Struggles and Triumphs by P.T. Barnum — Read

Protest Against Prices in Havana -- The Cubans Succumb -- Jenny Lind Takes the City by Storm -- A Magnificent Triumph -- Count Penalver -- A Splendid Offer -- Mr. Brinckerhoff -- Benefit for the Hospitals -- Refusing to Receive Thanks -- Vivalla and His Dog -- Henry Bennett -- His Partial Insanity -- Our Voyage to New Orleans -- The Editor of the New York Herald on Board -- I Save the Life of James Gordon Bennett -- Arrival at the Crescent City -- Cheating the Crowd -- A Duplicate Miss Lind -- A Boy in Raptures -- A Mammoth Hog -- Up the Mississippi -- Amusements on Board -- In League with the Evil One -- An Amazed Mulatto.

Soon after arriving in Havana, I discovered that a strong prejudice existed against our musical enterprise. I might rather say that the Habaneros, not accustomed to the high figure which tickets had commanded in the States, were determined on forcing me to adopt their opera prices, whereas I paid one thousand dollars per night for the Tacon Opera House, and other expenses being in proportion, I was determined to receive remunerating prices, or give no concerts. This determination on my part annoyed the Habaneros, who did not wish to be thought penurious, though they really were so. Their principal spite, therefore, was against me; and one of their papers politely termed me a "Yankee pirate," who cared for nothing except their doubloons. They attended the concert, but were determined to show the great songstress no favor. I perfectly understood this feeling in advance, but studiously kept all knowledge of it from Miss Lind. I went to the first concert, therefore, with some misgivings in regard to her reception. The following, which I copy from the Havana correspondence of the New York Tribune, gives a correct account of it: