OR, THE WORLD HAS CHAXGPZD. / / 



torn of the well and would halloo, "what are you doing down 

 there?" It would answer back, "n-o-t-h-i n-g a-t a-l-l." As to 

 the whys and wherefores, we decline even to express an opinion, 

 but leave our incredulous readers to form their own conclu- 

 sions; we can only avow again that we have in no wise mis- 

 represented the facts. 



Mr. John Ewing Calhoun, a brother of Mrs. John C. Cal- 

 houn, married the sister of the distinguished South Carolina 

 Congressman, Warren R. Davis, and owned and lived on a 

 splendid estate of lands adjoining Fort Hill ; had also many 

 slaves, and was considered a very rich man in that day. It 

 was his son, Col. Ransom Calhoun, who was killed in a duel 

 by Lieutenant Rhett, on an island near Charleston, in the early 

 part of the war. His only daughter, Miss Martha, familliarly 

 called Coody, was one of the most splendid young ladies of 

 that day, with a cultivated intellect, a gifted conversationalist, 

 an accomplished musician and the author of the "Keowee 

 Waltzes," and besides an equestrian of extraordinary skill. I 

 once saw her mount a young blooded horse of her fathers" 

 that two negroes with difficulty held whilst she was being 

 seated, and when turned loose, skilfully managed him. She 

 died early — never married. 



Mrs. Calhoun had another brother, Mr. James Edward 

 Calhoun, a very wealthy man, and one of many eccentricities, 

 who lived on the Savannah River, in Abbeville Dist., S. C, 

 and who died but recently at a very advanced age. He left 

 no children. 



One of her Sisters was the Avife of Gov. Noble, of South 

 Carolina. The Calhouns, of Atlanta, are also of the Abbe- 

 ville, South Carolina, Calhoun family. We refer to the great 

 oculist, Dr. Abner Calhoun, and Judge William Lowndes Cal- 



