Marcoleta's Fillibustering;
Col. Kinney In Trouble Again.
Marcoleta's Fillibustering.
The article from the Evening Post, which we append, explains the new movement of Se�or MARCOLETA and Counsellor WHITE against Col. KINNEY and his expedition; and our telegraphic columns will inform the reader of the proceedings had in the case yesterday at Philadelphia. It is perhaps too soon to judge correctly of the probable result of this last scheme of the Nicaragua Minister and his associates; but at first sight these new proceedings certainly bear much the aspect of malicious persecution. One Court, in the District where KINNEY'S offence, if any, was committed, has released him; and yet a foreign adventurer, aided by the speculating Attorney of a speculating Company which fears the establishment of a rival to its monopoly, are permitted to go into another Court, in another District, and obtain a new indictment upon the same charge, as the facts are now understood. It looks very much as though the prosecuting parties are determined to harass the life out of the KINNEY enterprise, knowing full well that they cannot reach it by direct and more honorable means. If it is true that the Attorney General is lending his sanction to such a proceeding, the fact does him very little credit.
Col. Kinney In Trouble Again.
From the Evening Post.
The afflictions of the KINNEY expedition have not even yet come to an end. After Judge INGERSOLL'S discharge of the Colonel, it was expected, we suppose, that he and his friends would depart with flying colors, and the steamship United States was accordingly advertised for San Juan "positively," on the 19th. But diis aliter visum. Such was not the programme of the United States Attorney General or Mr. MARCOLETA.
Although the alleged offence was committed in the port of New- York, where the Colonel is staying, yet, in view of Judge INGERSOLL'S impracticability, Mr. CUSHING has again procured an indictment of Col. KINNEY in the United States District Court at Philadelphia, and a warrant, for his arrest was brought from that city yesterday afternoon by M. C. WYNKOOP, [Francis M. Wynkoop-chw] the Marshal of that District. He was anticipated, however, by the Colonel, who received a telegraphic dispatch in time to save his pursuers the trouble of arresting him; and early this morning repaired to Philadelphia, where by this time he has probably presented himself in Court before Judge KANE to demand the reason of the prosecution.
We are informed that GEORGE M. DALLAS has been retained by him as counsel, J. C. VAN DYKE, the United States District Attorney, appearing for the prosecution.
As long ago as Saturday last it was known in this City that proceedings were to be renewed in this matter, though it was not suspected that resort would be had to the Courts of Philadelphia. Perhaps the cause of this change is the fact that the Irishman O'BRIEN, one of the two "material witnesses" whose absence gave Mr. MCKEON such trouble, has turned up in that vicinity. The other one, "___ KNEASS," as it is written in the affidavit of our own District Attorney, is said now to be "four seas over," and beyond the jurisdiction of our Government.
The testimony of O'BRIEN, so far as we can ascertain, amounts to this--that the Colonel, when engaged with Senator COOPER and COST JOHNSON in the now abandoned Mosquito expedition, had promised O'BRIEN some captaincy or other military position in the Mosquito army of occupation. It seems, therefore, though that enterprise, in obedience to Secretary MARCY'S intimation, has been entirely relinquished, and the Colonel is connected with another set of associates, with a programme to which no objection has been taken, that the present expedition mast suffer for the sins of its predecessor.
We ought, however, in saying that no objection has been urged to the present scheme of Nicaraguan colonization, to make some important exceptions. Mr. CALEB CUSHING has always professed a strong reverence for the provision in the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, forbidding the colonization, by this Government, of any part of Central America, and, in his late proceedings, acts on the assumption that the KINNEY emigration would be the act of Government.
Such is also the view taken by the Nicaragua Transit Company, whose objections to colonization are strengthened by their desire of retaining the monopoly of the navigation of the San Juan, near which the emigrants propose to settle.
In fact, it is asserted that Mr. WHITE, the agent of this Company, has declared that he "has already broken up one expedition of KINNIE'S, and would break up this in the same way." Mr. MARCOLETA, a gentleman of leisure in this City, is also indefatigable in his exertions to save the country of his adoption from the depredations of the "fillibusters," so that if Nicaragua and KINNEY are not properly attended to, it will be for no want of influences at work for the purpose.
Meanwhile the administration, with the exception of Mr. CUSHING, appears to look on the whole with a masterly inactivity and unconcern, prepared, if KINNEY should find a happy issue out of all his afflictions, to rejoice in the extension of American enterprise and institutions over Central America; and, if his project should be suppressed, to announce it to the world as evidence of the Government's sensitive regard for the rights of a sister Republic, and its determination to crush even the semblance of filibusterism. Notwithstanding all this, the story has not been disputed that gentlemen in official stations, very high in its confidence, had last Winter a direct pecuniary interest in the more objectionable Mosquito expedition; and if it be now engaged in strangling the present enterprise, the reason may be that the bantling comes of different parentage.
Source:
Unknown, "Marcoleta's Fillibustering," New York Daily Times, Wednesday, 16 May 1855, pg. 4.
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