The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-16
b oRREsP ONDENCE.


/ bringing nothing like iseaae CT Ell.
\ denn, EeYutd those Of tile usual eaar.
meter and everything bids fair for at
early and' very prosperous resumption
Of business in This city. | fear | shall
eurf,it YOUR one million readers with
notices Of the Gllihustets and matters
connected with them. but | have few
| frrt7 to relate which ire not only il
tertatiug III themselves but 90 to show
| how lar il is safe to trust to appear
ances in these deceptive times. You
are now well aware Of the course Of
conduct pursued by Judge Campbell
while holding his court here recently,
In regard 10 the Cuban sympathizers,
Ne, and by reference to my letters
you will see hat | charged him with
having formerly been one The nd337s-
est Of Gllbusterq, besides being a
secesaionist Sc., &c. Well what fol
lows lie comes TO N. Orleans clothed
with ali the power Of the Car Nicho-
las, TO ferret out, bind over or i'm
1trtsoe if he wished to, every man wo-
man and child il the city ii his chase
after The Cuhanites he made great
charge 10 The Grand jury, summoned
witnesses to testify, announced bis de-
termination to put down at all hazards
everything like an expedition from
here. seemed to he active. jealous and
honest il his efforts TO do SO, yet failed
most sianally IN all his expectations
and wishes, failed to reach the plot,
taled 10 leafn what would have devel-
uped The whole scheme, filled to pro
cure an indictment against D single in
liyiiual whilst haR1yeds came and
went who were indirtable, according
to The law laid down by himself, failed
even to show anything except that
three persons refused to answer ques-
iions put TO them in particular form.
hni which questions were unnecessary
II procure The facts they were expect
II 10 elicit aud The whole affair ended
in tbe bta3tag over in three thousand
dollars each, Of these three Witnesses
There Is ~ tuwtittcn raga il The his
tony If thi= affair that ought to be read
and which ] will try to srread creh to
Your renders. / have Faid the Judge
himself was formerly o F}5tjhster J
and Of coi,rse then II was not 50 very
singular that he should during the
grand inquest last week, send the
Dist. Atty U W Noise TO THE edi-
Tor Of The Delta" to procure copy
of d letter written a year OF more ago
by himself las an introductory to sad
editor, in favor Of q young man, whom
be, (Camphe'l wished MI. Walker to
place III ia eligible position in the,
eaps4itt0a, tttt3ef Cent qHitB,an 10
Caba As the Delta man had 'snia-
laid the letter. no copy was given,
but | believe MIR l.. j. 3. Of a certain
office in the Capital at Il Rouge can
youch far sts e9tSteHce Again no
man was boaaa to volunteer evidence
for or against.any Of The iillibustefs
but there were men on that Grand Jul
~ who ltaotr. at}so had seen, the list
Of subscribers to the fund, know the
amount, know where a portion (theI
paid portion was deposited, and yet
were not called upon to testify at all |
The fund subscribed by parties
here and at other points, amounts now
to six hundred and sixty or seventy
thousand dollars 70 my certain knowl-
edge, much Of which II agauaIie on
sight cheek, or in otherwords it is an
bank. said before that the c.fpe-
di,too Itself was not in existence !
the ntcn are moi here, but men are the
least difficult part Of tho natter Get
the money aud the men arc on hand
at moments notice. The guns. the
ammunition, the steamers, the canon are
all here or there. aye, erery,tI,ere )
the Aouu. the beef, the bacon, the pro-
visions of all kinds arc in N. Orleans, |
in Ii. Rouge. in N, York IN fact in
every place, ard it only requires The
dollars to set them all in motion. The
Lopez affair in which only handful
Of men were engaged between three
and four hundred) cost upwards Of one
hundred thousand dollars. The ae1t
Of the kind, will be ten
times as large, and consequently one
million or doltara &c ,,,;to M ,,,,aj