The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-13

tation as fillibuster, has turned up In
Central America. 1t seems he is as rest
less as Gen. Walker, himself. 1t will be
remembered, a year or two ago, he got
up magnificent scheme for colonizing
Nicaragua. Some how or other he failed,
and oblivion seemed to have almost claim
ed him as her own, but he has arisen
from the temporary obscurity in which
he has been yelled, and if all the news is
true, is yet destined to play conspicu-
Gus part in Central American history
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
writing from Panama under a recent date,
says:
News has just reached me that the
famous Col. Kinney is on the point of
starting from Aspinwal, nominally on a
commercial speculation but ! think l
can see the cat under the meal-tub. The
Colonel has chartered the barque Osprey,
Capt Nash, and has made extensive pur-
chases of all. kinds Of provisions, wines,
brandies, several cases of muskets, revol-
vers, balls, with the usual military allow
ance of powder. You are aware that
the Colonel has lately come in for $780,
600 cash, and being one Of the most per-
severing men living, Ire has resolved
to kill two birds with the one stone-scll
his goods at handsome profit, and take
possession of that million of acres in
Mosquito, which he claims under the
Sheppard and Haley grant. He says
the treaty fully provides for him, and he
is resolved to have his own, peacefully if
possible, but have it he must. His arri-
val in Greytown will create a sensation,
and you may look out for stirring times
in that quarter"
A correspondent of different paper
is more particular, and says COL X. has
been negotiating with the Mormons, with
a view to settling them on the Mosquito
coast. Here's his statement:
"Some months since he despatched
from this place an English Mormon, em5
powered to sell them one-half Of what is
known as the sheppard and Haley
Grant" l. learn from "a gentleman here,
who is partially in the secret--for every
thing respecting the negotiation has as
yet heen kept from the public-that by
the last California steamer the Colonel
received intelligence that his proposition
had been favorably received by the Nor
mons, and that this intelligence has en-
abled him to raise (his friends say thirty
thousand dollars in cash, ard some eighty
thousand more in merchandise and sup
plies, with which, and accompanied by
about twenty followers, he has sailed for
Greytown.
The goods, and perhaps the money,
We're furnished him by some English lTJT-
chants. understand he expects to OBJ
tain, through the influence of Gen. La
mar, (the General, of course, knows moth
ing of the negotiation with the English
Momons), permission to colonize the
country under the Nicaraguan flag, obi
eating the colonists to help defend Mica
ragua against the fllibusters. He eX-
poets that the raising of the Nicaraguan
flag where for years the Government Of
Nicaragua has not been able to sustain
it, will induce the Martinez Government
to grant him the privilege of colonizing.
Failing to obtain that privilege, he will
raise the Mosquito flag. As this is under
British protection, he expects no serious
opposition from any quarter
OF The following is "frst rate"
apology, which we find in the Columbia
Mirror
CAN'T TAKE a JoKE--We are inform
ed that in saying, few weeks since, that
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