Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-09-25

clap their hands in rapturous applause. 1t
was our poor, plain li,lle girl here again,
who now had grown up, and was to appear
before the public in the role of Agatha.
saw her a, The evening representation. She
was then in the prime of youth, fresh, bright,
and serene as morning in May, perfect in
form-her hands and arms peculiarly grace
Iful--and lovely in her whole appearance,
through The expression Of her coun!enance,
and the noble simplicity and calmness Of
her manners. In fact she was charming
We saw no! an actress, but young girl
foil of natural geniaity and grace. She
seemed to move, speak, and sing without an
effort of art. All was nature and harm ony
Her song was distinguished especially by
its purity, and the power Of soul which
seemed to swell her tones. Her "mezzo
voice" was delightful. In the night scene
where Agatha. seeing her overcome, brea.hes
out her Joy in raplurous song, our young
singer, on turning from the window a, The
back of the theatre, to the audience again,
was pale for joy. And in tha, pale joyous
ness she sang with burst Of ouhowing love
and life ,ha. called forth no, the mrlh bu,
the tears Of the auditors.
From that time she was the declared "a
vorle of the Swedish public, whose musi-
cal taste and knowledge are said to be sur
passed nowhere, and year after year she
continued to, though after time, her voice
being overstrained, lost somewhat Of its
freshness, and the public being satlaled, no
more crowded the house when she was
singing. Sill at that time, she could be
heard singing and playing more delightful
than ever in Panamia, (Zauberflote,) or in
Anna Bnlena, though the opera was almost
deserted. |. was lheHsale in the spring:
and the beautiful weather called the people
out to natures plays. She had evidently
sang for the pleasure Of the song.
BY that lime she went to take lessons Of
Garcia, in Paris, and gave the finishing
touch to her musical education. There she
acquired that warble, in which she is said
to have been equalled by no singer, and
which, compared only TO tina, Of the soaring
and warbling lark, if the lark had soul.
And then the young girl went abroad and
sang on foreign shores, and to foreign peo-
Pile; she charmed Denmark, and charmed
Germany, and she charmed England. She
was caressed and courled every where, even
to adulation. At the court of the kings, at
/ the houses Of the greet a+ed notfc, she was
feasted as one of the giandees Of nature and
art. She was covered with laures and Jew
els. But friends wrote of her, Gin 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 peo-
! pie, (lhe most part, by their dress seeming
to belong to the upper classes Of society,"
! thronged on the Baltic harbor at Stock holm
All looked toward the sea. There was a
rumor of expeciance and pleasure. Hours
passed away, and the crowds still gathered
and awaited, and looked on. eagerly towards
the sea. AT length brilliant rocket arose
! Ijoyfully, far out on the entrance Of the har-
Dor, and was greeted with general buz on
shore, "There she comes T! There she is -
A large steamer now came laundering on,
making its triumphant way through the
llocks of ships and boats lying in the har-
Dor, towards the shore Of the "Skeppsbro.'
Flashing rockets marked its way in The dark
as it advanced. The crowds on the shore
pressed forward as if TO meet it. Now the
levlathan of the waters was heard thunder
ing nearer, now i, relen,eJ, now again push
ed on, foaming and splashing, now i, lay
still. And there on the front of the deck,
was seen by the light of the lamps and rock
cts, pale, graceful young woman, with
eyes brilliant with tears, and lips radiant
with smiles, waving her handkerchief to her
friends and countrymen on the shore.
1t was she again-our poor, plain, neg
ecled little girl Of former days-who came
back in triumph to her lalhesIand. But no
more poor, no more plain, no more neg leci-
ed. She had become rich she had become
! celebrated; she had in her slender per-
son the power to charm and inspire multi
tudes
Some days later, we read in The papers
Of Stockholm an address to the public, writ
ten by the beloved singer, stating with no.
Bile simplicity that, ''as she once more had
the happiness 10 be in our native land, she
would be glad 10 sing again to her coun-
,rymen, and that The income of the operas
i'll which she was this season TO appear,
would be devoted TO raise fund for school
where eleves of the theatre would be edu-
Gated TO virtue and knowledge." The in
tellIgence was received as it deserved, and
of course the opera house was crowded
every time the beloved singer sang there
The first time she again appeared in the
"Somnambula" one Of her tavorle roles
the public after the curtain was dropped
called her back with great enthusiasm, and
received her when she appeared with roar
of ''hurrahs." In the midst Of the burst o
} applause, clear, melodious warbling was
heard. The hurrahs were hushed instant.
: ly. And we saw the lovely singer stand
, ing with her arms slightly extended, some
what bending forward, graceful as bird or
branch, warbling as no bird ever did, from