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4 unce of Cuba, And, by the way, the mention of Cuba suggests to me the fact that among our Pilgrims were five Cubans, worthy, ardent, high-toned men, who would insist !ast night, spite of my protestations, on drinking five times over the health of the Heratp Commissioncr. There ts Rothing to be said for the steamer as a work of Naval architecture. When there was apy rowing to’be done she went at it with a will; but that curi- ous compound of overflowing humor, stern devo- ton to duty and general sagacity in all things, Captain Delanoy, has my heartiest recommenda- tion, WHERE 18 THE COMPANY ? It was a grievous disappointment that we had Mo representation among us of the directory of the West india Company. Why was this thus? True, we had Captain Santuels, but where were all the rest? It was reasonable to indulge the hope that half a dozen at least of the great guns of the new speculation whe had put up their money to secure the venture would come down to take a look at their property, to look at the towering hills seamed with coal, copper, tron, and last, but not least, virgin gold; te look at the endless acres of sugar-canes, bananas, plantains, figs, dates, yams, cocoa-nuts, alligator pears, mahogany, lignum vite, logwood, rock salt and well-fed, happy darkies. Where were President Stockwell, Sam Barlow, Henry Clews, Tom Scott, Oliver Ames? ana where, in thunder, was Dr. Samuel G. Howe? Howe has missed the most glori- ous opportunity of his life. He might have suc- ceeded in giving his name to the pioneer town which we are about to carve out on the shores of St. Domingo. In a few days and for endless ages it would have been called “Howesidea.” The Pilgrims missed him much, but much more did they deplore the absence of his gentile and elo- quent spouse, Madame Julia Ward Howe, whose memory is so much cherished by the eailors of the Tybee, to whom her Sabbath sermons were more grateful than Jamaica rum or Trinidad twist tobacco. When the admirable Howe and his suite of unmarried maidens—beautiful girls of forty and upwards, from the sucewent soil of Massa- chusetts—came here nine months ago to see if the island was adapted tor New England beans and Bibles, they left, on their departure, an odor of sanctity and pork behind them (a sort of spiritual and physical essence) that is remembered to this day. A FLOWER OF BEAUTY, Tradition has it that one of these intellectual virgins wore red hair, and, in seeking to carry into effect Howe’s theory that the noonday sun of St. Domingo was harmless to the whites, she had her delicate face dreadfully blistered, to relieve which she used vast quantities of four, The novel appearance her features presented with this conspicuous emollient plastered plentifully over them 1s still recalled by the natives as a bewilder- ing exhibition of American beauty. Howe came here originally forthe good of his country and also for the good of his health. The latter con- sideration was an ail-powerful one with the Pro- fessor. In the early mornings he might have been seen riding violently across country on the back of a native bull for the good of his health; and in the evenings, to exercise the muscles of his vertebrm, he climbed the royal palm tree and did a thousand things unfamiliar to the Massachusetts school of muscular hygiene for the benefit of his constitu- tion, Perhaps St. Domingo has done so much for the good of his precious health that he feels under 00 necessity toreturn. Still he might have made it convenient to be with us, THE DREAMLAND BAND. The hearts of our pilgrim party burned with high hopes of the happiness im store for them, All was gold that glittered. They saw themselves in im- agination lying down to rapturous dreams at night to the music of tropical birds, and waking in the mornings te ready-made coffee and burned rum; with nothing ‘to do but sit under the shade of heaven-kissing paims and lave their weary feet in the foam of sapphire seas. Captain. Samuels stood forth as the proml- nent figure of the new enterprise. He was with the Pilgrims, but not of tuem. Save a Californian miner named Oley, wlio im @ previous tramp of seven months through the island scraped together exactly $4 in gold dust, no one else o/ tlle party had ever visited St. Domingo. Oley was going down again, satisfied there was gold galore some- where, and pledged to let the company know some better results than had attended his frst experi- ment. Mr. Halsey came down to lay out the town that ts to be and survey the route for a railroad from Samana Bay to any place most necessary and convenient, Captain Plumner, a full-blown bios- som of West Point anda handsome and gallant fellow, came down to assist Halsey or keep him company,I don’t know whieh. All the rest had the world before them where to choose, and they selected St. Domingo. There was Mr. Rennie, from Canada, who balanced his imagination between the happiness of owning Samana lots and the misery of having to manure them prematurely with his own bones, There was Mr. Henry N. Marsh, of New Jer- sey, who in & most romantic spirit le/t his home to help in any way towards making the scheme of American colonization a success, to raise the Do- minican native to a proper sense of his manhood and turn an honest penny at the same time. Mr, E. Stewart, of Boston, a happy young fellow, had the doakey element of the St. Domingo animal kingdom constantly in his eye, Mis estimate was that the two or three million emigrants who might go to Samana Bay would need a donkey each for business or pleasure, His purpose was to create a corner In donkeys by bartering for the animals with the natives through @ carpet-bag full of Connecticut jewelry. I regret to say his frst at- tempt in this line to-day in the Comergo street of Porto Plata resuited in @ miserable failure; but, like ex-Sheriff O’Brien, he is young and can afford to walt. Mr. Seaman, of Providence, a gentie- man Very muchlike ex-Mayor Hall, kept the patent to himself, by which he expects to run a sawmill up the mountains among the mahogany trees, and turn the living trunks in a twinkling into chairs, tables, tea caddies, writing desks, &c. YANKEE NOTIONS, ‘Mr. Adams, from the same city of ingenious spirits, and bringing with him a most philosophic spirit of resignation to yellow fever and Haytian marauders, proposes to chop down his logwood trees and grind them up in a coffee mill. The ground logwood can thus be exported jn small packages in piace of in bulky Gans ates crete. fore. He thinks he ean also make a good quality of claret wine out of the selution of powdered log- wood, Adams isa genius, and would make his fortune in or out of Samana. Mr. Ward, of New York, a great joker and humor ist—but awfully serious in his purpose—comes down in his old business a8 undertaker and coMn arcni- tect. He will go into partnership with Seaman, aud uave his coMns made on the spet out of the living mahogany and tombstones out of lignumvite, which is just as hard as marble and far more dura- bie, Should he have a surplus om band he thinks he can export a good article of coffin to New York at reasonable rates, Mr. Delgado, of New York, has his eye om a sugar plantation, Mr. Calleja thinks photographs of the eminent directors of! the company will sell well among the natives, Mr. Macias, of New York, Satissed that Samana as a free port will make it the paradise of cigar smokers, and has accordingly ordered his cigar stand, Mr, Delmonte, of Havana, will build @ theatre very likely. Mr, Vandusin will start & botel, and the beautifa) stewardess of thy ‘Tybee will open a millinery store, Thus, you see, our Pilgrims have various ends in view. anA no one will be base enough to wish them othet than Buccess. A DOMINICAN PATRIOT, Now I shall como to relate the fruits of our prog: ress aud the facts and the wisdom we have learned so far, The first question the interested People on the steamer put the Captain of the Port when he voarded us this morning was, whether the ratifica- cation by the people of the Samana purchase had been made, The Oaptain said it had, ana his soit eyes gleamed at the happy reflection. He told us asthe next item of news that there had been “revolution” & Week previous near Santiago de 109 Cavelloros, Lafitte, former Governor of this district of the Republic, had risen in arms and for two days held the road to Porto Plata, The motive of Lafitte’s proceeding was what Lafitte declared infamous the surrender NEW YORK HERALD, MUNDAY, MAKUOo 3, 18{3—TRIPLE SHEET. THE NEW PARADISE. Map of St. Domingo, Showing the Possessions of the Samana Bay Company, with Their Remarkable Flag. This is the Land Flowing with Milk and Honey and Such Like in Abundance. ofa portion of the territory of the Repubulc. Gon- zales, who 18 now the Governor here, acted with surprising energy, He collected all the troops roundabout, and moving quickly on the refractory Lafitte demolished his ragged battalions and re- asserted the sovereignty of Baez. After bearing this I went ashore. There were already crowded around the vessel lighters for discharging the cargo and boats to take passengers to land. All were manned by negroes, many of whom spoke English in the plantation dialect, They were bare- footed and lightly encumbered with clothing, and their manners were very civil, considering that they were sovereign citizens. A SCENE IN THE TROPICS. _. Pirie}, 8 "gett he ~ Sailing in &simalf boat through the open road- stead tothe shore, it was impossible not to feel charmed with the beauty of the picture presented by the little red-roofed town nestling under the dark green shadow of the giant hill, Mount Isabella. It was cloudy, but the air was exquisitely balmy. The tropical vegetation, fresh from re- cent rains, looked vividly bright; and the orange, the royal palm, oleanthus, cocoanut, papaw tree, and endiess plants of tropical growth and bloom limning the shore and hillsides for miles away, were scene so novel to northern eyes, but lately come from gazing on the snow and slush-laden streets of New York, as to stir up some little en- thusiasm. To the left of the little harbor stood an old Spanish fort, over which the Dominican flag was waving. A more woe-begone and utterly con- temptible object of defence it would be impossible to conceive, but itisafit type of the genius and character of the people. Fancy Castle William, on Governor’s Island, washed almost entirely away in @ deluge of red mud, and three rusty guns and a hundred ragged soldiers mounting guard for national defence and integrity over the ruins. As we landed we saw a fair sample of the enter- prise of the people and the fostering care of the government. A hundred young bulls, yoked to rude carts, Were out deep in the water, taking off | the freight brought ltither by the lighters from the steamer. Ten yards away a pier had been put up for passengers alone, though the addition ofa few feet to its width would have made it avatlable for the discharge of freight as well; but no, the far- secing economy of the government frowned upon tho erection of.a pier at which vessels might unload, because each bull cart paid tribute to the Castom House | i pani DOMINICANS THINK, The beauty atts state the town presented from the roadstead disappeared, as I am afraid to ; think will every other anticipatory delight formed of the island when we set foot on shore. The brutal Spaniards set the town on fire ten years ago, and accident helped to give it tothe flames again some eighteen months since; therefore ruin brooded over an otherwise prosperous scene, for Porto Plata is @ great place for the export ef tobacco and little else, With the exception of half @ dozen German merchants and a Yankee and Englishman here and there, the population seems to belong to the peculiar Spanish Dominican type, in which there is a large dash of the full-blooded negro. Many of the stores were models of their kind, and there was evidence of a large business with the interior in the well- stocked shelves of the wholesale concerns; but the burned walls of a hundred honses told how terribly Spanish barbarity had wrought destruc- tion on every side. I took pains to ascertain the feelings of the people about the Saman. le, and about the mode of taking the vote. Almost every one to whom I spoke outside of the merchant class appeared to be pleased at the vague something of earthly blessing that loomed up to thelr imagina- tion in the new idea, Nothwithstanding that, the prosperity of this town, such as it is, seems threat- cued by the creation of Samana into a free port, Still, there can be no doubt that the people favor it. A few merchants protest. Many of them talk approvingly of the introduction of this American scheme bect they jump to the conclusion that it will give them exemption from periodic revo- lution and do them good generally. As for this thing of the vote, the taking of which the HeRatD Commissioner made it @ particular point of his inquiry to find out, it is the most ridiculous farce, The American engineers of the Samana purchase told Baez that to satisfy the People at home in the United States and float the scheme tnto more odorous popniarity the formal Sense of the Dominicans should be taken on the question whether they approved of what Baez and ARK! his Cabinet had done er not. Baez ordered the vote or piébiscite in the way suck votes have al- Ways been ordered in this painful parody.of a re- public, and, now tnat the affair is over, I venture to say that not six dissentient votes will be found among all recorded, Their style of voting is dif- ferent from ours, but 1s literally not voting at all. Here it is in a few lines:— 4 MODEL PLEBISCITE. “All in favor of the government selling Samana toa party of American capitalists come up and say 80, and all opposed come up likewise and Say they are in favor of it, or take the consequences;” and that idea, “take the conse- quences,” is the magic one by which a Dominican pl » Now, théFe heea hardly a doubt that & majority of the people are in favor of selling Samana; and therefore this unanimous vote taken to sustain the government was only a work of supererogation, But, in Heaven's name, let not the eloquent directors of the West India Company use itagsan appeal to the people of the United States, Suffrage here, and everywhere else where ignorance reigns, {s a sham of the most monstrous kind. Nobody in tbisisiand votes contrary to the wishes of the ruling power, for to do so is to im- peril every material prospect. Therefore the suf- frage, I say, is a sham, and is no criterion of the nation’s desire. I believe, however, that in the matter of Samana there is a decided preponder- ance of opinion in favor. But I have only just landed. and I must postpone until another letter any fuller remarks, 4 DUNGEON OF DUNGEONS, Going up to the old fort where the FalstaMan army of the Republic was represented by a coarse looking battalion of vari-colored youths, I saw a dark, stinking dungeon, where over thirty men were confined for all kinds of offences, political included. They were literally piled on each other in @ semi-nude state, and had to sleep, eat and exercise all the functions of nature in that one horrible, leathsome cell. There is no habeas corpus nor trial by jury known to the practice of the constitution of this island, and men may rot for opinion’s sake in such dungeons forever. I say welcome fifteen Samana Companies, if they suc- ceed in curing this island of its cursed soctal and Political condition, and driving out the tyranny practised in the name of a republic. As we are of to Samana I must end this letter here, en al ¢-* cutie ot ars Description of the Scenery of the Bay— Sugar Plantations—Somecthing of a Carpet-Bagger. Samana Bay, St. Domino, Feb. 12, 1873, Leaving Porto Plata yesterday at five o'clock in the afternoon we arrived here at seven this orning, after 9 voyage of fourtecn hours, during x ich sat oT uP iiative Dominican passengers, bound for Samana and St. Domingo City, were seasick, but seasick with such a sad and prostrate resignation as te present an appearance more like the victims of melanehoiia than of anything else. The second day of our stay in Porto Plata was de- voted by our Pilgrims to all sorts of sight-seeing, Such as it was, I had the best of that bargain, for I happened to be one of a party of six, who, by in- vitation, paid @ visit to the sugar planta- tion belonging to Mr. Loyamais, of Cuba. Of the future operators in Samana Bay lots wore Mr. Rennie, Mr. Stewart, Captain Farringdon, and, of course, Mr. Ward, who intends to open the cemetery, Then there was Mr. Loy- anais, who married a beautiful belle of Fourteenth street, New York, the owner of the plantation, his brother and Mr. Uhriaub, of New York. It was the most favorable introduction we could have had to the singular fertility of this land, for the numberof Plantations on the island might be counted at the fingers’ ends; but here was one, only a few mmutes’ walk from the pier, where skill and capital were brought to bear upon @ soil more fruitful then that of the most favored regions of the Southern States. LUXURIOUS NATURE, The result might be seen in the rank luxuriance of the canefields and the wealth of varied growth everywhere. The cocoanut grove, that threw its welcome shade around dwelling and sngar house, was an especial object of wonder and de- light to the appreciative eyes of the Pil- grims, They gazed and gazed in rapture on the palm trees, and their mouths watered at the sight of the endless acres of sugar cane waving a long bright surface of green in the delicious breeze from the harbor. The climax of hapviness wae attained IAIN Maar Nee ———————s ruler can make a plértecite Vell Whichever ¥ he i SAVANASA' MARS NAAM, lf, SO AN N = when a darky, with a formidable machete, hurled to earth from an altitude of forty feet half a hun- dred cocoanuts, and In the milk of this extraordi- nary fruit, beautifully tempered with gin (2 la Smyth), the visitors abjured allegiance to their native land and swore by the tropics and St. Domingo. The soil of this grove was as black as ink and as deep asa well. The cocoa trees grew to maturity in seven years, and bore fruit longer than the average span of a man’s existence. Each was valued, at the Dominican stan- dard, as being worth ¢10, so that a thou- Sand of them would be as safe an invest- ment as corner lots near the Central Park. FERTILITY. The sugar gatate of 160 acres turned out annually 460 Barrels of sugar, 200 barrels of molasses and & quantity ofthe native rum called agnardiente, of which our pioneers had better beware, or each One of them will be dead as a door nail before he gets accustomed to drinking a galien per day. Having disposed of the milk of the cocoanut toa liberal extent, examined the sugar-making ma- chinery and admired the curious shiftings of light and shadow on the mountains in the background, we retired to the farm house to break/ast, which, in this country, 1s usually served at eleven o'clock, though slightly anticipated at an earlier hour (six or seven) by a dash at a cup of coffee and the crust ofaloaf, A breakfast of seven courses, plentifully lubricated by claret, Sauterne and champagne, wasa novelty to our innocents, but none the less welcome, SUMMER RESIDENCE, It would make the fortune of an American archi- tect if he could manage to put up some such houses as the one on this plantation at our Sammer water- ing places, where the heat in July and August is certainly more oppressive than we felt it yesterday morning—yet here it is perennial Summer. The dwelling was nearly all verandah and lattice, and a copious breeze owed into and around the house on every side, Of course, we talked a good deal at breakfast over the prospects of Samana and of St. Domingo generally. Mr. Loyanais rather liked the island; but he preferred Cuba, and when it was liberated, as he expected it would be very soon, ho should return. The brother of our host and Captain Farringdon, ex British Consul, had made up their minds to ge to Samata. ‘They argied that the fact of Satfiana being declared a free port would fake away the trade of Quragoa and St, Thomas, and concentrate it at fototaer pinto : THE KEY OF THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS. ~ \ It was pointed out by some one that St. Thomas was over @ hundred miles nearer the course of the steamers carrying on the European and general American trade, and that twelve hours’ sali was a consideration, besides, it was an old established port, and was the key of the West India Islands, to all of which it held a position fer trade and easy communication. Mr. Loyandis favored the pros- pects of Samana because of its harbor, which, ata small expense, could be made as safe as a@ canal jock for ships, and becanse of its being superior in point of health to St. Thomas, where the sea breeze was shut off in the hot season by a range of hills back of the port, and yellow fever had its own way in consequence. Captain Farringdon said he had been waiting over two years for annexation, or the transfer of Samana to any hands likely to make it a profitable place in which te live, In six years’ residence in St. Domingo he had failed to make anything worth while; yet he hated to leave, for he liked the climate, having spent a great portion of his life in the West Indies. There ‘was money to be made in St. Domingo by any man of average ability amd industry, but a radical change was essential in the habits of trade and governmental conditions of the country. It was useless to strive with limited means and simple bone and muscle to win fertune where so much conspired to obstruct the labor—e moneyless and thriftieas people, long credits, worthless currency, roadiess and pathless land, never-ending dissen- sions and the unfailing bugbear of Haytian in- vasion, THR MERCANTILE VIEW. Mr. Uhriaub thought that many merchants of Porto Plata would establish branch houses in Samana so as to reap the advantage of its being o free port. Speaking afterwards to several persons engaged in the wholesale business in the town I found & few disposed to believe that their customers up the country would leave them altogether and trade at Samana, which forma the other angle of ‘an equilateral, having its apex at Santiago, sixty malles of, Others declared that while it was Portions ef St. Domingo Under the Sway of the Samana Bay Company, Comprising Alte- gether Over Two Million Acres of Land:— A—Monte Christo, site of the proposed sanitarium, B—Manzanilla Bay. C—Royal Plain. D—Mining disteict. ence en possible for them to suffer in Porto Plata by the contiguity of a free port like Samana, they could provide against loss by securing houses at the latter point to meet the wants of such customers of theirs as lived nearer to the Peninsula than to Porto Plata. The conclusion I reached was that a rather shaky feeling existed in the town over this West India Speculation, and’ that, while it cannot destroy Porto Plata as a place of export for mahogany and tobacco, the two leading and, in truth, only arti- cles of commerce, it will annihilate its prospects of becoming the chief point of trade in St. Domingo, VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, That breakfast, while developing such points as I have given about Samana Bay, had also the merit (less serious, to be sure) of revealing a capacity for vocal and instrumental music among some ot the visitors that must go a long way towards ren- dering the new settlement a lively resort. Stewart, still cherishing a strong faith in the success of his contemplated speculation in the donkeys and ponies of St. Domingo, sang, “The Cumpdown Races; Ward, faithful to his grimly facetious trust that the Samana cemetery would come out top of the heap of fortunes, gave us “bown Among the Dead Men” with a tearful accompaniment; Rennie, still umdecided whether to transfer his attachment from the beautiful snow of Canada to the festooned cedars of the Vega Real, warbled “How Happy Conld I Be with Either,” and the H&RaLD Commissioner, by way of proxy for the rest of the fellow voyagers, made an effort to give ‘Tis the Memory of the Past.” Then we rode back to town on horses, and, amid much handshaking and cries of “God save the Pilgrims” from some of our hilarious well-wishers, started for the steamer, THE REBDING FEATURES AND THE OLIMATE AND SOIL. It strikes me it must be a peculiarly constituted class of our citizens who, making but limited in- comes, content themselves in such towns as Porto Plata, Putting the scenery aside (and I should any day prefer, sc far as I have seen, the Highlands of the Hudson), I cannot perceive the attraction for any intelligent English speaking person. No gas at nights, no solitary place of entertainment, No reading or lecture room, no newspapers save a feeble little sheet, Le Provenero, that flickers at weekly intervals; no walks in the country, no roads, no white faces save a handful of differing tastes and nationalities; no anything of the hun- dyed things this age of progress and inyen- tion Affords to make life eiijoyable in other lavtudes, The climate and the soil are the two redec™ag Jeatures. Coming from the snows of the vary where you are all now wearing overcoats anu “#F™ing your toes at the fire, it was delightfui to ion “SK puder the shade of the capa tree, the thermometer «* “ighity, ® gentle dreamy breeze from over the shim-* mering blue of the ocean fanning your face, white | before you, on the table, plucked from a garden at hand, were the lime, orange, zapote, caimite, avo- cado pear, guanahana, mango, tamarindo, pome- granate and banana. Io the rear of Mr. Maatsch’s residence at Porto Plata we enjoyed thia tropical sensation. He himscif was as happy as the much- envied “big sunflower,” but his wife would at times reproach him with the dulness and the drought, call the town a horrid hole, and sigh for the beer and the brazen joys of the music gardens of Ham- burg. There was one man we came across whom the town suited to a period. This was Dr, Tam (very tough customer), “from Ticondoroga, by the great Jehovah and General Ethan Allen and the Continontal Congress.” He fired of the fore- going at every passenger he suspected of coming from America, Some of us were told to beware of him; that he was worse bore than the Hoosac tunnel; bat most of the innocent crowd fell victims to the rascal. The lucky ones were cautioned fo look out for & man with a lame leg, and before they had been wandering half an hour they could detect & crooked turn in @ limb one mile off, and had also taken an inventory of all the deformed humanity, save one single case, in the town. They had mach to do, dodging around corners and sipping out tirough back yards and bedrooms. One of this number—Adams, as ususi—fell ® sacrifice in the end. He strolled carelessly away from the party of vigilance, and, being & man as unsuspecting as the late Morace Greeley, to- gether with wearing spectacles and carrying his head at a slope to the North Pole when tacking on & southerly course, he sailed right inte the port of | PS PETES SSS" the pirate, We turned a corner in time to witness bis unhappy fave. © Tuff stood on tiptoe in the door ofhis dentistry, a gieam of Satanic joy in bis eyes 88 his victim hove in sight, Presently we heard a tremendous cry, “Here's an American citizen," and Tu@, with his arms up as if he had been shot, planged into two feetof water in the midile of the strect and hauled bis prize, neck and heels, across the pond to his den. “Poor Adamsi’? was the gene- ral exclamation. Dripping from mud and rain, that citizen from Ticonderega would-inaist upon telling his unlucky prisoner about Ethan Allen, the Conti- nental Congress, the price for ailing teeth, the number of bananas to an acre, the name and all about the man who built the 01d stovepipe hat he brought with him ten years before from Tieon- deroga, the reason why the milk in the cocoann$ was put there from the beginning, several matters on geology and astronomy and Tuifs own treatise on Spiritualism. Itis to be hoped the Samana Bay Company witli got the Baez government to banish Tuff to Alta Vela, for if he comes to the new settiement—and there is every likelihood he wii—faroweH to its prospects forever. After this who will say that an American citizen, even from Ticonderoga, is not a power abroad ? First Impressions of the Future Settle- ment—Tho Natives Anticipating Golden Joys. * Cae + Sete Sawra-Banvana, SAWANA Bars} zs Bt. Domingo,’ Keb. 13, 1813. To resume the thread of my story. The morn- ing of yesterday, when we entered this bay, was as lovely a8 ever came out of the heavens. I saw nothing extraordinary in the approach to Porto Plata (possibly because it was raining) to awaken the emotions that etirred the souls of previous narrators; but I can forgive the enthusiasm that has but half expended itself on the beautiful Bay of Samana. We rounded Cape Balandra just as the sun was rising over a sea a8 gorgeous as ever Turner painted, It was tropical toa fault, and the fault was there was too much brilliant color. But tho sea had not all the glory of the picture to itaelf, for sky and shore lent their aid to frame a sight so full of beauty and splendor, of tender tints, now opaline, again all roseate and again all golden, that the senses were confused with the teeming effects of the invisible artist, yet the heart protested that any shadow or sombre change should for a moment rest upon @ scene so omi- nently bright and captivating. To you folks, shivering under the gloom of northern skies, thia may seem the language of exaggeration; but you should have seen Captain Delanoy, the typification Of prose scepticisin, drop his three-foot glass to feast his naked eyes upon the grandeur of the spectacle. Onward we moved, breaking the glassy surface of the bay Into ripples that seemed to lose themselves like a dream in the calm of eternity. The shore to our right flung at its summit a long, green, wav- ing pennon to the sky. Afar off on the otner shore there was a deep purple lining to the hori- zon that faded in the perspective into a gauzy | glimmer of the faintest amethyst. | SANTA BARBARA, 4 Of course everybody was on deck save one or | two Pilgrims whoge passion for draw poker over: came their natural love for the beauties of sunrige, But then they came to stay, and their chances of having such sights free-gratis for nothing are well assured for the future. The nose of the Tybee wad directed for the harbor of Santa Barbara, on the shores of which a town will soon arise, if prophecy 1s not at fault, where all the graces of civilization will be wedded to the most redundant luxuries of @ tropical clime. Islands, like hugo crowns of emerald dropped in the calm, swelling sea, were left to the right of us, and we bore straight along to a pier, where we moored the noble ‘Tybee right comfortably for the day. Santa Barbara, like @ chalk line at the bottom of a flowered drop curtain, stood off to our right about half a mile. It skirted the base of a high range of hills, clothed to the top with all those plants and trees famillar to the readers of tropical botany. Presently there came on deck Colonel Joseph Warren Fabens, who owns @ handsome slice of this territory. I looked for some display of emotion in his address of welcome, for was he not Governor of the Peninsula, and were we not the Ploneer colony destined to make Samana the talk and the envy of the world? He was happy to see us, and so was Mr. Price, the Consul, whose rest dence on the high jutting promontory made every Pilgrim heart expand with the anticipation of having some such elevated station for Iife. Fabens set about the work of inspecting the discharge of the vessei's freight, and the voice of Albert, the mate, might have been heard through the early morning echoing among the hills, keeping the dusky stevedores to theiz duty. One of the native canoes rowed by a darky, whose Philadelphia parents allowed him to get hopelessly involved in the Spanish dialect, took two ofusto Santa Barbara, and through the va rious streets, ianes, alleys and nondescript squares oft that singular viliage of eighty-four houses we wandered in the early forenoon. In the meantime, of course, there was great commotion among the emigrants on board. All eyes were riveted on the scene of the future scttlement. To be sure, there were no ready-made plantations to the eye, but there was a general concurrence that alf the material was right there in front of ua out of which to carve happy homes and fortunes. There was « gencral anxiety to see the carpentera from Harlem at work, to see that hotel erected which it took us hours to discharge, to see the workings of the Kitchen and the billiard room of American manufacture that we prought along; but Delanoy was inexorable, and our departure for St. Domingo city should come off in the morn- ing, no matter what way the wind blew. The work of the Harlem carpenters had, therefore, to be postponed for inspection till our return, I hardly think I escaped interviewing every man within the limits of Santa Barbara village on the question of the hour. It cost but little time, thongh in one inatance it involved the expense of a dinner, which cost such a fabue lous sum to the interviewer that he had the inha- manity to hope that tue new elty of Samana would 8o utterly ruin the piratical trade of Santa Barbara that every adult voter therein might be thrown ap outcast on the face of the earth. Notwithstanding this, all the visitors from the vessel were happy. Riding out in the cool of the day, under mauras and mangos and plantain trees, I met with varioug representatives of the country, some speaking English, others pantomiming in Spanish or something like it, but all evidently de- lighted with the approaching millennium. There were no vyctes—in this colony, at least— ‘against renting Samana Bay to an American poh pany, fo 8c ory tives know too well what is a ee ‘and they hail American capitat | asthe Taruelftes might have hailed tho appearance of the Promised Land, This is not confined to this «simple village. All Dominicans know it will bi i ttm something more than the armpaipy Tomath they Daye always had and the ghar which they never wanted. Yet they 478 Wonderfully alive to the obian” Of the silver dollar, and, innocent and ignorant as ,“¥eY 4Fe, Mey have as lively an appre- ciation as anyo, 7 that the Foroniaatlen {naga by American ente,_°%8¢ Will make their 01 Prosperous and goi.‘®2- It is all nonsense to’ offer these people sy. Wathy en the score of” being plundered by t.:@ invasion of the so-called West India Company. \.The latter confer on them as sublime @ favor ag \*hen I consented with a good grace to lay down $3 ver for w dinner which, in Nassau street, would\have been deemed outrageous at filty cents. In@ turn of the road leading out of the village I came in sight ofa group whose faces were familiar, but whose easy way of taking things made me for a moment suppose they were native and to the manner born. On closer approach I discovered the central figure to be Captain Samuels, leaning composedly against the hip joint of & coodanut tree, and smocing his cigar with as easy unconcern as if he were poised at the capstan of the Dreadnanght tn a Summer cruise off Newport. Near him was Mr. Halsey, describing with a banana stick in an off-hand way adiagram of the country of La Vega and the course of the Yuna River. Mr. Oley pondered the diagram drawn on the soft soll of the road, end suggested here and there improvements in tho rude sketch of the topography, while Osptata Plumer advanced @ theory that the experience of travelling seldom harmonized with topographi+