Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-07-16

knowledge are said not to be surpassed. And,
year after year, she continued So though, after
a time, her voice, being overstrained lost some
what of its freshness, and the public being sati-
ated no more crowded the house when she
was singing. Still, at that time, she could be
heard singing and playing more delightfully."-
than ever in Pamina Yin Zauberhote) or in An
ma Bolena, though the opera was almost deser-
ted. She evidently sang for the pleasure of the
song.
By that time she went to take lessons of Gar
ca, in Paris, and so give the finishing touch to
her musical education. There she acquired that
warble in which she is said to have been equal
ed by no singer, and which could be compared
only to that 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 people.
She charmed Denmark, she charmed Germany
she charmed England She was coressed and
courted every where, even to adulation. At the
courts of kings, the houses of the great and no.
Bile, she was feasted as one OF the grandees of
nature and art. She was covered with laures
and Jewels. But friends wrote of her, In the
midst of these splendors she only thinks of her
Sweden, and yearns for her friends and her peo-
ple"
One dusky October night, crowds of people
(the most part by their dress, seemed to belong
to the upper classes of society thronged OH the
shore of the Baltic harbor at Stockholm. All
looked toward the sea. There was a rumor of
expectance and pleasure. Hours passed away,
and the crowds still gathered, and waited and
looked out eagerly toward the sea- AT length
brilliant rocket rose joyfully, far out at the en-
trance of the harbor and was greeted with gen.
eral buzz on the shore.
"There she comes! there she is" A large
steamer now came whelming on its triumphant
way through the flocks of ships and boats lying
in the harbor, toward the shore of the 4" Skepps-
bero" Flashing rockets marked its way in the
dark as it advanced. The crowds on the shore
pressed forward rs if to meet it. Now the levi
athan of the waters was heard laundering near
er and nearer; now it relented, now again push
ed on, foaming and splashing; now it lay still.
And. there on the front of the deck, was seen
by the light of lamps and rockets, pale, grace
full Young woman, her eyes brilliant with tears,
and lips radiant with smiles, waving her hand
1erchief to her friends and countrymen on the
shore.
1t was she again--our poor, plain, neglected
little girl of former days-who now came back
in triumph to her fatherand. But no more poor,
come rich; she had in her slender person the
power to charm and inspire multitudes.
Some days later, we read in the papers Of
Stockholm, an address to the public written by
the beloved singer, stating, with noble smplici-
ty that as she once more had the happiness to
be in her native land, she would be glad to sing
again to her countrymen, and that the income Of
the operas in which she was this season to ap-
pear, would be devoted to raise a fund for
school where eieueS for the theatre would be ed
ucated to virtue and knowledge" The intelli
gence was Received as it deserved, and of course
the Opera was crowded every night the below
ed singer sang there. The first time she again
appeared in Somnambula Zone Of her favortes
role), the public, after the curtain was drop
ped, called her back with great enthusiasm, and
received her, when she appeared, with n roar of
hurrahs. In the midst of the burst of applause
clear and melodious warbling was heard
The hurrahs were hushed instantly. And we
saw the lovely singer standing with her arms
slightly extended, somewhat lowing forward,
graceful as bird on its branch warbling, warb-
ling as no bird ever did, from note to note
and on every one a clear, strong, soaring war;
ble---until she fell into the retournelle of her
last song, and again sang that joyful and touch
ing strain,
No thot can conceive how feel at my heart.
IMPORTANCE OF BEING ABLE TO DEsPIsE RIDI-
CULE.-l know of no principle which it is Of
more importance to fix in the minds Of young
people than that of the most determined resist
ance to the encrOachment of rdicnle. Give up
to the world, and to the ridicue with which the
world enforces its dominion, every trifing ques-
ton of manner and appearance; it is to toss
courage and tirmness to the winds, to combat
with the mass upon such subjects as these. But
learn from the earliest days to insure your prn-
ciples against the perils of ridicule you can no
more exercise your reason, if you live in the
slant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy
your life, if you are in the constant terror of
death. If you think it right to differ from the
times, and to make stand for any valuable
point of morals, do it, however rustic, however
antiquated, however pedantc it may appear
do it, not for insoence, but seriously and grandly
AS a man who wore soul of his own in his
bosom and did not wait till it was breathed into
him by the breath of fashion. Let men call you
mean, if you know you are just; hypocritical,
if you are honestly religious; pusillanimous, if
you feel that you are firm; resistance soon con-
verts unprincipled wit into sincere respect and
no after-time can tear from you those feelings
which every man carries within him who has
made q noble and successful eXertion in a vrtu-