The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-10-13
SENSATIONS.

A bass singer named Karl Formes is
in Cincinnati and the papers are going it
on him-rather. They are demolish
ing all the dictionary words" they can
find in telling the public what a great
bass singer Mr.. K. Formes is. We pre-
sumo Formes is tolerably good vocal
ist Doubtless he has, after the most
gigantic labors, acquired the art of grow
ing and grunting very powerfully and
after the approved manner of operatic
basses in general. But we trust there
will be no effort made to get up tre-
mendous sensation over him. That
kind of thing, we opine, has been inser-
ted in the soil. Go and sec Formes,
hear Formes and applaud Formes Una
king the applause the most vociferous at
those points IN Formes' singing that you
don't understand) by all means, if you
see fit, but don't let US have any Miss
Jale Lind farces re-enacted. The gag
is worn out, has an ancient and fish like
order, and will scarcely be swallowed
again. The justly brilliant success of
Vieuxtemps, who goes quietly through
the country with his fiddle and a bundle
of modest handbills, ought to teach for
eign professionals that indiscriminate
aud mountainous blowing has ceased to
be necessary in this country to insure
the triumphant success of any really
great performer All that is said of
Formes may be very true. We never
heard him, aud he hasn't the pleasure
of our acquaintance personally. But we
thought we perceived in sundry West
ern journals unmistakable attempts to
get up jolly low over him, and with
our accustomed promptness and regard
for peace and welfare of the pub ic, we
determined to frowu the thing down.
This country has been too much given
to getting up sensations over foEelen
celebrities, musical, dramatic, literary
and otherwise. We say it with due re
gard for the American Eagle. which
bird we will sustain as long as there's
drop of blood in these veius, aud for
whose defense our bones shall bleach on
the plains of Mexico or upon the banks
of the Aroosi ook. as the case may be, if
necessary. -.
When Dickens came over here very
considerable portion of America got
down upon its abdomen and crawled at
his fee:. We dinnered him, banqueted
him, made speeches to him. used up an
ocean of ink and forest of goose quilts
in putting him in public prints, and ac-
ted foolishly in numerous other wayss
Dickens went home and issued those
counterfeit IN Notes" of his, aud we dis
coverd when it was too late that we had
made fools of ourselves. As our friend
Ralph Waldo Emerson might say, "he
hadps."
When Fanny Ellsler arrived in staid
and virtunus BostiDg she was taken
through the streets in gorgeous car
riage drawn by eight horses, and follow
ed by most of the promising young men
of the city. In the intensity of their
enthusiasm the two, legged asses unhitch-
ed the four-legged horses, harnessed
themselves to the carriage aud hauled
Fanny through several of the principal
streets, and considerable portion of
BostiDg, as we have been reliably in
formed, gazed approvipgly and even
admiriDgly upon the remarkable spec
tacle. Fanny danced through America,
pocketed huge pie of money: and
went home and married a retired Wen
ma physician (whose sands of life, we
presume, bad NOT about run out) The
last time we heard of her she was ex-
tremely fat and hard ten or twelve inter
esting children. "Long may she wave
The immense excitement over Jenny
Lind is fresh in the memory of almost
verybody. There was no discount on
her notes. They were as pure as her
own dear self Still people might have
acted sensibly about her, and pleased
her quite as much.
Sensations over foreign notables have
been rdone to death" It is time they
were abandoned entirely CleueLanl
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