Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-18

about Colonel Boyd 5 bond lead to the cores
pondence about the duel?
Mosby-I took very active part In having
Colonel Boyd's bond broken, and when the
matter was up in court, pronounced 1t Peter
Funk affair. and give il as my opinion that
Boyd came here to swindle the county. | was
also employed a5 counsel to collect bill OF ovel
SiO0 which CO.! Boyd owed a lady IN Wash
incton named Miss Smith, for tOard or rent:
lie said was prosecuting him. One cay
was coming in from the country, and hap
pened to meet Colonel Boyd on the road
smoke to him in a friendly way, for L had moth
| ing personal against him, when he turned ms
horse around and said, Colonel Mosby 1t you
don't stop interfering with my business VIII
| make it personal matter with you. SAD
| "You can do 50 Is soon as you please, ana 10
any manner or at any time. lie then saiu'
| "Mosby, ii you will 20 with me to IchnSyVa-
MIA vii! prove you to be damned highway
robbcr." replied that would hold him re-
sronsib!c Tor those words when he GOT to town.
Correspondcnt Why didn' you fight 1t on
the read?
Mosby Well don think that 1t IS quite
the thin, for two gentlemen who have served
as co! urls IT cavalry to make brusers OF them
selves Besides, Colonel Boyd is man Of
about 10 pounds and very athletic, while |
don't we;ch over l2j pounds. lie could have
crushed me in fist fight ike an egg shell.
Correspondent On what terms did You
arr2c % FIGHT
Mostly VI ten pace, with Colts army re-
voItr, ,hc parties TO advance as close as they
pleased alter the word was given to fire, and
keep firing until all the barrels were emptlcd.
Corrcspondont-ll the thing had come off
somebody would have been hurt, | suppose?
Mosby--lt would have settled the Sheriff
business, think, am 4 pretty good shot
with an army pistol.
Correspondent you keep that thing on
the table all tho time (ponting to the Colt 5
revolver already alluded to-.
Mosby-No; | carried that pistol all through
the war with me. brought it out when this
trouble occurred, because expected TO be as
saultcd in the street, and wanted to be ready.
CorreSpondent-Wha is the general impres
sion here about Col. Boyd's conduct?
Mosby-Well, you have seen the colrespOn-
dence. | wrote the last note and he has not re-
Piled to it. First | accepted what presumed he
meant as a challenge. He backed out of that and
then challenged him for calling me q high
way robbcr." He has refused to accept my
challenge, and there where the matter stands.
saw in the Herald that there was some diff
Guilty in Colonel Boyd getting second. Now,
the trouble with him was to get 4 principal
Now, he could have got plenty of gentlemen to
act as his second. Why, half dozen Of my
friends volunteered to wait on himi. he couldn't
have secured any Of his own.
Correspondcnt-Then you thiuk Boyd won't
fight?
Mosby-Well, he had chance, and he didn't
accept it. You can draw your own inference.
The truth is, this is the first time one OF these
carpet bargcrs has been brought to time. They
arc accustomed to ride rough shod over our
people, and nobody calls them to account.
Correspondent do yCu think Of re
construction?
Mosby- Haven't we done all We were asked
to? | am in favor of doing anything to get
back into the Union, so that We may get rid OF
these carpet baggers
Correspondent-What DO YOU call a carpet
bagger?
Mosby-Those alventuyers that come here
to prey on Us, and roam through the State at'
ter offices under Candy. | don't want to be
understood as otjecting to Northern people
coming here to settle. Ga the contrary, wish
we had more of them; mean people who come
to settle down. | want to sell them laud and
marble quarrries aud treat them well; but
these harnics are n ScourgC to US Ttcy have
no intcrcs, in tlc - &.a.r.