The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1851-03-19
ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY.

Many oil our readers will remember serea
of ed;cles emitted Three weeks on Cot.
tea Plantation" Which appeared IN the Re.
publican twelve mou,h since, or more. Ia
one Gi those articles the romantic history of
The planter, whose Inequalities the writer
60 ersteiully recalled, was brlehy gwen. He
ldndod u, Nalehez, boy. He had cou.e
dovn tie Onio aud Mississippi on fla, boat,
With hIs father, and his fathers panner.--
here h's ia her died, and was buried, and
there The boy was LETT by the hearloss part.
tet, without q picayuus. Naturally shrewd,
he soon picked up buslness-sod tickets for
the theatre, did etrunds, peddled knick. knacks,
e., uul!i lie gfew up TO be proper size for
larger operations. lie then became owner
Of drGy, then o number OF drsys, then Of ne.
ercrs who dove them, then of small plan.
tl'lon, near Natchez, then of an immensely
large plantation a, MlIhken's Bend, above
cksbutg. Here be went into speculalions,
aud before the crash Of 81 supposed himself
to be worth quarter OF q million.
Hitherto his fortunes had woxed. He was
independent. He then, for the frs, time, re.
turued to Cincinnati, and sought his mother
aud sisters whom he lett behind long yeas
before. lie found his family, who supposed
him dead, IN poverty, and provided for them
and then came the Teyerses. The wife OF his
youth bud borne him three beautiful Children.
These, ons after another, died, and thee the
wife was la,d IN the grvs. Aninterval eiaps-
ed Of pecunlary prosperity, but inIsose grief,
when he was blessed with the hand Of one Of
the mos, beautiful and lovely of womsn.kind.
| Then came the financial crash, but though
Suffering severely, his energy partied 10 some
degree the force Of tho blow. and he ives en-.
ablrd 10 retain and add to hs beautiful plan.
tatIon.
Years passed on, end another family Of
beautiful children had grown up around him,
to whom and whose beautiful mothor he was
attached by fanaica doatry. Two years a.
90 las, August, his home was the abode Of
plenty and The largest hospitality. lmmedI-
a'ely afterwards his fsvore child sIckened
and ded A month or two after this, his
house was burned. A few weeks more, and
a long pending law SUIT, originating in HIS Of.
J forts TO retain his property and pay off his
debts, vas decided ugains, him, and his plan
, tutou Was put under the hammer Of the auc.
toner and the broken spirited man moved TO
) Nicksbutg. Here, another child died. With
The remainder Of his large possessions he pur-
chased The beautiful steamer Mohawk and
run her in the Vlcksburg and N. 0. trade,
ac'lng as the Captain himself. lew days
ago, the following dispatch was received by
the Northern papers.
LOUISVILLE, DEC. II.
+. Capt. Cobb, Of the steamer Mohnwk, blew
d ou, hs brains yesterday a, Vlcksburg-cause.
). pecuniary troubles and the death of his wife
a Another dispatch from Nashville, Of the
Same date, stated that ,ha, morning the steam
: or Mohawk sunk with 2 500 bales Of Cotton
), on board, while lying a, the city Two poor
l. weeping, ,crror.s.ricksn children are oil thai
remain Of the whole family. What dream o.
6cton ever equaIIed tragedy like ths!-
G Springfield (Mass.) Republican.