The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Col. Kinney.

‘ We notice in the Brownsville Flag, of the 5th, a long communication from Col. Kinney, in reference to the capture of the C. S. schooner King, placed under his command by Commodore Hollins, for the purpose of proceeding to certain Mexican ports to procure arms and ammunitions for the Confederate States. The charge of having illegally disposed of said schooner, as we understand has been alleged against Colonel Kinney, appears to be utterly unfounded, although she had been placed at his disposal to do with her what he pleased.

We regret any misunderstanding should have arisen between him and Col. Ford, and we trust the very full and satisfactory explanation he has given of the whole transaction will at once disabuse the public mind as to the impression that may have gone abroad, that Col. Kinney had failed to carry out the mission with which he had been entrusted to the best of his ability.

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