Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the leisure of wealth in study and travel abroad, andelegant, but unostentatious hospitality in his Dupont Cir-cle home. He died suddenlyat Florence while on a Con-tinental tour, leaving hiswidow to bemoan his passingaway in a strange land andwithout warning. In 1867Henley Smith married MissRebecca Young, daughter ofMcClintock Young, of Fred-erick county, Md., who hadpassed most of her girlhoodin Baltimore; and much oftheir married life was spentin that city. The union waschildless. In his last letter to meSmith described a ride he andRatcliffe took with
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . the leisure of wealth in study and travel abroad, andelegant, but unostentatious hospitality in his Dupont Cir-cle home. He died suddenlyat Florence while on a Con-tinental tour, leaving hiswidow to bemoan his passingaway in a strange land andwithout warning. In 1867Henley Smith married MissRebecca Young, daughter ofMcClintock Young, of Fred-erick county, Md., who hadpassed most of her girlhoodin Baltimore; and much oftheir married life was spentin that city. The union waschildless. In his last letter to meSmith described a ride he andRatcliffe took with Miss Chestney when she crossed thePotomac in 1865 to get medicine and clothing. She madethe trip alone, after her escorts were forced to leave her,returning successful and remaining South for the rest ofthe war. The river blockade was broken often, to advantage of thehospitals and the larders of Richmond, often to the bring-ing of important cipher despatches that gave warning ofcoming raids or advance in force. It was the underground. 6 MRS. GEORGE H. BUTLER(JOSEPHINE chestney) BELLES, BEAUX AND BBAINS OF THE SIXTIES mail too that told the foreign fighters of the loved onesat home. Nor was it without its humors and its comicepisodes. Randolph, the ever-ready, has embalmed oneof its meaner advantagings in a clever parody beginning: We rowed across the Potomac, Maryland!We put up cash and then rowed back, Maryland!Were loaded deep with hats and shoes,Or medicines the rich can use—At prices that just heat the Jews! Maryland, my Maryland! There is neither need nor space to touch upon the dryand familiar details of the naval composition of the Con-federacy. The glamour and romance, in great part, andpretty nearly all of the usefulness of the sea side of the pic-ture, hang about the dashing and reckless work of the woodenflyers. But obdurate circumstances forced the rest fromrcsultful sequence into mere episodes—brilliant, immoital,but null. So it was with the outside attemp
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