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tokens and keys of this degree iiiusi be well learned, Tor on their proper use depends your standing in this Order.   Notice them, practice* rhein. and heed ihem.

[The candidate is here made to sign the obligation, as also a copy for himself. When he 1ms done this, present bini with a copy and a key of the Degree.]

Signs, Ac.   (These are now to-be given in full and explained.)        See Key.

[The key here mentioned we have. We will give i; in such a form that the reader will understand it. The sign is a [raise hat with left hand over right, open hand on top of head.] The countersign is 6 [left band with hat extended to right antics, hand by side.] The silent sign is c [left hand on liz'ck of bend.]' The miswer is J [ri-lit hand on forehead, then extenUed.] The night sign is e [two distinct claps of of hands, and repeat once.] The test sign is/ [linwer and thumb of left hand take hold of lip.] Tho sacred word is g [Kloi.] The password is A [Andalusia,] and to this is added, in parenthesis, " Notice instructions in use of words." The night word given with e is i [high.] The grip is j [as giver).] The pass grip is k [same   uh left hand, still holding fiy right.] The token or emblem is I [mime as shown.] Tim answer to/ is in [right thumb and fore linger on pit of .stomach.]

That's all we have at present to give, and, as we have said, it may lie relif-d on ns authentic. It is a revelation of the mysteries of an Order which claims to be, and no doubt is, powerful in our land. Us emissaries have lured into it thousands uf young men, by impressing them with utterly false ideas of its nnlure and designs. The members of the First and Second degrees know nothing of the Third, although they arc unwittingly guided and cofitVbried by it. Let .them examine the revoking character of the obligations of Fth'ek*Thlrd Degree, and-then niukg all haste to repudiate an organization that desccves the.scorn and abhorrence of all juaLineiii. [*'    

The reader will remark" thatx General'Bickley insists, in his circular,'that'MU exceedingly desirable nnd iinp"ortant to organize the State of Kentucky before the August elections."   No doubt, the intention of the Order is to make Its power felt In various ways on the day of the election.   We look forward with no little interest to the result. \: .

The Roman Catholics anoTforeign born citizens will ilnd much in the Ritual of ihf Third Degree deserving their attention. Irishmen in particular will meet with something interesting to themselves.

If public opinion has no( utterly lost its virtue, it will speedily sweep this misernhl-Order oJTthe face of this earthy Will Geo. Bickles cbire, after the exposition, to show his face nmony men ? Will any Knight of the Golden Circle have the audacity to avow himself one, or let himself be known as one ? Is it true, can it be true, that men of respectable standing in our community acknowledge, either before the world . or in their own hearts, the obligations of the Third Degree, of this infamous association? .._ "   

The K. G- C.'s declare forVLimited llonarchy, and any that it will be time enough to discuss the question of a Republic when .all the extraordinarj^urppses*Jiiat they propose to themselves shall have been accompHaJied. V.. ^ -it'v.:*','* .'

The K. G. C.'s of the Third Degree, it scems/iuok keenly to office. Tliey require that all the members of their Degree shall have offices before any member of tho Second Degree can be accommodated, and that utt the members of the Second Degree shall be provided with offices before a solitary individual of the First can be aecommodnted. But then they say that they are going to have thousands of office:-, and they mean that the incumbents of otlices shall hold on for life.

It is no wonder that the members of the Third Dcirree, Knights of the Columbian Star, as they call themselves, guard carefully in their Kituai against ever being known ns such, even to their brethren of the First and Second Degrees.

Let all bear steadily in mind that the Order of the Knights of the Golden Circle is now and has all along been the central sun of the Secession party of Kentucky.

-North' Cciiulinu oluic Librar/