New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-14
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Presidential and Warlike Movements.

We have received files of The Turks
Islands loyal Gazette to Sept "a, from which OBJ
tain the following items Of St Domingo news
President Baez after spending some months IN re-
tremen with his family at Aqua, returned 10 81 Do
mlngo Saturday the 9th inst, and entered the city
under a salute OF I0l guns The elite OF the Domin.
can army. newly accoutred and uniformed. received
His Excelency. who was escorted by his Life Guards
and 100 Dragons from Aqua, Bani, and San Cnsto-
bal The B0dy Guard were IN full dress and wore
their splendid new brass helmets ornamented with
horsetailS. The cayalcade rode 10 the National
Palace, through streets Ornamentcd with flags and
followed By the troops.
letter from Porto Plata, sept. 10, says This
part Of the Republic Is IN "A state Of great excitement
in consequence of the hostile preparations which
Soulouque has been making for some time past. The
General commanding the Dominican frontiers OF the
North having sent urgent demands for troops, and
General Santana, the Commander int hief, having
arrived accidentally At VIA and Santiago, lmmedi-
ately had the alarm guns fired. which caused the
oTulatIon to come forward. lie left Santiago yes
tercay and tomorrow Will be at GuayayIni the
Dominican head quarters, with 10000 men.
We understand that the British and French Con-
sus had protested IN the strongest terms with sou.
lOuque against his prOct edlngs, which protest had
caused him To return from the Cape To Port-au-
Prince, but he left for the North and Was At G0nalyes
AT the last accounts The British Consul wished 10
have the Haytien ports blockaded, but the French
Consul opposed the measure, and proposed to try
strong protest first
The Gazette remarks We further hear that the
appearance of General Santana quite unex peced
AT -. hagO, but SOulOuque having Joined his army
a. P0rt-au- Prince with the ayOHed purpose OF IN
yadlng the Dominican territory. General Santana
al once pToceeCed TO the post of danger la all
probability sOulouque will endeayor to establish his
head quarters al llincha (san Jan de Goaya) push
ing his out posts # possible as far as BanIca and
Il. 1home fortunately General Santana is too Old
soldier not 70 secure those mountain passes where
soulouques army may be extemnaled It Is sur
mist ed IN well Informed quarters that should Sou
louque disregard the very protest II the repre-
seLiatIyes Of England, france and America and IN
wade the Dominican territ5ry, Santana may retreat
tefore HIM and At the proper time suddenly falling
upon ms rear, place him IN the unpleasant position
Of beng on from retreat at the time that
the best Dominican troops from - Domingo would
oppose bis further progress II so, Ne shall soon
have 10 announce 10 our readers she success Of the
Dominican troops the utter discOmiOrufe Of Sou
Ouques army, and the anne KsiiOn Of ms dOmnOns
10 the Dominican Republic.
The above IS entirely one-sde1, and we don't
think Il IS true We have become familiar with this
sort Of news from Dominica. A constant effort Is
put forth By the press and foreign agents Of that Re
public 10 make the world believe soulouque IS IN
arms and has actually renewed the war And yet
the next adyces from Hayt sure to be tha, all is
quiet and that the suspension Of hostiltes Loyalty
Observed By him Until, then, Ne learn from tina.
part Of the IS and that hosities are begun again
shall not believe II any more than ~e do the amusing
prognostic Of this Turks Island editor about the al.
nexatOn Of HaytI 10 Dominica