The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-25
THE ,SALE or MONTTCELLO

| correspondent of the Lynehburg Republican
sendSthat paper an account of the sale of Month
cello, the former residence of Thomas jefferson
was sold under the eonscation act The letter saws
large crowd was present, and
Among them Captain Jonas p Lew. bro-
ther OF the deceased owner of Monticello After
the deputy marshal had proclaimed the decree of the
District Cont, Confederate States of America and
the terms OF the SALE Captain Levy stated that he
dld not come there to interfere with or prevent the
sale III any way, and that while he, for the present
waived his nights IN the premises he intended to bid
for the property himself The deputy marshal then
stated that one acre of the plaee-the Cemetery of
, Inomas Jefferson-was reserved in the SALE and
captain Levy said his mother also inferred on
the place, and he hoped whoever became the pur-
chaser OF Monticello would let her rest in peace
Monticello was put up, and the first bid was OO0
the last SSO, 800 and Leutenant-ColOnel B. f. Flick
lin the purchaser.
1.-The land at Buckeye, nine hundred and sixty-
one acres, was bought it is said, for the Confede-
rate Government at eighty-eight dollars Per acre
Sl,6o5-by j. H. Parker. The first negro man
Fuke, brought 1000; the next, Fleming CT asa :.
Lewis, $50; John, sold to Captain Jonas r. Levy,
TOR S5,4O0. negro woman, with seven children
one at the breast, S23, l00 to b. b. Ficklin; three
girls, from five to nine years old, S1l 0Oo and two
smaller girls, S., ,2O0. An old man and wife was put
up and withdrawn, as the marshal would provide
privately for their support.
The bust of Mr.. Jefferson, which stood in the
hall on fluted Corinthian pedestal, brought only
$50, and will still retain its place. as Mr. Fickl re-
purchased it. The piano-forte brought 5000:
sldeboard, with marble top, Sjl0 the model OF The
United States frgate Vandalia was bought by j. p.
Levy for Sl0O; washstand, 5000; cows, from $500
to 5000 each yoke of oxen, 81 500 shoats from $50
to sloO; threshing machine. 5000 The bust of
Voltalre was sold, but what it brought / do not
know; it was said to have been Mr. Jefferson's
The amount of sales was S350,000.
" In one OF the rooms in the upper story was the
body of chair or one-horse sulkey which Mr. Jef-
feison used to ride in from Monticello to Philadel-
phia when he was Secretary of State Standing in
'front.' OF the house, a piece of land of two hundred
acres was pointed out to me by Mr.. Randolph which
Mr. Jefferson purchased for a bowl of punch, and
several hundred acres for five cents
Visitors have defaced the walls of the house bv
scribbhng their names over them Hundreds of them
can be seen and read each side of the front en-
trance to the hail. pieces of the bust of Mr. Jeer-
son were Clipped off; chairs, tables mirrors vases
broken and destroyed, and in some cases memetoes
OF rare virtue and art have been purloned, while
the family resided here well as in their absence
And the monument of the immortal Jefferson has
been sadly deeed and the fragments carried off as
trophies or mementoes from sacred shrine Shame.
shame upon our thoughtless countrymen: why
should they be so disrespeetful to the sepuehre Of
'he great patriot of the Revolution large num-
Der OF people were present at the sale"