The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-19
From the albany N. Y. State Ro9i4tor.
The Troy Suicide,

The Troy Suicide,
William A. Caldwell has been personal
of the writer, for some fifteen
years, interrupted only by an absence of nine
months at Auburn, and a three years cruise
as supercargo, on board a merchantmen to
China, &c. lie arrived at New York, from
that cruise in early summer. Previous to his
leaving this continent, (some years previOus)
he was engaged to be married to young lady
who resigned herselfto The hOrrid death, with |
which we are all familiar. There was
considerable opposition to the match, which
delayed the consumalion of their desire |
While absent to China, and other parts Of
The world, the lady now no more, became &C.
quainted with gentleman By the name of
Knapp, and her friends imporluned her to
accept his honorable proposal Of marriage. to
which at length she reluctantly yielded her
assent, md they were married, aud have had
one child, which died early in May, end just
previous to Caldwel's return.
Caldwell had sailed nearly around the
world, and as he heard his native shores. the
mos; prominent thought that sweled his bos-
ON, was the certainty Of clasping his Louisa
to his heart; bat he returned only TO find the
object dearcr than life, the wife of another.
The iron entered his soul; he wandered
about nearly DISTRACTED; but his better reason
ca to him, and he resolved to shake it off
IN the mean time, he found that she desired
to St him she the wife Of another, requests
ed an interview. They met at last, but their
meeting is not to be described The years
OF absence that had passed only bound them
together more strongly, if possible, than be-
fore; they met as they should not have done
as lovers. Cadweirs better reason al first
did not allow him to think Of the future as
she thought, and it doubtless would have pas
ed by, and left only despair fastened in their
hearts; but they loved, and madIy; and the
former associations oil youth came up before
them more freshly at the ne thought of final
separation She did not wish to live without
him, aid told him that she could not, and
that it was her determination TO remain with
him, notwithstanding she was the wife o
another. Caldwell was too passionate and
rash to res 81 that, aud it was talked over,
lha, they should meet again.
lie parted with her to visit his friends in
Whitehall, aad went on board the evening
boat for Albany. Alter he boat was under
way, and while he was walking the deck, to
his utter establishment she appeared before
him. The thought at once pierced him, that
she had JUDGED abandoned her home, and re-
solved, regardless OF all the tremendous con-
sequences, to share his fate; and her words
shortly corrobora;ed what had passed like
| lightning through his soul. They immedi-
ateIy proceeded to his state room, and there
they resolved, in the face of all the terrible
circumstances around them, to never part
again. They did not part, but arrived al
Albany, and took lodgins at Delavan House.
l He left her there, and made his contemplated
visit to Whitehall, and returned in about Ten
DAYS, she, in the mean time, receiving heI
meals In her room, according to his sugges
ton, in order to avoid observation. He re.
turned and took rooms with her at the Am
! erican Hotel, where he wrote the publ shed
letter to the editor Of the Whitehall paper; he
remained at the American few days. but
thought it was too public place, and engag
ed lodgings at private house on Jay street
where he remand about one week; lher
took the eastern cars and went to Williams
J town, and was surprised and pursued b.
a some one, Us he remarked in Troy, that h
had whipped two constables and escaped
: the particulars Of which will soon appear
He escaped in one horse carriage, and ar
- rived at the St. Charles Hotel Tuesda
i morning. abou, 4o'clock. They resolved +
d die-wilh his own hands he opened tn
{ portals Ofeternity. They both passed to tn
undiscovered land, from whence no traveie
t has returned. The pages of romance ca
scarcely produce parallel, or description
; fraugbt with such startling and awful circum
: stances, as represented in the truths Of thi
: case.