Year: 1865

. The United States must now have something
like five hundred thousand soldiers in the


field. These men are of the flower and
sinew of the land, trained for four years in
the field of danger and adventure, brave, reso-
lutte and intelligent, and, for the most part
conquerors in some of the most brilliant and
formidable battles recorded in the history of
any nation of the world. In the South there are
perhaps some one hundred and fifty thousand
men, inclusive of the trans-Mississippi army;
but these organized forces will not much
longer continue to exist in a compact form. 1t is
evident that Johnston will speedily follow the
example of Lee and surrender, and all the other
rebel leaders will do the same thing. There will
then be no longer any necessity for very large
armies, either North or South, and we must
consequently reduce the immense number of
men that we will have on hand. The question
therefore suggests itself: What will the vast
bulk Of the armies of the United States do? It
Is certain that many thousands Of our soldiers
will never again return into private life. After
four Years of continuous active service they
have become SO Injured to the danger and
excitement of military life that the placid and
monotonous routine of their former occupa-
tions will no longer have any attraction for
them. They will still cling to the idea of an
adventurous career; and wherever an oppor-


tunity offers for the qualification of such
desire, they will not fail to profit by It.


Under these circumstances it would in no
way surprise us if, within the next six
months, strong tide of emigration should set
in for Mexico and Canada. The greater por-
ton of our army being set free, one hundred
thousand men of the North and South-the best
fighting material in the world-might readily
and easily find their way into Mexico, while
fifty thousand more could emigrate to Canada.
That organizations will be found to manage
and superintend this emigration of Northern
and Southern soldiers in the proper way is, of
course, to be expected. There Is no doubt that
such strong force of military emigrants into
Mexico at about this time would be both useful
and profitable to that country. President
Juarez, of the constitutional republican govern
ment, would be glad to welcome them, and by
little persuasion some of the veterans of a
hundred battle fields might be induced to take
service in the liberal army. Upon the princi-
pies of international law and ofnon-intervention
recognized and endorsed by England and
France, this would be all correct, and our gov
ernment would have no direct right to inter-
fere. President Juarez could then send On
commission to New York to negotiate loan of
ten millions Of dollars in Wall street. and we
hot ho fhata in
less than fortnight. This would also be in
accordance with the International law and nom
Intervention principles recognized by England
and France; for during the rebellion the rebels
sent agents to both Of these countries and openly
negotiated and obtained loans there. If there
was no objection to this proceeding on the
part Of the Southern rebels, there can be much
less to similar course on the part Of the regu-
larly elected President of q neighboring re-
public. The transaction would be perfectly
lawful one, 80 far as we are concerned.


As for the fifty thousand men that will emf
CRATE to Canada, they will find plenty there to
occupy their time and experiences; and as rebel
raids from the Canadian borders upon our ter
ritory have never been objected to by the Brit
ish authorities, they will surely not interpose
any objection to the immigration from this side of
robust body Of vigorous men, well trained in
the art Of war, who may be very useful in that
colony. In this way we may do great ser
vice both to France and England, In considers
ton of their extreme kindness to us during the
tremendous struggle now closing, in allowing
privateers, rams and war vessels TO be con-
structed in their ports, manning them, and
sending them out to destroy our merchant COM
merce. The operations Of these large bodies
of military emigrants in Mexico and Canada
would Of course be strongly in favor Of repub-
lican principles, and would be but the begin
ming of the realization of the prophecy OF the
first Napoleon, that in fifty years all Europe
would be either republican or Cossack. Amer
lea must first be thoroughly republican, and
then Europe will surely follow.


MUNIFICENcE OF A MrLLIoNAIRE-Only few
days ago the whole sum collected for the mon
ument to Shakspere amounted to seventeen
thousand dollars. Twenty thousand dollars
was the sum that II was understood must be
raised before the monument even went so far
as to be drawn in plan on paper, and the dis
tance between seventeen thousand and twenty
thousand yawned like an impassable gulf to
the friends Of the monument Three thousand
dollars, as Mr.. Single would say, "is great
deal Of money" especially to actors and
authors, and the commencement Of this labor


of love was still great way in the future, to


all appearance. But at this point Mr. Hackett,


q man Of happy ideas, called upon millionaire


Of the city-Oommodore Vanderbilt-a man,


like Shaksperes Henry, "ripe for exploits and


mighty enterprises" He stated the case to the
Commodore as we have stated II here, only that,


being man Of "plenteous wit and invention"


he stated II better, Of course and the Commo-


dore, in burst Of enthusiasm, put down his
name for the three thousand dollars. So the
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