The New York herald., 1862-01-14

true policy towards us, we may be able 70 de-
feat the selfish designs Of both these govern
ments.
sensatioa In the Fsshiesssas ws~aA-
Sudden Revival OF the Opsrs.
The world of fashion Is in tumult Of expee-
tation. The Academy Of Music Is 10 be changed.
in the twinkling Of an eye, from gymnasium
to an Opera House. The shoddy aristocraey is
wild on the subject Of white kids and opera
glasses. All of the new people who have been
ruling the fashionable roast and decorating the
Central Park with elegant equipages since the
Goldfish aristOcracy deceased, the cotton aristo-
cracy went to seed, and the Knickerbocker
aristocracy fell back upon its acres and its dig
nifty, have now a chance to show themselves
and eye their neighbors, and there il going 10
be great time in Fourteenth street.
We are going to have opera again. A
few months ago the operatic muse took the car.
and buried herself in the provinces. A man
has gone and hunted her up, and brought her
back to the city. There has been no such feat
performed since Barnum caught his first whale
with hook and line, or Eaton Stone captured
complished this great exploit will be immortal
Let us hear no more of Ullman, Maretzek and
Muzio-the Napoleon, the Garibaldi, the Wash
ington of the co,lisses-for we have q man
now greater larger, better, more immense than
all or either of them. His name Is in every
body's mouth-fame with her thousand
tongues, repeats tit is Grau
knows. Grau? We never heard the name
before, and cannot find upon our list of friends,
though blessed with polished manners and fine
sense, the man who knows Grau. Take our
word for it, however, he is some great per
sonage. Perhaps-snb rosa, ths.-he Is
Count of the Holy Roman Empire, come over
here with lots of decorations and special
dspensation from the mighty Pope to give us
opera. Perhaps he's an Italian Marquis, with
name SO long that Grau is only its
forty-first syllable, and purse as long
as his name. Perhaps he's a French
nobleman of the old regime, whom that upstart,
Louis Napoleon, has kicked out of France be-
cause he is so very smart and might get up an
insurrccton at the opera house. AT any rate
he's somebody-that's certan-and this deep.
impenetrable mystery about him hides his glory
and yet reveals it; for why should there be so
much incognito if there is no one to hide:
Be he Roman, Italian or French however,
Grau brings us opera, and he is welcome. We
cannot strew flowers before him; but he shall be
buried beneath bouquets of the choicest flowers
of rhetoric, for day or two, until Brooklyn
gets its hothouse roses and camclas ready
For Brooklyn is excited Also The faubowg de
81. Henri Beecher is inquiring about Gran. and
intends Offering reward for any information
concerning him, his antecedents or his progeni-
tors 1t is matter of business, not Of curiosity
with the Brooklynites; for he has applied for
their opera house also; and it would forever
and eternally. ruin the tdubourg de 81. Beecher
if the moral opera house were let to
a man whose great grandfather was an in
fdel. Beecher himself is mixed up in the ex-
citement there, and is going to drop the inevi-
table African and preach sermon about Grau
next Sunday night. He intends taking Grau
all to pieces and looking at his works, and is
practising privately now in order to get up his
Intellectual muscle. But he has met his match,
in our opinion. Grau is the Heenan who will
mash this reverend Sayers all to jelly. Still
there will be very great time at this inter-
municipal match, and all the world will be
there to see Grau aud the Brooklyn Pet put up
their hands.
The shoddy aristocracy of New York have
resolved to sustain Grau. He is a new man,
and therefore has claims upon these new peo-
pie The Brooklyn shoddy aristocracy-which
is bluer-intend to sustain Grau also and the
way silks, laces and gloves are being bought
and made would astonish Paris ITSELF The
three hundred and fifty new carriages which
have been observed lately at the Central
Park are in constant requisition, and the
shoddy horses are driven almost to DEATH
When tomorrow night comes what sight
our Academy will present. Sudden as
Aladdin's palace, Grau and the shoddy aristo-
cracy will reconstruct the Opera in all its
glory. They work like magcians, and are just
as unknown; for nobody can tell where the
shoddy folks come from, and nobody knows
any thing of Grau.
We shall have to import few members Of
the Van Wyck Investigating Committee, to be
on hand at the Academy tomorrow night, with
strong lorgnettes, to identify few Of the
shoddy people for us; but even Van Wyck
would not know Grau.
GETTING SHORT OF AMMuNIrIoN.-In General
Lees General Orders, No. 2, dated Coosa-