The New York Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1865, Page 4

a dreds have already pisced their names on the becks ‘The Mexican General Ortega, who is understood to be at the head of the enterprise, is reprosented as highly de- lighted at the successful manner in which his plans are being prosecuted. He yesterday left this city for Wash- ington, to be absent about a week, to altend, as is sup- ~ posed, to oficial business there in furtherance of this “ grand cmigration scheme. It is reported that large sums CreeaE SF: CORNED OF FULTON AMD BARBAU OTS. | Oy Loney to forward 1 Lave béeh subscetbed tu''the West, and that twenty-five thousand mem are to be raised there, to be commanded by General Rosecrans, NEW YORK JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Volume XXX by addreasos, The Treasurer's report shows the income for the past year to have been $26,261 48, and the ex- Penditure an cqual amount, The anniversary of the American Frecdmon's Aid Union was held last ovening in the Cooper Institute. Speeches were delivered by Judge Bead, of Baltimore; Sohn Jay and Frederick Douglass. Early yesterday morning as fireman, named Michael Wogan, was hurrying through Columbia street, near De- lancey, toa fire in the neighborhood, he was suddeuly = = | and that it is highly probable that when all the different | assaulted by two men who sprang vpow hit from « dark Now York, Wednesday, May 10, 1865. divisions of the expedition arrive in Sonora he will be | alloy. Wogan succeeded in defending himsel! until the — ==. = | made commander -in-chief. Police come to resen®, when one of his alleged aa ’ ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY: In connection with our accounts of the Mexican emi- | sai! ho gave lis name as Daniel Clark, was ar- gration movement, we publish this morning also some exceedingly interesting correspondence which passed in im before ton o'clo:k every Weduoaday evening. Ite cir- | the latter part of last year and the carty part of the pre culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, | S¢Bt between Seftor Romero, the Mexican Ministor in morohants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the | Washington, and Seilor de Tejada, Prosident Juarez’s country i# increasing vory rapidly. Advertisements in- | STetary of State, It relates to the enlistment in Bel- sorted in the Werxty Hxkatp will thua be seon byra large |S, With the alleged connivanc@of the government of portion of the active and energotig poople of the United | ‘Mat country, of men to form Maxinmilian’s Foreign Le- Biase: gion, designed to assist in the altempt to destroy the Mexican republic, and to a visit which the Mexican General Doblado and Sefior Romero paid to the Army of the Potomac in October, 1864, Seftor Romero states that President Jobnsom has issued an official order for the | 119 was assured on that ‘ontasion, by various high officers restoration of national authority over Virginia, declaring | of that army, that they should not consider their work ‘null and void all acts and proceedings under the late | accomplished until the European intruders had been driven out of Mexico, and thet it appeared to be the Tebet rule; end ‘recognising Governor Plerpont a6 the |. atmous wish of both officers and men to continue and Legal Executive of the Stato, terminate, there the campaign which had been com- Tho President bas issued proclamation em- | menced here. é Joining upon sil military, maval and civil of- The steamship City Advortisoments for the Weexty Heratp must be handed THE SITUATION. of Manctiester, Captain Halcrow, of the Inman line, arrived at this port hav- Comm Of the government, in consideration of the » port yortendag, bev: pO hie fi a img left Liverpool on the ‘26ih and Queenstown on the rebellion i¢ now ended, additional | ah uli, She brought 773 passengers. The London Giligeaos im efforta to capture the remaining rebel | Shipping Garelte of the 26th ult. says:—‘The turn which \Oruivors afloat. Hoe also says that if, after this proolams- affairs in America have taken has naturally exercised its {tou shalt become known in foreign ports, these eruisers influence on the value of United States bonds, and those : German speculators who invested in these securities are eoeive: howpitality there, proper retaliatory measures | now disposing of them at a handsoise profit. The Lon- ‘wilh ‘be resorted to-against the ships of those nations don Times duly notices this fact, which comes ase cu- ‘whieh extend such hospitality to these piratical vessels. | Tous sequel to the repeated and earnest warnings whieh Another Cabinet meoting of several hours’ duration | ‘Pt Jowrnal addressed to” Germans and others against reste il tain, : Mr. Joseph Ketcham, Jr., was re-elected Fire Commis- sioner > Western district of Brooklyn last ovoning by tho unanimous choice of the Convention, A merchant of Guilford, Connecticut, named A. C. Eggleston, was shot and mortally wounded in that town on last Monday evening by a young man named Andrew Knowles, who, after committing the act, escaped. There 1s gaid to have been a difficulty between the two mon in consequence of Knowles paying attention to a sl,\cr in- law of Eggleston. ‘The stock market was unsettled and lower yesterday. Gold was weak, and closed at 136%, after selling down to 186%. Governments were frm. The “tamble down’! in gold and the rain storm com- bined had the effect of completely unsettling the mor- chandise markets yesterday, and of rendering prices of nearly all kinds of merchandise nominal. The transac- tions were generally at some concession from Monday's prices, Cotton was less active’ and 130. per Ib. lower. Petroleum was firm and more active, Groceries were lower, On ’Change flour was quite active, but 10c. lower, ‘Wheat was nominally lc. s 20, lower, while corn declined 20. 3c., with.npthing.doing. Oste were in limited de- mand and $6880; lower, Pork was heavy, with, how- over, a fairdemand,, Beef was steady, while lard was firm bat quiet,” Freighte were dull and mtes were en- tirely nominal, Whiskey declined }ic., with a limited business transacted. sie Beef cattle were again lower this week, under the in- ‘The other esexpod, Clark was committed for ook place yesterday, wton of trade was arrived at. | ‘The court for the trial of the Washington assassination oonspiratora convened yesterday. Notwithstanding the ‘@atoments that the proceedings would be publie, their Commencement was yesterday conducted with closed having anything to do with American bonds.” im which thé subjects of anexten: | Havans advices of the 8d inst, give us later Mexican facilities in the, Southern States, recon- | news of interest. Previous reports of Cortina, with a @truction and negre suffrage were ali under considera- tion; bat no definite settlement of either of the matters foree of yepublicans, being im the vicinity of Matamoros, with the design of eapturing ta place, are confirmed. The Moniter of that town says that despatches have been received by Genera? Mejia, the imporial commander there, from Marshal Bazaine, and that the French gov- ernment has transpertation ready to carry eighty thou- sand troops to Mexico, who will be sent over on the first intimation that the country is to be imvaded from the United States, The war between the republicansand doors, “We are therefore without much intelHgence ag | the imperialists stil! continues im various Statee, and to what was done. The pridoners were arraigned, and, ‘on being asked to name their counsel, Harold, Atzerot, in, Mudd and Mrs, Sur. Tat gave the names of the gontlemen whom they ad selected. The other prisoncrs expressed no choice. A’Now Orloans despatch states that Montgomery, Ala.; + was occupied on the 25th ult. by General Andrew Jackeon Smith, and Selma, Ala., on the 27th ult, by General Stool, Bot thewe places were captured a few weoks ago by the Union General Wilson, during his grand cavalry raid through Alabama; but probably when ho moved off custward into Georgia some detachments of straggling rebols came in again and took possession, for of plundering the inhabitants, the purpos Both General Smith's and General Steele's com ls, being the Six teenth and Seventh army corps, took part in the siege of Mobile; and, now Liat their services are no longer needed there, thoy appear to be loking after the seuttered bands Of rebels'in the country to the northward of that city. A Washington telegram in yesterday's Hewsup ‘an- nounced that the government had intelligence of the Guerender of the rebel Genoral Dick Taylor's army to Gonerai Canby, on-the same terms as those accorded to Lee and Johnston by Genord!s Grant and Sherman. ‘A Now Orleans despatch: of the taut states that Gene- Fals Canby and Taylor mot miles from Mobile, ‘when nogotiations were opened, and that Taylor was allowed some days to decide; bui it was believed that he nally acceded to the terms offered. The streets of the Inte rebel capital were on Saturday last tho scone of a magniticent and inspiriting military pageant, illnstrative of the power and grandeur of our great republic and the valor and {ndomitable per- severonce of its voluntary defenders. ‘wo corps of the Army of the Potomac—the Second and Fifth—on that day enjoyed the highly appreciated privilege of march- ing through the city towards the capture of which thelr bravo efforts for four yours had been directed, on their triumphal route to Washington. The Second and Fifth corps were received in Richmond by the Twenty-fourth corps, and the moving column pre- wented a splenaid array of fifty thousand men, whose Btoady lines, faultless marching, bright bayonets glisten- ing in the sunlight, battle torn-and war stained flags, and il the paraphernalia of a great army, formed a spectacle Not soon to be forgotten by beholders. Graphic descrip- tions are given by our correspondents, It is expected that the march from Richmond to Washington will occupy about ten or twelve days, The Fourteenth and Seventeenth corps, of Goneral Sherman's army, arrived at Manchester, on the James river, opposite Richmond, from Raleigh, on last Monday. The Henan correspondents in North Carolina furnish @Aditional interesting particulars regarding the final dis- Dandmont of Joe Johnston's rebel army. They showa {ermination to this once puivsant wing of the rebel mili- tary power which must prosgnt a sight most melancholy @nd lamentable in the cyes of all adherents of the Jately proud and defiant “confederacy.” The rebol troops left Greensboro for their various homes in a state of the most complete de- fmorat zation, nearly all control over them seeming to be Jost hy thvir officers, Genera! Johnston's farewell order Waa asuod on the 27th vit, About ono Itundred and fifty rebels, lately belonging to (he command of Major Cooper, surrendered to General Banborn, at Springfield, Missouri, on last Saturday, and took the oath of allegiance to the goverument Of the rebel Goneral Price's men are also coming in, bur- rendering and taking the oath. ‘Au important order was received yesterday by Collee- Numbers successes for both sides are reported. It is announced that the imperialists have taken possession of the town of Guaymas, in Sonora, as well as some other places in the Pacific States of the republic. Dr. Gwin recently passed through Havana on his return to Mexico. We have received the Hamilton, Bermuda, Mirror of the 26th of April; but it contains nothing of importance, It terms the news of the rebel General Leo's surrender “unwelcome intelligence,” and says:—“We await with anxiety farther results of this sad termination of a noble cause.” A Baltimore despatch of yesterday announced that the French steamer Le Forfalt, from Vera Cruz, having on board the new French Minister to Washington, Marquis Montholon, was below that city, and was expected to arrive up during the day. it was understood that M. Montholon would proceed immodiately to Washington, On Monday {ast Lieutenant Commander Budd, of the Florida, delivered over to G Dix Captain Reed and | the officers of: the late rebel ram Webb, and they have been sent on to Fort Warren for safe keeping. Omef Engineer Decker, of the New York Fire Depart- ment, takes occasion to assure the public, in ® communi- tion which we poblish this morning, that no xpprehen- sions need be entertained of any disorder or peril to properly growing out of the litigation to test the consti- tutionality of the act establishing a paid department in (thie city, He says thatywhiie tho mater remains ‘unde- ‘cided the members of tho. prevent department wil! con- [tinue to perform their duties the same as they have here- tofore done, and all the workings of the organlzation will proceed tho samo as jf the act in question had not been passed, “If, Maly, the courts. should decide the enaet- ment to be valid, be assures us that the force under bis direction will quietly disband, and that thé fire property of the city will be han.Jed over to the new Commissioners without hesitation. A meeting of the Boord of Representatives of the Fire Department was held Inst evening at Firemen’s Hall to elect acommissioncr to fill the vacancy occasioned by the expiration of the term of Thomas Flenders, when Mr, Flenders was re-clected, receiving one hundred and twelve votes. out of one hundred and eixty-eight cast. The case of versus Oliver Charlick, where there was such remarkable conflict of testimony, was concluded yesterday before Judge Brady, in the Court of Common Fleas, The jury rendred a verdict for the defendant. The United States Courts adjourned yesterday without dotng any business, for the purpose of attending the funeral of the Inte Commissioner, George W. Morton The trial of the alleged will of Mrs. Lucy P. Hewell, deceased, which has occupied the Surrogate’* Court for nearly # month, was concluded and submitted for deci- sion yesterday, The estate of Mre. Howell i valued at some forty thousand dollars, and the will was advocated by certain religious societies of the Presbyterian chureh, who are benefiwiarics under it, and opposed by the daughter of the deceased, who is entirely cut off by it, The jury in the case of Hiland A. Main, tried on Mon- day in the Court of General Sessions for the homicide of Edward Brennan, rendered a verdict yesterday of man- Slaughter in the fourth degree, with a strong recom- mendation to mercy. Judge Russel remanded tho prisoner for remtence. The thirty-second anniversary of the American Anti- Slavery Society took place yesterday in the Church of the Puritans, Union square, There was a session in the forenoon and another in the afternoon. The exercises in the morning consisted of prayer and singing, and specches by Wendell Phillips, George Thompson, Lloyd Garrison and Mra, Harper, a colored lady. Tn the after- noon Sesion @ resolution was offered by Mr. Garrison to the effect that, the work of the organization being com- pleted by the abolition of slavery throughout the land, the society be dissolved. This was op; iby Mr, Phil lips. The present dissolution of the society 1# also oppored in the, report of the Business Committee, on the ground tliat, as the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery had not yot been ratified by three-fourths of the States, and as thousands of persons are still held in slavery, the work of the abolitionists te not yet com pleted. Without concluding the debate on the eubject | tho meeting adjourned at half-past five o'clock till ten e’clock this morning. Tho twenty-ninth anniversary of the Ameriean Tempo. rance Uniou wae held last evening in Irving Hall, Gover. nor Buckingham, of Connecticut, presiding, The annual reports stated that during the past year fifty thousand temperance journals and over three hundred thousand tor Draper, of this city, from Secretary of the Treasury MeCatloch, It siates that “ihe three por cont fee om goods going to the insurrectiouary States Is abolished, Buch traneportation is hereafter free." > Ym the Harris court martia! in Warhington yerterday pome testimony for the accused was taken, which, how- * @¥ér, ai4 not appear to be of great importance. ‘The Judge Advocate offored in ovidence the orders of General " Granvrelative to the disposition to be made of paroled rebel soldiers. Mr. Harri entered his protent against (ne ‘adtmiesion of military orders as evidence, and the court thon adjourned until to-morrow (Thursday), to give the prisoner time;to prepare his defence ‘An assemblage of about fifteen hundred perrons took piace in Washington last night, at which spoccher wore +» de and resolutions’ adopted designed to prevent the ura Wo the Distrfot of Columbia of former residents o left there at the commencement of the rebellion «| folned the rebel army. An excited debate took place ssolution Warning these men against retugwing to thet , w « +) the Washington City Councils on Monday night over 0 © MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (he Mexican emigration excitement increases. Tlie © \ee for the enrolment of the namos of those desiguing | t+ Join In tho movement, at the corner of Howard and © -caby streets, wae again crowded by applicants yester- day, and two other offices of the same kind will be ope vod im the elty to day Glerged army officer There iva great rush of dis- and to and hem ter nliet, temperance tracts had been circulated among the soldiers | of the national arruies. The death of President Lincoln ately and touchingly referred to during the | proc ngs, and he was instanced av a noble example of the principies of temperance, | An ageemblage of the advocates of total abstinence | from all intoxicating beverages, including fepresenta- | Lives from several Siates, took place yesterday afternoon, was appr in the Presbyterian church on the corner of Fourteenth } street and Second avenue. The Rev, Dr, Marsh presided. | A preamble and resolutions were adopted to the effect | that, onr civil war being now ended, opportumity is | afforded for the friends of reform to give more attention | to the various classes of evil afflicting society, and that therefore temperance ten throughout the country be urged to renew thelr efforts in opposition to Indulgence in strong dripke, Cornmitiees for several States wore appointed, and & call was agreed upon for a national temperance convention to weet at Swratega Springs on | the Ist of August noxt. The twenty-ninth aniversary exhibition of the Insti- tution for the Blind wes held yesterday afternoon in | irving Hull. The exerciees were such as to reflect the highest credit upon aM concerned, proving that the pupils were recolving admirable care and an exoeltent education, ‘The report shows that there are one hundred | and thirty pupils in the Institution, and that the entire cost for education, support and clething for the year » | amounted only to thirty-eeven thousand fye huvdred fuente of Iberal receipts and ® moderate demand. Prices varied from 10c. to'20e. a 31¢,, with now and then a choice steer at 22c.; but hardly any sold over 20. ‘The greater proportion of the offeringa/sold at 15c. a 19¢., with the average at about 1030, Milch cows varied from $40 to $70.0 $008 $190 for choice. Veals were heavy 8% 6c. ® Io, a 120; bobs, $160.8 $2.50 each. Bheep and lambs were lower, selling at $6.2 $9 a $10. Hogs Were dull at 10¢. 0 103¢0. The total receipts were 4,711 10,906 hogs, The Southern Rebellion and Southern State Rights—The Demecratic Party. Jobn C. Calhoun, the great secession apostle of South Carolina, it is generally supposed, sowed the dragon’s teeth of State rights, as ex- pounded by the Southern demoéracy, which, in 1861, sprouted up in the form of the armed legions of the late rebellion, But we must go back tothe very organization of the national Deever, 88 cows, 1,891 veals, 11,016 sheep and lambs and | NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1865. Wm. B. Dodge and other spenkers varied the programme | Madison and the olf republican party on the | Ove Rerummp Hunoas—Psoviwn on THs and that finished the old federul | Disaptep Soxs oF Tum Coowray—The United war of 1612, party. It was twenty years after this that Jobn | States Congress at its last scasion passed a bill C. Calhoun, a defeated and _ dential candidate, tried the rights in his famous South Presi- | for the incorporation of # Soldiers’ Home, for nent of State the establishment of which one million of dol- nullification | lars is necessary. The Legislature of this State and disunion campaign against General Jack- | made similar provision for a Soldiers’ Home, son. But Old Hickory throttled his adversary | with anothet set of corporaters. We slsohave| More Particulars Relative to on the spot and mastered him. This was on | had our own project for making the soldiérs oom- the tariff question, Next, changing bis tactics | fortable after they shall have laid down their’ to the slavery .question, Calhoun, by his arms, and the Sanitary Commission proposes in insidious instructions, though _profitless | its own way the establishment of Sanitaria, for to himself, succeeded in diverting at | the double purpose of helping the soldiers and last, through its dictatorial’ Southern | perpetuating its own existence as an institution leadors, the national democratic party to | useful to clergymen and otbers. its destruction, on this old exploded heresy Tt thas appears that there is an abundant of State righta; and succeeded, too, in divert- | disposition to take care that aoldiers unfitted ing the bulk of the Southern States, for the pro- | for the pursuits of civil life, or disabled by | tion’ movement scomed robe on the Increase yesteniay. teotion and extension of slavery, to'the revolu- | wounds or disease, shall not euffer on account | Tho hoadquarters of Colonel Wm. H. Allon, corner of of the sacrific@ they have made for the cause | Howard and Crosby streets, wore bosiegst through tionary experiment of a Southern confederacy, Four years of terrible war have followed, and | of the country. It is not necessary to stimulate what is the grand result? The Southerademo- | the people to do what is requisite in thie matter. | terca thoir names 6a the enrolment books, Among the cratic doctrines of State rights, State sove- | It is only necessary to discriminate as to what | applicants yosterday were numbers of pailors and other reignty, nullification and secession, the Copper- | it is most wise to do, Two things ‘appear to be | persons who have seen service im the United States navy. head Northern. democracy and their Chicago | good and necessary. One is the Soldiers’ Home; platforms, the dictatorial slaveholding Southern | the other the plan suggested by us, for the em- oligarchy, slavery, Jeff. Davis and his Southern-| ployment of returned soldiers in all positions that confederacy have been torn out by the roots... | they are fitted for. Let the Sanitary Com-.| it will be necessary doubtlces for Col nei Aller to- The destructive dogmas: and. blood; end of the Jacobins, of Complicity of Belgium tn the Invasion: The relations between . Belgium ‘and the re- public of Mexico—and ‘also the United States— have been always of the most friendly and cor.| ©: diel character. No questions of difference or causes of complaint. have ever arisen between the two countries, In 1861 the King of Belgium accredited a minister to the government of President Juarez, and in 1862 9 treaty of the most liberal charac- ter, and based upon the most advantageous terms, was concluded. Nothing up to that time had occurred on the part of the people or the government of Mexico to give the slightest cause of offence to the people or to the King of Belgium; nor has anything been done since that time by the people or the government of Mexico to change those relations. Yet to-day we witness the fact that armed forces, openly enlisted and despatched without hindrance from Belgium, composed of officers who atill bold their‘ rank and position in the | Belgian army, and of soldiers who still retain government to find the beginning of Calhoun’s revolutionary heresies. There was an active | and radical State sovereignty party in the con- vention which framed the federal constitution; but it was overcome by the conservatives of that day, with Washington at their head. The | constitution, as adopted, vested the paramount and supreme national sovereignty in the United States as the work, not of the several States, | each in the capacity of a sovereignty, but as the work of “we' the people of the United States,” in one body, as a nation. Defeated in the convention, the State rights radicals trans ferred their battle to the States, and in several cases, afier adopting the constitution, they put their own interpretation upon it in the form of | State rights resolutions, “ ' Thus, for example, under the lend of Thomas. Jefferson, the old republican party, from which their citizenship as Belgian subjects, are now in Moxico engaged in making war upon the legitimate and rightful government of that country—recognized and honored as such by the United States—and in shedding the blood of a people whose only offence is that they are defending the free institutions and the inde- | pendence of their native land. Stripped of all sophistry, this is to-day the posi‘ion Belgium occupies towards Mexico, and, we have a rigitt | to add, towards the United States. et If Belgium has no cause of complaint against Mexico, what right has she to make war upon | that country? And, in any case, what. right, has she to interfere in'the’civil war now in'progress | there? The position of Maximilian, as'the son- | in-law of the King of Delgium, confers no | right, at least in this age of fhe world. Wars are, not now made for the benefit of individuals; | the latter day democratic party claims) ite origin, passed, in the Virginia Legislature of 1798 and ’99, those famous resolutions of State sovereignty which the democratic leaders have taught their followers to accept as, the authori- tative interpretation of the constitution. In fact, however, that ipse dixit of the Virginia Legislature was a mere: party declaration and nothing more. But against John Adams— known as the elder Adams—and the federal party, that platform of State rights served the purpose of a hobby horse to carry Jefferson into the Presidency, in connection with the division of parties on the French Robespierrean republic. Jefferson and bis party sided with the French republicans and their platform of | “Liberty, equality and fraternity,” while the’ federal party stood out indignantly hostile to the horrible principles and atrocities of the Fregeh Jacobins. This attitude of the federal | party put them on the side of England, and | thus, with their alien and sedition laws, it be- came an easy matter toshow that their sympa- thies were against republican institutions, and theirultimate purpose the establishment of a monarchy. e We have before us a copy of the Virginia Gazette and Petersburg Intelligencer of Friday, February 8, 1799, recently brought to us by a gentleman as a relic from Petersburg, which strongly supports us in this view of the subject, and which shows that the Southern democratic cry of State rights or disanion was familiar to the public ear even at that early day. The whole of the first page (four columns) of this ancient federal newspaper is devoted to an exciting appeal to the Virginions against Jeffer- son, his party, and their destructive Fyench | athcistical, revolutionary and demoralizing | principles. In the course of this philippic ihe writer breaks out, “Who are the villifers of our government ? (the government under John: | Adams.) Are they not the adorers of France t | If the adorers of France (Jacobin France) shall obtain the rule, there no reason to fear they will imitate all the horrible enormities of their prototype? Yes, there is danger. We shall have civil wars (mark that prediction of sixty-six years ago); what is worse, in Virginia we shall be deso- lated by servile insurrections (the slavery trou- ble even then wasteoming up a ghastly spectre) and wars; for to all these calamities do’ French principles lead.” In the closing para- graph of this remarkable political appeal we find these words:—“Yes, fellow citizens, if you wish to remain united to your sister States, choose men te represent you, both in Congress and your State Legislature, known to be firmly attached to the federal government.” But if they are in favor of tion, then, says the writer (1799), “It wilt be the duty ofevery honest éitizen either to ‘scquiesce in the will of the majority of the Styites, and adhere to the Union, or to attach himself to that party in the State who think that happiness and their best interests oan only be obtained by disunion.” Thus while Washington was still in the land of the living State rights or disunion had en- tered into our Presidential politics, Jefferson was elected, and his radical State rights notions having served their purpose, he dropped is | sume the position of chief defender of Maxi- | | policy than that no European intervention can | the King alone, to bave been drawn into. a | confederacy, is- almost the only one of them } position which may prove not only very em- | it fs'the interest of the people that is to be con- sulted, Nor is there any excuse for this inter- | ve to be found in the interests of Belgium. | mtrary, Belgium-has been supposed to | be a Power whose ‘interests clearly dictated/s | policy of uniform neuirality, We do not im- | agine that King Leopold can contemplate an ex- | ception io this rule in a case where the United | States may possibly be drawn in to. be a party, | or that he can desire that Belgium should as- | milian in Mexico, particularly after the United States has successfully emerged: from a vital struggle inwhich no principle has been found | to be a more necessary part of its foreign be permitted in the civil wars on this. con- tinent. It is, therefore, a source of the greatest sur- | prise that so prudent a people as the Belgians should have allowed themselves, simply on account of private relationships personal to barrassing, but even dangerons.. We pub- | lish this morning some official correspon- dence between the Mexican Minister and his government, in which the feelings of the Mexican government with regard to this matter are shown, and which also shows that the: sub- ject has excited grave debate in the Belgian | legislative chambers, and is the source of | serious apprehensions in the: minds of intelli- gent writers in that country. Should Prosident Juarez, a little later, choose to retaliate, he will lave it in his power, perhaps, to infliet as serious damage upon Belgian commerce as has been inflicted upon that of the United States. by the privateers which have been fitted ont in Eng- land, only in this case President Juarez will have the advantage that his privateers. gill be those of a lawful, legitimate and recognized government. | In fact the only safe course for foreign nations is to withdraw their forces entirely from Mexieo. The principle upon whieh they are thare is unsound; and if Maximiliae cannot safely rely upon his own subjects, the Mexicans, tor support, then it is the best evidence in the | world that the people of Mexico desire neither | to adopt an imperial form of goverament, nor } to have an Austrian to rule over them, a ly instrac- | mission give tions handed down from the French Jacobin,| large charity clab to, Jeff Davis. have. resulted in. the'| institution would draw in that direction be de- n.af President Lincoln; but itis the | voted to raising the million of dollars necessary | plained away. ) Wividual subscriptions, makiag up portions of the above ita Sanitaria, and let the t the machinery of the to establish the Home incorporated by Con- gress, Here is » fair field for philanthropic effort. If the men and women who really wish to help disabled soldiers will take this subject up earnestly they can raise the money with All soldiers absolutely dieabled, who must be supported by some one, and have no | friends able or willing to support them, would be cared’ tor at the Home.: But this description will cover a marvellously small proportion of | the soldiers. Far the larger’ iiumber is to be previded for in the other way. The plan that we suggest for the benefit of these men is prac- tical, and can be applied at once. Moreover, it will be applied at once, if the press and the people will only take it up with sufficient spirit and urge it upon the govrnment as a line of conduct that is necessary. Let every one of the offices that we have been accnstomed to see emptied every four years for the benefit of politi- | cal partisans be now emptied for the benefit of | the men who have saved the country. This | will make suitable provision for all who are | unable to support themselves by legitimate business; and proper agitation will insure the adoption of the plan. But this line of conduct need not be confined to the government. It should be observed by private individuals as well. Merchatits. who need clerks should remember to prefer the re- turned soldier, ceriainly whenever he can serye them as well as another, and the immense number of esiablishments thatempley persons in sedentary oceupations should be filled with | the half worn out heroes, while the present oc- cupants are turned out to more active pursuiis. By a stent adherence to this plan all will be able to earn their ving, and no soldier of the United States need ever “beg his bread through realms hie valor saved.” A Granp Coxcress or Nations.—Europe, alarmed at the strength of the rennited States, would be only too glad to aceept President Johnson’s invitation to an international con- gress. The Mexican question, the Canada question, the Italian question, the Pelish ques- tion. the Pope of Rome question, and all the questions which vex beth continents could be settied in that eongress without any trodble. Let President Johnson make the preposition, Mexican Ewrcration.—The French organ in this city makes a great deal of fuss about the proposed emigration of our soldiers to Mexico. But it is difficult to see what our government has to do with it, since Americans have the right to emigrate when and where they like. It is still more difficult to see how France ean object to it, until such little matters as the re- | fitting and recruiting of rebel pirates are ex- | Bangrvrr Resers.—All the leading rebel | generals are bankrupt. Union officers: are lending them money to get home. Kirby Smith, who thought more of cotton than ef the who has any means. As for Jeff. Davis, he and his specie are im danger of capture.. Loyalty is the best policy, even in a business pceimt of view. Tue Granp Review.—There will be @ great rush to Washington to witness the grand re- view of our vetcran armies. The regiments from this State onght to march in precession through broadway, and be reviewed at tho Park. Many of our people have gone through this long war without ever seeing an army. Personal Int Mees Bishop Stuypson, in his funeral. oration over the re- mains of Mr. Lincoln, alluded tothe Hon, John Bell as having “miserably perished.” It appears, however, that Mr. Rell i# not dead, but is still a refugee in Northern | Alabama, and Governor Browalow says ii.a letter fo his | paper that he has written him. to. como home, assuring | him that le will not be molested. Sale of Seven irty Bonds, Procaprerma, May 9, 1865. Jay Cooke reports the subscriptions today to the sever thirty loan at $15,166,300. The largest single Wost- ogn subscriptions were $280,000 from the Second National Bank of Chicago, and $200,000 from the Fourth Na- tional Bank of Cincinnati, “The largest Eastern subscrip- tionwore:—From Fisk & Hatoh, of New York, $3,069,- 400; from H. Clews & Co,, $1,000,000; from the Second . National Bank of Boston, $400,000. The number of in- ageregate, was 10,617. The subscriptions included ‘Tae Conpirion or Tae Sovrummn Prorur— Read our despatehes from. day to day giving _ accounts of what our army correspondents see of the Southern people, The government may obtain many valuable bints from these letters. They show that the Seuth has been crushed by ® military despotism; that the hearts of the people were never enlisted in this war, and that the Southerners will avenge themselves upon the leaders of the rebellion if they are allowed tho privilege. . Juvv. Davis Trarrep.—Onr last advices leave Jeff. Davis at Washington, Georgia, surrounded ‘by Stoneman’s cavalry. We hope that the one hundred thousand dollars reward will have to be divided among Stoneman’s men. Recoxsravcrion.— There un be no difficulty dollars, showing a enecessful working of the iuternat ar | them——he dropped the electioneering radical | about reconstructing the Union. The Sonthorn | cgvogge er tyletseerg ge 9 > ion demagogue and became the conservative | people are all anxious to come back, Southern ait hel jetioror big f soli idee. . trent te | Statoaman, Strangely enongh this heresy of | merchants are alrewly arriving here to pay off hundred and fifty of the children of the institntion on. | Stvte rights waa next taken up by the old fode- | their old dobta Throw opon the South to fertained the ler out with stogag, whligy val party, in the Tlartford Convention, againat ? trade, and commerce will do the reat $1,300,000 from Philadelphia, $600,000'from Washing: ton and $375,000 from the Firet National Bank of Balti- more. The subscriptions of $5,009,400 by the New York banking house of Fisk & Hatch made a’sensation in those circles of Philadelphia finance which the news reached before evening. Thejg telegram was tp these words:— Nhe pe New ¥ May 0, 1865. MO aod ‘gy pty our new office, No. 6 mapas ey Order for us five Choctaws, Alexander, and ninoty-four hundred (9,400) seven-thirties. “Choctaws,”’ in seven-thirty cipher, means mitlions, and ‘Alexander’ means fifty thousand. The total order, therefore, was for $6,080,400. Fisk & Hatch are en- tilled to the crodit of having made the largest single subscription ever made to @ government loan in thy THE MEXICAN EMIGRATION. THE RUMORS ABOUT THE MOVEMENT, the Expedition. General Ortega Called to Washington, se, &e., Tho excitement respecting the new Mexican “emigra- ae. out the entire day with ayplicanis cage? to join im the movement, aud hundreds of stalwart son regis’ ‘The rush of dixcharged soldiers and army officers:te joim in the expedition was periectiy surpriaing.. The enrot- ment clerks were kept busy, and if the coud siasm that has becn exeited continues much loager, establish branch offices in various parts of the city. The success of this quict app-al fo the American public, it is saxd, has astounded the agente of President Juarez, whe? had no idea when they commenced operat ons here thas the response would be so overwhelming. General Orte-- a, it is stated, expresses hims»li as immensely. satisfied over the manner in which his plang ere workin:, and ap- prehends no serious obstacles to the triumphal issue of the expedition, ? GENERAL ORTEGA CALLED TO WASHINGTON. tis, not deemed prudent, however, to divulge the plan in all its details as yet, a final agreement with the | authorities at Washington not having yet been arrived at. General Ortega received a despatch yesterday from Washington, requesting his presence in that city'imme- diately, on ‘Important basine's, The swmmons is ‘be-- lieved to have ro‘erence to the emigration scheme, and itis ramored that our government desires to have an ‘explicit understanding with the Mexican: Mipister and General Ortega on the subject. The prinetpat diMoulty in the way is the supposed cession of Sonorw to France by Maximilian. General Ortega will probadly mot returm to this city until the middle of next week. THY LEADERS AND SYMPATHIZERS, ‘At the head of the military part of the expedition im this country no loss a person than Major Gonenal Rogs- crans is mentioned. He is said to be using all td influ- ence and interest in favor of the project, ant! premises |. to raise twenty-five thousaud men in the great West. The intention is to prefer him the positionof com- mander-in-chiet of the forces when collected to- gether, on the plains of @ouora. Large sums of money have been contributed, it is said, by wealthy American citizens In the West, and de- posited in various bauks at Cincinnati, Chioago, St. Louis, and other cities in that region. According as cireurnstanees may require, this y will be drawn. for the parpose of fitting out recvuits with clothing, arma, provisions, &¢. STEAMERS ANU WAR VESSELS TO BE PURCHAS: As soon as sufficient f nds arrive from Mexico it 1s:the intention of General gato purchase four large, mor- chant steamers for transportation purposes, and a féwe sloops of war for use in shallow waters, as a protection. to the a ‘Two of the steamers will be rin on the Atlantic and. two on the Pacific, THE ROUTE OF TOR EMIGRANTS will not be by way of the sea'coast, They will enter ther Mexican territory at Chihuahua, and proceed thence to- their destined permavent quarters in tho district of Sonora. It ws @ part of the plan of Ortega to have all thes emigrants declared Mexicam citizens, invested with allothe privileges and. immu’ nities of natives of the country, but freed from they necessity of swearing off their allegiance io the Cnised States, This shrewd plan will, of course, place it beyond. the power of Maximflian te treat the emigrants ns pirates, Going with tho exprees wish of the constitutional repub- Ifcan party m Mexico, the emigrants, of course, cunt g held as mere adventurers and pirates any mors than Maximilian’s party who went on the invitation of the- notables of Mexico, A MEETING TO-MORROW NIGUT. A meeting of porgons desirous of joining in the move ment will be held (o-morrow night at the Seventy-first regiment armory, over Centre Market, under the auspicus of Colonel Allen, Full information will bo furnished to all at this meeting. ANOTHER EMIGRATION OFFICE, Another association has been formed in this city haw ing for its object the forwarding of emigrants to Mexico, Able-bodied inen, either marriv@ or single, can obtain all necessary information in regard to this matter by apply- ing at either of the offioes-of the association, 144 Second street or 35 Third avenne, where Golonel George 8. Hol- lister, Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Quilfeldt or Major John J. Schiacfer will bo in attendance to answer all Inquiries, These offices will be opened to-day, andall, | whether soldier, sailors or civilians, who desire to gain information as tv Mexico, the means of emigrating there, or of other facts connected therewith will do well to call: and register their names. The above mentioned) officers, it is said, will go out with the first party of Mexican emigrants that leave this. city. TO THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD, New Youre, May 9, 1865. In your editorial article‘of this morning in regard te Mexican emigration, you stated that Colonel Allen ‘ 5 to be asort of general agent under Ortega,” &c Tam authyriged to state that Colonel A. has no authorization, other than the decree of August 11, 1864, for the general encouragement of emigration, which is an authority ee to all parties wiehing te emigrate, and nothing urther. ‘Trusting you will make this correction, T am, with much respect, K. WILSON, ‘Secretary Mexican Emigration Company. Bostox, May 9, 1868. The mails per tte steamship Africa for Liverpool wil close nt 8x o'clock to-morrow (Wednesday) morning, but. she will not sain until about nine o'clock. The Mereantile Library A lation, ‘The forty-fourth annaal meeting of this. assoclatiam was held last evening, in the basement of the library building. Adthough the weather was not by any meana favorable, yet the attendance was comparatively largo. An unusual number of ladies were present, who exhibited considerable interest in the proceedings. The stand was decorated with American flags, and immediately tn its centre was a head and bust of the late President Lin- coin, above which was embroidered tho monogram ‘A. I. Dodworth’s band was fa attendance and’ sup- pited all the musie requiaite for the oecasion. ‘The Treasurer's report was then read, which exhibited the following results:— Receipts... + $29,499 Expendivares 29,402 Balance OMAN. ..s+isscseeeeeeseee seenees $96 ‘After the conclusion of the reading of the Treasurer's report, and immediately after a short interval occupied tho band, followed the reading of the report of the ‘Trustees of Clinton Hall. sof Clinton Hall present the annual fnan- if country. Wartack’s Trmaras.—The most brilliant audience of the season welcomed Mr. Wallack’s return to the stage last night, Boxes and parquette wore flied to their ut most extent, and, were resplendent with dainty white bonnets, Tho tribute to Mr. Wallack upon his appear- ance was onthusiastcally warm and oarnest, Mrs. Cent- Uvre's favorite comedy, The Wonder, was played for tho occasion, and ace admirably in ov respect, Mr, Wallack tondered the of Don Felix wi ph! spirit that seemed to indicate his entire recovery from hie rooont ilinsaa, Ho will appoar to-night In How She Loves Him, ya men Ace | it # ‘Vice President-—Petor Voorhis. A. Ravon. Renting Sereary =. V. 8 Boson Treasurer—Jomes W. Kdwards. Directors—Rawin P. Wood, Thomas H. Cullen, Samual B, fivon, H. Lansdale Boardman, Frederok Mo Peale 1 Phomas J. Maguire, Royal Puolps Wilbur