Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-04-19
RICHMOND, APRIL 10. 1893
TO THE EDITORS.

| an Washington, .AprH l8.
81 have Just learned, that the Emperor of
hussla has decided in our favor, the question
submitted to him, as to our slaves taken during
tne iate war: 1t was reserved by the treaty of
Ghent. This intelligence comes from Mr.. Po-
ietea, q was communicated by him TO mem
Der OF our House. 1t may be relied on, and |
presume will soon be announced by our gov
| eminent"
EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM
Washington, 14M .4pr,l, 1922.
on have seen that Congress has fixed on
the day for its adjournment, There are be-
lore II many important bills, which, if acted
on, would contribute to lessen our public ex-
penditure, but which cannot, fear, be passed (;
for, on yesterday it was determined substan-
TALLY to take up the subject of new tariff
during the present session. | am very appre-
hensvc that the extravagant propositions of
MIR. Baldwin will be agreed TO. And perhaps
It'll matter of Indifference 10 the southern
people, how soon the system Of protecting
duties be pushed TO extremities. The course
which their representatives should pursue
appears to me 20 be obvious. They should
oppose loans and taXes,-and let it dev0Ive
on them, who anphilate one source of reve-
nue., to provide another. When the people of
the u >. come To feel the full effects of the
measures of the friends to the announcement
OF manufactures, or of national industry as
they style themselves, -when in time of peace
they shall be compelled TO pay direct taxes
and excuses for the support Of the ordinary
expenses ofgov ermnlent, think they ean no
longer he deuded by national prejudice and
| amnesty, or the interested sophis'ry of ma
nnfacturrrs. A change ofruers will produce
| change Ofsyetem ;and measures partial I'M
lust, and impoltic in their operation and I'M
constitutional in their principle will be aban-
doned.
AS if appears that the British West In
dams are themselves making an effort TO res
tore the commerce with that country thro' the
agency ofthe British government, it will he
well for us TO hold ont while longer The
subject of the restrictions on the West India
trade will not therefore. l apprehend, be taken
up: wish may be disappointed in my an
| ticipations on this subject. You have seen
| Mr.. Newton's elaborate report He no doubt
considers ii a chef d'Guvre in its kind hut in
my opinion it does not touch the main point.
perceive that complaints are made from
all quarters against Congress for the length of
IFS sessions. and Its dilatory way of doing
business. These complaints may in some
degree be well founded but do YOU think we
should have heard So much of them if the
Bankrupt bill had passed And with respect
to the legislature of Our own state, would the
complaints against the length of its session
have been heard, If two or three hundred
thousand dollars had been given to the Uni
verslty The evil of our representative assem-
blies is pr0crastination of business through ex-
cess of speaking and discussion, and there is
| no good institution which does not produce
| some attendant evil. But what is the evil
when compared with the benefits which result
| from them ?"
1t appears, from two official letters to the
Governor of Havana, one by the commander
OF the French frigate Juno, and the other by
the Governor OF Martinique, that the late
French expedition TO st. Domingo was die
| tated by the French and Spaniards who re-
sided in the peninsula of SANTANA on the Span
lsh part of the island of St. Domingo. When
President Boyer was about to occupy that
part of the island, u French frigate and brig
happened to touch at SANTANA. The French
aud Spanish inhabitants invoked their protec-
ton. The appeal was forwarded to Martinique;
the Vice Admiral, on the W. India station,
was Immediately dispatched with French
squadron composed of a ship of the line. 8
frlgates, 2 corvettes, and other smaller vessels
with detachment of French troops, for
the purpose of taking possession of d posi-
ZION IN the peninsula, should necessity require
| II, for the purpose of rr-nstating the royal
|
reunion for the faithful subjects of his Catbo-
lie Majesty-or at least an asylum for those
inhabitants who might be so unfortunate AS TO
be obliged to abandon their property" This
IS the expedition Of which so much has been
said; as having been even fitted out by France
herself to conquer the French part Of the isl
and.-The expedition has at all events brought
off some of the French people. On the 4th
March, 100 of them sought an asylum on
board the squadrOn.-The Interior objects
however, failed, The troops dd land at Sa.
mana they plundcred two neghbourinn
| plantations Of their negroes and valuable pro.
perry destroyed little village but ON the
approach of the Haytian general with 1905
men, they took TO their ships after exchanging
a few shot; few soldiers being wounded
and killed on both sides.--It is said in Bus.
ton account, Ahat CATER all were safely or
board, the frigates approached and bombard
ed the place, which was entirely DESTROYED
The cannonade wounded the. General and
killed and wounded several officers and men. >
Thus ends this formidable expedition which
has only exposed the remaining Frenchmen &
| Spanards to greater fury and danger from
the Haytians-and buoyed mp the latter b,
AN increased confidence in their own strength
Few enterprises Of the present day, seen
more marked by infatuatiOn and folly Tn,
mDans fell infinitely short of the design Of oc
s6pying any part of the island.
Tic General Of the Republican troops at IN Yer,
Cruz has formally summoned the commander of IN,
Castle (of St. Juan dc Uina) to surrender Thu
commander Jose Daviia hts re(used--,lisavowine al
concurrence ~ The conducf OF t;cn. Don0ju whom
he charges with disobeying The orders Of the King
Nluucisare coming to cxtremiiy Bn.ierinr cannon
arc satd ~ We arriving lor he purpose oI Lo,'afn