Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-09-05
THE DEATH OF CATHERINE HAYES.

The London Times, in its obituary notice of
the decease of Kate Hayes, says:-
In Catherine Hayes Ireland has lost one of
its sweetest singers of its National nirs.--A
daughter of the sister isle she was thoroughly
imbued with the spirit of its melody and it was
in the alternately wild and tender melodies
which have inspired so many poets, sand fore
most among them Thomas Moore, whose "Irish
Melodies" more than anything else that fell
from his pen, proclaim his genius and perpetu-
ate his name,-that her genial warmth of ex-
preston found its highest medium for display.
AS singer of this particular class of music she
was probably unsurpassed. 1t was here, far
more than in the Italian vocasation, of which
she had made herself an accomplished adept,
that Catherine Hayes possessed the secret to
charm the crowd. In her owa country, she had
but to give national air, and hold the audi
ence spell bound.
In recording the death of Catherine Hayes at
the early age of forty years, we have not merely
to condole with her warm hearted compatriots,
who saw no fault in anything she did, who APP
plauded her foreign and worshipped her nation
al song, but with the British public generally,
who have lost public favorite and one in an
eminent degree entitled to be regarded an a true
and earnest artistic. In private life the depart
ed lady owned none but enthusiastic partisans
for we believe no professor of the musical art
ever reflected more social honor on her call
ing
Her career extended over some 90 years and
upwards during which she studied in Ireland
under Signor Sapio, in France under Signo
Manuel Garcia. and in Ituly under Sgnoi
Felice Roncpn Her public performances
| abroad were commenced, we believe, at Mar
settles. From Marseilles she proceeded to Mi
Vienna. thpnnp In
and other Italian towns. In lS49 she came to
London with first-cass continental reputa-
ton and few amateurs can have forgotten the
lattering reception accorded to her when she
appeared with Mr. Sims Reeves) in "I.inda d
Chamouni" at the Royal Italian Opera. After
two years in Great Britain, Catherine Hayes
went TO the United States, visited California,
the Sandwich Islands, and subsequently Aus.
trala and India. In these distant regions the
! fame she had acquired in England was turned
| to profitable account, and everywhere "trium
phant," she realized handsome fartune. Or
her return to England she sung at the concert,
| presided over by the late NJ. Julien at He
Majesiys Theatre and since that period sh,
made tours in the Provinces especially in Ire
land, where her way may be said, without ex
aggeration, to have been paved with gold ant
strewn with flowers. She was married in 1856
to Mr.. Bushnell, who had undertaken the super
intendence of her professional business in thu
New World. Her domestic happiness was o
| short duration, as she had for some years beel
a widow when she was herself called away, leiv
ing behind her name alike respected in publ
and in private. She died ON Monday night, n
Sydenham, after short illness, resulting, as w
understand, from the breaking of blood-vessel
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