The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-03-06


Orleans to hear and to see you.
They couldn't get even to the door
Of your concert-room for the crowd.
So they took passage ON my boat
again with no othor hope than just
tosee you. They diiln' 'tS.mean to
be rude-neithor do I; but,sI do
hope you will CRAFTY them Ind not
seclude yourself all this long trip
My dear captain, sho said
as pleasantly as could be, Il don't
mean TO hide myself. Why should
l But what would you have me
do?
"Come and sit at my right hand at
dinner, It's nearly time for the
bell to ring
"'Wiz the greatest plazure, said
the"great lady, and when dinner was
reidy she came out of her state-rooln
smiling, and bowed to every body in
the ladies' cabin, and sat down by
my side. .......
Will you not do me. the honaire
to Introduce me to .s, ladies' she
said, and I introduced hen to all the
the lady passengers that were atfmy
table--all ladies, mind you. It wt,s
the most pleasant dinner I ever In d.
Miss Lind was curious about every-
thing and especially. about plantation
life. She and Miss got to be
great friends, and the lady AFTER
wards visited Mrs. Goldschmidt,
after her rnarriage to the pianist at
her home in London.
"After dinner the tables were
cleared away, and Miss Lind sat
down on the sofa at the end Of the
cabilpss,I went-"forward to where
BaIIium was sitting, near the clerk 5
office. '3arnuu, said ], won't Miss
Lind sing some thing for the
ladies 2
=" Captain, said he, turning Oh ifne,
ARE you going raving mad ? Miss
Lind sing in a public place like this!
Why, man. you make me laugh.
Miss Lind gets thousand dollars
for every song she sings. !, Perhaps
you've thousand dollars. q bout yau
to spare ? Offer her GHatS&and thAu
she'll tell you to 8o~about ypnr
business Ne. sss,, D..
" All right, Barnupa.sssssI Il smA,l
"WelI, then, went into the panty
and got my niger band together.
There was one likely young boy
among EN-, who had such q voice rs
you never heard. I was younger
then. considerably than am now,
but I could never hear that boy sing
oneof his plantation songs without the
tears coming into my eyes. But I
thought I'd try him first. SO one of
the boys kept time on his banjo,
and the fellow sang over his song.
It was about yellow girl who had
been sold off into slavery from her
Lo oaisiana home into Georgia, l
never heard the words or the mus e
before. The words didn't exactly
rhyme, nor the music wasn't such as
you hear 10 the opera, but I knew it
would do SO I got the boys to-
gether in the cabin, and after they
had played awhile the boy sang his
song. Miss Lind listened from first
to last, and there were tears in her
eyes, too, when it was through. I
don't know exactly how it was, but
FIVE minutes afterward she was ut
the piano and sang first the music
of that song as we'll as she could
remember it, anl then sorg after
song of her own. And not only
that evening either, but every eve,
ming that she was On the boat. Tho
pianist of her troupe played too,
and the OF her members of the cons
pany sang or played, and nsy ladies
also, and such concerts there never
were in America before or since.
I'VE got to DO great friends, and
when We reached Louisville and my
boat laid up on account OF the ico
she urged me to 60 with her to New
York. 1t was on the way that we
stopped a niagara. 7 tell you, sir,
she was the greatest, and the most
beautiful, and the best woman /
ever knew"
I think the captain keeps q few
little flowers and such tribes that
date back to that trip religiously by
hi,a to this day. He has never
married, I believe, though he was a
Leo o.nparatively young man in 1850.
"They tell me Leadville is pretty
high up" remarked Denyerite to
a visitor from the carbonate field.
"High up j. calculated the other.