The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-13


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The Sew Regime in Nicaragua Walker,
| Rorland, Hol,ins, Kiancy, Fabens, F<cnch
s. Co.-Thc Romance Of Manifest Dsstiny.
Old Calico WAS right. The world does
move. Make way for Gen. William Walker.
Hear us in behalf of "squatter sovereignty"
Read Of the wonderful events we are about TO
relate, for still more wonderful things may
follow them.
The astounding, unparalleled and romantic
achievements of General William Walker in
Nicaragua, as detailed in the news from that
country, published in yesterdays HERAID, sug-
gest the propriety of grouping together some
historical facts of the last year or two in con-
nection with Gen. Walker, Major Borland Col.
Kinney, Col. Fabens, Captain Hollins, Gen.
Pierce and Col. Parker II. French, and the
successive steps, here and there, which have
eliminated in Gen. Walkers late desperate,
dashing, momentous, and inconceivable revO-
luton in the affairs of Central America
1t was two years ago last October, that Col.
William Walker, with band OF fifty-six men,
aboard o small armed schooner, set sail from
San Francisco on the wild goose chase Of the
conquest md Americanization of those vast
and has desert western provinces Of Mexico
know as Lower California and Sonora. He
lander in the peninsula, fought some severe
battles, established footing there, levied up
u the natives for supplies, appointed new
Anglo Saxon republican government, includ-
ing complete Cabinet selected from the rem
of !; Sc e. foil OH
self President, and laid down the law for his
ad ministration. Having done all this for the
peninsula, he crossed over the Gulf into SOn0-
ra, and proclaimed that department an integral
portion Of his newly created republic. But
his glory was short lived. The Mexicans were
upon him, and his army, reduced to about
twenty men, were in February, 1854, compelled
to retreat across the desert wastes of Sonora
as fast as possible, back to Upper California
He reached our settlements there with half a
dozen men of his original fifty six; the rest had
been slain in battle, OF shot for mutiny or de-
sertion, or had persisted from starvation, thirst
and fatigue, in their fight across the Sonorian
deserts. Arrived at San Francisco, Colonel
Walker was arrested and tried for breach Of
our neutrality laws, and dischargcd-lke
Adam and Eve
With all the world before him where TO choose
About the same period of this first Walker
expedition, there was terrible diplomatic
row in Greytown, Central America. Major
Scion Borland, our Minister there, returning
down the San Juan in the New York home
ward bound steamer, had protected the Cap
tain in the shooting of native named Anto-
Mo, in his bungo and had, in his diplomatic
capacity, with the aid of rifle, prevented
the arrest of the Captain by a party detailed
from Greytown for that purpose. On the next
evening the Major was imprudent enough to
visit the village, when mob gathered around
him; but he contrived to get back to the
steamer without further damage than the
breaking of whiskey bottle, or bottle OF
whiskey, over his nose. He returned to Wash
ington, reported progress at the White House,
and in July, "a, Captain Hollns, with the
sloopofwar Cyane, went down to Greytown,
and under his instructions, and by and with
the advice of Colonel Fabens, United States
Consul, bombarded the village, and then set
fire to it and rcdnced it to ashes. In his mes
fed the act as the reduction of a nest of pl-
rates or "a camp Of savages."
A month OF two later, Col. IL. L. Kinney,
wealthy Texas colonizer and cattle raiser,
writes letter from Washington, to Col. William
Walker in California requesting his co-opera
ton in the grand project Of the Americaniza-
ton of Nicaragua and the loose territories
al. Ar<1 ofxa 1.,,t
under different dispensation, Col. Walker
proceeds to action, and in q short time he
rigs out another little armed schooner at
San Francisco, with ffty-six enterprising
fighting men on board, and sets sail for his
new field OF glory-the fertile domains of
Nicaragua. Meantime, the grandeur of Co
lionel Kinney's Pacific colonization scheme
is explained and approved by our Cabinet
organ at Washington. The Colonel is represent
cd as the active partner of Senator Cooper,
c. Cushing, Cost johnson Co., the pur-
chasers of the great Mosquito tract of thirty
six millions of acres Of the richest and most
prolific lands in the world. But Us the Colo
nels semi-pacific and acknowledgement scheme
is agitated the Nicaragua Accessory Transit
Company take the alarm, lest their interests
may be overthrown by the projected revolu-
ton, and 20 Col. Joseph l.. White and Senior
Marcoleta open the eyes Of Marcy to the perils
Of this plot, involving filibustering Invasion
of q country with which we are at peace.
The administration accordingly turn against
Col Kinney, prosecute him and Col. Fabens,
who happens to be here, and blockade his emf
grant squadron in the East river. Fabens es-
capes and returns to Greytown to find that he
is dismissed as our Consul there. Kinney e.
capes and in schooner, with twenty-six fear
less men, resolves to plant the nest-egg of his
Anglo Saxon colony in Nicaragua, sink or
swim. He is wrecked among the coral reefs
Of the West India islands but getting ashore