The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-14

ance! lis o supJect IOr grave anO anxious
thought.
Coz. CoLT AND HIS PIsroLs-ExTEysIvE Pre-
PARTITIONS FOR A GENERAL WAR-It will be
seen, from our Washington advices Of this
morning, that Col. Colt bears the defeat of his
patent extension like a philosopher and q man
of business. He is himself opposed to this
monopoly legislation; but was drawn in and
done for by his lobby friends, acting in behalf
Of another special extension of his patent for
seven years. His present patent, we believe,
has several years yet to run, and in that inter-
val he has resolved to supply the civilized
world with his revolvers. And when his pa
tent expires he confidently counts upon his
superior machinery, materials, skill and expe-
rience, as sufficient to secure him against all
competition.
He has now an immense pistol factory at
Hartford, involving a capital of several hun
bred thousand dollars. He has a still larger
establishment at London, for the supply of the
British army; and when the French, Russians,
Austrians, Prussians, and Turks, ore each sup
piled with q factory, the cavalry of their re-
spective armies will be rendered as deadly as
the point blank fire Of q battery charged with
grape and canister. Col. Colt is induced to
this enterprise of supplying all the Eu-
ropean belligerents with his revolvers, in
order to prove his neutrality in the present
war. That's fair. John Bull cannot object
to that. Perhaps, also, the general distribution
Of revolvers among the contending armies,
may operate to shorten the duration Of the war,
in lessening the time which would otherwise be
required to complete the work of slaughter.
This is q humane view Of the subject, in which
Colonel Colt may be considered as entering the
field as q p~eacemaker, at SO much per pistol,
wholesale or retail. From present appearances,
however, his plan of operations may bring him
in millions upon millions Of money before his
revolvers will become . drug in the market.
KINNEY AND CUBA-WHAT's IN THE WIND?2
The evidence increases in support Of the gene
raj suspicion that the real destination Of the
Kinney expedition is the island OF Cuba. It
appears that Marcy's manifesto has not disband-
ed the organization. This we hold to be very
real ultimatum Of Col. Kinney. Marcy's mani
festo outlaws the Mosquito colonization scheme
declares null and void the land purchase from
the half naked Zambo called the Mosquito
King,' upon which, perchance, Messrs. Cooper,
Cost johnson, Captain White, aud others, pro-
pose to settle their squatters, and re-afirms
the Monroe doctrine. A British feet Is at
Greytown, ready to cooperate with the troops
of Nicaragua and Costa RIGA against the Kinney
emigrants. Persistence, therefore, in this absurd
colonial Central American invasion, is out of
the question ; and If this Kinney organization
be still intact, Cuba is at the bottom of it, and
ere long it will probably be at the bottom of
Cuba.
In connection with this wild goose enterprise,
the significant movements Of the flibusters, and
the preparations Of Gen. Concha to give them a
warm reception, must not be overlooked. There
is no doubt that O large amount of money has
been collected into the liberation treasury Of
New Orleans and q general idea seems to pre-.
vail among the initiated that there will very
shortly be bloody work in the ever faithful
island" There is evidently something in the
wind, and the Captain General of Cuba unques-
tionab]y supposes 1t to be a Cuban revolution,
simultaneously with q descent of the flibusters
on the island. Hence, while he is arming the
mulattoes, he is searching among the creoles
for contraband instruments and munitions Of
war-and making some ugly discoveries, too.
We must also bear in mind that the flibus-
tiers have been quiet for the last year, in the
hope that under the management OF Soule,
they might obtain the glorious advantage Of
a war with Spain. Soule has proved a
dead failure-there is no hope Of Cuba, in any
way, under this administration. Thus the fill
busters are thrown back upon the original
plan Of Lopez as the only plan for securing the
liberty and the spoils Of Cuba, while, If they
propose a descent, there is no time to be lost.
England and France are now absorbed in Sc
bastopol, and "Sebastopol is not yet taken"
This lie the nick Of time. 1t is the right Sc ason
of the year. The climate Of Cuba now is genial
and healthy; two or three months hence, to the
Anglo Saxon it will be poisonous and deadly.
Delayed till May, the invasion must be put of
another year. In the interval there may pos
sibly be peace in Europe, which, IL it comes,
will enable France and England to place an i'm.