Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-10-17
EASTERN TIMES.
The Jenny Lind Mania.

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The Jenny Lind Mania.
few months ago, when publicity was
gwen TO a statement that "Barnum" was Sc
riously inclined to authorize his agent in
England to offer thirty thousand dollars for
the services Of the "Swedish Nightingale" to
sing 10 America, the hands of the people
were raised heavenward in holy horror -
The American people we're not to be befool.
ed into such lavish and profligate waste of
money-they were too matter-of.fact for that
TOO cool, calculating, to let money slip
through their fingers without "q1nd pro
9uo"-but the bargain was closed the tome
oftbe press regulated-and Jenny Lind, the
Swedish songstress, is ushered into Amer-
ca with "pomp and circumstance" far exceed
eng that ever known TO have heraIded the ar
rival of the most distinguished foreigner -
The concafenated essence of all goose.dom
could not produce the quill that would begin
TO herald the doings Of the enchan,ress of
good peoples senses, since her arrival among
us. The editor who should evince the te-
merity or fool-hardiness to even advise the
excited Populace to retain a small portion of
their senses, would endanger his own repu.
fation fer sanity.
The New Workers evinced symptoms Of
being entirely carried away, but the "iong ear
has been wagged in the most asinine lofii-
ness 10 the go-aI,ead ~city of notions" Not
only are the brains OF men racked, the works
OF art Improved. but the workings of nature
are invoked to gro@ dowers expressly for The
occasion! So pervading is the influence,
that dull newspaper writers are metamor-
phosed into soaring traascendentaiists, and
adj vie to oat-do each other in erial flights!
Among the foilies, two of the New York
papers cap the climax by giving, each of
tAem, seif-laudatory description Of visit
which, by some sort of hocus- -pocus, Jenny
Lind was compelled to make to their differ
ent Offices; and then by falling foul Of one
another for oSerstating their own importance.
The N. Y. Evening Post says: "The Bos-
tonians are at their wits end 10 find some-
10 do which shall be more extravagant than
any thing done by the New Workers. Let
US advise them not to try their hands in the
Omnibus line, as that will be in vain; for
yesterday we saw in Broadway an immense
coach, seemingly as big as Noah's ark, nam
ed the Jenny Lind, ornamented with large
portraits of that lady, and drawn by eighteen
or twenty horses. II was driven past the
New York Hotel, to receive a christening
benediction from her, TO the infinite satisfac-
tion Of all the stage drivers, and large. ad-
miring crowd OF onlookers."
Jenny Lind's voice, the N. Y. Courier and
Enquirer says, not only ranges to d. in alt,
but also very frequently to X. 7. C.
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser-pro-
verbally calm. matter of-fact paper-thus
speaks OF Jenny Lind's last coacert in New
York:
Oar bewilderment was complete, and we
only know that we were all the time in a
heaven of music, gazing at an ethereal being
uttering it, with occasionally darker outline
standing near her, giving forth melodies
scarcely less divine than her own, and host
of others behind her, sounding their loud
tlnOfeiS U CT Tue Qdfk sea Oh en-
tranced human countenances.'
The tickets to her concerts thus far, il is
estimated, average four dollars. A New
Yorker apologies in the following letter for
the lo,c price at which the first ticket was dis
posed of (s225, and estimates, as will be
seen the true value of a ticket:
.Ntac York, Sept. 26th, 1850.
Dear Sir-You must bear in mind that
when the first ticket was sold here we knew
nothing, except from foreign report, Of the
value of such an article but having heard
Jenny, and many of the Boston people hav-
ing heard her, | am very much surprised that
the first ticket was sold at such low price.
Below is my estimate of its real value in cash
Overture by Orchestra $500
Two pieces sung by Beletti, at $6 each IL 90
Cas,a Diva, by Jenny 10000
Deduct for first nights perfor~
nance, being much excited 20 90 80 90
Benedict and Hoffman on piano 225
Trio, two flutes, and voice Jenny 1000
Overture with extra teno: drums Is
Echo Song, by Jenny 500 90
Pleasure OF witnessing the rush for
seats by the b'hoys after o'clock 500
Splendid appearance of Ihe fashion
Of the house 10 90
Squeezing out amidst various beau.
tifuI ladies' WOO
Jenny's modest bow to the audience 20 90
Her trot on to the stage SO