The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1850-10-18

polle years idteT, at Coineuy given Dy
the eleues of the theatre, several persons
were struck with the spirit with which a
very young eleve acted the part Of beggar
girl in the play. Lovers of genial nature
were charmed--pedants were almost fright
ened. 1t was our poor little girl, who had
made her first appearance, now about four
teen years of age, frolicksome and full of
fun as child.
A few years still later young debut
g;ate was to sing for the first time before
the public in Weber's "Freischutz.' At
the rehearsal preceding the representa-
tion of the evening she sang in manner
which made the members of the orchestra
at once lay down their instruments to clap
with rapturous applause. 1t was our poor,
plain, little girl here again, who now had
grown up and was to appear before
the public in the role of Agatha, | saw
her at the evening representation. She
was then in the prime Of youh-fresh,
bright and serene as morningin May
perfect in form, her hands and arms pecu-
harly graceful, and lovely in her whole
appearance through the expression of her
countenance and the noble simplicity and
calmness Of her manners. In fact, she
was charming. We saw not an actress,
but young girl full of natural geniahty
and grace. She seemed to move, speak
and sing without effort or art. All was
nature and harmony. Her song was dis
tinguished especially by its purity and the
power of soul which seemed to swell in
full tones. Her mezzo-tinto was delight
full. In the night scene where agGtha,
seeing her lover come, breathes out her
Joy in rapturous song, our young singer on
turning from the window at the back of
the theatre to the spectators again was
pale for joy. And in that pale joyousness
she sang with burst of outhowing love
and life that called forth not the mirth but
the tears of the auditors.
From this time she was the declared
favorite of the Swedish public, whose taste
and knowledge are said to be surpassed
nowhere. And year after year she con-
tinued so, though after time her voice be
ing oyerstrained lost somewhat Of its fresh
ness, and the public being satiated, no
more crowded the house when she was
singing. Still at that time she could be
heard singing and playing more delight
fully than ever in Pamena lin Zauberfote,) J
or in .aranG Bolena, though the opera was
almost deserted. lit was then late in the
spring, and the beautiful weather called
the people out to natures plays.) She
evidently sang for the pleasure Of the song.
BY that time she went to take lessons of
Garcia in Paris, and so give the finishing
touch to her musical education. There
she acquired that warble in which she is
said to be equalled by no singer, and which
could be compared only to that of the soar
ing and warbling of the lark, if the lark
had soul.
And then the young girl went abroad
and sang to foreign shores and to for
eign people. She charmed Denmark, she
charmed Germany, she charmed England.
She was caressed and courted everywhere,
even to adulation. At the courts Of Kings,
at the houses of the great and noble, she
was feaste9 as one of the grandees Of ma
ture and of art. She was covered with
laurels and Jewels. But friends wrote of
her, "In the midst of these splendors she
only thinks of her Sweden, and yearns
for her friends and her people"
One dusky October night, crowds of
people (the most part by their dress
seemed to belong to the upper classes of
society thronged on the shore of the Baltic
harbor at Stockholm. All looked towards
the sea. At length brilliant rocket rose
joyfully, far out at the entrance of the
harbor, and was greeted by general buzz
on the shore: s'There she comes! there
she is!'' A large steamer now came
laundering on, whelming on its triumph
ant way through the focks of ships and
boats lying in the harbor, towards the shore
of"Skeppsbero." Flashing rockets marked
its way in the dark, as it advanced. The
crowd on the shore pressed forward as if
to meet If. Now the leviathan of the wa
ters was heard laundering nearer; now
it relented, now again pushed on, foaming
and splashing; now again it lay still. And
there on the front of the deck, was seen
by the light of the lamps and rockets, a
pale young woman, her eyes brilliant with
tears, and her lips radiant with smiles
waving her handkerchief to her friends
and countrymen on shore.
1t was she again-our poor, plain, neg.
lected girl of former days-who came
back in triumph to her fatherland. But
no more poor, no more plain, no more neg.
Ilected. She had become rich; she had in
her slender person the power to charm
and inspire multitudes.
Some days later, we read in the papers
of Stockholm an address written by the
beloved singer, stating with noble SIMPLE
! ity that as she once more had the happi
ness e 10 be in her native land, she would
be glad again to sing to her countrymen
and that the income of the operas in which
she was this season to appear, would bt
devoted to raise fund for school where
elepes for the theatre would be educated
TO virtue and knowledge. The intelligence
was received as it deserved, and of course
i the opera was crowded every night the be
loved singer sang there. The first tim.
she again appeared in So1aaan1btla (one o