Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-08-23
MAX MARETzEK GOES 1T ALONE,
HIS DECLARATION OF FINDEPENDENCE
SOME OF THE ITEMS IN THE COST
OF TIE HERALD's "sUB-
vENTION."
"one PrIma Donna More and One Her.
aid Less"
BE n NETT FLED

In yesterdays New York papers we find
the following declaration of independence,
which cannot fail to be read with interest.
We hope to have our army correspondent on
the spot when hospitals open;
t. the Editor If tie Herald:
DEAR SIR: Having repulsed your attack
on the new artists engaged by me for the
forthcoming season, you have taken a week
tO search for new base Of operations; and
now, having entrenchcd yourself behind the
walls OF Contemplated new opera house, +"
you open your masked batteries, not daring
to attack me in oren field. You substitute
the Emperor of Russia for the editor of the
Hsraid, and the imperial intender Of musi.
cal matters in st. Petersburg for your hum
BILE servant.
You inform the public that the Emperor
of Russia has withdrawn his subvention from
the manager Of the opera at St. Petersburg,
who, you say, is probably nothing more than
"a German adventurer. This Is very
pretty piece Of news it lacks, however, one
great essential truth. The Emperor of Rus
sia has not withdrawn his subvention from
the opera of st. Petersburg, which will go on
as before, nor is the impressario there n
German or Scotch adventurer, but a Prince
sian army, and man OF such power that
he would probably, in similar case, have
sent you to Siberia, without much regret on
the part of the public) for your insolence in
prejudging persons whom you admit you never
heard.
As to your paltry attempt to injure my
business because l determined to carry on
the opera without advice or assistance from
the petticOdt government of The Herald, |
will in return do good for evil, and inform
you that it is not St. Petersburg but Mos.
COW, where the opera, after n three years
trial, is to be abandoned; not, however, for
want of subvention, but from the difficulty,
even with the Emperor's subvention, of find.
ing, nowadays, good singers. After you
have heard my opera company for next sea.
son, you will probably be obliged to confess
that the business tact and musical Knowledge
of New York opera manager can accom-
plish more than the subvention Of the Empe.
ror of Ru sia. Why will you not, then, help
the Emperor Of Russia out of his difficulty,
by sending those surplus managers and sing
ers under your paternal care to Moscow, in
stead of letting them run loose in the streets
of New York?
Your story about St. Petersburg, being
incorrect, the parallel you attempt to draw
cannot apply to the present operate situation
in New York; but am willing to give you
the benefit of your fiction.
/ am, therefore, to understand that you
Withdraw your subvention from the New York
opera This is really terrible blow for the
manager for the opera! for the public! and
for the proprietors of the Academy As a
matter of course the opera, tcithOWt the Her
od'S SWbUeHtiOH, is a preposterous idea.m As
impossible to succeed in New York without
the Herald as in st. Petersburg without the
Emperor These are the ideas which the
Herdh tries to disseminate. Let us now
calmly investigate the items of the HeraiHs
subvention. They arc rs follows:
lst The Herald deigns to take II private
proscenium box, for 10 persons,
which, ut the rate Of S2j per night
for about 50 nights In the year, would
bring to the nanageT............... ~, OOO
ID. To 10 of the best reserved seats for
"he Hcrdld's stay, 81 per night
50 nights. Observation-Disclosures. !, OOu
Sd Extra seats aud admissions for matt
nees, aud for Brooklyn, &c, say. 60O
4th. Advertising and printing, at double
that charged by any other establish
ment In New York, say $500 per week
for about 81 weeks................. I, 800
9TH For black mail to reporters, row ny
diplomats, &c, for being forced to
give employment to persons not