Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1868 — Death of Howell Cobb. [ARTICLE]

Death of Howell Cobb.

Ho well Cobb, of Georgia, one of the leaders in the rebellion and an active advocate of the election of Seymour and Rlair, fell dead last Friday, in one of the corsidere of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Now York City. Tho coroner's jury who held an inquest upon the body returned a verdict of death from appoplexy. Mr. Co*» was born in Georgia in ISIS, graduated at Franklin College in 1834. After a brief practice of law, he engaged in politics: waß elected a Representative in Congress in I&JJy-and-thrice reelected; was Spoaker of the XXX Ist G'on.gress; was elected—Governor of Georgia in 1852, and in 1855 was elected a Representative in Congress for the fifth time. He was in Mr. Buchanan’s Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury, which position be resigned in 1861 to take part sh the rebellion. He was a member of the Confederate Congress, and served as Brigadier Geueral in the rebel army.