The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-06
Interesting Facts Regarding the Where
ab0lts of Prominent Rebels.
SECRET SOCIETIES ORGANIZED WITH A
VIEW TO PLUMBER.

ton and plumber, in which prominent
employees of the rebel governmentplay-
ed an important part. Quartermasters |
and commissary agents were the high |
priests in these ecretcombinations and, |
of course, large benefciaries in the inn |
mense profits secured. 1t is well known |
that even members ofthe Catholic faith, |
i'll disregard of the positive injunction |
of their Church, sought and obtained |
membership in the various secret orders
existing in this city, solely with view
to subserve their speculative purposes
This fact is undoubtedly true, but it can
not be said to reflect upon the integrity
and standing of the orders into which
these parties were admitted, for the OBJ
ject OF the movement was only known
to the parties who sought admission
There is, in short, no species Of fraud,
treachery or dishonOrablea action to which
resort was not had in order to subserve
the money-making mania which seized
the mercenary host of plunderers that
misfortune threw here. They have de-
moralized the city and State to an ex-
tent that few can conceive. It's effects
are visible in the altered tone of society
and the duplicity and falsehood which
mark the conduct of men, and presents
them in such unenviable contrast to
those who stood prominent here before
the war.
COLONEL N0RTHRoP, THE REBEL COM
MIssARY GENERAL.
Colonel Northrop, the Rebel Commits
sary General, and peculiar protege of
JEFF. Davis, is now living in North Caro-
lima in great distress. Having resigned
his Office here some five months before
the evacuation, in consequence of re-
peated charges of ineffieiency, made
against him in and out OF Congress, he
went to North Carolina, where he APP
piled himselfto farming. He was enabled
to make start in this new field of enter
prise, through the kindness of some
friends: but just as he had planted his
crops, Sherman's army came that way
and ruined all. He is left without any
means for the support of large family,
his property in Charleston, South Caro-
lima, having been either destroyed by
fire or confiscation. Truly, is the fate of
the rebel leaders hard one.
GOVERNOR LETcHER's DISTRESSED CON-
DITIoN
The destruction of Governor Letcher's
house at Lexington by Hunters raiders
has left him in a condition of real dis
tress. So utterly stripped is he of all
means of subsistence that his family
have had to rely altogether upon kind
friends for their support ever since his
Imprisonment. A few of his friends
had actually to raise for him, by contri-
button among themselves, thirty or forty
dollars on the morning of his arrest, to
serve as means to purchase some little
requirements beyond what is served in
his place of confinement. How it is
Extra Billy is at large, while Governor
Letcher is prisoner, the military au-
thorities alone can tell. 1t excites some
strange comment here. The last earthly
possession upon which Gov. Letcher re-
lied for future start was ten thousand
dollars worth of tobacco, purchased by
him since the expiration of his term of
office, and that shared the fate of the
thousands of hogsheads of that article
deposited in the public warehouses in
this city. The Governor has certainly
suffered much by war, in theinaugura-
ton of which he had no instrumental
ty. He remained true to the Union as
long as it was safe for him to do so.
GENL. WIN. L. JACKSON GONE TO MEXICO.
General VIM. l.. Jackson, cousin of
Stonewall, and for long time member
of his staff, but more recently in COM
mand of a brigade of cavalry in Western
Virginia and in the Valley, has arrived
at Matamoras, whittier he had repaired
upon the surrender of Lee. He was
Lieutenant Governor of this State during
the latter part of Wfse's administration,
having succeeded Elisha Wyndham Nc
Comas, who resigned the office and re-
moved to Nebraska. He subsequently
returned to Chicago, where he acted for
~ L. nvf nrrrx Nc a1itnp of
the Chicago Times. General Jackson
was man of fine ability, but did not
distinguish himself much as a general.
His friends have no idea whether he pur-
poses to return or not.
GEN. TocHMAN, THE POLISH GENERAL.
General Tochman, who served In the
rebel army for the first two years of the
war, having for part of the time full
command Of the Polish Legion, raised
by countryman of his whose name
now forget, is at present in this city en-,
gagged in the practice of law. He resigned
mis- commission in the army over two
years ago, because of an indignity offered
to him by Davis in the promotion over
him of a junior officer. He has few sym
pathies for jeff, I imagine, for the treat
men which he received at his hands was
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lawyer Of some ability, and bids fair to
do well at his new profession.
GENERAL GEO. w. RANDOLPH, FORMER
SECRETARY OF WAR.
General George w. Randolph, who
preceded James A. Seldom in the rebel
War Department, is nowin Medina with
his wife for the benefit Of his health. He
was suffering from asevere bronchial at
lection, contracted while serving as Sec
retary of War. The disease assumed so
serious type shortly before his depart
IRE az to have aft ctea his lungs to an
exto mt that rendered It nect sslry for him
to discontinue making spec ,hes. He
4 lawyer OF great emlnence, and by
MANY degrees the most efficient member
of Davis's Cabinet, and the purest and
most heightened gentleman associated
with his government. He could not
brook Davis's dictation, and hence his
resignation ofthe Secretaryship of War.
Davis made an appointment in his de-
partment contrary to his will, and when
asked to sign the commission of the APP
pointee, he declined to do SO, and there
upon resigned. o
GENERAL wIcKHAM FALLEN FROM
49, c REBEL GRACE.
It Is somewhat illustrative of the spirit
of resentment which still fingers In the
Southern mind, that General William
G. Wickham, once the peculiar favorlte
of this Conversational district. is now re-