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SALES IN NORFOLK.
Nv CLOSING GOVERNMENT SALE
QUARTERMASTER'S HORSES AND MULES,
4

Ie CLOSING GOVERNMENT SALE
H 6TG7ARTERMAsTER,s Ho 81 AND MULES,
AT NORFOLK, VA,
The entire surplus stock of HORSES and MULES
at this post will be sold at public auction, to the
O'Clock A. NJ in front of the Custom House.
The stock is composed of some of the best draaght
animals in the country.
post account of their superior qualities, and
now sold as the Government has no further use for
Terms cash payable in Government funds.
NAT. Low, JR.,
Capt. and 4. Q. NJ.
ocl3-tO1S J. q. SHAW, Auclionecr.
GALE OK FINE SALT.
OFFICE COMMIssARY OF SUBsIsTENCE,l
RIcHMoSD Va. October eth, 1865. !
SEALED PROPOSALS. i'll duplicate, will be
ceived by the undersigned until y o'clock NJ. on FRI
DAY the 18th instant for the purchase ofabout2OCO
LBS. OF FIN SALT i'll sacks OF about 80 lbs. each
Proposals will not be received for less than twenty
five sacks.
The Government reserves the right to withdraw the
salt, and to reject any proposals deemed too low
~, Proposals should be endorsed on the envelope,
Proposals for purchase of Salt"
By order of CAPT THE Gbisf e SQbh ebdt a
II. p. CLINTON,
ocl3-1Ot Captain and c. Vols.
n, GOVERNMENT SALE OF STOCK
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18th, 1865.
Will be sold at public sale, at Camp Hamilton Va,
on WEDNESDAY, October 18th, 1865, at 10 O'clock,
50 HORSES And
EfaA MULES. The above animals are sold only
kVN for want of use and are the best yet offered
for sale in this Department
Terms P M, cash in Government Gn funds; 1,,,ps
Chief Quartermaster Department of Virginia.
1o Dc-,,, a; +. bLUNl,
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

But little time was left to speculate
on the chances to return laden with
money from the Golfers ofan enemies
treasure or spoils from his express be-
fore the train came laundering mp, and
in an instant halted, with crashing,
jarring sound from the engine, which
lay perfect wreck, dead iron horse,
whose race had been run, butstumbled
at the coming out. The passenger
cars were not injured, and, as had been
hoped, no citizensswere hurt, A party
of soldiers fred a few shots from the
windows, which was returded by Mos
by's men. At length the conductor
from the platform of his car surrender
ed the train, and Mosby ordered his
men to board it.
A scene of indescribable confusion
was commenced. The ladies, shrek
ing with terror, would cling to their
male protectors, who were no less
frightened themselves. But upon re-
peated assurance from the men that
they would not disturb them, became
more quiet, and received, in a very un-
derground way, the watches and mon
ey of friends of the opposite sex. The
train was finally cleared for burning
with the exception of one car loaded
with Dutch emigrants, who persistent
ly refused to leave. But some mische-
yious fellow, gathering an armful of
New York Tribunes and firing them,
gave the Dutch an impartial distribu-
ton of that paper, which caused them
to beat a hasty retreat The train was
then fired, after allowing the passen-
gers their baggage, some of which was
stolen by the soldiers. A soldier wear
ing blue uniform with the rank of
major on his shoulders, attracted some
attention, as he carried IN his hand a
tin box, bright and new. Someinquis-
tive pergon broke open the box, and
10 !! it contained one hundred and six
ty-eight thousand dollars regular
paymaster of Gen. Sheridan's army.
The money was divided among the men,
Mosby refusing, as he always did, to
take captured property. Yet Mosby
was good fnancier. All soldiers on
the train were taken prisoners; all cit
izens allowed to remain and wait for
the next train, and all of the eighty
three men and Mosby returned safely
to their former haunts, well paid for the
last raid-the celebrated "Greenback
Raid"
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
No. ".
THF CAPTURE OF GEN. DUFFIE.

THF CAPTURE OF GEN. DUFFIE.
The capture ofBrig-Gen. Dufie on
the Valley Turnpike, between Newton
and Kearnestown, was avery exciteing
achievement in the career of the parti-
san Mosby.
Sheridan's army was high up the
Valley, and the General, taking his
adjntant and an escort of thirty men,
proceeded in the direction of Winches-
ter. And to travel with more COM
fort, and at the same time look as much
like general as possible, an ambu-
lance was provided for himself and his
worthy friend the adiutant.
Now, Mosby had weakness, and
that consisted in taking few men well
mounted from a crowd of several hum
dred left back IN the acoods, and getting
on line of communication, watch from
a cover for small parties of the enemy,
whose mother did not know they were
out" and "gobble" them up-some-
times after chase of seven miles.
Well MQsby was amusing himself
this way one day, when the General
and his imposing cavalcade made their
appearance, all as merry asschool boys
at frolic. The partisan thoughts it a
pity to disturb such innocent hilarity,
and in all probability, the General had
important business in the town of VIM
chester. But, said he, 81 cannot brake
myself from the force of habit, and be-
sides, it is my duty to interfere with
General Sheridan's communication,
even if I should put yonder party to a
little Inconvenience. 8
He ordered captain to take twenty
men and charge them, while he with
his orderly would follow as spectator
The charge was brisk and decided, the
ambulance moved fast for w, the es-
cort faster, and the captain and his par
ty in pursuit, brought up the rear il
gallant style. giving occasional shots
from their pistols by way of variety
Another small party from w, met the
General and his party and wheeled te
keep company -the rebs began to gain
ground on the car, but Gen. Dufie had
splendid horses, and his driver must
have been Jehu himself About one
mile was made. several cavalry caught
and several killed, when loi an i'm.
mense wagon train, not over five hun
dred yards, directly IN front, and tire
mendous guard The ambulance had
the benefit of about fifty feet, and Ethe
brigadier could be distinctly heard or
der, ssdrive faster. (" But the last link
had been let out. The distance be
tween the pursuing and the pursued
became beautifully less, when finally al
q distance not more than two hundred
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
MOsby and his Men.
No. III.


The financial condition of Mosby's
command in October, sixty-four, being
in somewhat critical condition, be-
cause of the rapid depreciation in value
of Confederate money, and the cutting
off communications with the South by
the occupation of the Manassas Rail
road with forces under General Auger,
it became necessary, in sucha contin-
gency, to raise funds from the enemy
Accordingly, Mosby being a good fl
nancier, determined on greenback
raid, and snmmoning eighty three men
to meet him at a designated rendez-
vous, started with the intention of cap
turing the express train west, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and with
it, such moneys as might be designed
for the benefit of the army in the VAL
ley of Virginia in command of General
Sheridan.
The banks of the Shenandoah, that
beautiful but then disloyal stream, was
reached about sunset of the same day,
and ere the time for all honest men to
retire had arrived, Mosby had fanked
all pickets, avoided all scouting parties,
and halted with his men at that great
thoroughfare oftraYel, the long, double
tracked, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A detail of dozen men was quickly
made to operate on the track, and the
balance ordered to cove, until their
services were needed. A deep cut was
selected wherein to halt the train, as
it was thought less danger to the lives
of the citizens, who might be on board,
would be occasioned, and the whole
track raised at one point about two
feet above level to insure the stopping
of the train, which was expected to ar
rive at 2P. M. After waiting several
anxious hours, the welcome whistle
was heard at Dufield, depot three
miles distant.
Mosby now ordered all men on foot
to the railroad, and they fell in, ner-
vously, on the soutnern bank of the
Cut. He told them not to fire unless
fred upon, and enjoined them not to
disturb peacable citizens who might
fall into their hands.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
NO. 5

The Crescent reviews the statistics
of the killed, wounded and missing of
the Fedeal army in 1864 The follow
ing is detailed statement for Grants
army:
Wilderness, May 5, etc-Killed g.
288; wounded, 1928; missing, 6,874
total 2O,41O.
Spottsylvania, May IL, etc-Killed,
2,146; wounded, 1916; missing, 279
total, 1881.
North Anna, May 81, etc--Killed,
lao; wounded, l,1SO; missing, 327--to-
tai, 1,6O7.
Cold Harbor, june Skilled, 1905;
wounded, 9,032; missing, 2,4O5-total,
1888.
Petersburg, June 10. Killed.
1,19S; wounded, $3.50, missing, I, 1,114-
total, 1865.
Petersburg, June 20, ETC. Killed, 6O5,
wounded, 2.494; missing, 2,217-total
5,316.
Petersburg, July 30-Killed, 419;
wounded, 1879; missing, 1,910-total,
4,008. 6
Trenches, Aug, 1-18-Killed, 1873;
wounded, 6s4; missing, 46;-total, 86s.
Weldon Railroad, Aug. 18-Killed,
212; wounded, 1,155; missing, 81 To-
total, 4,543.
Reams' Station, Aug. 25-KiIled,
lit; wounded, SAG; missing, 1863
total, 2,432.
PEBBLES Farm, Sept. 30-Killed,
141; wounded, 1888; missing, 1856
total, 1856.
Trenches. Sept. 1S-3O-K Killed, 297:
wounded, 30; missing. 815-total, g.
All.
Boydton Plank Road, Oct. 29-Kill-
ed, 156; wounded, Loaf; missing, 500
total, 1902.
Grand Total Killed, 1852; wound
ded, 81, 957; missing, 23,s58- total. 49,
387.
The killed and wouned, 81, ,00O, form
ed one-third of Grants forces. The
following is a summary of the losses in
Sherman's armies:
Cumberland Army-Killed, 1905;
wounded, 1878; missing, 2,853-to-
tai, 22,8O7.
Tennessee Army Killed, 1,448s
wounded, 6,993; missing, 1,S73-total
1914
Ohio Army-Killed, 531; wounded,
2,37S; missing, 1,060-total, 3,969.
Grand Total Killed, 5,284; wound
ed, 26,129; missing, 5,785-total, 81
199. -
Shermans S army expended %, 1878
rounds of small arms ammunition during
the campaign. m @
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Memorial to the President in
Behalf Of jefferson Davis.
WINCHESTER, Va, Oct. Ii, 1866.
!

WINCHESTER, Va, Oct. IL, 1866.
TO his EGceuency The President:
DEAR SR In forwarding this mem
orial it is proper to explain that it was
not presented for signatures until late
at night after the final adjournment of
the Episcopal Council of Virginia,
when many of its members had left.
The "Presbytery" had also adjourned
and its members on their way home.
That the memorial expresses the
wishes of every Christian in the South
none can question, and we would fain
believe, could the voice of the merciful
and humane throughout the North find
utterance, they would join in cordial
chorus of ''amen" to our prayer.
Would you have your name borne
to the Throne of Grace by grateful
people calling for blessings on your
head, hear our prayer.
Very respectfully,
s. Your odedient servant,
NATH'L B. MEADE.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
PORT GIBSON, MISSISSIPPI, DECEMBER 9, 1865.

yards from the wagon train Gen. Duff
fe became q prisoner of war in the
hands of Mosby, and his worthy friend
the Adjutant, with a dozen of his es-
cort, shared a similar fate. The caval-
ry with the train did not attempt pur-
suit, as Mosby ordered up his whole
command to escort his distinguished
prisoner and suit back into the
woods" IN Y Dailg Neacs.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
VOL. L.
@ninimat gim&s
Forget Me Not.


nrorget me not |" with magic spell
uuOn nv listening earit fell,
with such meaning, such tone
As live in parting words alone. w
Long has 1t been since that sad day
When from my love went away;
Long may it be before I see
The face that is so dear to me.
Rut ever in my thoughts and dreams
A gentle spirit near me seems,
70 cheer me mid the toll and strife
And trouble of my stormy life.
Two pleading eyes, Loves crystal home,
Across my dreaming visions come
Two lips-ph, agony!-oh, bliss =
Press mine again in farewell kiss.
And still those words so soft and clear
In fancy can often hear.
They sweeten cen my bitter lot
Those tender words, "FOrgot me not"
S.P.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
Petroleum and Ghosts.


Beny. Fs TayAOr at the OIL Wells.
Benz. TAYLOR, of the Chicago Jour
nal, in letter, says:
1t is curious fact that gold and
ghosts seem to go together, and hid
treasures and apparitions are never
apart. All the old legends with iron
chests in them are sure to have touch
of the supernatural The sparkling
plunder of the dead Captain Kidd is
yet guarded by shapes you can see
through. Petroleum is hid treasure,
and Petroleum has its superstitions
Wizards, with hazel wands in their
hands, go about locating" wells. Men
dream dreams and believe in them;
hear groanings and interpret them.
Riding through Stuart's Run-which,
by the way will yet be famous terrific
ry-my attention was called to well
they were sinking In singular place.
1t was upon the summit of hill on the
Marshall Farm, in an old pasture. Ten
years ago-that was before petroleum
the farmer dreamed dream by night,
and toldit in the morning. He thought
he saw many wagons drawn up in this
pasture, and men loading them with
barrels. He approached and found
great tanks filed with a curious liquid
of whose name and proprietor he was
ignorant. Time went on; a flowing
well was struck; he visited it and re-
.cognized the green mystery of his Yis-
iou Fortunes were made there and
here; his dream troubled him, and vet
the COW grazed in the old pasture and
poverty summed itself on his threshold.
He went about with that dream of his,
and at last he found men with touch
OF superstition in them who dared ven
ture something on this petroleum Jo-
seph.
And so the clink of the drill began
to be heard in the old pasture, and the
old man to grow feverish with hope.
There is alookingglass of water in these
regions called the Haunted Lake, that
for thirty years mas been deemed un-
canny. Strange groanings and tremb-
hngs of the rocks upon the shore have
been heard at different times, and
Judge Holman, once watching near a
cave in the rock for dear was ESQ awed
by the mysterious rumblings that he
dropped his gun and incontinently fled.
This was quarter of century ago,
and furnished gossip for many win
ter evening freside in all the country
round. Since then wells have been
struck in the vicinity and the complaints
of the troubled earth have ceased. It
was unquestionably the struggling of
the imprisoned gasses impatient of res
traint; the very power that makes wells
play like mighty pulses 1t was the
trombone overture of the Petroleum
Orchestra.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

the joyous and enterprising sons OF
France, we say come-this is truly the
land Of the vine. Here you can plant
your vineyards to an unlimited extent,
and reap in q short time large profits
for your labor. To the hard-working
practical farmers of England and Scot
land, we say come The rent which
you pay yearly for one acre of land
will buy here a respectable farm. To
the enterprising sons of New England
New York, Pennsylvania and other
manufacturing States, we say come
Bring with you your cotton and wool
en- manufactures, and exchange them
for the staple commodities of Mexico,
SO much in demand in your own conn
try. Bring with you your machinery
of all kinds and your educated labor
this wonderful country wants it all
and will pay you well for it. To those
in the United States, whose fortunes
have been swept away by the terrible
tempest that has SO long ragged in that
afflicted land, to those who have drank
the cup of bitterness to the very dregs,
we say, come to Mexico. Here you
can get homes without money and
without price, Here you will find a
shelter, as did the Huguenots who fed
to England; as did the Puritans who
came to the bleak shores of America.
The Huguenots infused new life into
the manufactures in England, while
the Puritans made the dreary wastes
of America to blossom as the rose
What they have done for those coun-
tries you can do for this. The fortunes
you have lost can be regained here by
a few years of industry and enterprise.
Come, then, and bring with you your
families and your household goods
Let the maid and matron, the aged
sire, the tender sons and hired SER
wants all come. Here you will find
liberty of conscience and freedom of
religious worship fully guaranteed.
Here you viii find a monarch with ex-
panded views and liberal ideas. In
fact. we may call him arepubHcan En-
peror; for his daily labors are devoted
ted to the good of his Empire and the
happiness and prosperity of his peo-
pie. The good people of Mexico of all
parties are now alive to the great i'm
portance of immigration. The large
land proprietors are offering the most
liberal terms to all VINO will in good
faith settle on their haciendas and be-
come citizens of Mexico. Such iber-
ality was never known before in any
country For Mexico there is reserved
most brilliant future. Governed by
a wise, liberal and humane monarch,
her course must be onward. Her mag
nifcent lands, her rich mines, her de-
ightful climate, her peculiar geograph-
ical situation will make her what she
of right ought to be, the garden spot
of the continent. Her destinyis fixed.
The empire is an accomplished fact.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09
NATH'L B. MEADE.
To has Ercel1ency, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President of the United States:

To has Ercellency, ANDREW JOHNSON,
President Of the United States:
The undersigned clergymen and lay
men of the "Episcopol and Presbyteri-
an" Churches, who have been convened
in the City of Richmond, in their usual
annual Church assemblies, and having
now adjourned, are about to seperate
to return once more to their homes,
desire, before doing SO, to avail them
selves of the opportunity of addressing,
to your Excellency, in the most ferYent
words possible, memorial, respectfully
asking for Executive clemency for their
fellow-countryman, Jefferson Davis It
is not their purpose even to indicate
the many grounds upon which they be-
lieve it might be urged. They only
recognize in him fellow-countryman,
for many years distinguished alike for
purity of character in private, and ac-
knowledged ability and honesty of pur-
pose in public life, who is now borne
down by the heavy hand of sorrow and
misfortune, AID who yet in reality is
not more responsible for the course of
events, which led to the late disastrous
civil war, than hundreds of others
throughout our country.
1t surely cannot be out of place for
the followers of the Prince of Peace,
who has said 'If ye forgive men their
trespasses, your Heavenly Father will
forgive you your trespasses," ," to put in
a simple plea for mercy.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

THE GoyERNEss. In Russia this most
useful class Of females are held In such
respect that the governess is led forth
as an honored guest, taking precedence
of the pupils whose education she is
conducting Il is a shameful truth
that in England and this country their
position is not above that Of ladies'
maids,
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09


GENERAL CLEBURNE.-A member of
the staff of the lamented Major-Gener-
al Pat. Cleburne, writing from Colum-
bia, Tennessee, to friend In Mobile,
gives the following account of his bu-
rial: .aa s7 ,s....sae
I had his remains brought to this
place and buried at Ashwood, six
miles distant, the private graveyard of
the Polk family. I met with great
kindness from the people here in the
sad duty. His coffin was strewn with
flowers by the ladies, and the follow
ing beautiful lines, written by Miss
were sealed upon it:
Fare thee well, departed chieftain
Erin's land sends forth wall;
And o, my country sad laments thee
Passed too soon through deaths dark vale.
Blow ye breezes softly DER him,
Fan his brow with gentle breath;
Disturb ye not his peaceful slumber-
Cleburne sleeps the sleep of DEATH
Rest thee, Cleburne tears of sadness
Flow from hearts thou'st nobly won;
Memory ne'er will cease to cherish
Deeds of glory thou hast donei
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

ANOTHER MISSISSIPPI CoTToN FAcToRY.
Aberdeen Sunny South tells us
there arrived there lately a train of
over twenty wagons loaded with ma
chinery for the manufacture of cotton
goods and designed to be erected in
that city by Mr.. B. B. Barker.
This cotton factory viii soon be in
active operation, and Aberdeen can
then boast the most extensive estab-
lishment of the kind In the State If not
in the South.
1t is with the most unfeigned graft
ication that we note this evidence of
the Southern enterprise which tends to
make us self-supplying, self-sustain-
ing people.
We trust that an era of prosperity is
dawning upon us that viii make the
clang of the hammer, the whirr of the
mill, and the buzz OF the spindle, as
familiar as the shrek of the shell has
been IN the years now numbered IN the
records of the dead past.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

Rents OF THE New YoRK HOTELS.
The principal hotels in New York pay
rent as follows:
For the Fifth Avenue, $4,000; for
the St Nicholas and Metropolitan, $780,
600; Astor and New York, $4,000; st.
Denis, $4,000; Everett, $4,000; Hof-
man, $4,000; and Howard, $4,000
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

The New York Times says:
The President has repeatedly pro-
claimed to the Southern States that
he cannot favor their admission unless
they.
J.. Not only repeal their ordinances
of secession but declare them null and
r0id.
Not only abolish slavery within their
own State limits. but rotyy the Constr
tutionI amendment by which it is to
be forever prohibited upon the soil or
within the jurisdiction Of the United
States.I
8. Repudiate the debts, Confederate
and State, incurred in the attempt to
overthrow the National Government;
and,
3. Guarantee to the enfranchised
slaves such a status in civil tribunals, as
witnesses and parties to suits, as shall
secure to them. equally with all other
citizens, the full enjoyment of their
rights as freemen.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

An INTERESTING Discovery. The eel
ebrated Eastern traveller, Mr.. Layard,
in excayating the ancient city of Nine
yah, discovered the name of Jonah in
scribed upon the ruins. That proph-
ct, as our readers know, was sent to
announce to the people Of Ninevah the
destruction of the city for It's wicked
ness. 1t was spared on their repent
ance, and Jonah became their prophet.
He was greatly reYerenced by the In
habitants, and according to Oriental
custom, they doubtless inscribed his
name in conspicuous places on the
walls of the public edifces; and it is
an extraordinary demonstration of the
truth Of Biblical history that the in
scriptions engraved by Assyrian hands
a thousand years before the Christian
era should have been brought to light
by Mr. Layard.
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

The CosT OF KEEPING WIFE-The
New York World says an anti-mar-
riage association has been formed
among tie young men Of that city
The frightful cost of supporting wives
is said to have led to the movement.
The following is said to be the lowest
possible price at which man, whose
income is not over $4,000 per annum,
can maintain his consort:
Dress 500
Additional cost of board or house
keeping 1000
Two parties per year. ...... 400
Summer trip to the country. 500
Carriage drivers, etc., ETC.. 80
Domestic help. 200
1T Cetderas ,........ 200
4otaA. ..........s. =. ~ sS5u
The weekly standard. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1865-1867, 1865-12-09

Mrs. Hunter, whose husband was
killed by negro, opposite Vicksburg,
writes to Governor Wells, OF Louisi-
ana, that the murderer was taken out
Of the hands Of the civil authorities by
the Freedmen's Bureau, at Vicksburg,
and when she asked for information in
regard TO the murder, she was ill-treat-
ed and thrust out Of the room by the
officers of the Bureau.
We little reflect how much dancing
music, and how many funeral marches.
sound at the same time on the broad
theatre Of humanity.