The GRIP is given by placing the forefinger on the pulse of the person you shake hands with. _Countersign._--If halted by a camp or picket on the public highway at night, the following colloquy ensues: "Who comes there?" "A friend!" "A friend of what?" "My country!" "What country?" "I, S, A, Y." (Repeating each letter slowly.) "N, O, T, H, I, N, G." (Repeating each letter slowly.) "The word?" "Retribution!" These countersigns are issued every three months. The one here given was in vogue at the time of the discovery of the order. A member of any order of the Ku Klux Klan of the first or probationary degree, in distress, and requiring speedy aid, will use a word signal, or cry of distress: "SHILOH!" In expeditions conducted under direction of the Commander, or any of the brethren detailed by him to act as head, a code of signals by sounds, made with whistles, is used, in order that the members may not be recognized by their voices. DIVISIONS OF THE ORDER. There are several divisions of the order of the KU KLUX KLANS, all working under the same ritual and oaths, and having the same signs, grips, passwords, modes of approach, and general conduct of raids and midnight excursions. These are known under the names of "Knights of the White Camelia," "The Invisible Empire," "The White Brotherhood," "The Unknown Multitude," "The Union and Young Men's Democracy." All work in disguise, with the exception of the latter, who work openly as well as in disguise, and are all under the instructions of the "Grand Cyclops" and the Supreme Grand Council. They all have one and the same object, which is as plainly set forth in the oath as it well can be in an obligation of that character. The difference in names and styles has been adopted for a two-fold purpose. First, to conceal the origin, object, and design of the order, and its founders and directors; secondly, to conceal its extent and numbers, and make it appear a mere local affair that has cropped out in different places without reference to any organized combination with one grand center. The workings of the Klans over all the Southern country show more conclusively than any amount of subterfuge on the part of the leaders, that one common tie binds them all; that one common interest actuates them; that one common end is to be accomplished. The oath differs slightly in phraseology in different localities, to accommodate the varied circumstances under which it is administered, and with a view to greater concealment--the words "Unknown Multitude," "Invisible Empire," and "White Brotherhood" being substituted in North and South Carolina; the words "Union and Young Men's Democracy," in Georgia and Mississippi; and the words "Knights of the White Camelia," in Louisiana and Texas and other States. THE SECOND OR SUPREME DEGREE.