The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-01-23
DAvENPORT, co. IOWA. THURSDAY JANUARY 49, 1851.
JENNY LIMBS CONCERT.

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JENNY LIND'S CONCERT. st
We. have hoard an account of.liais visit
Of Daniel Webster. to Jenny Lipd's ConcerI
in New York. Mr.. Willis, Of the Homo
Journal, was present al tho Concert, and
an observer a we'll ias listener, and he
gives an account of il, which we copy be.
low. Mr.. Webster occupied = first sea. in
the first gallery, with Mr., Hunt, the Gov
ernor elect Of New York, who had their
wives with them. Az attendant was sta.
toned 10 the rear, who could hear What was
said. agfs s@ III sa9tssGs4s 4e@
The Concert commenced with oycrtures
and parts Of Operas, but Mr.. Webster bad
no ear for them, and was only cour.eously
attentive The Journal says
He leaned back, with the stately repose
which marks oil bis postures aud msve-
ments, and, conyersing between whiles
with his friends on either side, looked on ss
he might do Il special pleading in court
Of law. TWAS 81 the close Of one Of those
tangled skslns Of music with which an IN
prac.ised brain finds il 50 difficult to thread
tho needle Of an idea. that he made the re-
mark, overheard by the attendant, and Ia
ken Immediately 10 Jenny Lind:-"Why
don't she give US ono Of The simple noun
tain songs Of her own land?n
The mountain song soon poured forth its
loud beginning, impaiiently claiming sym-
pathy from tile barren summits that alone
listen where il i supposed to be sung
The voice softened, sooshcd with its own
outpouring-,he herdman's heart wander
ed and left him singing foegetfully. aud
then the audience, as il transformed to 40
Ariel, that "pnts girdle round the earth" !"
commenced following the last clear note
through the defiance. Away il sped, soft
ly and evenly, liquid arrow through more
liquid air, lessening with the sweetness il
left behind it, but fleeing leagues in sec
onds, and with No errand but TO go on unal-
tered till it should die-anA, behold. on the
track Of it, with the rest Of us, was gone the
heavy winged intellect Of Webster. We
had listened with our eyes upon him.
As all know who observed him, his ha-
bitua! first mark Of interest ia a new mai
Ter, is a pull he gives 10 the lobe Of his Ieii
ear-as il, to the thought t-intrcnehed castle
Of bis brain, there was portcul!is TO be
lowered at any welcome summons for en-
trance. The tone sped and lesscned, and
Websler's broad chest grew erect and ex-
panded. Sill on went the entrancins
sound, altered by distance only, aud change:
less To- The rapt attitude of tho cadence--on
for on -as II only npon the bar Of the
horizon II could faint al lasi and forward
len ned the aroused Statesman, with his hand
clasped over the balustrade, bis head raised
10 its fullest lift ahnve. his shoulders, and
the luminous caverns Of his eyes opened
wide upon the still lips Of the singer. The
note died--and those around exchanged
glances as the enchaDtress touched The in
strume nt before fer-but Webster sal mo-
tionless. The breathIess Stiffness was bro
ken BY 4 tumnh ofapplanse, and the hand
that WINS over tho gallery moved up and
down upon the cushion with unconscious
assent, hut The spell was YET on him.
He slowly leaned back, with bis ayes
still iixed on the singer, and suddenly ob.
serving thst she had turned 10 him sller
curtssying 10 the audience, nndwas repeat
ing her acknowledgements Enthusiastically
TO himself, he rose TO bis feet and bowed 10
her, With the grace and statcliness ofthe
monarch that no is. Il was not much to
see, pcrhsps- neither does the cnlmination
of j. planet differ. very distinguishedly,
from the twinkle of lamp--h0t we'con-
graduated Jenny Lind, with our frs,
thought, atler il, at what is perhaps her
hest single triumph on this side Of the wa
ter, the sounding of Americas deepes, mind
With her pldintnet Of cnclIantnsat.
CRIMINAL STATISTICS OF IOWA.
From the report Of the Secretary Of State, 70
the Gsnersi Assembly, we gather the following
statistics OF crime within the Slate for the years
l849 and 1885, II exhibits more favorable
state Of morals, we venture 70 say, than can be
cited for the same amount Of population In any
Of the far-famsd law add order loving New Eng.
land States. ..3y