The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-06-15

The New Y ork Tribune, OF Monday last, gave,
what purported to be, the particulars of a new
secret military organization which, under the
general name of X. G. c., or ''Knights of the
Golden Circle" is designed 10 attempt the con-
quest of some neighborng country whose name is
carefully suppressed, or is known only to the in
itiated. The Association is said TO have its Head
Quarters in this city, and to have extended its
ramifcatlons throughout many of the States of the
South and West According to The Tribune,
which draws at least portion of its information
from recent ''work of initiation called
1.-THE central authority seems to be vested in
'War Board composed of a commander-in-chief
land of brigadier-generals, appointed or to be
appointed, one for each of the ten regiments
Prom this Board emanates the selection ofcoloncls
The colonies select their own captains but they
must be commissioned from the central authority
The captains select their own inferior officers
who must, however, be approved by the colonies
1.-THE colonel is also to select for himself lien
''tenant-colonel and two majors and the four
together are to agree upon some suitable person
''for a brigadier-genera to be commissioned and
placed on the general staff. The chief business
of the colonies and their inferior officers appears
'to be, at present, the enlistment of men and the
raising of funds" The grand scale upon which
this new libuStering expedition is TO be gotten M,
may be understood from the fact that it is to be
composed of 1.-TWO legons of ten thousand men
"each," and is to be complete in every depart
ment. One legion, if we are to believe common
rumor, Is to be enlisted in the UNITED STATES
and the other is already in process of formation
in "No. g." which numeral designates
the country whose conquest has been re-
solved upon. Every member of the Association
pays an initiation fee of one dollar, and subscribes
weekly thereafter, the small of ten cents part
of which goes to meet the incidental expenses of
the company, and part the charges incurred by
the Commander-in-Chief in his particular depart
ment. For the purchase of arms, ammunition
&c, scrip is to be- or has been issued in various
amounts, varying from five dollars to one thou
sand and upwards, bearing interest at the rate of
twenty per cent. per annum and redeemable in
coin or in Government lands in 1865 at the Trea-
surers office in the city of Andalusia-wherever
that may be. Thus far we have condensed from
The Tribune To what extent the details it furnishes
are fact or fiction we have not the means of know
ing. 1t is certainly true, however, that rumor,
Tor some time past, has been pointing to the exis-
tence of secret association not only in this city,
but IN other sections of the Union, having for its
oo]ect tilibustering demonstration of an imposing
character, and it has been frequently, though
vaguely minated, that at least one prominent
member of the Cabinent has been approached on
The subject and that his reply in substance was,
that any such expedition would be in direct
violation OF the neutrality laws; but that expert
ehce mas proven that those laws could be success
1uliy evaded. We also, like The Tribune, have
heard 1t lntimated that certain influential members
OF Congress and "Federal ofice-holders', are mar
lies to the league, if not prime movers in it;
out although names are, in some instances, given,
and facts-or what called facts-adduced in
PROOF OF 'hs completely, we have never yet been
satlshed that any of these reports were based upon
rellaole authority. One thing, however, is cer-
min-an attempt is really making to organise a
secret Association for flibustering purposes; but
that the Quarters the Association are in this
city, as The Tribune states, is altogether doubtful
II is more than probable that the organization, if
II exists here at all-and we have heard of some
persons who have been invited to join such an one
takes the humber form of affiliated society.
The mysterious numeral &c., which is employed
Gas symbol for the country in which the Asso-
'claton is intended to operate' signifies
according to The Tribme-Cuba We have
reason, however, to believe otherwise That
pear is a prckly one, and, moreover,
it is not ripe, and if it were ripe,
the bulk of our people are beginning to believe
that it would be difficult to pluck. No the nu-
neral &c" does not mean Cuba; but an adjacent
country of six letters which, when properly put to-
gether, everybody recognises as-Mexico. That is
the destined point of attack perhaps sometime dur
ing the next winter; perhaps during the ensuing
spring, and perhaps not for years yet to
IT. upon question that at present admits of moth
ing but vague speculation, and is therefore thrown
open TO the full exercise of the preeminent Yankee
faculty of guessing we are permitted to
ture conjecture, we should say that the chivalry
OF THE Golden Circle" contemplate making their
hrst raid into Northern Mexico, with a view to
SEEING and holding possession of Chihuahua and
sonora, as a material guarantee for the payment
OF those claims which are alleged to be due by
Mexico to American citizens and in accordance,
though informally, with the course of action which
was recommended to Congress at the commence
ment OF last session, by Mr.. BUCHANAN, but which
recommendation that body declined to adopt
The invasion and conquest of those States by an
army OF hbusters sufficiently large to hold in per-
manence the country they had conquered, would
doubtless have tendency to facilitate negotiations
with JUAREz, for the cession to our government of
those States, which he is otherwise debarred from
alternating under the provisions of the Mexican
!, Constitution 1t is not at all improbable, more
oyer, that the assistance of this irregular and ire
spSRsible force would, on certain conditions, be
tended to the Liberals to enable the latter to put
to rout the Reactionsts in the Central Departments
of Mexico and, with the capture of the Capital to
organise government having in it more of the ell
ements OF stability than any administration subse
quent to 1916, because backed by power sufficient
to punish aggression and to enforce order. This.