The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-08
The War Of tho Tabereses.

sary, to make sure that they run him in.
The War Of tho Taboreses.
OpSra boufe is still dainty excitement to
the popular fancy, and none the less that
manager Grau has begun to deploy his forces.
Grau's movement of Monday night opens ac-
lively the operations Of the season. He has
taken bold ground, and if he shall still hold it
when Lord Bateman and his Tostee are fairly
installed at Pixies his fortune will belle some
present appearances. It was hazardous to try
the Duchess" again, especially with new
Duchess. II the public of this distracted,
irrational, but very natural city have par
tioular fancy for any Duchess, 1t is the Duchess
they know. II is thankless Office to be an
image breaker among those who worship
images, and we close our ears resolutely
against the best of reasoners, who tells us that
all our pet theories are false, and who, horror
Of horrors! wants to expose our most darling
decisions. We-meaning the public-are just
little bit like Paris still, despite our living
few thousand years later. Pallas, we know,
is wonderfully wise, and Juno gorgeous
creature They have charms that we ought
to prefer but Venus shall have the apple in
spite of those old girls, no matter if we may
not say why. What is the reason that our
dear, nonsensical Duchess prefers Fritz to
Paul9 Paul is pretty fellow, quite polite, and
evident has taste. He who Can tell this
shall tell also why y. ."s dear public resents the
imputation that II has been A. III wrong-in giving
its heart to Duchess who is the very SOU OF
all that is deliciously ridiculous; why i: OBJ
jects to hearing that the Duchess has more
dignity and elegance than it thought and is a
better singer. He shall explain why it listens
coldly to all this, and he shall have his ex-
PLANTATION for his pains. -s+-~~.a.,. s.,-,---.-.
Grau's initiative, therefore, still leaves
room. There is some apathy, and the public
waits to take the practical measure of COM
parison in seeing what Bateman will do for
its pleasure. 1t is only one fact that it does
not want q new Duchess. Perhaps it may
want whatever else it can get. Genevieve de
Brabant may prove a still more charming
creature than any damsel of the whole ro-
mantle catalogue, and as our public have no
preconceptions regarding her character the
field is fair for whoever will embody and
create it. Some things can be done as well
as others. Caprice is so capricious and
whim is so whimsical that we may by and by
have the same reason to wonder that the pub
lie is as wild for one woman in Genevieve as
for another in the Duchess. Between the
Fifth and the Eighth avenues there is space
for two women. Let us see how Bateman will
advance to his second season. He has q great
troupe with Tostee, Aujac, Duchesne and
Guffroy, and o troupe that established the
best sort of entre-nous-ship with the city
public. He can do wonders with the Duchess,
but he cannot go through the wonder with her
If the other house TANKS him by new positions
in new pieces. No doubt the contest will turn
on the charm Of new pieces, and the sooner
they come the livelier times there will be in
the theatre, in the parlor debates and In the
fashion shops. Nce la 6agatelle!
THE MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE TRRA-
sURY DEPARTMENT.-Mr. McCulloch comes out
Der statement Of the financial condition Of the
Treasury. The total debt, less cash in the
Treasury, on September !, 1868, was So, $780,
6l4,3l3, and on October I, $2,524, 642, 718.
1t is less, therefore, this month than at the
last by SOTO, 595. This, of course, is gratifying
so far as it goes but we cannot judge Of the
financial condition of the Treasury by compar-
ing the statements Of two months. We must
run through longer period; for temporary
and accidental causes may give q rosy color
to things while there may be rottenness be-
meath. The main fact that the country has to
look to is that the debt has been increased
within the last year nearly forty-two millions,
and that three years after the war closed and
when the revenue Of the government APP
preached five hundred millions year. Moth
ing in this months statement shows that with
the present enormous expenditures and extra
vagance, and with the reduction of revenue, we
shall not find the Treasury still further behind
and the debt still more augmented at the end
of the fiscal year.
TIE ISLAND OF CUBA.-There was rumor
in Wall street the other day that Secretary
Seward was negotiating with the Spanish revo-
lutionary government for the purchase of the
island Of Cuba. Many rumors start in Wall
street, but not often one that oil could so much
wish true as this 1t is, however, doubtful If
the revolutionary Junta would, with its hands
80 full at home, enter just now on the ques-
tionable proceeding Of selling the last relic in
this hemisphere Of Spanish greatness. The
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