Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1872-01-23
The Market Value Of Song.

10 TIE Editor Of the ~. \. Post: In your
pager of Thursday I find ths following para.s
graph: -
Mr.. Carl Rosa publishes the following note.
"I see it is said that the greatest pay ever re-
ceived by singer was s22, 900 paid to Nillson
for twenty nights of opera in New York.
have paid Wachtel $50, 900 for the same period
in New York engagement" 81 81 sr
respectfully refer the managers of the
above singers to the history OF. my life, pub
lished by the American News Company,
wherein ssventy-fve pages are devoted to the
Jenny Lind enterprise in America. It is
there shown that paid the Swedish Nightn.
gale s2OS, ,6I5 for ninety-ive concerts, which
gives an average of 50, 1876 per concert, or
S43 $50 for twenty nights. also paid all
and servants from England, aud all their ho- ?
tel and travelling expenses up to the last con-
cert. besides furnishing her always wisha
private coach aud horses.
Truly yours. PIT. BARNuM.
43S Fifth avenue, Dec. 20, 1871.
We may add that Mr.. Baruum received
tor the ninety,tiv concerts given by Jenny
Lind, STl2, ,l6l34, an average of 81, ,496 s43
for each concert The largest receipts for
ten nights were respectively, s17,S6f &c.,
4I9, sl6,O2S, 1855, s14,203. S12,595,
Sl2,3S5, Sl2,5l9, Sl2, LA aud Sill S4S; to-.
tai for ten evenings, Sl40.365. This occurred
in 1851, when one thousand dollars were GER
tainly larger part of the wealth of the com.
munity, or of concert audience, than twice
that amount would be now.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS Aoo.-One hun.
dred and ten years ago there was not single
white mau in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois. Then. what is the most fourishis>DI
part of America was as little known asstho
country around the mysterious mountains of
the moon. 1t was not until 1767 that Boone
left his home in North Carolina to become
the first settler of Kentucky. The first pio,
neer of Ohio did not settle until twenty wears
after this time. A hundred years ago Canada
belonged to France, and the population did
not exceed n million and half of people.
A hundred years ago the Great Frederic,
OF Prussia, was performing those grand ex>
plolts which have made him immortal annals,
and with his little monarchy was sustaining
single handed contest with Russia, Austria
and France. the three great powers OF Europe
combined. Washington was modest Vir-
ginia Colonel, and the great events in the
history of the two worlds, in which these
great but dissimilar men took leading parts,
were then scarcely foreshadowed. A hundred
years ago the United States were the most
loyal part of the British empire, and on tho
political horizon no speck indicated the strug.
gle which within'a score of years thereafter
establish would the great republic of the world.
A hundred years ago there were but four
newspapers in America. Steam engines had
not been imagined, and the railroads aud
telegraphs had not entered into the remotest
conception of men. When we come to look
back at 1t through the vista of history, we find
that to the century lust passed has been allot,
ted more important events, in their bearing
upon the happiness of the world, than almost
any other which has elapsed since the creation.