The New York Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1871, Page 3

Special Messege from the Presi- dent on St. Domingo, The President’s Course Ex- plained and Justified. Causes Which Led to the Treaty Negotiations. the neighboring republic of | {2,some degree, the Imm Hayti, where some fav alone tradtlons oft them ; still they serve at hind made. They were detained a few days by the necessity of ree ‘aire. he wen chosto seem worthy of their trust Jamaica, where some opportu- | acter and ability of the mem! Dominica: Asking American Pro- mint thchar aia Bramayce Beport of the American Conamissioners. y jo4 Pubs can (Our Ministers the ues of Mi r ‘one of these four ol of yy ie atthe will of wTrhe legiels- St, Domingo an Arcadia and the Do- minteans Areadians, Cowwltor~' members for the cit} fps, for each, of tht in all, These The Population Small, Incfensive, Zonest and Uneducated. of the Country. ally, bas an Alcs Sp Alcalde, appointed by | judice which unfitted them utter! THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, April 6, 1871. ‘The following is the President’s message trans- mittipg the report of the St. Domingo Commis- oe coaeere it parishes island, a man long period, been subjected ton | Lnowiod evotion (Christian. duty: and entively trust ambitious leaders, jation of one or more a To. Suxare 4 AND HousR oF metimes ripen into revolution. | of a mother to obtain control of the person of her daughter; | sent humber is apparently ail leas. | The Los oy ail thatd have heretofore sald 3 Rasankmty of ihe people for th and of their baracte sreymetances whicl PRESENTATIY BS— jerewith to the two jasioners resolution approved ‘that this report more feated as that country bas been by | them as conquered an lers, whose importance | ourdh—That the Spanish ru ere is no doubt that a mgorous dating the details of ordinary life, in some caves. resulting in v from time to time sepa Fhe Comtmialon- Ponythe that th # ex government, with General ee “a fairate, 1m tue oa. of sanitary appliances. abroad to save the | exact data could be obtained; the best opinion seemed to be | quarried out in lar anarehy by provisional authority, | that the Spaniards sent in ali about 85,000 troops, of whom | analysis made for the Co1 jon shows it to be of sufficient in the republic. in betireen 948,000 were lost by desertion andthe causes purity for commercial pur of we ee oe ‘dificu: urrectfooe which ide But melther has. a, cisti vo, is the exponent the cor of their virth seems to have dee; ed with time, | soil there is very little swampy or mv or irge ct ut P fet are beaded by Cabral | of colored people, formerly from the United States. These | soils. fo be the more important, umed the character of an amazing lla war- Ye expenditure on the part of the gov- | y fare, involving a heat ae par or fhe ( + asessing no r wi es yosseasing bo po oh wives | thelr neighbors, speaking the la ernment at the capi ftany hold on public opin temporariiy ocoupy, ina nae eee AR 20 THEIR LEADERS, the United States has gone The Commission obtained in all of the country sub- THE POPU!.AR DIGPOS! the sone iniormaete jements 0 ry 1s he earned the respect bat that in an administrative i t a has lost the gs tom oe falls far al ities; that General Cabral head of the republic. ‘That he does not | a people to be upon any political q olan ypreaeut the principle of constitutional or legal au- | called on to consider. It was only by diligent searoh that the thority and order is shown by the tact that in his proclama- | exceedingly small proportion tho. “opposed mn and ina communication to the be Himself *sCiief of the Revolution,” and the jourval pretend- | of the opporition which oes exist appears 10 juan, but well understood to | among certain traders io the ports, some of whom, styled the Bulletin of the | jn case of annexation, would lose control of branches of | average quality of soil In St. Domingo, espectally the pla! administrative a ing to emanate from him at Hig Me ? zg 2 saat, fe that ho 1 sy roreler. ange, nia sonia eeplotie. tea. To these should b any regular manner, his main ex in | would be a. these shoul e Mee kad pirationl ‘operations eitthe crateeihe | Locite of houses in neighboring stands who bave made pe- | of the Commissioners. ‘They anit their agrnts inspected furnished bim by insurrection | cuniary advances to rebel leaders, though these would, with- | several of Pepcncen. sugar plantations in Jamaica. The ighboring island. The disturbance of | out doubt. i “has its seat the i honor of the piahed by the and which lon of those who repre- . And how my ‘solicitude upon : nds all personal EEE i Congress assembied, the country, and 4 jose convictions so nel- nO policy to enforce. district, as well as considera- | thing its; some from epposit ia conte by admfntetrati we he Haytiens and the preval fen fi ious sections of the country ready to resort to | cutting of insurrection, is nearly depopulated, and that the Toros fm fen, erate met ral's command does not exceed a few bun- | b mediately at Cabral's xy, force into their service dred men, who, in case of eme! all the male population upon wi It has alse been claimed can port of Barohonn and received supplies through f the case. On the other hand, minican government that Belbas | period during thet Hoyt, and. that Haytlen soldiers | was removed at thelr requ e Com ction aud general dissomfoation of the peop! ‘an intelligent opin- department of the il more cheerfully confor ry of our constitution that the reased is the supreme men are wiser than mn @ full presentation of tho jon of the republic government ought upon which pub- o theuext seesion that he has controlled the Domini- | up their residence in a house in a public street, remote from | than th bi a ‘and arms have tained evidence of this many ng gt ‘They also | house freely until a only the isi neighborhood of the bi the control of Liy sons, as taken in foros is amall_and of a gueril the strength of a deperado, and nothing aioners believe that forces and resources: th down, Thats whole im fore guers, ani ptands the Hiaytien pat opulation and revenue of tl as never relented in ite bead ia a President elevated ing the murder of bis predecessor, ‘OAUBES Besides the revolts which at nection by ti character. lon. to Con; a sub, ae of = acrimonious a. single these leaders wielded only ‘duties so delicate and ive policy, and at whose | cially was & bloody insurrection, involy- | ferred to in unfavorable report with confidence upon the candor ‘8 free people, whose best interests he has fand can Lear with patience the cenaure men. OFIVE MARGION, Aprit 6, 1871, REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. , ‘When, as DISTORDANCR. Dera of the Commission had for short distances an escort of | quality and in gene have been named tothe Haytien | honor, it was made up of citizens in citizens’ garb, unarmed, Hons some minor causes have, inthe weakened condi- | so far'as could be seen, an to aggravate its dificulties. First | ever. Neither Comm people of mountains and those inhabiting the southern side, ‘The former district embraces the two moat thriving cities of ublic, Puerto Piata and es of Importance. On the jongs the city The foilowing 1s the report of the Commision of inquiry to Bt. Domingo:— Commissioners appointed pursuant to resolution 1871, to inquire into the ve the hour 10 suD- ite con! from Columbus to ublic the jealousy between these districts has | sary to accumulate 1 ders to arise; but with mgovern- | was ing better internal communications | search after Is provincial jealousy would | vidual citiz Political realty. Next, «| industrial and | mutual the rcise of caused revolutionary I ment strong and free, and developing industry, thi probably be changed into & heal ve of dinturbance ay xe in the existence of a considerable num- i umbers rof pelty military chiefs, about wi con o L E f clanship or semi especially in the central and mountain districts, | tiated a popular vote was taken Inthe manner usual in that | cinchona, and is the natural result of long-continued les between | republic, ae required by the treaty, which resulted in an a the, republic, In eho | Lepunlicy etimcus expression in favor of annexation to the | an_equable climate, free from excessive heat featimiony Feports for ral’ information on special the Senate and House of Reprosentatives of in Congress assembied, je authorized to apy CK pk ad hl = languages—t> proc and “susn other places, ascertain and report the ambitious men for suprems Jeagy to group ieeit abot ite king the f ‘about its most during or capable | opini to the best form for taking o ve received military tithes fromthe heads of pation on a sudject of that magnitade, the great mi ments or revolutions, the ‘each on the number of retainers he could bring to the | truthful expression of the will of the people, and f had used. inp ade end at Sttachment thus | expeditions, et pe Earees leader whose cause he ‘Dogun in war continues are ften becom: weak of habite; hence arises a class whose commotion. Unoccupied and, theref: Prompt to increase any troubles toat mi of the country cleer! thelr peace are public enemies Ami stantiy aseigned for. deairin, str its mineral and - fs waters and f : Teasons ‘annexation 10 the United | inevery conceivable degree. In some parte ol bi dap gr odo considérable numbers of the pure white race are to be ys measures in admin! tn agriculture and vive woul id of fteelf discouray retainers m: der conmultun diaturbance maj which would = republic be effectually bilese, der discussion; treaties Union wit vern- Powers; the ‘extent of boun- ‘and put My iz go portion is covered by and concessions, and combinations of chiefs nnd | class in other coun Political combinations, un- | the same class jo any ountry with which weare acquainted, | mark and milk condensed in nal and legal reatri NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1871—TKIPLE whieh del be the of great risks, but with of great To crimes, such se murder, arson, burglary and the like, are ‘be Bg Ry Pe | Qter inane nobeations pobtlomatinns Sad’ Stemnasts iy | scary unknown among’ them. "Ne paper ctaae existe, ana these ‘shall be held, under. | forged. ‘These ate nominally from the leaders of the fe almost unknown. ‘they are a temperate cy to the policy of | insurrectio force of the day, but they present ‘and drunken men are rarely seen. Among the pag ‘of Dominica. {dane toi evidence 7. pretent fetors jar eS. ¥ that _. petty iriy be ms. te Indul } In accordance witb said resolution the Commissioners pro- Pe. From these, thelr agents come | openly and extensively, enpoc! ‘4 por a even circumstantial accounts of insurrecti: the ulation. They are an Catholl ceeded to the Inland of St, Domingo, leaving New York on one erat ‘Tho Gomimiastonrs encountered careret | fmetignn emigrant whe were sent out ia ISi and suoceeae the 17th and arriving at Samana Bay on the 24th of January, | stances of this, This insurrection brok would doubt- years, who, with their descendants, new form a oumber 1871, and forthwith began their ‘They ded leas cease as eoon as ft ts the policy of an; nation to | of settlements and amount to several thousand persons. e wae a prevent it, ‘These are mostly Methodists and Baptists. They live amon, im their researches by @ corps of tiie observers. They LOOAL LIBERTIES. the Gatholics m peace and harmony. No intolerance or reli- traversed the Dominican republio from end to end in seve- | ,, 10 ail the struggles of various administrations against revo- | gious persecniion ean be digcoveres among them. ‘the people ind destruct! looal % id 5 zal directions, clther by thete agente or in person, one of tne | ties ur the provineen istics ced tka alee! oe, WRnineaah “Sal. aacated to thei counter, dwelling Commissioners crossing it from south to north and another | greatly. The ex! of the central civil and military au- | rude and unoomtortable to those accuel from east to west, ‘They spent several weeks at the capital | ‘Y aoe tn daily conference wth tne President and chief officers of pandas of freedom in the government, in examining the official records, and, as at | 1°) all other places, in constant intercourse with the people and bodies elected by the iy Id fg that, amid constantly recurri Hath taking testimony of witnesses. They visited the vicinity of ope roceedings, ie crope besides ther the western border country, where tt was reported that | statistics, To these bodi T i tunity to then safacny,” oa enancd”"a ene | Tinyargan gt nag tne ern | Que ehie gia tt fn ei a at capital d to thelr country might ay e 5 ry ry fami) that system of local self-government which fi the all the land they desire to cultivi hich fie United States. ‘Bul Reually one small deld; for ‘an ‘ncre or two well tiled is ent in this fertile land to furnish @ family with t Feason they universally assign for not cultivating more rms of jocal Hberiy ars by no means wholly destro: Po day oe ggyn or town councils are still retained. These it ls very un- lar ns, keeping records of their proceedin certain who may reap tne crops; besides there is tua exercising constdembie care in the reyeteion st fal | now for surplus produce. ‘Tie ‘Commissioners bad an ope influence ot theoopaine wil | dant evidence that ia spite of misgovernment ‘and. the misgovernment and the eat to Keep tp the | setal oppression wich had lasted tong after the abolition of oo] ah vin share mhighet cfviitzation, ‘The eviaeuge snows that fie Domine were impressed with yneral char- are not averse to work when certal: reaso! bere ct their monica uctinn, | ble, mara but are fond and faltrul eecne anerone dance it atl nd some habi of white labor, mam: are may. who would do hot can LOW ae fniatration i the | to. eimiay co ‘in aby “country. ~The dime | per month. Appearances make It probable that the'el Se a ed et ice pr Ry ab | thelr charactors, while {ntorest ip politcal affairs bus been | prodomluates. The decline of these people, in numbers. an itis eso bees, | Fevadteptlan: la saiichso le ccoasten Tee be aa ee the same joes A ION. AND FORM OF THE toh jority, It a, is clase that the Cgpag- Utloal. causes, without the gratuitous atauinpion that the ne iF intelligent race ig dying out or effete, ratpioan repute tn | and Marestutnst menremaniog Wit form hee eee | ee EDUCATION. According +4 col oe welcome was not a mere formmoitty eas "Ter been ‘There are few schools in the republic, and consequently braneb: Obs 3 compelled. It appears to the tn at Under a | the great majority of the people are uneducated; but of all Feet, | government guaranteeing liberty and order these municipal | the great number who were examined by the Vommlaslonors Bodies scattered through the country ‘itght become centres | and heir agents on this point not one falled to exprese, the @ | of «better system than the Do Tepublic has yet | desire that some system of yeneral education should be Be ee known, - = ‘ created, and the belief that 1t would be eagerly embraced. ay . BPAwis BEMOORPORATION, : The few schools that exist are. malatained Vy the people ro. ba Ore The constant succession of inaurrectionary leaders and the pport from the goverament, "School books oy me ne jong series of disturbances to which it has been the fate of Brocared, in the United States were found in some remote PGS 7 rs S the Dominican people to be subjected, many years since led | Cabins. The basis of original talent is not lacking, ‘The ui m | thoughtful men among them to look a ‘che hope of re- | shrewdness of the Dominicans {s proverbial among those ef, It was thie sentiment rhiah led the popaiasion gen ‘who. are brought ibto close relations with them. In the ¢ a> | 40,noqulence awelly at frat in the occupation of the, republic | sooola, few and feeble as they are, may be found abundant bl a Bas t by the forces of apeia fm 1861. That occupation had been | evidence to corroborate the ussertions of the teachers that ao i} od WO | brought about by the management of San! ‘anc the a1 of native ability is good. But one printing oflice for Rantiogo, and | then tn power, aided by the Spanish ships-of-war, without in, the republic, from which ne ers or books e eee a; ning mem: | the general knowledge of the ‘end ft was suddenly con- . This is at the capital, and is very email and years, roy summated to the surprise of the it majority of the cit poorly equippel, and each The Commissioners took ial pains in a pare GBNERAL POLITIOAL CAPACITY. by a9 of the failure followed | _ Serious as are these obstacles to general civilization and to the un) the intelligent exercise of po itical liberties the condition of ie isl ‘the people is by no means hopeless, For several generations follows :— there has been neither slavery por any caste spirit to deprive First— gontrary, to the underatandin; the | them of maniiness. TI le at large are ni who are | Dominican and Spani io apy ert the oe ite Sateen ce os are willing to work’ whe the result of their Rbor is bd A porte pre mpainly All ‘with Spauiards, to the exclusion ‘rom among them at vi secure. imes many noble aud capable men have arisen—men combining atates- ing | Second—That the Spanish subordinate functionaries were | manship and generalship with patriotism. Many of the peo- Prosecutor | not generally native Spaniards, but Spanish subjects, drawn | ple very clear ideas of liberty and show a willingness utive, and | from Cuba and Porto Rico colonies, where blacks aid men | tomake sacrifices for it. The courage and devotion that urt bad in | of color are held a8 slaves, and the atmosphere in which ve been wasted in insurrections and revolutions may yet ally, each | these men nad been brought up had fillod them with a pre- | wader better guidance, open into capacity for seli-goveru- by ter! mr thi asi nteiration ef meat and regular political action. 6 Ik. corre- | government in a country where the majority o! POPULATION, 2a tle Tatler case the Population Be ee eee ree e malOrtty oF 188 | he date furnished by the authorities as to population are at eine varie — poset some of the ieavetior ‘officers and very many | yery meagre, An eatimato was recently made by the Hocleal, 1c were brat nd endurance, and that very Vourt, counting by pat 68, whicl vo @ al ol ‘one was found whose | jittle effective redress could be obtained. ‘The ere evident signs of error in tbi timate, the Commission by 8 venerable ital was set down at 10,00), while itis of the most {na} obvious to ‘the careful observer, who coubta streets and J. houses, that there cannot be over 6,00, if so many, Again, 10 ently | worthy, that the Spanish Governor of that province had, to | Assda fs estimated at 10,000, while an actual count, made a ‘cle | his certain knowledge, been concerned in the assassination | fow years ago, showed that it contained only aye. ‘The pre- Tt was stated to » in charge of one grown | that he had entered the clergyman’s houso, stick in down at 3,000, but the military nor now estimates that eee Care more | and threatoned him with igueminious chastisement, acd that | she number ‘of families Muses not exceed 150, | which vffences, than pré | in various ways the Spaniards oppressed the people, treating | Would Indicate a population of not over 1,000, although by a iting their local authorities, tax list of 1827 1p, the possession of the’ Commission it had showed a mania for regu- | 819 ratepayers. ‘The communes of San Juan, Lus Watas, > reowting i jeyou, &o., are wet down at 1200. Rut thoy have Ban, e Indignities to the people. been depopulated ‘by revolution, and invasion and their iS ecoleslsatical administration was at va- | actual number is fixed by local ‘ea A opera: | riance with their ideas, Rractically, Felizious toleration bad | sent witnesses at from 6,000 to 8,00. Comparing these iig- ig tbe every func | grown tip, ia the republic, ‘This fact the new Archoishop, | ures of the Ecclesiastical Court with certain known facts, Buena | Under the Spaniards, did not seem to have recognized. Pro. | aud with all the evidence we can cather from in: {churches were shut and orders were fesued to the | telligent witnesses and personal observation, the Commis- clergy of the Established Church to enforce a multitude of | sioners estimate that the actual population of the republic Yeratious regulations upon theiriocks, involving spying upon | does n-t exceed 10,000, This does not include the many who Tausiles. TO use the language of a venerable priess. “ihe | have voluntarily expatriated themselves on account of the Archbishop was a worthy man, but he seemed to consider | continual disturbances, nor the few who have been Danlahed, that be he was living in the time of the Inquisition.” The | Jt seems probable that more than nine-tentha, perhaps nine- clergy were dissatiafied at that policy, ont ere | teen tweutieths, are native Dominicans ; the others are, tirst, made, and a letter from one Catholic clergyman to the ‘Rreh colored,emigrants from the Uuited States ; secondly, European bishop stated that “such measures befit thin age nor | tra “tye vad not settle anywhere, Mat sojourn at com- {his country." To these may be added the fuct that the | mercial points, Negro blood preponderates, very largely in Masonic fraternity, which possess a very large, and wide- | Hayth but he, pare, noxro of African type is not common spread membership among’ the best men of ihe island, was | even there, White blood preponderates largely 10 Dominica ubderstood to be menaced. but pure whites, In the popular sense of the word, are nol Siath=That there were manifested on various occasions | Dumerous. The majority are of a mixed race, much nearer certain deep-seated political ideas. Of theap may be men- | white than black. tioned op; m to monarchy and to colopial subjection, 8. and attachment to the name of the republic, ‘The resources of the country are vast and various, and ite Sroeath—That there was aroused s popular apprenension, | products, may be increased with scarcely any other limit founded upon « knowledge of Spanish administration on the | than the labor expended upon them. ‘There is evidence of ry Id ral weall arta of the faland. The geolo- dents and other compe- Giller oy educing the colored’ Demintes plo to heron: | giste of the expedition report the existence of th 9 luci 6 co} minican - ex lon ace ol Chica etaloronet bs cow naponaieass Con | fio, Copper uid god, wie deposits of liguive, rook eall and Although these causes were not equally oj tive in petroleum. Iron ore undant, ‘Of access, and will ovuptry, and the better ‘clase rf panish officials | doubtiess be made ork parts of liable for the cheap” produo- Hiitigated them considerably in vome districts they were ' tion of pig {ron utile yoke, ; fair cop! ores are it, When joined to uneasiness under the coon! of 2 ,fehneat, tad the” beds ‘an insurrection, which soon became arevolution. The | been opened tos slight extent. The reported coal of the ‘of the interior nnd aided by | Samana peninsula and in the meignborhood of Puerto Plata greater famillarity | was examined and found to be liguite of little value asa fuel ‘to put them | compared with the Pennsylvania or E drove mer n is extensive, and though wor! a0. | on the coast, where the soldiers died by wholesale of the | ent but ttle known, malignant fevers engendered in close an: arracks tical mmers. General’ Baez was sev- | Vad of all ean ‘Of the Spanish losses ‘no | are believed to be extensive and valuable. The transparent biocks, and a chemical CHARACTER OF THE BOIL. regen DESIRE FOR ANNEXATION, Summarily and practically viewed, for agricultural par- Although bitterly disappornied in the resuits of the Spanish | poses, there are five classes of lands in St. Domingo, viz .:— factthat, | annexation, the jo, who were soon involved in new revo- | _ Fir—The mountain slopes and vatieys. These are uni- we beset him, the | Intions, cease to look abroad in the hope of relief. To | formly rich and productive, except in limited regiona where ia prede- | the surprise of the Commission, in almost al) parts of the | rain 1s deficient, as on the southera slope of the cuast range they knew | country, even the remotest, the people were found to be fa- | northeast of Monte Christi. 7 | miliar with the question of annexation tothe United States. | Second—The extensive prairie region of the L'anos, ion of that republic who | and to have discussed it among themselves with Intelligence. ying east and ncrth of 8t. Ingo city, south claim to the chief | All classes in all Daria of the republic were consulted —magis- | of Ciboo adm: ure land; @ i large rotitable cultivation. {tis 4 resent ee and ec: estogt of every grade; oficials, civil and portion defects there might have | military; cltizens professions and cocupations in town. intersected by wooded va! and groves, containing much it untry—ant there was a general.agreeme! excellens timber. ratitied by the assent | in the declaration that their only hope of permanent pea wich The rolling plain of the Vega, which 1s generally tt people, The frequency of civil commo- | and ity is in annexation to and becoming fe the finest body of agricultural und on thi and the consequent insecurity of pene the United States, They cenerall feland. Pe a Wiss ote accumula- ef that strony of th: Doylands, like @ portion of the plain of Azna of the Yagul, where rain is ly or whoils pac é"lands can be as efforts and hopes of every seditious revolutionary leader, and | want! to} joal causes. ‘These lands can its expenses. | establish law, order and prosperity. . made artiteial frrigation, bh incursions AMERICAN COLONISTS. FM clay lands, mostty along the coast, under- ability of the adminis | The incorporation into public, sentiment of a feeling | Isla by oo: e limestone. These are usually covered with 3a it by | atronaly favorable to to the United States in not generally very rich or deep, but aro could have maintained ite | preference to any other Power is partially due to ble Of profitable cultivation. The vicinity of Bt. resence, in various pi of the couniry, of small colonies | Domingo city is a fair average specimen of this class of conceded | persons, er their immediate anne, generally came into PROPORTION CAPABLE OF OULTIVATION, i f President Boyer. | Their love of | Atthough St. Domingo contains almost every variety of in this respect mated by interest, | aac they all look upon American institutions as theoniy | it differs widely from Florida and er Gulf States, nal. T of rescuin; The country from its present insecurity, | The country Is varied in surface, unusually well watered, and touehin, sions of this met the Commissioners ai~| excels in natural drainage. There is hardly aoy portion of fous pointe. These people live on the best of terms with | the island where the land is not capable of cultlvation, The uuage of the country, and | mountains support a vegetation widely differing from that of ng in general to its customs, and they have formed, | the low lands; but they wowbare rise ao high as to be coveced ter or less degree, centres from which respect for | with snow. Everyw! they are fertile, except the few forth. small districts already mentioned, as the Fiain of Yagu and f part of the Azua region, whose character could be changed ‘aken asa whole, this ile 1s one of of tl ct flag | the country in the time o territory {t may | conform TION. That General Cabral When asked if tl would not prefer to remain an inde- | by jon. ty, and that in | pendant mation the beople generally ‘answered that they | most fertile regions on the fi he we jad to preserve their independence if it were pos. | of men well acquainted with al but since ex; bad shown that the nation could | declares this to be natural; 3 he coun- | not sustain itself they were compelled to look abroad for ‘ AGUIOUL’ LL PROD entertain. more kindly | support, and if they must sink their nationality they pre- | While the geographical position of St, Domingo within the jowards Baez, | ferred the American Union, with free institutions and | tropics implies successful cu ture of all the tropical fruits and hort of the latter in | friendly people and common ‘interests, They seem tous to | vogetables, including the commercial staples, the differences does not | be more nearly unanimous in this than we have ever known | of exposure, elevation avove the son and character of soil, iwestion which they were | present ® variation of circumstances adapting particular istricts to many different classes of growths and brauches ID Annexa- | of agricultural industry. On the rich lowlands and valleys found at ail. ‘The principal part | susar cane yields the most profitable return. The extent and erage richness of the tracts suited to this purpose are un- rpassed in the West Indies, The evidence shows that th Commission he styles | tion mony, botn ip the Cibao | business, of which, in {ts present narrow channels, they have | of Voga and portions of the country on ‘bin ained wih | xtnonopdy. “ovbes are Su mgr of evtet abr, ana | Ror (Roe, at, Down apie? gluing eneey br at aha pas yn age 5 oth . ided certain adjacent islands. Thi corroberated by the observation or annexation if it were consummated under | production of these is very great where irrigation is prac ‘of those whom they support. Beside thess a | tised. In some cases itis said io exceed two tons per acre. the directi m western el anne we susytien frontier. | email number scattered in various parts of the country op- | But in many of the circumstances conducive to the most nducted, embrace yu la wm misunderstanding of the matter; some few from a Domingo, A much This bs operalons are condtcied emorace winrge pula. | Fo , and beads of tamilies from that ble corroborative eviden between the iucarstonlate o| vored than bt. and Neyba, in ose annexation for reasons peculiar to themselves—some rohtable manufacture Jamaica is less ger, portion of the latter naturally Wking for the turmoil which the | present condition of | watere a degree suitable for this and other agricultural ion to the purposes, In many parts of St. Domingo the canes do not lon. The reports and rumors that there are | need replenishing for many years. Fifteen successive annual from the origival root are common, and upon the om to be disproved | richest Iands excellent canes are found of much greater age. Iv to the greater frequency and abundance of 3 the region named, he oa ein he at if the Ce Mt Tois is du if fact in the history of e Cominis- ‘al t af atta aie pn mec v4 fest eel [oe ahead ag og or My ge ‘apres Qt We a can le ‘irt—On ivit At. Domingo the Commissioners too! omingo, wi ves reer access to the trade winds tf the Down: | up her reaiden * an fr ; He lafands faster writin the GulGand party) also 10 ial residence or militar; st. ley had at no time the rich ve jable mor which covers the surfaco of e Ox say ime in che nature of a. guned oF wateh and at an early | tensive platns and valleys, the result of centuries of forest may th night watchman of that quarter | growth and decay. The greater abundance of fuel would . They had b ghstee Pyros ol any ap oe to [te Lae en aS Vgrtba coe ee bd ‘Persons of every condition passed in and out of the | adjoining islands in this branch of industry. ‘The mountain ge oi ae caly ant "Tate our x the night, Access | regions are especially suited to the c re of coilee and nguage of | was made easy to every one. The Commissioners and those | cocoa, The soll of | the hills is usually | rich. Even joughed 1 elr t th doors slightly secured and | where too steep and stony to be hands muskets bearing the | sccompanylog them slept with doors ly sec t ay to, be, Plonghed it, on Imes not secured at all, and with windows wide open. | be cnitivated with the hoe, Haytien stam; To the northeast of the country overran by Cabral in the | It would have been entirely within the power of a single | the beauty of the scenery make the ills exceedingly attrac of Manzanilio ia the band under | man of energy or determination to have cut off theentire | tive. To personi unacelimated and ecustomed to the inion of trustworthy arty. But no shadow of an attempt upon them was ever | northern temperature these mountain regions offer peculiar er: ‘Commission; is that his ted, no suspected person was ever found. inducementa, At present these high lands, which form more Ho vebaato have Mecoed_ The Commissioners and their agents traversed the | than one-half the area of t! ifand, are generally unin- ore. The Commis- | country in every direction without guards or weapons. They | habited and almost unvisited by man. In Jamaica are many eirown | slept at night in open cabins, no watch of any sort | fine plantations of coffee in similar situations, at an altitude have been put | being kept. The character of the country and the con- | of 3,600 to 4,000 feet above the level of the wea, The culture «7 fact from the help of | dition the roa obliged bond to move etch f of ee oe ae Ss aa ah 4 ‘that q ‘eeparat rough antain, passes, ravines, | than that of sugar, an recultar nearly three tines the foreste ant ws in wh meer ndiul. of | tamilies of moaerate’ means, The colfee tree ing in which begin ud easily have destroyed them. Espe- | to bear at the age of four yeara ent continues 6 Cibao—the district generally re- { to yield ah annual crop .for more than Atty years. very important route ef | The cocoa is equally productive and enay of culture, Natl in two or three cases, mem- | chocolate prepared from the cocoa bean is of excell 1 use. Both these trees thoroughty naturalized, are found gro ving wild in and seem free from disease and enemies. There are & num- ber of plants, varieties of the gevus ug ior which produce valuable fibres, already employed to some extent in St. Do- mingo for domestic pur ‘The “cabuga” ts the most encountered y aba of os common. It grows wild frrthe driest and most arid districts. stration. Nothing but kindness met them frrall quar- | It insusceptible of easy cultivation, The Dominicans make ‘besides some vil- | ters and among all aaa ae ‘this was not leas marked in | it into ropes, halters, bammock fastenings, 40. By the to the south side | the Cibao than elsewhere. The desire for annexation seemed | rough process of extracting the fibre by hand, now used, it with ite pres- | to be even stronger among the rural population than inthe | could not be profitably manufactured; but with suitable 1 ‘still | cities. The evidence taken, aswell as the observations of | machinery it would form an important article of export. fon with the | the Commissioners and all who accompanied or aided them, | The product of wax and honey fe surprisingly large. In many Ina weakened | establish this fact beyond ‘question. It was deemed unneces: | places the rocks and hollow trees abound in Bees Fhe hone jut timony of witns hich | 1##0 cheap and plentiful that com ly little of it my The Commie veto | w Funands of hives are destroved for the sake of the re in general use among the poor- injean republic, which | resolute oppone y fe Nn the whien they explored, i with no military guard joners nor attaches, 80 or pistol. 7 known, ever carried r P north Of the central | movements were Tsar = but ‘erywhere uniform. The Commission did not have to | saved. Thousands o! alaposition of the people. Indi | wax alone. Wax cand ions from Masonic, | est classes, Wild ginger and indigo grow everywhere in pro- eu representatives | fusion, The tree-cotton grows even on the dry iands and Of all kinds camet) | bears abundantly. The American cotton shrab | also raised faency tbat their | euccessfully near Azua. Almost every tropical production ¢ almont a burden, all declaring their desire for | would seem possible in a soil go rich and a climate so genial. nt pon these mountains alture of or Peravian bark, can be made a profitable of industry. This" invaluable plant stead: of ecclesiastical aasoc! 3 oma. wn up a | visite be ‘military attachment. | annexation. Soon after the treaty of annexation was nego- | Ata still higher brant ood has shown s | United Staten. Whatever may be individual preferences or | frost. It has recently been introduced into the neighboring island of Jamaica, and flourishes at an elevation of from four thousand to efx thousand feet. ‘The stems of the trees only four years old are already six inches in circumference, and en feet in height at the age of two qeare, and they will bave attained guficient size to. be cut lown and will apring up again from the roots without plant Commission goes to show that this was her of their own body or thelr agents, amp! political institutions | corroboration of this opinion met them at every point. than law or political CONDITION OF TAR PROPLE. ing. The British government seems to have considered this fmportance depends on | Tho <hysical, mental and moral condition of the inhabt- reduction & matter of national importance. and have care- fore, uneasy, they are | tante of SI. Domingo was found to be much more advanced | fully fostered it. Upon these mountains many of the v« ny peopl | than had been anticipated. The population ts ger dies and fruite of the temperate zone can iat these disturbers of | mixed blood. The great majority, especially the - | const, ave neither pure black nor pure white depend- | evidence before th cuitivated. cabbages, canliflowers, cele and radishes were found in perfection, In Port peaches were found raised on the neighborin apples grow luxuriantly tn many parts of the iiand: Tn mixed race the white blood pre- Valiey of Cabanza, southwest of Santiago, at an people differ widely in this par. | tion of four thousand eet, wheat has been nisad. ong whom the black raco is in | evilence of the present und condition of Dominica y. The cultivated and educated, | agriculture may be cited the fact that tne Commission during thelr expeditions through the interior of the local magistrates, compare fals fer with beet jem, and the uneducated appear equal to | fined in France, butter and cheese imported from, Den- and judicious ine! activity en habia inerease it is pro- To these causes of | They seem to be practioally destitate of prejudice of class, | but seldom with similar articies manufactured on tl effective at present, | race or color. In'their intercourse with each other and with | Ever native indigo, a common weed by the ronds: should the Domini: | strany they, re egurleous in manner, ewpgetiul and'po. | planted by an aduieraied foreign arte. Bo by connection with a | lite. Tn ‘ail their relations with them the Commissioners | no agricultural implementa of any vi ‘are used, found them kind and hospitable. | The teat! lous other | to be an honest and inofensive peopl ven freely hatch | rural districts, a person may travel alone and w been carried | over the country with treasure without danger, Ail of t ‘to the Commission, which tra farden contains enough for the use of the family, and it fu ie are inj ‘Tho judicial opteers 4a raised garelesely, y pagked rousbly Ho $$$ f palm leaf, and transported over the monntains on =} of donkeys to the seaboard, where it is seld pol jac! pall in ralbed enall, quality, and does vot flourish as in « crops a year can be the beat in qualit most valuable natural gral the winter crop was faa species of rice wh darker and smaller than the rice of but of excellent quality, and it enters largely into the feod of the inhabitants. Tropical fruits are numerons istinct species Lave been ig them, especially th entrance'o/ the gr More than forty growing wid. Oranges, bananus, Y a redial’ deo abound, Wht mi ooamunication cheap and end ol the United on. tities and at regular pric’ ieihnd, fa thirty mo! perishable fruit In great ea tables of many v present they are w are iound af all seas ‘sweet potatoes, corn, peas, beans, lettuces, radishew, kidney beans, squashes, egyplints, peppers, da. ; slao y Jaintaloa.and many other roducts unkaown | een noted for the comp: variety and abundance of {ts ort On this bay, hich add ly to its agricultural capabilities, itis commonly called, a broad-leaved a pI said not to bear close, but gives abuadance of these : Car Domingo over the For centuries the neighborin; de ended upon the Spanish fon Orne daa ioe tele id mn janish portion of piles of horses, eatile and hogs, The vast savannas, called Lianog, on the eastern end all belt Its value to the constin: what is commonly , a8 there fe a passage able for ships of moderate size from the citizens of the to a considerable vast savantas, called the island, are intersected in with a luxurious ing over, these found what ses to rairie, with no signe of human habitation or animal tife ed there. came out from the groves on all aides thousands of cattle, spreading themselves over the cattle are in size a little less than a our country, They are mostly of @ tat color, well made up and long horned. od as they require no shelter wit of the herdsman is to brand and count them. They bought for about a cent # pound on the hoof, Vast as Lianos they do-not excel articular poin mane fe exceeding! ova! in its immediate n erds on the eastern or quality th but ry oul the abundant In the more arid districts goate abound, and in the forests swine thrive in. great poultry fe plentitul; fh in many parts of the Mion horses are all bumbers. They are smaller than t country, but are stron, slope of the For travelling and transporta- | whlch is the richest p: hey are raised in great common in our own reat endurance and sen from maraud xpeditions during various fasurrections aud revolutions; only the frequency of these has prevented an immense dev of natioual wealth, lopment of this brauch One of the most remarkable agricultural features of St, mingo 1 the diversity of natural growths in different lo- ties. This arises trom differences of soll, humidity and perature, the landacapes of Maine and Louisiana scarcely the lower portions of the id the Yaqui, flowing re- janzanilio, between rt diifer more widely ‘adjoining valle spectively into bear little resemblance to cacti high mountain slopes and pla iy from both of these and hi their own, It 1s safe to predict that when oulture aud clvill- zation have developed the varlou nounced. This diveraity will give to an active internal commerce, and will prove benelicial to the health, comfort and material interests of the {uhabita The Commissioners expected to find an abundance of insects and reptile pest uel drawback to comfort in most tropical countries, but they Snakes seemed to be about aa possession of the aus of the i- avé @ flora of ye public ne or = which constitute were agreeably disap) common as in the interior of our old States, but no venom- us ones were heard of, Scorpions and taraniuias are found, and the effects of thelr bite arc seldom serious. The testimony of the head of a thrifty New in the neighborhood of ears, was to the effect that thére 5 8 house clear from trouble- but they are not commor 1 fly, who had resided Sainana Bay ne was as little difiicu some insects, as in our Northern PRODUCTS OF TUE FORESTS. characteristic of St. Domingo, at first the wonderful. luxuriance of its forests. \d especially in the 0 The most striki iborhood of the Bay of Su- ere are abrupt ridges, perpendicular cilffs ds, no bare rocks can be seen, being hidden tion. But on close observation characteristic is reveale jeemed by custom $245,070 in Spanish First—The salaries due amount bg ny Serond—Bonds, bonds, amount rsued amount outstanding, in circulation, #147,6; cree, four hundred notes of credit, new paper money, nom! "AS pel jor one di by a mass of strong ve; puother and not. leas, astonisaing vari ely ie t ‘be Near the coast various spec! valuable in constructing products. found, doubtless, in the great difference in surlacé exposure and character of the soll. fea of palm are abundant, and very ich houses as have been generally found best suited to the climate, On the mountain slopes, at win abundance both the choicest cabl- ‘&0., and a great variety ding. The roble, itch ping were found in diferent heights, net woods, as mat of timber ‘especially v: or Dominican oak, and more dry ble woods, the best known of itz, of which the quantity is parently inexhaustible aup- whieh ‘enter into manufac: sw which, perbaps, because of do ju {eal value, aloes, 40. Great as are the quantities of the woods Deen’ already out, there remains an abundance. The ma- deen cut off to some extent along the ble streams, where they were accessi- jor even the slmpie methods of transpor- tation in use were insufficient; wide forests, await the construction of roads to render them Tn various pisces the Commissioners saw houses coi ‘The want of roads bi to the exhuastion of the pr y Treasurer, #4,130, coast and the nav! Sixth—Sundry lo: ble, but in the int nown whether any was ‘at $50,000. Total debt, 81 nth-Pending clai Senate for loan of under consideration by run & Son, for hire of schooner Amelia, fman & Lowenthal and others, @ or apoltations, 1868, $10,000. . C, Caatlilanos, fran ance 5.007," Total of debt and ance 138,719, or tota! {n dollars about RECAPITULATION. Item firat—Unpald salaries. Item second -Bonds and Tre third—Debts and loans. urth_—Obligations of . ifth-Nattonal bank notes countersign h—Intorest-bearing I Item aeventh—-Loans without interest Item elghth—Debt of 1889. Item ninth—Pending claim . Item tenth—Pending claima in franca 196,719, or. Sum total of debt and clatms. ‘The following statement of presented In order to gi f view of the Gnancial condition of the Domi pul ‘Resume of the income of the government for 1870, 1. STOMS BEORIPTS. structed chief he approac! 10 oreal. Aa by those who crost miles of the principal ye loge of mahogany, of tho y_of mahogany. eat qualities, evidently the roadside for lack of means of transpor- main transportation of these woods not ons was by means of panniers, slung upon the horses and mules. Hence, only small pleces could be brought out. Notwithstanding the abundance of valuable timber, nosawm!l) was found in the country. The detatis of forest ‘products and botanical the special accompanying reports, of General Baez‘f for spoliations, in distribution will be found in ‘The fisheries, once fleurishing, have durin; yeare fallen into neglect, At an earlier peri Of the island more aitention was and the tunny fishery was the island, sup) cal on the home wants fo! @ other colonies. ough great schools of on. the, soutnern shore. The effort are co meagrel porta and thelr produce ib of the island are well ‘Ash or the family, 1 somewhat abu: the surrounding seas and the rivers a.smail member of the w! bth nt on the northern shore, whi ry year and thelr bl the green edible shell, are abundant in from open land, quite around thi moderate quant je ht into the markes in limited amount. is very abundant {n certain localities, 10 ble as the oyster of more northern to ‘While an enumeration of the sea and river animals of toe faland, known to naturalists, would sbow a large number of Kinds of great importance for tood, little ean be told of their The prostrate condition of in- yeglect of the fisberics as in the growing attached to distribution or abundance, dustry ia.as marked in the decay of agricuiture. =~ CLIMATE AND HRALTH, Tho testimony of witnesses, the observation of the Com- missioners, the reports of apce to the climate; Woather prevails, care must ‘ve taken. In tates, now resting on th plantations there, posits Additional entra: na, show that It rants easily become and engaged in they can labor there wn ane white men may under certain Btates. consists chiefly of elevated and valleys, overlook: ‘are comparatively cool, and are favorable to northern con: few hours’ ride inland farma were visited where the temperature, peaks, was racing, and in the same growing cabbages and bananas, dian corn and sugar white men in such regions The process of acciimatio Ing to was #0 alight ae to be rource Sales and rents. . 3 mmissfaners beileve ven above includes all the 1 | for which the Dominican republic an inconvenience. Process presents does the similar rsical confign- no greater obstacle to immigration thi process in several of our new between its castern and western ends in regard to health. In the eastern or windward portion of the island, occnpied by the Dominican republic, the principal monntain chains run in lines approaching an east and west direction, ‘The m are, therefore, swept during a great tion of the year by the trade winds, a east and northeast. Commission, whose object recise amount tat the bottom and find the utmost lim! obligations, setting forth everything for which the go y clroumstances, be made lable. above account contains much that the American ment believes to be partly or wholiy groundless, which, upon inspection, will appear brought to the notice of the Comm Jeaurun & Son, of Curacoa, for upwards of money advance! to the was valleys between ment could, under sland, oocupled by {n'on its western or leeward side by chains pear that these act to some extent winds, and to this fact, coupled with the and mangrove swamps, at Port au Prince and the couni rd to health, As to foubt that the ee of Lat of arties, On belng asked if he hi barriers to the tra influence of neighboriny ia due fn great measure ‘about it have so bad a reputation in re the large towns, there canbe. no, otherwise would. il part will b ‘and provisions in time of w ished was estimated at $100,000, eighteen per cent aimed by the Dominican govern- the original contract was made ry rs ned over Ship and cargo valued at $70,000, and that subsequently other paymente were made, which, taken together, amount to ® sum much below that named in list, The clalm is now it. Domingo, which have weives upon the Bi yellow fever, which 6 Spanish armies successive! The victims were lish and Freoch aud yy 6 alm that the most fatal of th janing of this century, conducted rations mainly on the Haytien part of the teland. The English js sometimes referred to, 20 ene, that of the expedition to St. Dom! far as can be ascertain Joss of lite trom disease than m! the imperfect sanitary regn' e existed down 0 a very recent peri the Spanish army from illness were lar; lack of sanitary care, and the Cor that those losses bi o) it, and their reports are ap The popular idea tI ote. ie comcinson Is" tale: "7 are is entirely erroneous. aith and jongevit; ed Hates, ae a whole, Immigrants 1 more disturbance of general health in f acclimatization than the new States of the United States, a tthe process is a0 simple as to escap through as much agricultural work can be th as can he done jn our Middle reater results. Persons In all 0 yy selecting thelr locality. licious climate’ and abundance of fruit, with piderics, and without flit demice, and without any Hability fission, {te attaches and the officers and crew ered 496. Thie company of 638 sojourned Thora, supposed to be the moat unbeaith; + oF in the Interior of she island, a ‘ew, if any, had been acclimated. there was bat one case of moi causes unconnected with climate. ‘There was no case of ma- fever and none of severe sickness amo: atucket, with {te full comp! harbor who pase from By the so-called treat but fa form and in fa Habiuty to di fever and otber f ul to yellow fever. gentlemen of the ni was granted to the Inbabitants of dt of St. Domingo, It of the French or was Haytiet ress numbered y ‘ilsenee, and that {rom wernment as thal o ties with other Pow formed by the Dominican authorities that the wernment has not fatration of the h, according to Wl mage 10 | Je that searce one in itante are aware of them. Al uinox burricanes are not wn! are sometimes attended with Blong tbe coast, and oven to trees and crops ou RIVERS. ‘There are several rivers, as the Yuna, Yaqui and Ozama, oe, Great Brital Doe. 17, Forty-first Congre are mostly treaties of navigat tain no unnsual provision requiring notice here. BOUNDANIES, The only dividing line between the Dominican revublie and te =the boundary between u anywhere to be seen, is everywhere mong whom, in the | well nakpted to the cultivation of tobacco. Amon. over narmed al an adjoining nation Sithes the bop pe of ex There seem: sean CONTINUED ON TENTH PAGE trevoluiion- | numerous parties aulached why it shou the quali ogni ane Oneme, ines, Revoluion pames | grved varkoug parte of the country bear the anine teeimony ofailiand’ jantry were applied. Al 4 sevgatod i faut drovaita' co At present they simplify and fod Umber Teich rows wil aerally Kece Fee yroat haya of B afford factiities for thin easy divtanee DAYS AND HARBORS. The territory of the Dominican re Dumerous harbors, OF ght draught, The om vos anzanilla admit vessels of the large: and ortant as outieta of the commerce ot the couptey sairrod Hay of Manzanilia, whidp ies ley of the Yaqui, but nether as aby great Importance in @ military polat nie te ate s feegains wih at of the THE BAY OF BAMANA, y of Samana, howover, deserve: | tention, a8 om many accounts ft is the most important in northeastern extremity of faye dave oo br about oe ae o1 |, om ly 09 ‘or the largest fivets. Ii tected from the winds, especially those of tne northeast. ty the mountains of the ‘peninsula. Its entrance presents obstacle to ships of the largeat draught, is narrower than thas of the harbor of St. Thomas, but is the ‘on that account. MoCisllan’ bere 4 more careful a General MoClellan. 1 enhance! should an a re. ate — at the qutrance of fackson, on the no would “guard. tt thoroashiy, ne f Mons important eastera avenue to the Gul? tance will be immense! ‘fiage be opened to the world’s comm»rce through of Darien. To any Powor having occasion fleet in the West Indies, and espacially to the United Bi Font Tie situation gives age the. most ‘Mexteo, whose im- new pas ¢ Isthmus fo maintain » tect in the Gulf of Mexico, th ing station can hardl a oecure anf liberal gaverntoent grow up at some commere otot on this bay which would lal centres of trade is enhanced by the fact, that led the peninsula is in reality an which could easily be pereoree testl acoast. T imony Vnltéa *Blater have” acquire ol 9 water front 0! e village Santa Barbara, which is one of the numerous Barvors in thie, extensive bay, and has heratofore Paice ao acquired forms but a smal! part pace which would be needed, and ocenpled by a'great oom- y, even, if that city should finally grow up at this The country. adjacedt to tbe bay of ood are not comfirmed by ‘noclogista attached to the expedition, but the richness of surrounding country in all other res known, been overestimated. All bay natural plain rt of the is uitural wealth and val city, Santiago, is, as regards inland trade, tin the republic, and {a ite of little Lean $iny ated for @ considerable dranght. “And «railroad along fey would have da its favor the aosence of heavy ou and large rivers, and the Ns Commissioners were notified while invests at the capital of the Dominican mt the government o! the United States Bay of Samana, but had constant pyed the use and occupation thereof as a naval station, the in default for more suan one year, PURLIO DEBT, ‘The Commissioners made a caret tion into the important subject of the indebtedness of the Infean republic, collecting all_ information that communicated by the officials, the special di was to know every detail o! of the governmént, all nd his chief oiicers in They also received from the Senate a ir respective amounts pending bel hich {s appended, The following summary xhibits briefy the result of these inquines asta the t and {ts obligations, whether aacertaine under discussion.” A schedule of items In detal marke, will 06 found among ‘The receipts of the abt three for previous war debts and for th a utstanding paper money, The latter, which originally amot ry of 800, left in’ otroulation by Cabi 1s receipts, as was war bonds. the any yoarn hare beet cancelling of derives an outlet of the Ned resenc: mou! ‘eat Indies, st end shows that a few red the ‘right racted the most atten- of the Former reports of the the 1s has never, 20 far aa accounts agree also inabhe mineral re portance. ‘The iland coe Tounications from the Bay of Samana would be easy, Una river could be navi, ‘steamers of light . The je dis- of an unlimited mber for ties. Ree that shtcesh ‘not relinquished ly en- ‘ul and prolonged invest} whom ay of whom it f the nances and the llebilitien hat could be obtained from ofices, from the state: ever’ ind = who could and from the explanations to the whole ra joant ont of if alance out at thirty for one sliver doliar, $70,000; of W. Total, $204,000, 131,719; of A. Postel, lati . may J of present administration, issued by Comp fons of present administration, ismed ef cent, $1,168, ‘Total of bonds; Treasury debts and loans due towns and dry debt and loans dui individuals, tions of Cabral’s administration, ful origin, the gross amount, 845, OTE.—This debt 1s In process of consoltdation and may uced to exe than one-third of its nominal sum. ‘Notes of National Bank countersigned by zh ans pearing interest (back interest not in- Rerenthe- Loan without interest, subject torebate for ad- bt of 1869—amount not known; because ft redeemed durin; Comp- jeneral Spanish t 00; reckoned or #60, tia 'of Jeera & Son, claim before 000 {n 1867, contested since and ie Chamber of Account ts, 100,000; th Sonn lead 14, 000 ; L. Uazonead ne Inquiry ft was urged upon the Dominican every clatm of ‘should be exhibited to’ the known to exist, was not to determine the claimant Commission cannot understand how this! voted against the Dominican ~entates the Haytiens made inquiries on thi 1 also in Hayth, an the express iniean government, with ¢ loan as the $100,000 im 1867, men- nding claims by the same ny statement or explana- regarding it, Mr. Jesurun, who submitted the loan, declined to make any. This claim has been a time before the Dominican which refuse to consider more of ad a fen ever Dominican blige; and they ade would be wholly without foundation. 45, which was not a treaty at all, ct @ royal ordinance issued by the King the pay- nit reas, jnetly due and | bonding of ther ationable.' There was jona claim of Messrs. for in- ready ov- it and of that it is be- jowed. The debt was jar, when on wiich was to these claimants = reduce the ine foregoing pending before the Dominican Senate, and underlined among the pending claims is one of the ree ‘a roperts at “~ overnment, Another cialm ‘amounting t 010,00, made by W. 8. Cazneau, of a similar nature. opts of the. Domain rept people of the Dominica: the rule of the Haytiens, might not bepiabie ihe. indemnity exacted country whether the pA vite, having for e of French families who bad been driven out of the island, and whose had been contiscated v of 1791. The Commission rnin Sropert; ‘jaring’ the ‘revolutioy subject o they ‘government ‘and forced upon the Haytiens by arms, 150,000,000. franca was ft which imposition, rp Oruimance was upon the fahableante of th 4 upon these conditions independ he French portion of the burden im ' oD part of by them upon Fi the iniean Smy to indemoail as may = claim upon the Tie inland. for enh. island, depredations cope. had" Bo more ie of e United States. ne © Dominiean or Spanieh part of the tly, for a few years, Fuled which raled the Hayt Mibie. Domingo, Mt inhabiante for their own acts by Yr The Commissioners were in- “ii hot fender tien, portion of ibe joland for burdens im- They and commerce, and cou-