The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-07

Freeman in the persons OF the play would Ger
tainly gain new laurels for these now brilliant
stars Begging your pardon for your time have
used, and asking pardon for my breach OF Ell
quette, patiently await an answer, II possible.
CARRIE.
In reply to the inquiry, we may state that to
the best Of our knowledge the piece alluded to
has not yet been produced on this side of the At.
lsntic, and that while the play itself has been
quite extensively sold and read among us, we
doubt whether any acting copy has reached here.
1t is spoken Of in the English papers as being
rather prosy 10 its representation, however inter
esting 10 perusal.
Manager Floyd announces for the coming week
varied programme. Tomorrow night, as we
stated, Mr.. Ryers benefit will take place. The
coming beneficial has pre- eminent claims upon the
Varieties patrons, who must all look back to
many occasions in which he has contributed ma
terslly to their entertainment. Early in the sea-
son, when "UDder the GasIight" had such a pro-
tracted run, Mr.. Ryer, appearing nightly in the
character OF the switchman at Shrewsbury Sta.
lion, made a capital hit, and actually endeared
himself TO the hundreds of hearers who laughed
with him in his quiet, honest humor. The benefit
bill is an attractive one, including the standard
play of the Female Gambler, or Plot and FASH
Fontanges and Mr.. Ryer as Mdrtmilian Denarets,
head OF the secret police. The aftsrpiece will be
Napoleon 7, or the Emperor and Soldier. J." afford.
ing the beneficiary an opportunity of appearing
in the leading part, one of his very best charac-
tiers.
On Tuesday night the Romance of Poor
Young Man" and on Wednesday the Lancashire
Lass " will be repeated, and on Thursday the
"school for Scandal " will be produced by the
company.
There appears to be quite general desire that
Manager Floyd should afford us another opportu-
nifty of seeing that excellent comedy, Masks
and Faces" and also the drama Marble Heart"
The reproduction of both these pieces would, we
Think, prove both profitable and pleasing.
We are under obligations to Mr.. C. A. Deisler
Of the st. Charles, for excellent photographs of
Miss Jansuschek, mementoes of an actress whose
talent and powerp need, however, no such reminder
to perpetuate them in our memory.
Mrs. Laura S. Webb, of Mobile, the authoress
OF 4" Heart Leaves" is to give a reading next Sat
urdsy evening at Lyceum Hall. Mrs. Webb is
the widow of a gallant Confederate soldier, and
is entitled to our sympathies and support, no less
from that fact than on account of her scknowl
edged talent as a reader and genius as an author
The subject of the lecture will be The Beauties
OF Hope and the Victories of Life" Half the
proceeds of the entertainment have been prof
fered to the Firemen's Charitable Association.
The charge for admission has been fixed at fifty
cents, and We look to see Lyceum Hall crowded.
BELLE BOYD.
Belle Boyd was born in Martinsburg. Va, and
comes Of good old continental Virginia stock.
nj are a hiram of has
family; Linn Boyd thus being a relative. The
Boy6 family was represented in the Revolutionary
army; Bellies grandsire being with Washington
at Valley Forge, at yorktown, aud, indeed,
throughout the whole Of that long seven years.
strife for freedom.
Belle was educated at Mount Washington Col.
lege, Maryland, graduating just before the break.
ing out OF the war, and making her debut in
society in Washington City. She was present at
the Inauguration of President Lincoln, TO whom,
indeed, she was well known, and with whom she
subsequently correspOnded even up to the Dom-
bsrdment of Fort Sumter. At the outbreak of
actual bostilities, when the war fever was at its
height, Mr.. Boyd, the father of our heroine, en-.
listed as private in the Confederate ranks
Bellies sympathies, ike true Virginia girl being
with her State and people, che, coo, enlisted
meath the stars and Bars. Her many services,
her daring exploits Der perils by food aud deld,
her imprisonment, her exchange and recspture,
the many little episodes of the war, of which she
was par excellence the heroine, have been made
the theme of many song and story. We do not
propose to reproduce them all in this sketch, but
deem q recital of some OF her daring deeds, as
well as a description of the lady herself, not
without interest to the general reader.
In person Belle Boyd is over the medium hight
rather slender, but agile and graceful. Her cOun-
tenance, though not beautiful, is expressive aud
beamng with intelligence. Her eyes are large
and Of liquid black, shaded by fine dropping
l6sbes. The brOvs arched and full; forehead
broad; nose sqUiline; mouth not large but with q
No Mi finn DAD and ant
When in repose her face has alIstess, sad express
sion, but when, as we have seen her, mounted on
her fsvorite coal black horse, she dashed by the
lines Of gray clad warriors, her cheeks glowing
and eyes flashing she looked like beautiful angel
of war. There would be no lack of expression
then and no one of the tried and sturdy "foot
cavalry" whose cheers greeted her, but thought
Bell Boyd the finest locking girl that ever flashed
across soldiers gaze. Those who were with
Stonewall at Front Royal, when the Tigers made
their splendid dash and when the first Mary
land Confederate whipped the first Maryland Fed
eral, will recollect the incident We relate.
Belle was in Winchester at the time jackson was
mancuVeriug in the Luray Valley preparatory to
an advance. She Obtained from Baltimore full
detailed account OF the number of troops under
each Federal general to which she added report
of the respective positions occupied by each regi.
ment.
This wss Information that would be valuable to
jackson, but how to get IL TO him? Ingranstiug
herself with the provost marshal who was the
colonel of Sthe Tenth Maine, by sending him
bouquets, she obtained from him pass to leave
the lines. On her way out, however. she was
stopped st the interior picket and package of
contrsbssd letters taken from her. The paper
containing the important information, however,
escaped detection, being secreted in one OF her
stockings. Arrived ct the extreme outpost, she
was again stopped, and as she had placed herself
under suspicion by having been found with letters,
she found herself unable to proceed. The pre-.
cious document was then placed in the case of an
old silver wstch, the works beng removed for the
purpose, thus constituting novel timegiece
truly, yet one which pointed the hour of destiny
for Conmisssry Banks. This was intrusted to an
old negro, who, faithful TO the trust delivered It
promptly. Itwss doubtless on the information thus
furnished that Stonswsll based his sabssq1ent
movements, and TO II, IN some measure. Banks may
attribute his mercfless thrashing. 30 jackson
moved forward, and il was at Front Royal that
Belle succeeded in meeting the dsshng young
cbevsers Of the South who we're coming 10 strike
down The arrogant Mortimer aud sweep them
from that " Eden Of the South" the Valley OF
Virginia.
The battle ragged shells came hurting DER the
plain, the singing mimic balls few thick Bsona
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