Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1862-08-15

SECRET TRAITORS IN THE NoBTH.--ln his
speech at the war meeting in Was hington,
Wednesday night, MIR. Chttenden urged
that every loyal citizen should make it his
duty to watch for traitors and spies and inform
the government when they were discovered 49,
There is need of this vigilance at many places
outside of the federal district. Every man
who at this time Of national peril can write
or speak such sentiments as those Of the let
ter of ex-governor Seymour of Connecticut
should be put under the strictest surveillance.
The United States grand jury for the district
of Indiana have made a presentation of the
order OF the knights Of the golden circle
in that state, IN which they make some start
ling disclosures. The grand jurors say that
the order numbers, according to the estimates
Of the witnesses examined, about $4,000
members in Indiana. This may be above the
mark, but whether Il is or not, il is certain
that very many Of the members are but par
TALLY initiated, have no idea OF its treason
able purposes, and will have nothing to do
with any action that may interfere with the
laws or their duty to their government The
existence OF the order is known to the rebels,
aud its members are instructed to avoid in
luring rebels in case they should be compel
led to enter the army. BY sign The mem
bers South can make themselves known to
those of the North, and both are sworn to
FIRE over the heads of each other in case they
meet on the opposite sides in battle. The
conspirators have devised plan to avoid or
defeat legal proceedings against them. By
changes of venue to counties where the judg-
es are members, or by getting members on
juries, they propose to keen clear of the
. clutches Of ha l.tt THE no. ...
unsafe reliance when it is remembered that a
single jury man can prevent a conviction, and
there Is no possible way of preventing mem
bers Of the order from getting on iuries where
they are not known. The members are sworn
to secrecy. and to resistance to the collection
of federal taxes, and to enlistmeuts The
meetings are frequently guarded by armed
sentinels, and the members generally come to
them armed. In connection with these reve-
lations, the indianapolis journal states that
the members Of he grand jury satisfied them
selves of the authenticity OF the evidence
given, minglng freely in the crowd which was
in attendance on The democratic Goventon
held in that city few days ago, which was
addressed by Mr.. Wickhfe OF Kentucky,
and others. The signs they had learned we're
recognized and returned by about 100 per-
sons On the day the convention met, it is
also stated that 500 revolyers were sold by
dealers in indianapolis, doubtless Of the or
der II is fair to suspect that the eastern
editors who pretend to discredit the existence
Of this order know more about it than they
would be willing to disclose.
Doubtless the recent reasonable demonstra-
lions in Southern Illinois Egypt have or
iginated with members of these reasonable
lodges. When the news of the guerrilla
Morgans exploits in Kentucky reached
. Charleston, Ill.,, gang Of tories rode through
the streets with impunity, cheering for Nor
gan, jeff Davis and the southern conlederacy.
| A similar scene was inacted in Vandaha 4
letter from Union county states that the scces-
sionists there have become highly rampant,
and talk of driving Union men out of the
county also that a rebel flag was hoisted in
one Of the towns there recently, and kept
flying all day.