The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-09-20
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM NEW YORK.
The Mexiean FilibasteriAg ExpsAfttsA
OF Cen. Lew. Wellaes-PaatFeTn 81 the
Cleveland Convention.
New YoRK. Sept. 10.

New YoRK. Sept. 10.
A Herald Brazos, Santiago, co respondent
says Of General Lew Wallace's Mexican filh>
buster movement: "For some time past
General Starm, of Illinois, Corliss Com
pany, New York, agents for the sale of Mexi-
can bonds, with other parties in New York
and Washington, contracted to supply Cara
vajal with five hundred thousand dollars worth
Of war material A ship load Vas forwarded
and the balance was getting ready for ship
ment. Caravajal had also contracted for
$s5ee0 worth of hospital stores, and the
contractor expected TO realize fabulous profits
The great object Of this supply Of material
Of war and medical stores was the equipment
OF a force of 10000 Americans, who were to
be recruited in New York New Orleans and
other points throughout the United 6tates
Major General Lev Wallace was 10 hare
command OF this force, which was TO concen-
trate at Matamoras previous to the advance
into the interior This force was to fight fox
the Mexican Republic against the French.
Upon the arrival of General Wallace At Mat,
amoras be had an interview with General
Cxrvajal. The result was . telegram sent BY
Wallace TO the New Orleans parties to for
ward Immediately FIVE thousand men. The
18th inst. found Caravajal an exile and res
ident of Brownsville. Wallace couutermanded
his order for the FIVE thousand men, and
much disgusted with the change in affairs,
proceeds TO Monterey to zee President
3aurez."
The following 10 the declaration Of princi.
pies adopted by the Cleveland Convention
yesterday:
The Union soldiers and sailors who served
in the army aud navy Of the United States in
the recent war for the suppression of in
Eurrection, the maintenance of the Constitu-
al. IL. a -f Al
Union, grateful to Almighty God for His
preservation of them through the perils and
hardships of war, and for His mercy in crown
ing their efforts with victory, freedom and
peace, deploring the absence from their
midst of many brave and faithful comrades
who bad sealed with their life's blood their
devotion to the sacred cause Of American
nationality and determined now, "a hereto
fore, TO stand. by the principles for which
their glorious dead have fallen, and by which
the Survivors have triurnphed, being assem>
bIed in National Mass Convention in the
city Of Cleveland. Ohio, this I7th day Of
September. 1866, do resolve and dechre
First, That we hereby approve the resolu>
tions adopted by the National Onion Couyen-
tion held in the city of PhiIadelphia on the
l4th day Of August last. composed of dele
gates representing all the States and Terri
tories of the United States
Second That our object in taking up arms
to suppress the late rsbellion was 70 defend
and maintain the supremacy of the Constitu-
ton and to preserve ths Union with all the
dignity and equal rights Of the several States
unimpsired, and not in any spirit of oppres-
sion nor any purpose of conquest and subju>
cation. and that whenever there shall be any
armed resistance to the lawfully constituted
authority Of our National Union, either in
the South or in the North, in the East o. 10
the West, emulaiing the self sacrificing pa
triotism Of our revolutionary forsfathers, we
will again pledge TO its support our lives, our
= fortunes and our sacred honor.