The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-31

TO them the death of the just, for which cause
the Temple ofJcruselem would be ovenhrown.
Also, that jeremiah and other prophets FORE
told i'll Of all the Jews who remained in Jeru.
salem, not desiring to go down to Egypt with
him, the said jeremiah. But they all speak
we'll of the good Jews who were sent by God
to Spain. In fine, we beg, that if Jews came
from Jerusalem with letters, they be sent quick.
ly to Spain so that we may receive them and
that if you receive any thing from US. you do
not accredit it, unless il be sent by James, the
son Of Zebedee, a good youth, and disciple
of Jesus Christ, who was crucifed, but as his
disciples assert, has risen from the dead.
"May God take care of you. In Jerusalem,
the sixth day of the month of Man."
e Within the course of the next fort
night, winds and waves permitting, it will be
the province Of tn newspaper press to an
| nounce the arrival upon our shores of yet ano-
| Their artistic, and in many respects the most re-
| markable one, that has ever opened her throat
| for the deiec tation of American ears. This is
the celebrated Sontag. Our readers know
perfectly we'll that we have always discour-
aged the silly extreme, 10 which the Yankee
nation loves to push lis admiration for for-
eign novelties, and it is therefore with no de-
sire to get up an unmerited enthusiasm for
Sontag. that we are led this morning to speak
| of her. We trust she will neither carry our
| people to such ridiculous lengths, nor take
away with her as much of our money, as did
Jenny Lind. Yet are we right glad that she is
coming, for we confess TO on extravagant fond
ness for music, and few among the musical
celebrities that have visited the United States
none, perhaps, with the single exception of the
Swedish nightinga le-have by common consent
ranked so high in the world of song as this fa-
vorite of twenty five years standing.
Henriette Sontag was born, Of obscure but
honest parents. at Coblentz on the Rhine, in
January, 1909. She will, therefore, be forty
four years of age, should she live till January
next. But let this fact not at all diminish the
desire to see her, since nature has dealt with
her very kindly, and she still preserves, to a
ish loneliness. Alta very tender age the little
Henriette became noted for her musical genius,
and when eleven years old attracted much at
tention by her performance of "La Petite file
| du Danube" in several portions of the Cont
| nent. Placed soon after in the Conservatory
| of Music at Prague, she made such wonderful
and rapid improvement that at fourteen, she
entered upon her career as Primd Donna OF
the grand opera. From that moment, her ap.
| pearance was every where one Of magnificent
triumph. In 1924, she bore herself with the
most brilliant success upon the same boards,
| at Vienna, with Lablache and Rubi nj. At
Berlin soon after, her genius and grace attract
ed to her side throng of distinguished and
wealthy sultors, none of whom succeeded in
gaining her affections, although one of them, a
man of rank, had entered the service of Som
tag in disguise, in order TO enjoy the privilege
of being near his sweetheart. In 1927, she
made her first appearance in Paris in the role
of Desdemona, and passed the severe ordeal of
me trop olitan criticism, al time when Mali
bran herself was the reigning divinity of Song,
with triumpha eclat. 1t is a fact interesting
to know. and creditable alike to both these dis
tinguished women, that between Malibran and
Sontag, rivals as they were for the palm of ex.
cellence in THEN department, there never pre-
vailed any but feelings of the sncerest
and most unalloyed friendship. But Paris
was not long to enjoy the delightful soprano
of the new candidate. For while vet in
the flush of her earliest success, the Young
The union was not without some difficu l-
ties, for the most decided objection was
made on the part of the Counts family to
his alliance with mere singing girl. Count
Rossi was attache of the Sandman Lega-
ton in Paris, and was, therefore, to look higher
than the green room of the grand opera for his
bride. So said the family, but the Count him.
self was of different way of thinking. Hap.
| PLY, while this domestic quarrel was going on
the King of Prussia, within whose domnions
| the fair song stress had been born, removed
every obstacle to the marriage, by sending to
Henrietta Sontag patent of nobility, with the
| title of Mademoselle de Lauenstein. The
nuptials, accordingly, took place, to the salts.
faction OF all parties, and the Countess of Ross
left the stage, as she supposed, for ever. Her
husband having been sent by the Sandman
government to several continental courts, she
resided at different times at the Hague, Berlin
and 81. Petersburg. AT all ofihese places, by the
engaging sweetness of her manners, and the
variety of her accomplishments, she drew
around her shining circle ofphilosophers, wits
statesmen and artists, among whom she had
the honor to number Mendelsohn and Never
beer, the great composers, and Humboldt. the
author of Cosmos. But in 1S4s, the breaking
out OF the French Revolution extnguished the
little remnant of her husbands declining for.
tune, and she was brought once again to the
expedlent of maintaining herself by her ope
ratio performances. She appeared first in Lon.
ooh' after an absence of more than twenty
years from the boards of that city, and after
wards In Paris, and at both places the effect
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