New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-06
Iem:Dork Daily Gribntte.
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Co,r,rondeuee Of The NY. Tribune.


SANTO DOMINGO, Friday, Dec. 9, 1853.
With the soft and perfumed breezes of the tropics
tanning us to ndoent repose with the historic walls
and towers of the city Of Columbus inviting eve
~ sde to dream only of the poetry of the past is an
effort to turn from these temptations and deal with the
busting common place Of the days actual business.
Yet there is so much to which is we'll worth more
familiar knowing TO the enterprise of the North that
for today shall resist thousand more attractive
themes TO talk exclusively Of how money is to be made
in ST. Domingo. 49,
There are four ports in the Republic of Dominica
omen TO foreign trade on the most liberal terms vi
these SantO Domingo City and the beautiful but al
most unknown port of AZua on the south side oil the
island are the centers of an extensive and profitable
trade in mahogany and satin wood. The mahogany TOR
ests in part private property ana IN part owned
the government but the hitherto unsettled state oil the
country has kept in comparatively narrow ana angud
limits the business of cutting and exporting these pre-
cious woods although when prosecuted with vigor and
system it invariably returns large and certain profits
Parties Of half dozen active and industrious white
men, with little capital than their axes and the
skill to them have gone into the forest pitched
their tent hired gang of native aborers and realized
at the end of the season, surer and larger pile than
the average of gold-hunters can show-whether they
cone from California or Australia
You will infer that these enterprsing bands OF ma
hogany-cutte must come from the hardy woodlands
of the United States. Not at all Patient, prudent
CatalOnans, and lighthearted Frenchmen, are they
who mostly reap this grand American harvest. few
Americans have cut their way to fortuneSn these end
less forests, but they were few compared to the
European loborers and, what is still more singular and
un-American the parties who have come were almost
invariably destitute of the spirit of combination which
is the indispensable soul large and successful achieve
ment Nor does the lapse end here The best results
of these cuttings find the way to Europe chiefly
through the free port of ST. Thomas and the produc-
tons Of European industry come back in return, and
supersede American fabrics in all the markets OF 81
Domingo Our cheap, strong and wellsdapted cotton
goods ought clOhe all the working population oil the
Island II is but 400 miles from the best ports OF the
manufacturing States of the Union where everything
wanted in the Antles-four, fsh, furniture machine
nv and farming mplements-can be made and export
ed to the very best advantage, and yet Europe per-
mtted 10 supply nearly the whole OF these things IRON
thrice the distance "
II becomes important TO American enterprise TO in
quire WHY this account reads 90 badly for u.s. ana also
70 amend IL With the best ax-men in the world, and
these vast mahogany forests almost at their door, the
cabinetmakers Of New-York, Boston and Baltimore
not TO speak Of the Mississippi cites-are weekly I'M
porting from England fine logs OF st; Domingo ma,
boeapy for their best work. Thus this American WOOD
must make two ocean transts-first from ST Domingo
N ENGLAND and then back to the United States, and
then perhaps to Charleston or Savannah where VIII
no ar ast but eeven or eight hundred miles IRON Its
native coasts, paying hafa-dozen needless shlitngs
and halfa dozen expetive prohts on Its wenag way 70
an American market. These six or seven thousand
miles of extra and needless travel shoud DC nSed I"
the American consumer
American workers in fine woods have just cause to
complain Of course of policy and trade which at any
tine compels them to buy their American woods in
British markets at third and fourth hands and at from
fftv To seventy per cent. advance upon what should
be the fair price They who, from their proximity to
the native material and to the best markets Of sale,
should supply tie home demand and all Spanish Amer
lea with furniture are un1ersold at home and scarcely
,eer or ft BIZ the side Of their overshaaowing com