The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-16

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inferior and middiing grades, while good middIing
and fair qualities were rather easier, and were quite
steady. The sales embraced about 800 to 1000
bales. Dealers were a~nxiously awaiting the receipt
Of private letters by the Asia. Flour was rather
easier for inferior and common grades, while choice
and extra brands were without change. Provisions
were unchanged. Prime white Michigan whea. sold
At 50 40. Corn was dull, with little Offering.
With the exception Of some lots of provisions, naval
stores and cotton, there was little produce engaged
for shipment to England.
Cuba-FormIdable Conspiracy-startling Dis
coveries Mt Havana and Washington.
The startling intelligence which We published
yesterday from Havana, is strengthened by the
remarkable disclosures which we this day pub
lish from Washington. Read the special des-
patch from our inside correspondent at the
seat Of government.
Here, then, including our news from Havana
and Washington, the following significant facts
have come to light =
First. The existence Of an extensive revolu-
tionary conspiracy in Cuba, involving not
only some Of the most wealthy and distinguished
%creoles, but many Of the highest Spanish OFF,
cials, and some entire detachments of the
government troops.
Second. An extensive cooperative flibus-
tering organization in the United States, COM
pretending large secret bodies of organized
men, o treasury well supplied with money,
steamers, sailing vessels, and arms and NUM-
tions Of war.
Third. An intimate correspondence between
the island conspirators and the flibusters at
New York and New Orleans, with q view to an
early combined movement for the overthrow Of
the Spanish sovereignty in Cuba.
Fourth. A very important fact, if true-the
connection Of the Kinney expedition with this
formidable conspiracy.
The surprising discoveries made through the
| vigilance Of Gen. Concha, and the important
arrests which he has made from among his
most intimate off Gals and the most influential
capitalists and planters Of the island, are scarce
ly less remarkable than the cat-like cunning
exhibited by Marcy in worming out Of Col.
Kinney the material facts in connection with
his Mosquito Coast Emigration Company. We
must now conclude that this extensive Cuba
pipred in the bud. Whatever may be the sym
pathies Of the Kitchen Cabinet, the administra-
ton now has no other alternative than to ferret
out the flibusters and confscate their ma.
chinery. Our neutrality laws, and the neces-
sity Of proving the good faith Of the govern
ment to the civilized world, demand this; and
Mr.. Pierce, blind as he appears to have been
up to this point, cannot fail now to perceive
the necessity Of q prompt, vigilant and rigid
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But here a significant inquiry or two is sug-
gested. Our readers will remember that the
Washington Union and the Boston Post were
among the earliest and most earnest advocates
Of this Central American Kinney expedition.
These two journals are well Known to be
the confidential organs Of President Pierce,
Gushing, JEFF. Davis, and the flibusters Of
the Kitchen Cabinet. The Washington COR
respondent Of the Boston Post is said to be the
private secretary Of the President. We are at
least quite sure that even the New Hampshire
Patrio (Which also, we believe, was among the
fret to puff the philanthropic enterprise Of Col.
Kinney is not more in the private confidence
Of the President than Mr.. Greene, Of the Bos-
ton organ. Now, then, we have to ask, was
The course Of these journals, as the fuglemen Of
the Kinney expedition, the result Of innocent
benevolerce and stupidity, or were these jour
nails and the Kitchen Cabinet among the init
ated Of this declared buccaneering adventure?
II their conduct was the result Of ignorant
generosity, their simplicity, to say the least Of
il, renders them very ridiculous. II they acted
from design-if their object was to thrust
Marcy out of The Cabinet, by precipitating
through unlawful and treacherous means, q
rupture with Spain, they have been traitors to
the constitution, the honor of the country, and
the good faith of the American people.
Marcy is the victor, and Marcy should re-
quire Mr.. Pierce, publicly, to confess, If he can,
in behalf Of the government and the country,
his innocence Of any connivance with his
favorite newspaper organs, in recommend
ing to public favor the Central American Kin
ney expedition. Surprising 1t to have been
iona yfde, as represented upon its face, 1t was
still o lawless and perilous enterprise. The
lands to be settled were derived from the Mos
quito King; whose sovereignty w recognize to
be precisely the same as that Of Billy Bowlegs
over Florida-no more. Nicaragua and Costa
RIGA claim the sovereignty of this Kinney pur-
chase. They promptly declared they would re-
sist, by arms, the proposed settlement. We
have claimed, in all our diplomacy with Eng
land, the sovereignty Of the said States over
this Mosquito coast. Marcy has substantially, in
his late letter, re-afirmed these facts. Taking
The Kinney expedition, then, OF its value upon
its face, how was ii that the intimate organs Of
the President and the Kitchen Cabinet 70
openly betrayed themselves in the outset TO the
advocacy Of the scheme?
We shall snswer this question q. once. There