New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-29
THE NEW MOOSsHISE ExTERPRIsE

THE NEW MOONSHISE ENTERPRISE.
We have already repeatedly exposed the lille
cality of the scheme which Mr.. Cost johnson,
COL Kinney, and their associates, have on foot
for the occupation of the sO-called Mosquito
Coast We have shown that the only shadow Of
right on which this speculation is founded is de-
lived from certain grants, orig finally of doubtful
value, and repeatedly annulled BY the Mosquito
Chief from whom they were obtained. On all
these points we have again and sgain stated the
facts giving the names and dates in full, aud have
challenged the advocates ofthe enterprise to con-
flute our statements, or to give any explanation
TO the history of these grants which couft leave
them any pretense Of validity.
But no such explanations have been furnished,
and even The Union the organ of the Admins
traton. BY which this speculation is believed 20 be
patronized, has turned deaf ear to our tntrea-
ties and after having literally pulled the project,
refuses the slightest information with regard to its
legal and political bearings his, then, virtually
admitted that the undertaking has no other title
to public confidence than the strength and cum
hing of the BODY of adventurers whom Col. Kin
ney is about to lesd to the region in question, and
that as for legal right to the lands it is proposed
to occupy, the Company have none which will
stand moments examination.
With this exposition of the facts, We might
under ordinary circumstances, leave the subject;
but as there is reason to fear that many honest
persons, now out Of employment ia our cities,
may be deluded INTO enlisting 10 this sham colony,
we proceed to inform the public what is the
nature Of the country which this Company pre-
tend to own and to colonize. 1t is briefly re-
gion that no civilized people have ever succeeded
in subduing. More than three hundred years
have elapsed since Central America was first oe-
cupied BY Europeans. In the interior and near
the Pacific coast there are long established cities
and extensive districts under permanent culsiya-
ton, but these are in high table-lands or noun
famous regions where the climate is wholesome,
andthe soil comparatively easy to clear and till.
All the settled parts of Costa Rica, Nicaragua
aud Honduras are of this character. But neither
the spanisrds nor the Republics which have sue
ceeded them have ever been able to make the
slightest impression upon the tropical wilderness
whose dense and msrshy jungle stretches along
the entire Atlantic Coast, broken only by here
and there q promontory on the sea, and pene.
trated only by the variable streams that
bring down their waters from the unknown
interior, swonen during at least half the
year with freshets, that convert the greater
portion of the country into pestilelt swamps.
The principal points north Of the San Juan that
have been occupied by Europeans are Bile yields,
where the Mosquito King has bis royal residence,
and Greytown, where Mr.. Pierce and Mr. Marcy
performed the distinguishing exploits of their
Administration. Each Of these places mas had .
population of from 500 to 1000 persons but
neither of them has done anything toward clear
ing and settling the country behind it. The
business of each has been simply trade-at
Blewfelds with the Indians, and at Greytown
with the California passengers and the remote
civilized communities Of the western coast. 1t
is said that these places are healthy; but this
means, merely, that, with great precaution,
per,on living in them may escape the deadly
miasmas which lie in wait for him the moment
he attempts to make his way into the forest and
ulbcOFeE tue Ihfm VI WHICH OOst JOuusou
and Col. Kinney have given him q deed. 1t 10
very possible that limited number Of men of
enterprise after surviving the peris of the climate
and recovering from two or three fits Of fever,
might probably occupy themselves on this coast
in traffic with the natives, in cutting precious
woods or in collecting lndiarubber or other spon.
taneous products Of the region; but - . country
for settlement by North American workingmen-
whether farmers or meehanics-there is not on
the face Of the globe district more dangerous to
health, less likely to yield return to labor, and
in every other way more undt, than this Mosquito
Coast. To adventures who go there to fight tho
indians, or to everturn the Spanish Republics Of
the interior. this may be no objection; but if
there are any who are tempted thther BY the
promise Of fine farms and a abundant livelihood,
we warn them that they are under delusion. and
that their expected FL Dorado will turn out to b
nothing but pestileaee and rain. To tAe pre-
jscters of he scheme. who expect to realize for.
tunes By selling cut tho shares sfths esnPanys u
n enormoua prioo In Wal ~. He m6winaa ~