Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-07-01
one Million a Year

This IS about the amount of the profits of nine monthS singing of Jenny Lind in the United States Her first concert was glven in New York, in Sey,- tefnber last, and sInce then she has appeard m dozen different cites and towns. The contract with BArAnm having concluded, he has published 10 the world that his receipts from the entrrpriSe are over S500, 900, whilst Miss Lind has received sj00,00o. The benehrs will swell this sum to at least 100000, There IS no parallel to this ia the history of public exhibitions Previous to h. arrivailn this country Miss Linds success had ia surpassed that of any person who ever display-d in public his or her skill natural excellence ia any art. But even these trInmphs dwindie into in- significance compared with her extraordinary ca- reer andef the direction of the Yakee Empressario She could only be tempted across the Atlantic by offers which were deemed by many persons ruinous and insane.
 The price Of admission to all entertainments in this country having ~een long fixed at one dollar. 1t was believed to be quite hazardous move to at- tempt to raise the rates. Barnum knew what h.. was about. and did not heSitate to mortgage his whole property, to carry out his design. He then set hss extensive and complicated machinery t, work, Tn order to prepare the minds of our people and get the enthusiasm up to fever point to give the illuStrious songstfess 6 worthy re-eption It was m all these arrangements that Barnun's great skill and management were display, He was sue cessfnl. from the very commencement There was no abatement of energy on his part through out the whole engagement. It was one continual triumphal march through the Union. At Lis- tance, people talked defyingiy of the q Monster Hambug," as It was called; but when the divinc Jenny and the sagacious Barnum came along they too-the scofefs and reviiers--were forced 10 fall into tho trair, and shout as loud as the loa,Iest- And now the two have quietly dissolved their con tract, and divide the handsome sums mentioned between them. The Empressario pockets haii q million.
 The man. who, eight or ten years ago, came here as the manager and outdoor worker of a dancer of negro igs, who had 10 pawn his watch ln tbis city for a few weeks board. realizes half million ol dollars by one venture, one single transaction Fms, adder, to hs other property, makes him more than millionaire But he lS not satisfied: hIs surplus energies, more than any love of acanisi- tlons. He has even now some half dozen other : show enterprises on foot. There IS his great elephant procession which cost hun S40 GOO to pro- cure The annals alone; there, too, are the Bate man children whom he has sent to England to as t0nlsh the Bntsshers; Tom Thumb, who ls still coming money under BarnHm's auspices; his grand museum and theatre in New York; vast design Of congress of nations, embracing repreSentat yes of every tnbe the face of the earta; the estab- hshment of tEeatre in the city 9f London. &c Nc. These, besides a large attention to and ser vice m the cause of Temperance, occupy the time of this remarkable man
 There are two other dexigns which we have an idea Barnam will yet attempt; aad, wlfh him to triumph. The contract with Jenny l. ad has been concluded, a0 doubt with view of afousIlng her some rest and recreation. But we exgeet to see the engagement renewed m the fall. There are important fields ia which Mixs Lind has yet to try her powers,-they are California and France Harnain has been strongly tempted towards aar PacAe El Dorada by an offer of S50si GOO for ten concerts. Ths would certainly be the CornfAIaa capital of Barnums trlamphal arch, and believe that he not taseRslhlc to the giary if not to the profit, of such a venture La Belle Fraace too, has been passed over by he Nightingale. The ea- thassastic, art-aad melody loving people aS that country, have sighed so leas f5S chance to hear her, that they have determined to eoasole them selves with the policy of the fex. wAo Nhought the grapes he coald aoi get were sonr
 barnam feeis far the French, and we have no aauhtthat waen he has rested week an dozen bsmpefaaee speech hes, and refreshed his mind by wEItng 3J0 letters, to every part of the world he will turn nis atteatann io thls phlaathsopc move nen. some desperate adnirrr of the very refined penple of France, saeering insinaate thai Barnnm can't carry out '- his humbagsv iAerr, but n this they to great injustice io Barnam's skill and the fFenehmaFs susceptibility Barnam will yet :" beard the lion in hs den,'' and extnrt the ap- psause and fagrnt of the csmplacent GauIs.