the bogus Belle
Boyd, Who always went armed and was
quick to draw her revolver. Asa rule,
toe people North and South were kind to
th- real Belle Boyd even after ber days
of usefulness were over, and poverty and|
trouble were her almost dally compan
ions. Her marriages were 111-aaeorted and
unto: tunate, and made her last years un
happy.
Sir*. Victoria V. Clayton of EufauU.
Ala., mother of Congressman Henry D.
Clayton, of that city, and Congressman
Bertram T Clayton of Brooklyn. I*■ *• •
amt niilow of Ma J. Gen Henry D. Clay
ton. C. el. A., a Georgia-Ala Damian of
high character, has written a bo ” k
• White uml Black Under the Old Re
gime- -In which are many graphic pen
pictures of her visits to her gallant bus
band at various camp*. Of her last visit
the account of her Journey embraces a
beautiful and Jut tribute to the Saintly
Bishop Stephen- Elliott, of blessed memo
ry. "My Inal attempt to visit the army
wa* attended with many difficulties and
hardships. The long-continued, unequal
struggle was telling on our people and
< out) try. When I reached Atlanta, orders
i.ad Just been received from Gan. Bragg,
saying: 'J’erroit no cltlsana to pa. es
pecially womeu,' I was In trouble, not
knowing tv hut to do. or whither to go,
"hen n kind gentleman said to roe. Come
Mrs. Clayton. I think we can smuggle
>O4 Into the car.’ We started off. and on
ftselling the train, found the entrance
guarded by one of the soldiers. Aa soon
•• he found out 1 was Gen. Clayton a
"ire. and wished to go to the army, he
t* muted nte to pass into the car with
out delay. I had a basket of good thing*
• -■ng and fed many a hungry soldier on
th* •rip.”
That night I saw a nice looking obi
*'title man. whom I recognised ns
dsr old Bishop Elliott. when*
hands had been' laid on my
bead In blessing many years before
"he n l was a happy young girl. 1 told
bint I whs Victoria Hunler. when he at
on e remembered me as one of the girls
•duc.*ed under hit superintendence si
Montpelier. We enjoyed sn hour In sweet
conversation abom the past. Me was a
holy servant of the Master, and one of
the handsomest men 1 ever knew. When
at college his fellow students esllcd htm
'du # ft u the ilugnittctm,' because of bis
handsome face and the benevolence beam
ing from hta every feature."
• •••••• •
An earlier chapaer In the book nor only
contains a very fine full page picture of
the Bishop, but gives a brief sketch of
M ss Hunter's experiences as Montpelier.
"1 remained In my sister's family,” says
Mrs. Clayton, “until my IBlh rear, when
my father <Uen. Hunter!, who was an
Kplscopallan. took me to the school of
Bishop Blephen KHIom The Bishop at
that time had the supervision of ChM*t
College, a female Institute belonging to
the Diocese of Georgia. situated a! Mont
pelier. sboul fourteen miles from Macon.
There 1 remained two years and learned
So love Ood's holy church. This love has
grown day by dev In aIL the succeeding
years. The school generally numbered
about one hundred girls from our best
families, and they were all devoted to the
dear Bishop and lovely Mrs Elllotl."
1-asl year, after she' Memorial Day pa
rade. May J. th* New York papers dis
cussed t||S question, "Will the Veterans
Ever March Again?" Some umma'.ed that
this would be llie lasi time the heroes
of the Civil War would be seen In a pro
cession. A eyndlesse newspaper article
aflirmed that "the leaders of the Grand
Army of the Republic have taken Into
serious consideration the growmg fertile,
ness of the remnant of the llahllng ma
chine that saved the I'nton In the sixties,
and It has been about dedde.l that this
must lie the last occasion on which the old
"Soldier# are ordered out to pinole the
streets." Now that kind of talk H very
"cheap," for the "leaders" have very
little to do with the "marching parade- '
of the skt soldiers; |f they want to mar. h
they will march, leader* or no leader*.
Even When the spirit Is willing and llie
flesh l weak, these old battle-scarred he
roes. one-armed and o*ie-|egged. It may he.
will march forjh under the "Old flag''
for which they fought In other year*
With tearful eye* and a throhbing heart
have I stood In the City Hall Square of
New York and eeen the feeble remnant
of the survlvons of the War of 1112 tn
through their annual parade—gr iff I old
heroes, wnom neither age nor infirmity
cou'.l ketp away from these parades, tin.
til utter helplessness forced their ab
sence.
And so II wfll be with the old soldier#
of the Blue and the Gray of the Civil
War In the years to oon. So long sa
they can stand on their feet or hobble
along on their crutches or wodeT 10.-r.
they will march on "Memorial Day" and
"Decoration Dav." and at the annuel
gathering* of the United Confederate \ et
eran* and Grand Army of the Republic
organliatlon*. Whst a grand spectacle
the old Union soldier* of the Grand Armv
of the republic presented recently In CM
ragth where the procession wa* nearly
five hours pnsslng the reviewing stand.
Twice during that lime I fainted and fell
out of my scat In the window Of O n.
Shaw's headquarter* at the Palmer House.
SO great was the strain of simply watch
ing Ihe various department* as they pass
ed Wisconsin made the neatest du-play
and a very large one bul Indiana was
simply immense A* they passed th- re
viewing eland Ihe Kpanfsh Minister said
to hi* old friend. Gen. Dan Sickles. Non*
of Ihe soldiers from Ihst stale were kill
ed I should say." To which the Genera!
renHed "Why Due..that'* only half f
>m Ihe other hall were killed In to.lt e
Ami this was a aad truth a* well a* an
Itnpres'lv* one. . . • •
* rutting aside all aectlonal feeling. stand
ing upon ihe broad and patrlotn- ground
of the Spanish- American war. whd "
?L'Vcle Ihe Chicago pa:ad* presenie.l to
Duke D Aram • *<*"" Jn, ‘ •" “J *£ r
foreign Visitors. Such sn array a<
ararred and wsr-worn veterans—ad |>eo r
J,„ rkiwn. in .heir various atates-msreh
again as at their country* call, under
S •&" V™ 7 SSL "SL
ssfjsi'i.ssra?
wa* A Wrnß* *© 1,1 * _ . a .1 n^rrfnl
"keep hand, off" this grea' amiJ*"**"
iotffig republic. But how tuuch •>
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1900.
i
nlflcant would have been th* warning
spectacle |f the I'nited Confederate Vet
erans of the Southern .states, bended by
the brilliant Gordon, Gfuld nave made the
procession three or four hou -s longer In
passing the reviewing eland. Such a
scene could be wtlnessed In no other coun
try the world over. Some of ib oLI >!-
dlers fell dead In the march; others were
run over aud killed In various ways, tut
the survivors will march again next 7ear,
and the next, and to on
•••• • • * •
Someone has very wisely said that It
ta better not So know so much, than to
kn<9 so much that la not true. This say
ing applies to a great many young and
ambitious wr tera who aesk to throw a
halo of romance about their ortlolea for
the press. I sec that Mrs. Tliaddeus Hor
ton hsa contributed an article to the 6i>-
tember Ladies' Home Journal In which the
late Mrs. L/ee Jordan la made to figure
In a moat romantic tnannir. * When quite
young," aays Mrs. Horton, "she married
Capt. Oolqu.tt, t'nlt'd Stales Army, who
was soon after killed In th* war, leading
a Confederate division " It would h hard
to compose more bungling sentence than
this, A qaptaln In the t'nlled States Arms
leading a Confederate division. In the
flrstVac.-. col Peyton 11. Colquitt waa
never an officer In the United Statea army
nor was he a graduate of Wist Point, at
many have thought He wa # a brother of
the late Gen. Alfred II Co'qutt*. and a
young man of fine |>hjsteal qualities and
brilliant mental endowments, and was ap
pointed by fbe l*rs:Jent a cadet "at
large'' from Columbus. Ga„ entering West
Point Military Academy on July I. IMi,
| being then nearly 1* years of age White
his demerits were few. 46 being the Mgh
i rat for any cne year, his class Handing
waa never mere than ordinary, and In ltil
he was -deficient" In niatb‘it*atic*. and
"turned hack" to next clasc He resign*!
April 13, WL Which c oeed his connection
with the academv.
1 am thus particular aa to hla West
Point record, bemuse Mrs Horton fur
ther stale# that "Capt. Colquitt and Je
-1 rome Bonaparte, having been classmate*
I .It West Point, were warm personal
j friends, mid naturally, the former's widow
j no sooner readied the French capital than
, -he made her presence known to the
young Franco-American." Now Cadet
Colquitt entered the academy In 14 and
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte entered a
year earlier. I*4B. and a* Cadet Colquitt
was turned hack a year. In UM. It I* a
bard problem In mathematics to figure
out how these two cadets could have been
classmates. It |s quite possible that they
became acquainted'with each other, and
lerliape on this account Mr*. Colquitt,
; then a widow, my have made herself
i known to Capt. Bonaparte when she vle
] lied Ihtrl*. he being then In the French
nrroy, on duty at Tours, and at Lunevllle.
I of their romantic courtship ami engage
| tnenl, I know nothing, considering It a
mere roman.* of the imagination. Al all
I events Mrs. Colquitt, who waa before
| marriage. Mies Julia Hurt, daughter of
1 Mrs Early Hurt_of Columbus. Oa„ a
, la.ly of mraltli and culture, came home
j and married Col. Lee Jordan, a wealthy
col ton planter of Dougherty lounty. Pey
ton Colquitt waa editor of the Oohimhoai
Times and Sentinel, with MaJ J. R
I Warren so long in the exeetillva olßce
; at Allan*a, and look an active par* In pol-
I Hies being a delegate from Muscogee
cpnnty to nearly every *'e convention. He
; rmponded to Ihe flr-l call. April 1. t*H.
for i.corgfa troops tn the Confederate ser
vice. a.- rapialn of the Columbus Light
Oitnr.ls. In Ihe Second Georgts Battalion,
under Col Thomas Hardeman, the first
troops to reach Virginia anil for her de
frnae Later he was tmde colonel of Ihe
forty-sixth Georgia Infantry and fell
while leading hla command Into battle al
Chlckamsuga. one of Georgia a most gal
lant soldiers and brilliant young wen.
I also notice In a newspaper sketch of
her arlliles The Romanes of Routhem
Homes. " that Mr# Horton has href. writ
ina up the Hurt House at Abbeville,
j. c “where." she eaya. "tho Confederate
Cablisa decided w end ihe *tnle for
secession ” Now. I exploded this claim
months ago. ami showed from official dec -
uinerts that the "Confederate Cabinet de
cided to end the a niggle" at Charlotte. N.
C., on April TX lIC, hut the final cabinet
meelltqr wn* held In the old bank building
called the Heard House, at Washington,
Ua , an May I. at which time the last or
der of the Confederate government waa
Issued It ta true that Mr. Davis and hla
parly passed through Abhevtll*. and that
he waa the guest of hla old friend ex-Con
grceeman A. Burt, but It Is not true that
a last cabinet meeting waa held there or
that final action was taken In rcgapl to
any future movement# of the party The
Burt House romance vanishes Into thin
air under the light of historic facta.
Sidney Herbert.
COUNTING THE NAVAJO*.
Dr. Raryrr Gives Her Experience* aa
Cenans Kanmerator.
From th* New York Tribune.
In • letter to the president of th* Wo
men’s National Indian Association, Dr.
Mary Pradl Harper, who was one of ihe
census enumerator# among the Navajaa,
give# some of her egperiene#*, Bh< ays:
1 mR&jJSkk jyjx*ybag**. m. ? •* •> 4/ 4'’MM £ttml * Mi IS Mb V M
A rifiptio family at home showing lb* everyday enstum*!. r oklng utenalla. furniture and general surroundings of their
p , simple househo and. | A
Th# first few day* my work wa* about
Fort Defiance, o I wa# able to
get In every night to comfortable quar
tern at th* agency Then It waa neces
sary lo take longer trips, and with a
schoolboy Interpreter I ael out one Mon
day morning Thai night I camped In a
Navajo hogan, or rather kin. which mean*
house. My hoetesa Invited me to Join the
family at Ihe evening meal. Title eon-
I Staled of a stew of mutton, nerved In a
granite utensil of a trend ndl usually ##en .
native bread and coffee. My portion of
Ihe slew was served lo me In n saucer.
Ihe real f the family eat around. c*'h
dipping hie or her epnop Into the utensil
until II wa* empty. Thr house was of
stone, containing one room, obout IS by
II Th# iwo wlmlowj were no* made to
open, so when twdtlroe came ami a dogen
native# ramped down on their sheepskin#
the air was rathef thl k. a# they persist
ed in keepina th* door do*.#.
|p the morning Ihe old equnw wa* up
and after pi forming her ablutions
In the frying pan prweeded to wash up
the dishes lrm th* nlghl before, ntut fin
ally to fry Ib* mutton for hreakfaet In
the same pan. My appetite wa* rathef
poor that tnorrrlng This family Is con
sidered very well to do. and Its aton*
hours; I* a mat aton comiaired with the or
dinary brush or mud hog an or hut of the
native*. It th a* scantily furnished aa one
ran Imagine, there being neither beds,
itialrs. tables, rook (tore or any of the
article* considered necessary to th* poor
est household. A few sheermkin* and
blankets, a very meager supply of cook
ing utensils and dishes, a few article# of
Clot bln* hanging over a pole suspended
from a rafter composed the household
goods. Th* fireplace, although rmle, la
quit* a luxury, a# the natives usually
make the fir* on th* earth floor, and the
■make escape* through the hole In the
roof left for that purpose.,
Next w* were located at th# house of a
half-blood, Henry Hedge, or "Cbee,”
probably the hart-known and most In
fluential member of the tribe After a
few days In the vlc nlty I moved my sup
pi,** to Moore * trading post From this
point 1 waa ob Igcd to go such long dis
tances that It waa economy of time to
camp Out. I had engaged a guide for
thin part of my work—* regular aavag*.
me who knew Ihe country :ind every trail
through Ihs mountain# He waa blind In
cne rye, end could revrr hnv# boaalcd
of a large amount cf beauty at aov
lime, M# grtsilrd hair wa* ild In a
kro' with cotton twine, about hi# head
he wore a Hack rag the remain* of a
silk handkerchief; hi* shirt was of
gaudy calico; hla nether girmem* wer*
cheap liousers tf American make, and
h * SOI were Incased In th* usual buck
skin rroccnrln# My cavalier avsnte*
rod# sha I. o-cm*!>nal y looking hack
wl h a hld'ou* onc-eyrd grin Intended for
a reassuring smile
From sunrise until sunset we rode
through mountain iral s huntln g for
aherp camp*, as In summer the Navajo#
drive their al.esp up out of the healed
valleys Into the cool mountain benches,
whcr-i water I* plentiful I found my
g rule savage, most helrful; hy daylight
the hcr**s were run tn -nd fad. Ihe fir#
mad < and my coffee hjtltng before 1 had
rtoeigdl frer. my blanket*. I carried my
own coffee and some light provisions, but
usually managed io strike a hogan at
Loon anil get some name bread aad
mutton slewed or brol ed on tit* coal*.
B mellm's I slept out under the stars,
sometime# under a rude shelter of brush
and | oles at a sheep camp tl la not al
lojtether pl nsant to sleep within a few
ftet of a Hoik of sheep and goals hud
dled close to the fire kpt burning in
front of the shelter to scare away the
tears and wolves Frequently my guide
pointed out trear Iracks.. but we encoun
tered no bears. It t* not eaartly agree
able to feel sheep ticks traveling across
your countenance, or to have sand rattle
down from th# openwork roof uion your
head and sleeping In. one’s clothes tie
, mnt-s monotonous; but one realties how
very few our real necessities are
I had Intended spending Ihe last nlghl
al Lillie Water H hoc!, as my wo k waa
In that direction at the last Bu* t.lght
overtook us In the mountains, and w#
were obliged to ramp at n aheep camp,
where we found an od man and two
young glr; they pointed out hogan tor
ua to sleep In. It was a beautiful hogan,
built of peeled logs of uniform else, wa*
pentagonal In fh*|i* sn-l umitpally large
and high It < evident! ya medicine
lodge Lifting a blanket which did duty
a* a door. I dtscoveted a small fir* burn
ing In lb* canter of the hogan. and near
,It an old man recline I on a abespskm
My guide soon replobMhed the fire Mpd
put on a coffee poi. The old matt W’go
owned Ihs *hee, brought u* #ome natlva
bread In a basket of Nnvajo make, and
with some cannul meat our bl.l of far*
wa# complete. Presently another native
appeared, a vDl'or. One of th# glris
brought In several ehp*k!ne for my bed.
I rolled myself In a Wankei nd soon
slept. Old man No 1. Ihe visitor and Ihe
guide all slept in the hogan also.
Abbott before daylight my gentle sav
•i wa* up nl out ftffer ih# horwn, ira
before eunri#e he had my coffee ready. Me
brought me a highly decorated howl, such
a* the naMvsa uses, full of clear water,
and 1 mode a slight tol ei The native
'•whole wheat" bread w* rather hard, but
by soaking It In jhe coffee It was poalbl*
io eat It. Reserving two of Ihe flat cakes
for our dinner we returned the basket to
Ih* owner, and. learning that the trail lo
IJttV Water waa rocky and steep end Ih#
distance considerable, I concluded to
work along toward* Fort iJeflence. and get
In there by night. Wi found lb* traU* to
ted mat It waa aececaary often lo get
down and lead tha horses. Sometime* tha
trail Is a .mere ahetf. a cliff above, a gorge
below: u slip, a stumble and at> accident
la inevitable.
By noon we were riding along Ihe bank
of u deep snogs, with a stream tumbling
over th* hotMxn. Bui aa we Iravelwl an
exit Into snortier similar valley appeared.
Vihl from that w* rod* Into th# trig val
ley The steep rocky wail# of one aido
of th* beautiful aatiyon Benito were vla-
IMe several mile* away, and at 4t* mouth
la located the Navajo agency, Fort De
fiance. I was glad to have a bath and ta
exchange my dlvgded skirt, bloomers,
buckskin legging* and morcailk* for a
more civilised garb.
T t
Oar Outlyta* I’ooaesalowa.
From tha Chicago Record.
Considering the alien lion now devoted
by th# political orator* to the American
occupation of distant Islands. It la inter
idling to rscall the fact, apparently lit
tle heeded that the Vntfed Btates li the
poaaeasm of several odd patches of fere
tory neither adjacent nor contiguous to
ihe tarrltory of the republlo. < 'ousting
m all these mil omitting Cuba, which baa
bean declared independent, tha various
possession* are as folluwu
7Y* Philippines, acquired by treaty In
MM
Alaska acquired by purchase |n IMT.
Porto Rim. acquired by treaty tn UM.
Hawaii, annexed In UM
Tutulla. Menus, and four smaller isl
ands of Barnes acquired by negotiation
with England and Germany In IMF
Guam acquired by treaty In IM.
Wake Mend, tn th* Pacific, discovered
by an American officer tn TTH, and for
mally taken in INfi under the title of dis
covery.
The Midway Islands. It* th* Photflc. dt
roversd by an American officer In UM. and
formally taken In IM7 under the title or
discovery
Boveral of Ihe islands ere little more
than half-submerged coral reefs, and oth
ers at bast ran ha used only a* cabin sta
tions. or possibly coaling alallnaa. But
they arc formally tn the poasnasloa of tha
t'nlled Btalsa government
*♦ a t
Old French f sass* la Taraala,
From the Montreal (Quebael Gssetle.
Twe of ihe aid cannon which th* ling-
Itah took from the French In 174* and
throw fnto the harbor at Ireulaboufg
have been taken to Toronto, and are nose
lying on th* ground In tha rear of tha
Parliament buildings They are among •
number recently fished out of Lout*-
hourg harhor.and hav* been purchaasd by
the government The cannon have bean
lying at the bottom of th* sea over 160
veara They are badly cowered Wtth rtiat,
hut they will be (•ollahi'd up. sultaMy en
graved and mourned bt the public work*
department ami placed eom*wber* In th*
ground In Queen's Park. Mach cannon Ml
about nine feet long, ml weighs over
3,600 pound# It I* thought hy aoipe that
they are of Russian iwtke, end wrap*
either purchased or captured from Husain
by ihe French. I
Seed Oats! Seed Rye!
Texas Rust Proof Oatl. Cosst-rataa#
Rye, Cow Feed Hay, Oram. Bran and
Feeds of all kinds for alack and poultry.
T. J. DAVIS.
Tslaphan* 18. U Bay etraat, west.
DONNELLY DRUG CO.,'
SAVANNAH. UA.
DRUGS. MEEDS. BTC.
Mall order* solicited. Bell phone fit.
P. 8. —Sand for free sample V. * P.
Pyxprpeu Cur*.
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