The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-08-27

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CAPTAINS.
SYour company will consist of three
platoons, each platoon TO consist of two
sections, each section TO consist. of ten
men.
To each platoon there will be COM
missioned one Lieutenant, who will
have the authority to appoint one Or
derby Sergeant. st
You will collect from each private,
90; from each Lieutenant So, and from
the Captain, $40, which will end the e'S-
pense so far as Headquarters Is con-
cerned. This money will be forward
ed to Headquarters, as per Form
No. 1.
Each platoon may meet separately,
but your entire company must meet
once every week for roll call.
Your weekly reports will be forward
ed to Headquarters on Form No. 2.
You require no books or record of
any kind.
You can arrange. your own signs and
signals. .-,s
You are not allowed at any of your
meetings to entertain visiting brothers.
No one must be present at roll call but
those who are on your roll.
All communications, whether con-
tanning money or weekly reports, or
matters of information desired to be
sent to headquarters, must be signed
pany, and the envelope containing the
same must be addressed as follows:
Col. George w. Tennille, Box 24S6, St.
Louis, Mo.
The weekly roll call is required in
order that the commanding officer may
know the exact efficiency OF the corps.
/ If privates persist in refusing to report,
the platoon must be recruited up to the
required 20 with men who will report.
! If any officer fails to do his duty, his
place will be supplied by some one who
1 will be Jealous and constant. Negli-
gence is not allowable.
(Here follow. blank forms, " Report
of force" and Number of Company"
These papers, perhaps, for the sake
of secrecy, have been signod and sent
by different persons in this city,whose
names we retain for the present, but
proper authorities have been informed
of them, so that in case of any out
break, their share OF responsibility will
not be unknown. 1t will be observed
that these papers talk of the rights"
of Democrats to vote precisely in the
| tone of Mr.. GloVer's speech, as ifthere
were no law DISTINGUISHING. anybody.
| When Mr.. Gloyertalked OF Injecting
the minions of despotism sword in
hand" therefore, he expressed the in
tention for which secret bands OF armed
men have now been formed, and
when he cried, Resistance to tyrants
is obedience to God" he sounded the
watchword of bloody revolution,
which his partizans are aiming to at
tempt. And the precise purpose of the
organization is sufficiently explained
by the Times, a rebel paper of this city,
which, speaking OF registrars who re-
fuse TO treat the disfranchisement law
as void, puts the following sentence in
italics:
TN such cases, NTH a JttU sense of Our
II ~
Uice, acc ddViSe that The registrars be set
tied l1ith personality"
The phrase fsettled with" needs no
| Interpretation, and we now learn
through what organization the Demo-
Gratis propose TO reach that end. The
nature of the organization shows that
no lawful effort to carry the State is
contemplated; it binds men directly to
an armed cooperation to force the adj
mission of all The Democratic Votes, in
Guiding those of rebels. The Injunction
of secresy, the oath to obey VOWS, the
establishment of secret signs and sig
nails, the peculiar form of the rrganiza-
ton, in sections of ten men each under
| control OF an officer, he prohibition of
books and records, and The exclusion
of all visiting members and Democrats
not sworn members, show that the &c.
ton contemplated is one IDhich men
dare not dUOIO eUeIl before their pdrtu
friends, dare not put upon paper,
and can hope to accomplish 6nlv bU q
conspiracy Of The most desperate and
tdDteSS men IN the State. And the clos
ing form, requiring Information of the
action of registrars, indicates the method
OF proceeding and shows that CO opera
ton OF these armed gangs is intended.
No wonder that in such an infamous
conspiracy "the Importance of secresy"
is epjoined. The collection of money
suggests supply of arms and ammu.
milton, especially as it has been known
for some time that such supplies were
being procured here IN large quantities.
The existence of the. organization 10
counties in different parts of the Stale
is positively known, but its strength
has not been ascertained. In this ely
1t has several companies, fully organ
lied and armed. OF the connection of
the organization with a similar secret
band III Tennessee, kentucky, and
other States, We have Information
which, for reasons easily understood,
we chouse not to give just yet.