The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21
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Punch on the Lind Ma ia.

OllutT DCHu vi Vi Jcuuy VIC
Frst-Queen of the Americans" Punch pub
fishes the following sketch Of Jenny Lind's re-
ception in America, preceded by n graphic sketch
exhibiting Jenny herself seated in an American
rocking chair, receiving the adulations of mob
that crowds upon her. Behind her stands
man, with cigar in his mouth, striped pants,
long WASTED coat and broad felt hat, in the act
of placing the crown on the apparently frighten-
ed Jenny's head, "amid the shouts of the popu-
lace" She has hugo rosette III her bosom,
boquet in her hand, and innumcrablc wreaths
and punches Of flowers lie around her on the
ground. A page, also behind her. holds a mint
julep in readiness to her call We give the article
entire Post.
1.-THE moment it was known by what vessel
Jenny Lind was about to cross the Atlantic, we
despatched an efficient corps Of reporters and
correspondents on board, who were present i'll
various DISCUSSES about the ship, for the purpose
of watching every movement of the nightingale.
One of our most esteemed contributors might
have been seen fitting about in n drcadnought
and sou'wester, from spar to spar, and yard arm
to yard-arm, lodging the delicious song-blrd,
as she hoped from paddle-box to paddle-boX,
utterly regardless of wind and wave while
juvenile member of our extensive establishment
was on board, in the humble disguise Of II lob
lolli-boy.
1t has been enormously supposed, that because
Mademoiselle Jenny Lind was seen to leave
Liverpool waving her white handkerchief from
the very top of the deck-house over the compan-
ion, and was seen to enter the American harbor
waving the same white handkerchief from the
top of the same deck-house,-it has been, we
say, enormously, though naturally supposed, that
from the time of her starting to the moment OF
her arrival, Jenny Lind was constantly employed
in the way in Which she is represented to have
commenced and terminated her journey. We
are enabled to the public, on the very best
authority, that such is not the case.
The time occupied in the voyage passed very
pleasantly. Every evening there was a concert
for the benefit of some body or other, concluding
with one for the benefit of the crew, which was
somewhat married by the boistcrous state of the
weather. The piano Was soon sent up to an in.
conveniently high pitch, the glasses insisted in
joining in, as musical glasses without much re-
gard to harmony or effect, but keeping up a sort
of jingle during the whole time there was an
occasional accompaniment of wind and string IN
struments by Boreas playing feartully on the
ropes OF tho rigging, and every now and then
every thing was rendered great deal too flat
by too rapid running up of the ascending scale
and coming very abruptly down again.
The voyage having been safely got over, VIC
now come to the proceedings in America; bat
we are bound to say that our contemporaries
have so fully occupied the ground-and their
own colunins-that room is scarcely left even
for us to say anything
For some days before the steamer was ex.
pected, New York was in Il state Of intense
excitement, so that when the ship actually caSac
in sight, the only mode the police had OF keep
ing the enthusiasm Of the crowd within decent
bounds, was to check their cries by knocking
the breath-as far as practicablc-out OF their
bodies. Millions had their heads turned, and
hundreds had their heads broken, but all was OF
no avail and in spite of the eXertlons OF the
conslabulary to stave off the people with thci
slaves, the quays, were in a state OF dead lock
from tho throngs that covered them. AS the
vessel entered the harbor, the nightingale was
seen perched on the deck house, supported on
either side by Mcssrs. benedict and Belleti.
Mr.. Barnum, the enterprising Snowman who has
specuated in Jenny Lind, rs he has already
done in Tom Thumb, and other popular idols,
was running race along the pier with Dir.
Collins-perhaps rival showman-cHch hold
ing an enormous bouquet, and Il fearful strug-
Ole took place as to which should be the first to
Chamber up the paGdle-box. Barnum made a
desperate spring on one side, while Collins took
n terrific leap towards the other, and the latter
being the more fortunate, or the more active OF
the two---or perhaps he had been taking lessons
in gymnastics beforehand Of some India rubber
brothers-succeedeo in being the first to stand
at the nightingalcs side, and to present her with
q noscgay twice the size Of that which Barnum
pushed into her hand q moment afterwards.
Either to see better, or to escape from the
energetic Collins and the frantic Barnum, Jenny
Lind moved to the larboard whecl-house,' and
seeing the American flag, the nghtingale-wlth
a sly sense of humor, no doubt, and general
recollection of all she had heard about the slave
trade, and the treatment of Mr. Frederick Doug
las, the colored' newspaper editor-exclaimed
There is the beautiful standard of freedom, the
oppressed of all nations worship it."
AS the ship nc AIRED the pier, every mast seemed
to be made Of eyes, noses, and mouths; every
window was q mass of heads, and the roofs OF
the houses looked as if they were slated with
human beings, and had men and women for chin
ney-pots. The nightingale was so struck with
the responsibility of Yankee mob, that she
asked where the poor were ?--ntcndlng, no
doubt, if there had been any poor, to have sung
at once-sung out from the top of the paddle
box-for their benefit.
1t now became time for Jenny Lind to land,
and at the pier gates was drawn up in readiness
Barnums carriage. When one hears Of show
mans carriage in this country ones mind natu-
rally travels so u van into which the public are
invited ndiscrmnately, to walk up but such
was not the vehicle in which Barnum was pre-
pared to receive his nightingale. The horses
were fgged out in n style well adapted to adver-
tise the museum of which Barnum is proprietor
and, though the trappings were we'll calculated
to act as trappings, and catch the eye Of the
vulgar, good taste could not help feeling that
the caparisons' were odous.' The nightingale
entered the carriage with the assistance of Bar
mum, who then mounted the box, ordering his
servant to make circuit towards the Irving
House, it being very clear to all what he and his
coachman were driving at. The progress to IT.
wing House was one tremendous rush OF beings,
so densely packed together that an exceedingly
ripe cheese, in spontaneous motion, is the only
thing to which it would bear comparison.
The Times having devoted first leader OF
nearly three columns to digest of the proceed
ngs-including the telegraphing of Mrs. and
Miss Barnum, who were coming up from Gin