The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-27

From the Richmond Dispatch 18th.
The prisoners captured by Captain Mos
by, of Fitzhugh Lees command, arrived
by the Central cars on Wednesday night,
in charge of Lieutenant McClella Inclu-
ded in the number (the whole amounting
to 29) were E. II. Stoughton, Brigadier
General of I'd brigade, Casey's division;
A. Barker, Captain of Company L, 9Th
New York cavalry; Robert Wellbrient,
telegraph operator, R. Wardener, an Aus
trian Baron; P. Pratt, private in Com
pany F, 18th Vermont, and orderly for
Gen. StoughtOn.
The prisoners were taken in custody on
the night OF March 8, near Fairfax Court
House, by Captain Mosby and his COM
mand, whose daring and intrepidity in
making successful raid within q few hun
dred yards of the camp grounds of two
abolition brigades, and carrying off, with
out damage to themselves, the General
commanding one of them, deserves the
highest praise. Most of the 80 men cap
tured. including Gen. Stoughton, are aris-
tocratic specimens of Yankee manhood,
with profusion of gold lace on his coat,
were surprised in bed, and were, therefore,
incapable OF offering any resistance, had
they been so inclined.
Stoughton occupied for his headquarters
a spacious dwelling a few hundred yards
from Fairfax Court House, and deemed
himself perfectly secure. When his mid
night slumbers were interrupted by Capt.
Mosby, who entered his room and desired
him to get up, he deemed him one of his
own men on frolic, and angrily replied
that if he did not clear out he would order
him under arrest for an insult to his COM
manding General Mosby asked Stoughton
if he knew "Mosby of Lees Cavalry?"
yes" replied the irate Yankee; "have
you caught the s. of b." "No,"
replied Mosby, eve haven't; but he has
caught you: SO get up and prepare for a
ride" The Yankee General soon had
realizing sense of the surroundings, and
prepared to do as Mosby commanded. He
was careful to dress himself for the jour-
ney, but he and all of the others complain
that time was not allowed them to saddle
the horses, and they were compelled to ride
twenty-five miles on the bare backs of in
different steeds, surrounded by Confederate
dragons, over not the smOOthest road
known. Wardener, the old Austrian, de-
clares that the Yankee uniform in which he
is encased did not belong to him on the 9th
of March at Fairfax Court House. He says
our men were in too much of hurry to be
particular about Clothes When the party
arrived in Richmond on Wednesday, the
twenty-five privateS were taken to the
Libby Prison, but all the persons above
named were allowed to retire to the Bal
lard House for the night. The fact of their
being there being made known to the COM
mander of the Libby Prison at a late hour
in the night, they were removed from there
much against their will, and placed in the
Libby Prison with their comrades The
contrast between the luxurious beds Of the
Ballard House and the floor of the Libby
Prison was marked indeed, and did not fail
to excite dismal forebodings in the minds
of the imprisoned Yankees.
From the Washington Star, 18th.
THE woMAN's PART IN THE ABDUCTION OF
GENERAL STOUGHTON.
1t turns out that the woman An
tonia J. Ford, of Fairfax Court House,
was the principal spy and guide for Capt
MOseley in his recent successful raid upon
that village. Col. L. G. Baker, the War
Department provost marshal, having OBJ
tanned positive information that Moseley
Gin disguise) slept at the house of Ford,
in Fairfax Court House, and that FOrd's
daughter went round with him and pointed
out the houses which Gen. StoughtOn, Col.
Wyndham, and Col. johnson respectively
occupied as their quarters, and that she
certainly aided Moseley in planning and
executing his raid, ordered her arrest.
She was accordingly brought here on
Sunday last and consigned to the Old
Capitol PRISON. Her commission (to
play such ''pannel" games as occasion
might afford opportunities, we presume)
was also at the same time secured, as well
as some $4,000 in Confederate money.
The following is copy of the commits
sion in question:
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
h'aOU ye, that repOsing special confidence in
the patriotism, fidelity and ability of .lntonia
j. Ford l, James B. Stuart, by virtue of the
power invested in me as Brigadier General in
the Provisional Army of the Confederate States
of America, do hereby appoint and commission
her my Honorary Asd-de-CaAnp, to rank as such
from this date. She will be obeyed, respected,
and admired by all the lovers of noble nature.
Given under my hand and seal at the Head
quarters cavalry Brigade at camp BeV-
ery, the seventh day of October, A. d.
1861, and the first year of our Indepen-
dence. j. E. B. STUART.
Impression Of his signet ring.
By the General:
L. HERMAN BRYAN, Assistant Adjt General
Of the General Stoughton, ci-decant,
but few months ago Lient. Stoughton,
with regard to whose case the President is
said to have declared that he did not SO
much mind the loss of the Brigadier as of
the horses of the cavalry he commanded;
of this Stoughton the Boston Courier re-
marks that he is a young man, of about
twenty three years of age, and of great
personal beauty, wearing most killing
moustache. a great part of his time has
been spent in the fashionable lotteries of
Washington. A short time since, one of
his less fortunate friends saked him how
he had obtained such q snddon ,,4: