The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-12-28

loyalty so frauglt with peril to 9Th,
best government upon eartb,n could no
be overlooked by any officer who had {
proper sense of Che responsibilities rest
ing upon him. Accordingly, the Gen
eral in command, knowing that some
of his officers had offered to lend horses
and equipments to certain young gen
| tlemen who were 10 contend for thu
prize, Issued the following patriotic
general order:
HEADQUARTERS. DIsr. OF THE NorTowAY,l
PETERSBURG, VA, Dec. 9,1S65
| GENERAL ORDERS, No.41.
1t having been reported to thest
Headquarters that certain social gath
ering is to be held in this city. only with
the understanding that no yankees
are to be invited thereto, and the Major
General Commanding being satisfied
that the idea of such restriction could
have emanated only from the intellect
| of those too craven to fight in defence
of their opinions or too degraded to APP
preciate the liberal spirit in which they
have been treated, it is hereby ordered,
that at the tournament to be held on
Wednesday, Goth inst, no officer nor
soldier of the United States shall lend
to any party i'm said tournament, any
| horse, saddle, bride, or equipment OF
any kind; and all persons loyal to the
Government of the United States are
warned against attending such disreput-
able and disloyal meeting, that those
who do attend may he marked as uli-
worthy to associate with those who have
honor and honesty enough to regard
their oath of allegiance rs something
more than lip-service, and too much
principle to be bindly led by II foolish
woman.
IL is further ordered, that no officer
having Government property in his
charge, WILL until further orders, use
such property in any way for the ben
Gift of any citizen of Petersburg.
by command of
Major General JOHN GIBBONS,
VIM H. MALE
Brevet Major and A. D. G., A. A. 40.
Official VIM II. MALE, Acting Assistant Aajutant den-
eral. Etzl5 a
The correspondent then proceeds,
sneeringly, to say that "the people were
thankful that the magnanimity of the
commandment stopped at this point, and
that no arrests were made" and adds
perhaps this leniency may be due to
the fact that the General is an old army
officer, and that he is native of North
Carolina, all of whose family have been
engaged directly or indirectly in the
great struggle on the Confederate side"
The writer-we quote merely to show
the unhappy spirit and temper that ex-
ist-says:
IoNz IA
ing the lists, we have no means of as
certaning, but we are safe in saying
that they were not missed. There was
q very large concourse present, and dur
ing the time that the riding was going
on, the business part of the city present
ed the aspect of Sunday, so few people
remained at their usual avocatfons. No
one knows positively who is stigmatized
by the General rs IA foolish woman,'
but he is thought to alludc to Iady'of
great refinement and high social posi-
ton.
The Freedmen's Bureau continue
their beneficial Iabors, unexhausted by
the monthly exertions they make in
drawing their salaries. They have some
squallid villages under their care, in
habited by negroes, mostly women, who
gain their livelihood in the ordinary
style of vicious females. II
The men are very generally COMPLAIN
ed of by the farmers, who say that they
are not to be depended upon; that they
will not work except under the pres
sure of the most urgent necessity, and
then only for short time to satisfy
their immediate wants.
Business is dull. The amount of mon
ey i'm circulation is small. and this in
stock of goods in the hands of the old
of the city is light. Large
amounts were brought into both Peters
burg and Richmond by suffers and other
Northern dealers, but as they We're gem
orally in excess of the demand, or at
least of the ability of the people to buy
these holders have lost money.