Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-03-15
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Many Of our readers will remem.
Der series of articles emitted Three
weeks on Cotton Plantations which
appeared in the Republican twelve
month since, or more. Tn one of
those articles the romantic history of
the planter, whose hospitalities the
writer so gratefully recalled, was
briefly given, He landed at Match
ez, a boy. He had come down the
Ohio and Mississippi on flat boat,
with his father and his fathers part.
ner, There his father died, and was
buried, and there the boy was left by
the heartless partner, without plea
yune. Naturally shrewd, he soon
picked business sold tickets for the
theatre, did errands, peddled knick-
knacks, &C., until he grew up to be
a proper size for larger operations.
lie then became owner of a draw,
then a number of drays, then of ne
groes who drove them, then ola small
plantation near Natchez, then ofan
Immensely large plantation at Mill
ken's Bend, above Vicksburg. Here
. he went into speculations, and before
the crash of 81 supposed himself 10
be worth a quarter of n million
Hitherto his fortune had waxed.
He was independent. He then, for
the first time, returned to Cincinnati,
and sought his mother and sisters
whom he left behind long years be,
fore. He found his family, who sup
posed him dead, in poverty, and pro-
Vlded for them, and then came the
reverse. The wife Of his youth had
borne him three beautiful children.
These, one after another, died, and
then the wife was laid in the gravea
An interval elapsed of pecuniary
prosperity elapsed, but of intense
grief, when he was blessed with the
hand of one of the most beautiful and
lovely of woman-kind. Then came
the financial crash, but though suffer
ing severely, his energy parried iii
some degree the force of blow, and
he was enabled to retain and add to
his beautiful plantation.
Years passed on, and another fami-
ly ofbeautiful children had grown up
around him, to whom and whose
beautiful mother he was attached by
fanatical idolatry. Two years last
August, his home was the abode of
plenty and the largest hospitality.
Immediately afterwards his favorite
child sickened and died. A month
or two after this his house was burn
ed. A few weeks more, and long
pending law suit, originating in his
efforts toretain his property and pay
oft his debts, was decided against
him, and his plantation was put un-
der the auctioneer's hammer, and the
broken spirited man moved 10 Vicks-
burg. Here another child died.
With the remainder of his large pos
sessions he purchased the beautiful
steamer Mohawk, and run her in the
Vicksburg and New Orleans trade,
acting as the Captain himself. A few
days ago, the following dispatch was
received by the Northern papers,
Louisville, Dec. IL.
Capt. Cobb, of the steamer Mo-
hawk, blew out his brains yesterday
at Westinghouse, pecuniary trc u
bles, and the death of his wife.
Another dispatch from Nashville,
of the same date, stated that that
morning the steamer Mohawk sunk
with-2,5000 bales of cotton on board
while lying at the cityl Two poor,
weeping, terror stricken children are
all that remain of the whole family.
What dream of fiction ever equalled
a tragedy like thisl
Springfield Republican.