The Cecil Whig., 1862-12-06
miscellaneous.
RetpibutiOn.

But few of the leading and most
active men of the South, who were in
stumental in getting up this rebellion,
will be likely TO escape in their own
persons and families, 'hc direful conse-
quences of their treachery and iugratl-
tudc to the Government from which so
| many of them had received almost, llim-
table favors and advantages. We are
reminded of this fac, from reading
paragraph from letter dated at War
renton, Va, where is located the resi-
dence Of Ex-Governor Smith, famous as
,, Extra Billy, } for the additional charges
he made to his bills against Uncle Sam,
as mail contractor.) The premises of
extra Billy were recently visi ed by
some of our troops, and found to con-
tain the remnant Of 'he family, his aged
wife and daughter, ihe latter represented
by the letter as not much calculated to
cause any modern Leander to swir,
river, to visit this fair specimen of
Virginia hero-old Billy himself had
been sen; away on the approach of our
army, being an invalid from fever, the
results of a wound received in the fight
at An lie am one of his sons was killed
in the battles near Richmond, and the
other died from disease incurred from
exposure, serving the secession cause
i is probable thai al! his servants
availed of the opportuni y to make their
escape from his quarters az Warrenton,
but few of whom will ever be likely TO
be gathered into his fold again-so that
all he ertras Billy made off poor old
Uncle Samuel, but little will be left to
him, aud the probabilities are, ihat no
posterity will be left to rise mp and call
him " blessed"
The rgiual Secre' e'ary of War of the
rebels, who made the famous speech on
the steps of their capitol a Montgomery,
Alabama, when the news Of the capture
of Sumter was received, in which he
promised he excited multitude that by
the lst of May, the rebel flag would also
" be unfur,el on the capitol at Wash
ington, and soon in Philadelphia, New
York, and even on Fanieul Hall in Dos-
ton,' is now represen ed to be Il house
less wanderer at the South, his family
having all been swep. from him BY
disease, and his property by fire. Old
FLYERS plantation near Hampton, doub
less shared the fate OF most of the others
in that vicinity, the drunken llagruder
having destroyed the town by fire, in
midsummer, on the plea hat he Union
troops might occupy it, for Winter quar-
ters he fell into disgrace, and has
been sent into exile amongst the wild
Indians in Arkansas, bu. between his
ravages and the devasta ions which fol-
low all large armies, poor old Tyler's
properly has been pretty thoroughly
destroyed, and he himself has gone to
give an account to a higher than any
earthly tribunal. Old Wise has lost in
death his favorite son he himself is
held in contempt, aud in his old Nir-
ginia, where he was ever accus omcd to
make swell, and to command attention,
either by his arrogance, his impudence,
or his tergiversations, he is now a mere
cypher, despiscd by his old associates,
spurned by those who were formerly
lick-spittles, given the cold shoulder by
the cotton ollgarchs who are now lord
ing it over the +. +. VS., who have
virtually placed him and the thief Floyd
on the shelf, as of no further use to
'hen-alas how are the mighty fallen.
Old Mr.. Rufin, too, The cynic, who
obtained the honor of firing the frs shot
at the old flag on Sumter's heigh s, and
visited Charleston for the purpose, has
seen the palatial residence of his family,
on the James River, represented to
have cost million dollars in its cree
tion and adornings, destroyed by Nc
Clrllan as a military necessity, but a
few days before the evacuation of our
army from that vicin, y, and the poor
old man has probably been reduced to
beggary. Thompson, the Secretary of
the Interior under the mbecile Buchan-
an, and who wi h Cobb and Floyd, plot
ted all the mischief in their power
against the Government they had sworn
to suppor, be too, has recen ly felt,
even on his far off plantation in Missis-
sippi, some of the horrors of war which
he had done so much to bring upon the
country--lt lc did he think during his
midnight plot t,ings with the other con-
spirators, that the hand of retribution
would reach him, in his far off and
beautiful home in the interior of his
State, but he has had it shown to him,
that the way of transgression is hard,
and that 'here is an overriding Power
above, whose decree 10 fallen man is,
tina: whilst he is God Of mercy, he
will in no wise clear the guilty.
Thompson's plantation has been recently
visited, in one of the excursions of the
gunboa and military expeditions into
Mississippi, and by accident or desi ign,
his entire property was destroyed, in
cludfng all his crops, his slaves embrace
ing the occasion to make their escape
Cobb Is said to have gone home from his
command in Virginia, wounded and will
probably be unfit for fur her service
Mason, now in England. has Lad his
es ate subject to all the disasters Of the
war, which have been so in ensely felt in
It's vicinity near Winchester, and is pro-
badly beggar upon the cold charities
OF The world The catalouge could be
multiplied to an indefinite extent, en-
bracing most of the leading men through
out the entire South, such as Slidell,
Soule, the Rhetts aud an innumerable
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