Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-11-07
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

antics, around the depot yesterday evening rs
the extra train, for the accommodation of those
going over to Baltimore to be present to-day
at the election, was being prepared to set out.
Some hundreds of Maryland voters were there,
and moro citizens of Washington. All pre-
served their temper and their spirits, though
tho confidence and enthusiasm seemed to be
altogether on the anti-Know Nothing side.
As far as we could perceive, no bets could be
obtained by their betting men against the
election Of Mr.. May. Indeed, they were ban
tering for bets against FIVE thousand anti know
Nothing majority in Baltimore city and county.
That looked preposterous to us; but their
knowing ones seemed to be quite as confident
that such is to be the result, as the Know Ne
things were last May that they were about to
sweep Virginia by from ten to thirty thousand
majority.
Later in the evening, in the great hall Of
the National Hotel, where the politicians
are wont TO congregate on such occasions,
the betting was quite spirited, some of the
Baltimore Know Nothings having sent over
money to be wagercd against the reelection
of Mr.. May. 1t was got off easily in even
bets; one small even wager being made that
Davis will beat May 800 votes. Our own i'm
preston is that MIR. May can hardly succeed,
as the Know Nothings seem to have ooncen-
trated their efforts altogether against him
1t seems to be understood among the Washing
ton Know Nothings that their friends have
contrived the means of polling, by hook or by
crook, perhaps a thousand more votes for
Davis than they brought to the polls at the
recent municipal election there, and that they
had fixed other cOntrivances By which con-
siderable portion of Mr.. Mays friends will
be prevented from depositirg their ballots
The Kinney and Walker Expeditions, &C
The recent arrival from San Juan del Nortc
which brings news OF the success Of the Dem
ocratic party in Nicaragua (whose General-in-
Chief, Walker has become, and whose army
is composed nearly entirely of that individuals
follOwers,) also brings information, no longer
to be disputed, of the entire failure of the
Kinney speculation. The details of the ad-
vices with reference to it bear out to the let
ter the information from that quarter tina.
came by the last previous arrival exclusively
to the Star. The following we extract from
the New York Herald
SAN JUAN DEL NoarE, Oct. 18
Finding on his arrival here, that he had
been humbugged by Fabens, and his imacin-
airy titles to sundry millions of lands in the
department OF Choutalas, (Nicaragua,) and
seeing that he had no chance of reaching the
interior, he turned his attention to the old af-
fair of the Shepherd Haley grants, and after
some bargainings, he purchased $50 he says)
their grant for $500, 000-(this makes about
i've or SIX sales of said grants)-the facts Of
the case are these The grants are not worth
the paper on which the same are written, and
every one krOws it They have been haSked
about Wall street for the last ten years, but
no one has been fool enough to advance one
cent upon them. Kinney. however, thinks
he can do something with them, and so has
started the humbug-but it won't pass. 1t 3
like his resources-immense on paper; but no
where else. Kinney is here without money,
credit, supplies or men-his Governorship
lasted sixteen days That was humbug No.
z, and ended as his scheme of colonization
within an entire failure. The stories circr
lated by Kinney and his friends, about farms,
coffee, sugar, corn, are all humbug Not an
acre OF land has been cleared, nor will be;
and not coffee tree nor stalk Of cane will
ever be planted by Kinney or his followers
lheIe are but few among them who can cut
wood, plough, or do any work but loaf, and in
that the majority of them are perfect. Lying
around bar-roOms, drinking liquor, and run.
ming In debt for board, lodgings, rum and
segars, including washing, is all they have
done yet, and rather expect all thew will do.
The new affair about gold is an old afTair-no
gold there. The thirty thousand dollar pur-
chase is all moonshine. In fact, all attempts
heretofore to colonize the coast have proyed
failures, and will, for no white population can
do 1t, and those who do try it die.
one WEo KNOWS.
GRAYTowN, Oct II, 1855.
RESIGNATION OF THE GOvERNoRSHIP
The enclosed is Col. Kinney's last effort
1hdlhg himself In the minority. and no one
70 obey him, he resigned, az you see. His af
fairs are getting worse every day. No sur.
Plus, no money, no mcn-in fact the Kinney
expedition has exploded. lie and his asso.
ciates arc dying hard. They try to keen up
some excitement. They, as you may sec by
their paper, the Central American, are get
ting up splendid gold mines, large farms, i'm
mense resources tall corn, but unfortunately
II Is all on paper, and nowhere else Fabens
and his scheme Of Choutalas, has also fallen
through; he is in Granada, below par, and
can do nothing.
CODILLE.
Walkers party have also issued their news-
paper, the Nscaraguan. We have received
the first number, or at least that portion of it
published in English, which is dated at Ora.
NADIA, and is filed for the most part with an
account Of the military exploits of the fill
busters, and with Qualifications of General
walker" 1t also contains a contemptuous
notice of the deplorable condition of KINNEY
and his few remaining followers; intimating
the purpose of Walker to send an expedition
down to San Juan to arrest the whole party, in
order to push them as invaders of Nicaragua
hllibusters, robbers. &c, &C. We have
not been able to understand ,roo;so, !,