Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1855 — Col. Kinney’s Scheme. [ARTICLE]

Col. Kinney’s Scheme.

A correspondent of the N. Y Herald, writing from Sail Juan, under date of Oct. IStli, furnishes some iu- ’ teresting information from those I parts. It appears that after Col. Kin-; . ney had arrived at Nicaragua, be | ’found that he had been gloriously i ' Immbuged by Fabens', from whom he had received imaginary titles to sun dry million of lands. He then turn j cd his attention to the ‘Shepherd & Haley grants,’ which the cmrespon- ‘ dent says ‘are not worth the papeTorij i which the are written, and every body i ' knows it. The writer adds that “the . stories circulated by Kinney and his ; i friends, about farms, coffee, sugar.corn, are all humbug. —Notonervre j of land has been cleared, nor will be;! and liOrtrrtdlee tree or stalk of cane ' will ever be planted by Kinney or his ' followers. There are but few among ’ them that can cut wood, plow, or do , i any work but loaf, and in that the; majority are perfect. Lying around bar rooms, drinking liquor and run ! ning in debt for board, lodging, ruin’ and cigars, including washing, is all) they have done yet, and I rather ex-j pect all they will do. Thc newalfair about gold is an old affair— no gold there. The thirty thousand dollar purchase is all moonshine. In fact, heretofore to. colonize ! I this coast have proved failures, and ' will, for no white population can do ; it, and those who do try it die. 1 ' j | We would as soon think of fullow- ! ing in Coleridge’s footsteps, and writing an elegy on a dead Jackass, as 1 to write an article complimentary to | the K. N. party. — Frankfort Yeoman. “We are not aware that Coleridge ever wrote an “elegy on a dead Jack-, ass,” though he certainly addressed ; ! a few lines to a living one—and we I do tfotfeel it presumptuous to follow ; in his footsteps. The editor of the Yeoman has innocently mixed himself up with the dead ass in Stern’s Sentimental Journey and the live one in Coleridge’s poems. The coincidence ’is refreshing. When strait these , three meet again? — Louisville Journal.

j DCplt may be generally known. Lays the Cleveland Plaindcalcr, that, i Dr. Kane, of Arctic Expedition noto- ' riety, is a son of Judge Kane of Pass ■more-Wi 11 iamson notoriety; and th at! Judge Kane is a Whig of the Fill-! more school, having been appointed and confirmed as such during the last administration.