New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-13
The Generous swede.

erence her henceforth for the profuse yet
wisely directed generosity with which she
has devoted the $4,000 or more accruing
to her from her first Concert in America to
the leading public charities of our City.
Other Artists have been generous-for &C.
MUS is rarely parsimonious-but nothing
half so munifcent was ever before protfered
here by stranger juStlanded on our shores
The frst-fruits Of her exertions among as
were bounteoue, and bouuteously they were
bestowed, so as to difuse the largest mea-
sure of benefcence to the unfortunate, the
needy and the suffering. Anticipating the
calls of Charity, she has flung widely but
thougbtfally the golden tribute to her power
and her fame, 30 that she will beg to earn
for herself with the blessings Of the hapless
to tighten her laborB and crown her exer-
tons. We believe no bounty was ever dis
pensed among us with more earnest and
single intent to tighten the burdens of mis-
crv and smooth the pillow Of suffering
To many, unfamiliar with the facts, her
very large donation to the Fire apartment
Fund will seem illadyised if not ostenta
tious, yet nothing can be further from the
truth. The Firemen of our City, who are
generally poor or in moderate circum-
stances, are subject to very large exaosion5
of time in an arduous and pcrilous line of
duty, wherein many lose their lives or are
disabled for life. The crippled, the widows
and orphans, form very considerable class,
for whose benefit the Fire Department Fund
was instituted and from which many of
them are partially relieved or wholly main
tanned. The Fund is inadequate to its OBJ
ieets and requires constant efforts for It's
due replenishment One of Mile LIMBS
first surprises in America was the order,
discipline and fine appearance Of the large
b,dy of Firemen who voluntarily formed
square for the protection of the Sacred Mu-
sic Society from the pressure of the crowd
at the Serenade given her on the evening
after her arrival in this country. Being in
formed, in answer to her inquiries, that
these we're the Firemen of New-York-
that, unlike thase of Europe, they served
without pay, while their daring and devo-
tedness often subjected them to the most
serious calamties and disabilities, she ox-
pressed equal surprise and admiration, and,
whom the unexpectedly large sum realized
by the sale of tickets for her first concert
had determined her to devote her entire por-
ton thereof to the relief Of the afflicted, she
avowed her purpose to tender half of it to
the fund of the Fire Department. The
representation of friends of the just require
mepts of other charities induced her to
modify this resolve, but her gift to the Fire
Department Fund still stands largely in ad-
vance of her other donations. But those to
the Musical Fund Home for the FriendlesS'
Orphan Asylums, &c. are still large, and,
now that the raw night-air gives token of
the coming on of Winter, will be peculiarly
welcome.
Bah says some cynic, why make such
parade about an oct of bounty Won't
she get all her money back and more too,
through the public admiration Of her gen
erosity 2'-Yes, Sir, she will-at least, we
hone so-and that is an additional reason
for speaking well Of it. For six thousand
years, every generous and philanthropio act
Of every human being has been abundantly,
surely rewarded, and yet generous, humane
actions are far 700 few to-day, What is
wisely dispensed for others good always did
nav better than the most rapacious usury
vet it is not merely wisdom but virtue to
realize this truth and actuponi it. Have we
NOT beon all summer trying to convince our
rich men that they eau lose nothing butwill
really be benefited by the maintenance of
Free Schools? yet good many Of them
won't see it. He who knows enough to act
in all cases as his own true interest would
dictate is wiser than King Solomon and
mnst live, on the whole, a more worthy
life Blessed be the deed that teaches men
shat doing good always does and must pro
mote their own interest
P, s.-since the above was written, we
have learned that Mile LIND has appropri-
ated the entirs net results Of her rjS& to
4p,srica, however large they may be, to the
establishment and endop0lsnt Of a system q
FxEy Schools in Norway and Sweden
Ought net this to shame those men Of wealth
IN our State, who arc laooring to break down
our Free School system?
vsSz- Coy SEwARD's amendment to the