The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1851-03-12
ROMANCE AND REALITY.

The Springfield Republican furnishes The
following sad uarrurive:
Many Of our readers will remember Sc
Ties Of articles entitled, Three Weeks on n
Cotton Plauh,hn," which appeared nIhe
RspEbl can a twelve mOn'h since OF mnre.--
la one Of lhose articles, the romantic history
uf the pl inter, whose hosPiisliiies the writer
50 gratefully recalled, was briefly gwen. He
landed st NH,chez n boy. lie had come
down the Ohio and Mississippi on u Q II boat,
with his falher and his lalhei's p,rtner.-
There his father dlcd, and was buried, and
there the boy was left by the hearlless part
neT, without picaynde. Naturally slrewd,
he soon picked up bus ness-srld tickets tor
the theatre, did errands, pedjled knick-nacks,
S5:.. uuul he grew up 10 proper size TO-
lager operations. lie then berame the
owner Of drny, then Of a small pIaalali"n
near Nachez, thea nf an immensely large
lplanlatun at M'liikcn's Bend abnve flcks>
burg. Here he went into speculation, and
befUre the crash Of 81 supposed himself to
he worth quarter Of million.
Hitherto his fnuunes mad waxcd. lie
then for The frs, lime returned t. e ncinHa-
ii, and sought out his mother aud sisters
whom he Jeff behind, loug years before. lie
found his family, who supposed him dead, in
poverty, and provided Tor them, and then
came the reverse. The wife OF his youth
hpd borne him three beautiful children
These one after another died, then the wife
wns laid in the grave. An Interval elapsed.
luf pecuniary prosperity, but Of intensive
,,, of ,,hao bo ,y,s bloosad an al, IN, b,nd ot
one of the mnst beautiful aud lovely OF wO-
manhood. Then came the energy that par
ried in some degree the force of the blow,
end he was enabled to return aud add 10 his
beautiful plantation.
| Years passed on, aud another family o.
beauuful children had g own up around him,
to whom and whose beautiful moth her he was
attached by almost lanalicnl iduldtrv. Two
Yeas ago last August his home was the n
bode OF rleniy and the largest hospitality
Immediately afterwards his lavOritc child
s ckened and died. A mnn,l Hr two after
this his house was burned. A few weeks
more, and long penring law suit origina-
ting in his eflOIs TO retain his property and
pay of his debts, was decided ngains, him,
and his plantation was pui under the banner
E the auctOReer, aud the broken spirited
man moved to Vtcksbu'g. Here another
child died.
Whh the remnant Of his large possession,
he purchased the beautiful steamer Mnhpwk,
and run her in the New OrIeans trade, acts
ing as the Captain himself. A few days
ago the following despatch was received by
the Northern papers:
Louisville, Dc II.
Capt. Cobb, Of The steamer Mohawk, blew
out his brains yesterday vi Vcksburg- cause,
pecuniary troubles, and death OF his wife.
Another dispatch hom Nashville, Of tho
same date, stated, this morning, I! e steamer
Mohawk sunk with 1900 bales of cotton ON
board, while lying at that city! Two poor,
weeping, !eror-sIrlcken children are all that
remain Of the Whole family. Whm dream Of
fiction ever cqunIlod tragedy like this?
FROM KosSUTH AND THE lIuNGARIANs.-
We learn from Washington that another dis
patch has been received flom the friends of
! Kossuth in C0ns'anlnope, who represent
ibat all hopes oG his liberation without the in.
tervenlion Of the United States or England
are a, an end, Tac dispatch comes through
Governor ujhazy, who has translated it into
German aad transmitted it to the Govcrn-
ment. He writes 10 Mademoiselle JngelIo
that he is enjoying life and getting along
where he is very happy. lie says: Ave are
all peasants, havo peasants appelicE, and
cnJny life accordngly." 1t is very cold,
however, he says -rcry cold; bur they have
managed not to freeze to death. He writes
'Jocosely about being United States Gov
crnmeut ollicer-a Po"m rster-and is very
grateful to the Government for the consider
alton which has been manifested.
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Claims on MrGro. II he Commissioners
sitting at Washington, under the treaty with
Mexico, have given public notice "thnt cIai.
mants who have not Yet filed tho proofs
necessary 10 sustain Their cla ms, are reQulr-
cd to do soon or be(nre the fifteenth d,y of
Mach next, after which time no new eyi-
dences will be received; md all pnrties in.
tending 10 submit arguments in support of
their claims ME required 10 flo them on or
before The first day Of Apr,l next; after which
NJ argument will be received"
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The McDonoug4 BcgucSt Tho Distric,
Court Of New Orleans has decided agans,
the State of Louisiana, aud in favor of the
cities of Baltimore aud New Orleans, in re,
Iai"n 10 The McDonough beqnes. The np.
pllcaIion Of the State Of Louisiana was that
the estate reverted to the States nl Louisiana
and Maryland, on the alleged ground tha,
the beqnests to the cities of Balirlnre ana
New Orleans are Illegal and void being Ut,
terly impracticabIe Of fufImcnl. |, seems
the Court thought otherwise.