Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-04-10
THE. NAKED truth.


this newspaper more than another,
Il is the naked, unprecedented, nm
painted, unvafnished and unadulter-
ated virgin gold, Of truth The
Comet goes out TO look after IL III
urnally and makes weekly recon
binatiuts." TO get il /, but we are
sorry to say in this lying and de.
ceptive time Of day. IL is very lit
tie purpose. Even now, we are
willing TO follow the man who will
go before with light, even TO the
bottom Of the well, where truth is
supposed to be hiding, il the fact
can be established by the plumb
line. that the bottom has not fallen
out. II is this very love Of truth
that causes us often 60 he victim
lied: IL was only last week, that
some idle and bfainless fellow over
there in the rural town Of Clinton,
imposed upon us with a "Chcctaw
story" which come well nigh throw
ing the capital into iits. The story
was. that not less than Zone hun
dred and thirty-perhsps fifty Chloe
taw warriors" were coming down
over the plank road on their way 10
the Marangoin country. There was
no extra police picked for the occa-
sion. but the "Creoles" went imme-
diateiy TO drilling and the Pelicahs
concluded To have target excur.
sion. We are sorry for tiff il put
them to any Inconvenience, and
we are sorry that this paper was
the medium Of such o senseless joke.
We had entirely forgotten that this
is the fourth month of the year and
season allotted TO all fools. II would
be as well. however, 10 observe Just
here. that we did not like the name
signed to the Clinton communica-
tion-"Drake T. Whoever heard
of John ! Drake y II had festh-
cry aspect 60 our mind and we
thought of the many times in the
past. when IRE have been victimized
with other credulous geese.w thought
of the time of the "beadless statue"
hoax, of our Ieighbor, when Tom
Owen went up and got stuck in the
mud of Montesenv, trying to get a
pencil sketch Of that antiquity; but
credulity is our misfortune, not our
fault The notifying part of this
thing TO us, reaches us through the
1
idrocaie, as follows
tE- A letter from Mr.. John J. Drake. Of
| Clinton. In, to the Baton Rouge Advocate
states that. on Saturday last. he discovered
| between midway on the Port Hudson read
and Montaseno. n band of Choetaw Indians
about cue hundred aud Thirty in number
The probability is. says the Advocate, that
their intentions are not very peaeeable. go
| They are comiru this way. aud will cross
the river here to GO to the Marangouin
country, So large number of armed
ssvages In town at one time demands an
increase Of police, If not other aud more
reliable forces .--N q. Bee,
| The Bee does us too much credit. "Mr.
John !. Drake never honored our col
umns with line. Furthermore, said Drake
IL an invention Of our contemporary. the
Gosette e. Comet, and never made his ap
pearance in public before the ffsf Of bril-
last. The Bee il slightly sold.
| Here we are charged direct with
being Drake himself. We, have
nothing TO do with the parcntsgc
of Drake and certainly did not m.
rent him. Who ever heard of man
being invented 7 The writer at Gin.
ton will oblige US TO come out and
tell the people who he Ia, and when
he does il; we hope our contempor.
AIRY will do us the simple justice tc
set it's readers right.
DOG MEAr FOR THE JAPANESE EN-
pASsy.--Tho Washington cores.