The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-12-28

JENNY LIND AND DANIEL WEBSTER Willis
gives the best description of her singing He was
intended by nature for toady, and as he is man
of talent, his descriptions of persons are striking
and lifelike. The Journal says:
He (Mr. Webster leaned back, With the
stately repose which marks all his postures and
movements, and, oonyersing between-whiles with
his friends on either side, looked as he might do
at special pleading in court of law. 1t was at
the close OF one OF those tangled skeins of music
with which an unpractised brain finds it so diff
cult to thread the needle of an idee that he made
the remark, overheard by the attendant and taken
Immediately to Jenny Lind Why doesn't she
give us one Of the simple mountain songs Of her
own land p
The Mountain Song soon poured forth its loud
beginning, impatiently claiming sympathy from
the barren submits that alone listened where it is
supposed to be sung. The voice softened soothed
with Its own out-pouring-the herdsmans heart
wandered and left him singing forgetfullv, and
then the audience az if transformed to an Ariel that
puts girdle round the earth commenced follow
ing the last clear note through the ds'luce AWAY
1t Sped softly and evenly, lquid arrow through
more liquid ar, lessening with the sweetness il
LETT behind it, but fleeing leagues in seconds and
with no errand but to go unaltered till it should
dle-and, behold on the track of it, with the resi-
OF us, was gone the heavy-winged intellect of
Webster! We had listened with our ewes upon
him, As all know, who have observed him. his
hdOlludl HrSt marx oil interest IN new matter, is
pull he gives to the lobe of his left ear-as if TO
the thought entrenched castle of his brain there
was portculls to be lowered at any welcome
summons for entrance The tone sped and les
sened, and Webster's broad chest grew erect and
expanded Still on went the enhancing sound |
altered by distance onl and Changeless in the rant
attitude OF the cadence-on-iar on-as if only
upon the bar OF the horizon it could faint at last
and forward leaned the aroused statesman with his
hand clasped over the balustrade, his head raised
to It's fullest lift above his shoulders and the uIni
nous caverns Of his eyes opened wide upon the still
lips OF the singer. The note died-and those
around exchanged glances as the enchantress
touched the instrument before her-but Webster
sat motonless. The GREATNESS stiffness was bro
ken by a tumult of applause, and the hand that
was over the gallery moved up and down upon the
cushion with unconscious assent but the spell was
yet on him. He slowly leaned back with his ewes
still on the singer and suddenly observing that She
had turned to him after courtesying to the audi
ence, and was repeating her acknowledgements un-
mistakeably to himself, he rose to his feet and
bowed to her with the grace and stateliness of the
monarch that he is 1t was not much to see per-
haps-nelther does the elimination of planet diff
fer very distinguishedy from the twinkle of
lamp-but we congratulated Jenny Lind, with our
hrst thought, after it, at what is perhaps her best
single triumph on this side of the water, the sound
ing of Americas deepest mind with her plummet
of enohantment."