Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-09-14
The MIlIInry orgapizatIop ar ObIo.


A Columbus letter gives the following in
formation as to the organization of the de-
fences Of our State:
A Committee of i've prominent gentlemen
viii be appointed in every Congressional Dis
triet, who viii be authorized to select county
agents. These agents viii forthwith proceed
to recruit and as soon as volunteers are en-
rolled they will be mustered in and clothed ;
and when in any District fifty have been OBJ
tsined, they will be formed into a company
and assigned to regiment, and officers from
among them be appointed to fill up the
ranks, in conjunction with the citizen COM
mittee. t..l 8 ga .1.flfr
This Is the plan, as | understand il, which
Gen. Buckingham will announce in a few
days, with the names of the gentlemen who
are TO compose the District Committees. 1t
cannot hil to show in short time whether
any further steps viii be necessary to make
complete the regiments which the General
Government expects Immediately from Ohio.
In pursuance of the purposes. OF the plan
above described, Gen. Buckingham will issue
an order, am told, explaining hat the mi
itia organization of the State has no author
ity through its Kajor Generals, Brigadiers,
COlonels, or other field officers or Captains,
in the raising and controlling Of companies
tor the war which any citizen does not pos
sess. This order is rendered necessary by
Misunderstanding which turn attention to
officers in the State militia, and etabarrass
them; and interfere with the recruiting SER
vice. s5 ~ -, -
It IS expected that an order win be issued
from the War Department at Washington,
p1tting all the egiments-infantry, cavalry,
and artillery-euthoriSed outside of State
authority Of Ohio, under the control Of the
GOvernor, who viii be empowered 10 sre,.r-
ganize or encamp them, as be thinks best,
for the public service. A
Rrem Baltimore-.-soeiety Of the southern
Cross.
A Baltimore correspondent Of the New
York Tribune writes p ~ hA9 .3.s - ~
BALTIMORE, Sept, 1861.
Well-irfoTmed men assume me there is q
rebel secret society in this State, known by
the name Of the 'tSOciety Of the Southern
Gross, whose purpose is to throw Maryland
into the kingdom Of Jef. Davis at an haz-
ards. It is said to be composed Of The
Weallhiest and most desperate Of the popuh-
tion.. It has its signs, symbols and pass
words, and is reported to be as bloody and
veugeful in its intents and plans as ever the
Holy Inquisiti0n was.
One Of its symbols is red cross on 4 white
ground, and it is whispered about that if the
rebel army south Of the Potomac sh0ald ever
be able to effect 3 landing in Maryland, q
plaeard bearing tlis symboli is to be blazoned
on the walls of he houses Of Baltimore, Is a
signal of the cotempo poraneous uprising Of the
traitors in this city. Whether this be so or
not, any out of the way display may be
taken as demonstration of this sOciety's do
ings.
It Is stated with good deal Of confidence
By the secessiOnists, that the ,Lekislature, if
permitted BY the Government to meet, on the
10Th inst, intends to pass aresolution, which
is all prepared, seeding Maryland from the.
Union, and that this act will be the signal
for The invasion Of the JEFF. Davis army
TIE traitors IL the State believs that they
are in the ascendant if not in numbers, in
point Of wealth, caste, and intellectual activ-
liz and aVrogance, and that By giving legal
aspect TO the rebellion they can transfer the
war 70 this side of the Potomac, and thus
capture Washington.