The Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1843-1852, 1849-06-28
From the National 1ntelliscncer.
Miss Maria EdgcvOrth.

me last steam packet from Liverpool
brought us the news of Miss EDGEwoRTH's s
death. She died on the 21st of May, at her
residence in Edgeworthstown, county of
Longford, Ireland, above eighty-two years
old.
Few persons, in our time, have been per-
mllted to do 50 much TO bless and TO benefit
nkind fewer still TO poreevere in their
labors to the end, and live so long to witness
the good they had done. In every quarter
of the world--and here in the United States
more than IN other countries beyond the linn
lis of the British Empire---the hearts CT many
will be saddened by the intelligence as with a
sense of personal loss. To many of us she
the friend of our childhood, who took us gem
,ly by the hand, and led us in the paths where
those who most loved us wished we should
go. TO many of us, in our ripper years, she
has lightened the heavy hours Of solitvde or
of sorrow. TO all who have listened TO her
she has been safe counsellor, speaking in
tones Of cheerful encouragement, and urging
us to whatever is honorable and good, by
precepts of winning wisdom, and by fictions
so faithful to life that they seem TO have the
| force Of livi ing example. 10 all indeed, who
nave thus known her--and wiIu COR, rouns
their number2 her death how comes like d
bereavement.
But all who have loved or admired her
was serene and happy that she enjoyed to
the last not only extraordinary powers, but
all the pleasures of life she had most valued
and that she died on the spot which was
always her home, surrounded by those whom
she entirely loved and trusted, and followed
by the blessings of her suffering countrymen,
for whose relief she made her latest literary
exertion, and TO whom shenever ceased free
, y J." "cNy'" h"' S's''stnnce ard hor str"rr.h.
/ p"G"i 2!l nt~ cuUWaiauces .l.n wactn and
, trusting spirit 'bai pCfvuLus vnaicvrT she
wro'c WIS present to s.lst"0 Az suGns .l"r
her, \ few ycara ago. ate, I; dangcroTs ii
row II rs NJ God. Eot only for
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aileciu'Ion OF sentiment, declare ;hai, on the
wh",'. my ii.ncsS w, It ,on::c q mere plea
sure IhNn :'nin 80 n'e a..u would willlng.y
90 th"1"Jh al ine .,:yer and weakness 10 have
! Tive oc'.&" - TIA" feelings Of tender, warm
sensation .nS sgpse9sss, 49, aa,sssssSble I
was more than probable that shouyd f96t re-
cover-with pulse above 100, and at the
entrance of my seventy sixth year, was not
alarmed ; felt ready TO rise thankful from
the banquet of life, where had been
happy guest. / confidently relied upon the
goodness of Creutor.'' And again, q few
weeks since, she wrote: 's Our pleasures in
literature do not, l think, decrease with age
Last first of January was my eighty second
birthday, and think that from books had
as much enjoyment last year us ever had in
any year in my life." And thus she went on
ward, doins good and eujoyiug tire good che
did, until, after only few hours Of illness,
she was called 10 close her long and happy
life, which, 10 an extraordinary degree, had
been given to the cultivation of what was
best and gentlest in her own nature and in the
hearts of all whom she could reach, either
by her modest personal example, or by the
manifold influences of her genius.