The New York herald., 1862-12-31

day. and there is no chance that we shall turn
over new leaf with the New Year.
Grau's Grand Season and LfncoIn's
Grand War.
This morning Manager Grau issues his pro-
clamation announcing his grand season of Opera
for the New Year. Tomorrow morning Presi-
dent Lincoln has promised to issue his proclama-
ton of emancipation, which will fairly inaugu-
ra'> an interminable war. Grau has the ad-
vantage of Lincoln in several respects. Grau
70 nrst In sbe field, his proclamation is the more
popular ana his season will lead to the more
oenencial and happy results, both to the public
ana 70 himself Lincoln, on the contrary is
day after the fair; A;s proclamation will be
regarded as the death warrant Of the Union.
and its consequences will BE- not less disastrous
to himself and his administrator than TO the
people, whose ruin this document seems fated
to insure. If we are all to 60 to destruction
together, however, let us patronize Grau TO the
bitter end, and with the assistance of his opera
troupe, make our last moments as melodious
as those Of the dying swan.
Manager Grau, unlike President Lincoln,
begins his grand season with the prestige of sue
cess Since his last campaign here he has
captured Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washing
ton in brilliant succession. and no Fredericks-
burg accident has driven him prematurely
into winter quarters. Unlike Lincoln, too, he
has obtained new recruits without the necessity
of draft-except upon his bankers--and
brings back to III all our old favoritcs, rein
forced by Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, who has
been engaged for the next season at Her Majes-
tvs theatre, London. Unlike Lincoln, again,
Grau retains the invaluable services of his
Mcclellan. Madame Guerrabella, who, although
surpassed by Kellogg, Lorini, Cordier and the
rest in one or two particulars. as Mcclellan is
surpassed by Pope in recklessness and by FIRE.
mont in blunders, is yet, taken all in ALL far su-
perior to any Of the other prime dome as popu-
lar favorite. Unlike Lincoln in another respect,
Grau has novelties in store for us; as, for in
stance. the revival of "Vespres Sicillienne" and
the production, in advance Of the Paris Opera
House, Of Verdi's new work, "Giovanna d'Arco"
(Joan of Arc), while President Lincoln can only
furnish us with final edition of the stale mig
ger. If both Grau and the President fulfil their
promisel we can predict other points Of dissi-
Multitude; for, whereas Grau's season will be sue
cessful, Lncoln's manifesto will totally fail; and
whereas Grau will be received with favor, year
after year.. for > short eternity in the future,
Lincoln will be at the end of his tether, and.
having nothing more to proclaim about the
nigger, will be thrown aside as useless, and his
vHla sn1 hxyo A1n nka1 r.
tive votes and capable Of appreciating the idea
that he is the President Of the whole country,
and not of the Tribune office; that war cannot
be wagsd with foolscap, and that he has some
constituents who are not nigger-worshippers.
Should the emancipation proclamation make
its appearance tomorrow morning, New Years
Day will begin very gloomy yoar, and Grau's
music comes just in time TO relieve the general
sadness. The nigger-worshippers assert that the
proclamation will end the war; but men of
sense know that the war will then really begin.
Our eighteen months of moving accidents by
food and field" have been merely preparatory
to the real fighting soon to ensue. Tomorrow,
the nigger-worshipping organs tell us, those
black-faced nuisances, the free negroes of the
North, and those black-hsarted traitors, the
Northern abolitionists, are to hold jubilee to-
gsther. All white men should observe the day
by fasting and prayer ever lost country. The
emancipation proclamation, while it will not at
Southern white men in furious aired of the
North and an unconquerabls determination
never to submit to abolition rule. At the same
time it will divide and paralyze the North; for
the people of the Central States have shown by
large majorities at the recent elections that they
will not have the nigger to reign over them.
In order to fight for emancipation we shall have
to tear up the constitution; and then where will
be the Union to which we can force back the
seeded Statess To free all the slaves it will
be necessary to whip all the white men OF the
South, and. although we shall undoubtedly at
tempt IL, the affair will be, as President Lincoln
tersely expresses It, "a big job" All Aese and
many other considerations weigh heavily upon
the people, and even Graus musicians and vocal
lists may not be able to charm dull care away
from our hearts, as David did from Saul. The
masses are too well satisfied with the constitu-
ton as it is and the Union as it was to enter
upon costly, gigantic, bloody, endless series
of experiments in regard to negro equality,
amalgamation, and that "new nation," about
which poor Greeley chatters so necessarily
and insanely. In spite of their respect for At
torney General Bates position, they will not
accept his dictum that every nigger born here
Is citizen Of the country, and is therefore on
dowed with oil the rights, privileges and immu-
mites Of an American citizen, including eigi-
bility to Office, and to the Office Of President
Lincoln himself If any one attempts to force
such experiments and such doctrines upon our
people, either at the point Of the bayonet
or with the threat Of bastile, we very much
fear that they will most emphatisally resist
In that case Grau's operas might lose their mol
lifying influences and be transformed in