New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-06-23
FILLIBUsTERS ABROAD.
SANTA ANNA TO BE REINFORCED.
Capture of the Party.


General F. j. Heron, United States mar
shal, and Collector Kellogg have had men
watching for some days past the move.
ments of suspicious lot of customers who
have been holding secret meetings in out
ofthe.way places. They soon became sat-
isfied that an organization had been formed,
with the object of aiding some insurrection
in, or invasion of, Mexico, with the Interior
design, it is said, of elcvating Santa Anna
to the presidency or dictatorship of that
country. One Dupare is the leading spirit
of the enterprise, having sealed orders, y
he claims, from the chiefs of the movement
in Mexico. He was formerly an officer in
the Louisiana Zouaves (Conf 1erate troops),
and is said to be an excellent soldier, to-
gether with half dozen o. lis associates;
but the rank and file are as hang.dog a
looking set of villains as could be raked
| together even from the slums of New Or
| leans.
The intention was to have put to sea last
| night or this morning. General Heron
| learned of this about noon, and at once pro.
ceeded to checkmate the game. Captain
Haggerty, senior naval officer at the port,
| was lOLlu6u. anu LuTouSu II MN llSLTuCLlOD5
| sent to the officers of the gunboat Mahaska
to search every vessel going down the river
for men and munitions Of war. Captain
Freeman was also ordered by Collector KeL
logg to keep sharp lookout with his rev.
enues scutter Wilderness,
At one o'clock United States Marshal Her.
ron, Deputy Collector Stockdale, and Major
Williamson, chief of police, proceeded to
the lockups of the second district, from
which and the nearest beats a force of a
dozen city guardians, headed by Lieuten-
ant Manning, were soon procured. The
| principal rendezvous of the tillibusters-
corner of Esplanade aud Rampant streets
was then stormed, and three or four dozer
hard-looking nuts taken into custo
dy. The parish prison furnished them
better accommodations than the vile den in
which they were arrested and there the
United States district attorney and other
proper officers were sent to have their com
mitment made out in due form.
Some of the prisoners declared that they
had been engaged to work on a railroad al
Vera Cruz, and did not suspect that there
was anything illegal in the enterprise. Thi
story is, however, very improbable.
The chief of police states that those wei
known characters john Henry, Arthur
Guerin, ct id OTBue genus, were mixed nj
in this affair. We think, considering thi
, and other circumstances, it is
, great pity lndL Lut party COulu no
have been overlooked by General Herroi
and his allies, or dispatched upon thei
journey with " God speed What woult
J have been the loss of Mexico would hav
been the decided gain Of New Orleans.
The rendezvous is described by the polio
: as an old receiving shop and thieves den
! which it is necessary to 'Clean OUT once il
| 8 while. The proprietor escaped by q sid
/ window, but the proprietress--the gray
!. mare, and apparently the better horse
D was provided with accommodations at the
government expense. On the other corne
is a grocery and drinking shop, an,
, attached in the rear lisa large frame build
ing, furnished with rough benches, wher
= the recruits lay, as they supposed, in snu
r concealment. Many had their blanket
and bundles of clothing with them.
1t was a motley crew of Frenchmen
Spaniards, Diegos, Creoles, au Irishman O
:. two, and half a dozen Americans; and the
y attracted much curious attention as the
+ were marched guarded through the streets
The rank and file will soon be released; th
; leaders may be held Tor violation of th
y | neutrality laws.
Alter the first detachment had been gol
bled the police were taken to two othG
reputed places of assembling, but the bird
if any were there at all, had flown. A
e volunteers are said tohaye been sworn il
,. The government officers engaged in tn
!. affair splayed a most Commendable desir
( to fully enforce the laws, aud did their dut
e promptly and well; but we must confess
i sympathizing in the opinion of Major Wi
IS hanson, viz: whether they got to MexiC
Il or H-ades it is pitythey did not escaI
?. from here ~