The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-14
CORRESPONDENTS.
NEW ORLEANS, July nth, 1854

Dear COnzet.-Ihus tar the sum
= mer season has passed away leaving o
: bringing nothing like disease or cpl
!. demic, beyond those of the usual char
!. acter and everything bids fair for a,
early and very prosperous resumption
. Of business in this city. I fear l shall
surfeit your one million readers witt
notices Of the fillibusters and matters
connected with them, but I have few
facts to relate which are not only in.
teresting in themselves but 60 to show
how far it is safe to trust to appear
ances in these deceptive times You
are now we'll aware of the course Of
} conduct pursued by Judge Campbell
while holding his court here recently,
in regard to the Cuban sympathizers,
&c, and by reference to my letters
you will see that I charged him with
having formerly been one the aoarm-
est Of fllibusters, besides being a
secessionist &C., &c. Well what fol-
lows? He comes to N. Orleans clothed
with all the power Of the Gar Nicho-
las, to ferret out. bind over or I'M
prison if he wished to, every man wo-
man and child in the city in his chase
after the Cubanites be made a great
charge to the Grand Jury, summoned
witnesses to testify, announced his de-
termination to put down at all hazards
everything like an expedition from
here, seemed to be active, jealous and
honest in bis efforts to do SO, yet failed
most sigually in all his expectations
and wishes, failed to reach the plot,
failed to learn what would have devel-
oped the whole scheme, failed to pro.
cure an indictment against single in
dividual whilst hundreds came and
went who were indictable, according
to the law laid down by himself, failed
even to show anything except that
three persons refused to answer ques-
tons put to them in particular form,
but which questions were unnecessary
to procure the facts they were expect
ed to elicit and the whole affair ended
in the biasdsng over in three thousand
dollars each, of those three witnesses.
There is an unwritten page in the his
tory Of this affair that ought to be read
and which will try to spread open to
your readers. l have said the Judge
himself was formerly q tlIibnster; )
and of course then it was not so very
singular that he should during tho
grand inquest last week, send the
Dist. Atty E. w. Noise to "the edi-
tor Of the Delta" to procure copy
Of a letter written year or more ago
BY himself las an introductory to sand
editor, in favor of a young man, whom
he, (CampbelD wished Mr.. Walker to
place in an eligible position in the
under GenI Qatitnstsn to
Cuba. AS the Delta man had "mis-
aid the letter" no copy was given,
put believe Mr.. L. j. s. Of a certain
'fice in the Capital at B. Rouge can
ouch for ITS existence. Again no
nan was bound to volunteer evidence i,
or or against any of the 6llibusters :
,ut there were men on that Grand Ju- !:
y who k,soac, aeho had seen, the list !
f subscribers to the fund, know the . .
know where a portion THE :
'aid portio's) was deposited, and yet /.
vere not called upon to testify at all. I
The fund subscribed by parties = =
,e1e and at other points. amounts now y
D six hundred and sixty or seventy :. =
thousand dollars to my certain knowl- u
dye, much of which is available on y
igh, check, or in otherwords it is "1as =
3amk." l said before that the ezpe- a a,
itiom itself was not in existence; u =
le men are not here, but men are the !,
,ast difficult part Of the matter. Get u
le money and the men are on hand u
moments notice. The guns, the VI VI
the steamers, the canon arc %
Il here or there, aye, everyachere !. :.
le -four, the beef, the bacon, the pro- ~
isions of all kinds are in N. Orleans, r
B. Rouge, in N. York in fact in "
very place, ard it only requires the a. =,
ollars to set them all in motion. The {"
opez affair in which only a handful
men were engaged between three OF
I'd four hundred) cost upwards Of one W
1ndred thousand dollars The next ri
tpedition of the kind, will BIO ten sl
mes as large, and consequently one pf
;llion IF dollara 10 on;ta no sm,1 o.