The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-14
From The Columbia Is. CO. States Rights Republican
Obituary.

Died, at the residence of Mrs Gen. Hampton.
on the 18th ult, Miss MARTHA NJ. CALHOUN.
aged 26 years.
The brief interval since this sad occurrence,
may have so assuaged the intensity of sorrow, as
| to allow the minds of mourning kindred and
friends calmness sufficient for the contemplation
of those qualities which, while she was living,
won their admiration and now that she is dead,
swell the tide of their grief
In the death of Miss Calhoun, society has
sustained the loss of one Of the most highly ac-
complshed and gifted of its members The
eraces OF body and mind were exhibited by this
| lady in degree seldom found united in the
| same individual. These two orders of graces,
| while they We'd with each other in the admra-
ton they excited, augmented and adorned one
the other, and thus brightly illustrated the
whole character Of their possessor.
ler mental endowments and capacities were
indicative of distinguishing genius. That
strength of intellect, characteristic of uncommon
minds, was attempered and enhanced by the re.
lining touches of womanTy softness Her mind
was masculine in its power, but no thorou ghly
feminine in its east, that all its exhibitions be-
tokened the brilliant ,coman. 1t was the mild
light OF the moon, beaing the genial warmth of
the sunbeam. This rare developement was
strkngly displayed in her style of conversation.
Gay humor. deep penetration, sparkling wit,
sage judgment, the knowledge of study, and the
information OF an enlightened observation, all
served to render her the central attraction and
ruling spirit of every scene in which she par
ticipated, and chained to her, with an absorbing
enchantment, the Young and old, the learned, the
gay, the serious, in fine, all who came within her
sphere. These made her the belle, without
| the accustomed frivolities-the learned woman
| without her repulsive pedantry.
| her letters, as well as many fugitive pieces
and novellettes, of which she was the unknown
authoress written merely to begue the moment
OF leisure, claim for her high merit as writer,
and are the fruit which evidence the richness of
the producing mind
TO make her the more engaging in society,
there was superadded the endowment of most
extraordinary musical genius.
Her graces Of person were scarcely less
marked than those of mind She was graceful
IN her every movement and action, while the per-
vadlng naturaness banished the suspicion of art
the most fearless and dashing horsewoman of
our State. No finer picture could have presented
itself to the artists eye than herself, her pranc-
ing steed and bounding greyhoundas they swept
OR the hills and dales Of her romantic Keowee
Little wonder is it then, that such a woman
should have been the admired of the gayest cir
cles Of Washington and her own State and the
declared pride of her uncle-the great Calhoun.
Few years but yield proof Ct Death s ambi-
ton
| To Gull his victims from the fairest fold,
And sheathe his shafts in all the pride of life"
! Thus, in this assemblage of all that can rem
der youth attractive earth, an insidious and
lingering disease insinuates itself, and changes
our delight to sorrow. A removal from her resi-
dence, near Pendleton's village to the warmer at
mosp' ere of Columbia, failed to arrest the fatal
malady. Her death was that Of the Christian.
She consigned her spirit to her Savior, it left its
mortal tenement ard took its upward fight, leay-
ing to all the consolation that her removal, how
ever distressing to us, Was for her a translation
to the peaceful realms of the blessed
"Then wherefore weep her matchless spirit scars
Beyond, where splendid shines the orb of day;
And weeping angels lead her to those bowers
Where endless pleasures virtues deeds repay"