The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-30

The X. G. C.'s are again beginning to be heard
from. General GEORGE Buckley, the Grand Mas
ter Of this mysterious order of agricultural war;
riors has been beating up for recruits in Georgia,
Alabama Louisiana, and Texas, and we are told,
that in those States various lodges have been
organized whose aggregate number of members
reaches many thousands. Scattered throughout
all the Southern States from MAsoNs and DIxoN's
line TO the Mississippi and the Gulf Stream, there
are also, said to be considerable bodies of emf
grants, belonging to affiliated societies, who have
been sedulously preparing themselves to enter
upon their future agricultural career by perfect
ing themselves in military exercises, which, as
everybody ought TO know, form an important
element in the new system of Southern husbandry,
rs expounded by those renowned tlers of the
soil, General WILLIAM WALKER, and his, as yet
less distinguished prototype, General GEORGE
Buckley, G. NJ, X. G. C. The philanthropc OBJ
ject, to which the last mentioned gentleman is
devoting his time and his best energies, is
nothing less than the pacifcation of
Mexico, and were it not for lurking suspicion
that the measures which he is about to adopt for
this purpose not solely inspired by sentiments
of pure benevolence that the sword is to pre-
cede the ughshare-which is not exactly in ac-
cordance with the law of nations or with modern
usages-the mission he has undertaken would
doubtless be hailed everywhere with expressions
of unfeigned qualification. 1t is proper, however,
to state that he claims to act under official author
ity, and by special invitation. Several curious
facts in relation to this matter have recently come
init OIIr 1a1fb do
for their authenticity we regard them as of suffi-
Gent interest to warrant us in making them pub
lie. They are as follows:
Somewhere about the first week in February
last, MANUEL DoBLADo Governor of the Mexican
Department Of Guanajuato, while ON a visit to
New Orleans, entered into negotiations at that
place with General Buckley, which resulted in a
treaty inviting the latter to take with him large
body of X. G. C.'s into the State of Guanaiuato
for the osensible purposes of colonization and set
tlement. This treaty, which was made by Gov
ernor DoBLADo in his official capacity, extends to
those who thus emigrate all the privileges and i'm
munities which the Constitution guarantees to ma
tives IF tho coil II furtha~ e.;,r1o.o- 49, u
member of the organization, on entering the State,
shall receive six hundred and forty acres of land
tain share in large reserved bonus of land, which
is to be subsequently, distributed. To facilitate
the movement, and, earnest of the good
things yet to come, Governor DoBLADo agrees to
pay on demand the sum of 500, 900, the payment
of the same being secured by lien upon the church
property confscated by President JAUREz, and val
ued at twelve millions of dollars. If it should bt
deemed advisable to withdraw the K. G. C.'s from
the peaceful pursuits of agriculture for the purpose
of mastering them into the service Of the STATE
they are to be differed by Americans only, ant
are to receive the same rate of pay which is now
given to the officers composing the regular army
of Mexico. What other engagements besides those
we have noted have been entered into by the higl
contracting parties not able TO state; but there
was, doubtless, a supplementary article attached
TO the compact, which, if known, would be found
like the P. S. of ady's letter, deciously clear
and explicit. This treaty, after being duly signed
and sealed, was still defective in one important
particular-it needed the ratification of JUAREz
The steamer Lndianola-then plying between New
Orleans and the Brazos-was accordingly char
tered, at an expense of two thousand dollars, fol
the express purpose of conveying, by the hands
of special agent, the important document to
Vera Cruz. The understanding was, that the
Indianold would return to New Orleans, bringing
with her the treaty, either sanctioned or rejected
by JUAREz, about the last of February, or during
the early part of the present month; but
when she reached Vera Cruz she was pressed
into the Mexican service, and with the Wave took
part in the action which resulted in the capture Of
MARIN's steamers. The object in seeking to OBJ
tain the consent Of the JUAREz government to the
e agreement entered into with DORADO was Of
course TO place the compact upon national basis,
and-stripping the movement of its agricultural
coloring-to give to those connected with it full
authority to cooperate with the Liberals in estab
fishing them in power at the Capital The Who'll,
project is essentially Southern one; is to be car
ried out-if it be carried out at ALI the inter
est of the South, and derives its chief supper
from Southern capitalists. If We may credit tn,
statements that have been made to us, there are
this time three thousand men in Texas, twenty
two hundred in New Orleans, twelve hundred il
Memphis, and thousands elsewhere, all of whom
are now awaiting orders to march, Where these
various bodies are to be concentrated within The
limits of the UNITED STATES is n secret which is
known only to a few of the more prominent lead
ers; but Tampico has been indicated as the plac,
of debarkation, the distance from thence TO Qua
naiuato the capital of the State of that name being
not much more than three hundred miles.