New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05
RICKLEY, X. G.. C.-MILITARY MIS-
CELLANIES.


We have missed Buckley. Last Summer, he
was engaged in the ponderous undertaking OF
raising ten mions, or twenty millions, or some
such bagatelle, of bullion. Last Summer, his red
eye was fixed fercely upon Mexico. Last Sum-
mer, he was sounding an alarm, and calling the
brave and only brave to rally around him on the
banks of some river with Spanish name. We
next expected to hear Of him reyeEng in the
halls of the Montezumas, as jolly and as VIC
torious as Baccbus in India. Singular to relate,
although Buckley has turned up, it isn't in Mexi-
co at all This is odd. Neither is he in jail,
which is odder. He seems to have had FORE
boding that the fun and the fighting were to be
nearer home, and the bloodshed of the domestic
variety; and he has, therefore, desperately re-
strained his legs and has not marched to Mexico
at all. He is, we hear encamped somewhere IN
the vicinity of Jackson, Mississippi-prcbably in
some tavern, to the proprietor OF which we
hereby extend the assurance of our distinguished
sympathy. But Knight George is still as active
and chiyalrous as ever; and still he pants as
hotly to belligerate. He has postponed his in
tended massacre of Mexicans, and will, Mars
willing, devote his whole mind to the extirpa-
ton of Aboltionists, He has offered himself and
his blade and his revolver and his powder-horn
and his bullet mould, and his twenty thousand
Knights Of the Golden Circle, with their blades,
revolyers pOwder-horns and bullet-moulds, to
the excellent j. j. Pettus, Governor of Missis-
sippi; and in behalf Of that Commonwealth,
Buckley and Bickleys Braves will spend and be
spent, shoot and be shot, salve and be salved,
advance, run, conquer or be conquered as the
fortune OF war may decree.
The personal force of Gen. George Buckley, X.
G. c., is estimated by that warrior at twenty
thousand men. Yet, with that moderation which
is 30 becoming in the General, he tenders the
services Of twenty thousand men, OF such less
" number as he erigeneies Of The case may re-
"quire" There is something remarkably charm
ing in this way Of statsticay deyoting ones self
and ones soldiers to the rescue OF friendly
power. "Here we are" says Gen. George X.
G. C. Buckley speaking through the mouth of
v. ID. Groner, Commander of the First Viz
gnia Regiment of the Knights of the Golden
Circle and Secretary Of the Board of Advise
ment-"here we are, twenty thousand, thirty
" thousand, ten thousand, five thousand, two thou
"sand FIVE hundred, one thousand two hundred
" and ffty-any number you please to designate,
however small-here We are, very much at
"your service" "Ap we ask" he continues,
"is-the regular army ratons." Well, nothing
could be more generous. Soldiers must eat;
even Knights Of the Golden Circle are not ma
gicians, albeit their title has magical squint,
but do bite, masticate swallow, aud to the best
of their ability digest, just like other Ulortas.
Therefore, for "ratiOns" does Gen. George stipu-
late trusting to the elsemosynary emotions of
Gov. Pettus for that sine qua non Of the South
ern soldier, viz: the cocktail. Such modesty,
valor, devotion, selfsacriGce, and exceeding viii
lingness to be supported by the State of Missis.
sppi, argue on the part of Sir George, either
great generosity or grievous impecuniosity. We
have heard OF wretches, who, 10 save themselves
from starvation, broke into Jail; and We trust
that it is brave heart and not an empty
abdomen which impels Sir George to this sur
render of himself and his forces. Perhaps it will
diminish the anxiety Of the sympathetic reader to
consider that the army Of Sir George consists ac-
tually and 1t this moment Of himself and his
secretary. The twenty thousand forty thousand,
ten thousand troops, be the came more or less,
but principally less, exist thus far upon ideal
muster. rolls Possibly Knight George reckons
himself at fifteen thousand men, and his Esquire
at Eve thousand. Should this prove to be 80,
it ia evident that the State of Mississippi could
not possibly make better bargain; for though
these two might and unquestionsbly would, in the
field, accomplish the work of twenty thousand,
yet, when the sword and bayonet yielded to the
knife and fork, neither Buckley nor Secretary
Groner could possibly manage the victual which,
before the twenty thousand, would with velocity
vanish. Wherefore, we advise Gov j. J. Pettus
TO close the contract at once.
We suppose that knight Buckley hardly reads
The Express; but if be does he viii find that he
is preparing himself for hempen exodus from
this world. When the great wars begin, accord
ing 10 The Express, (" some men will become
murderers, some from the fury of the times, and
some as being the only protection to their own
lives" This is not loo grammatical, nor is
the sense Of it dazzlingy clear. A man who
simply "protccts his own Life" has not usually
been esteemed "a murdeier;" but we live in an
sge Of great moral discoveries. Buckley must
not be discouraged. He will be hanged, if at all,
in excellent and numerous company. He may
possibly have the honor Of co-strangulation with
Major General Schnierle-ve hope he is as brave
as his name is unpronounc,able-who has author
lied the erection of q mot redoubtable redoubt,
pierced for three eighteen FOUNDERS at Beaufort.
He may possibly make hb vnledictory struggle