Biographical Sketch.
The daughter of Judge Langdon Cheves, is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. She was principally educated at Philadelphia, during her father's residence in that city as president of the United States' Bank. She is now the wife of David J. M'Cord, Esq., and resides on her plantation in St. Matthew's parish, near Fort Motte, (of revolutionary memory,) South Carolina. Her talents and attainments are of a superior order; her mind, by nature strong, has been richly cultivated by extensive reading of the best authors. A volume of her poems appeared in the early part of the present year (1848), under the title of My Dreams. She has a vivid imagination and warm feeling, but they are not well disciplined by good taste and correct judgment.