New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-10-25
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Pres Tie Baltissrs Pairiot.

Pyes Tie BaAs.srs Pairset
correspondent in the Island Of 81 Domingo has
bses % kind a. 10 communicate through our columns,
m Authentic account Of the relations bet reen me
Government Of that Island and the American Com
missioner. AZ the public has been in uncertainty
whether the treaty alleged TO have been Degotsted
ANNEXED the Island uncoDdtionslly or merely 90
timed the rights Of deposit and Of commercial inter
course we can upon the authority OF our CORES
pendent that tie treaty Of annezatioH wHs 6feafsd'
and that the only convention negotiated opens TO our
citizens country represented 70 be rich In mineral
md staple products.
OF the inducements TO immigration and Investment
Get forth in the letter. there can be no doubt The
acquisition Of such country by open and honorable
purchase would do much to supply the want Of cer-
Saip staple productions and this nothing but an I'M
fortunate sectional question prevents from effect
ipg, while our commercial rivals, by fonentins our
own feuds and the preudices Of the Spanish race
against u.s. obtain practical monopoly Of ell the ad
vantsges Coffee lands at 90 per acre. equal to those
Of Cuba, are certainly temptation to the purchaser.
The letter may be relied authentic, far as
sE,ns facts. The opinions expressed are of course,
those of the correspondent, in some instances, per-
hsps, adopted with an imperfect knowledge Of events
which have trsppired, and which, II known, might
have modified them.
sAS CHRIsToyAL, dominican Republc,)
September IL, 1854. I
The Dominican Congress has adjourned, aud the
member for this district has returned home with the
intelligence that FIVE colleagues frightened out
Of the treaty almost concluded with the United States
He rays the British Consul, Sir Robert SchomoIrg'
told the me rDbers 10 treat with the United States
or England and France would set the Hayden negroes
upon them-or rather, he said, the negro army was
forty thousand strong, and would not leave dop OF
white blood on the Island, if European influence did
not hold them back. Senior - also said the Domn-
leans had agreed that our people should be free to
hold lands and mines without losing in suy degree
their nationality, and also the Congress had at the in
stance Of the American Commissioner, Gen. Cszneau,
placed the mining laws in shape 10 give American
workmen and capitalists the pick and rule of the min
eral wealth OF the leland All Hsyti is pile Of rich
mines. Salt, sulphur, iron, "copper" or gold Is found
in aimost every hill What more than such concss-
sioas as these could Gen. Cazenau ask or expect
He lives entirely among the Dominicans, and his
house 0irays so tuH Of officers that ne seems almost
a member Of the Government himself. he knows tho
situation of the country and be ought to be contented
with having negotiated and made popular treaty
which gives 10 our citizens all the benefits Of
California without any trouble or expense to our Gov
erpment
There are some famous caverns near this place. and
also mountain of copper, which all strangers come
10 see for it is only twenty miles rom ST. Domingo
City. The British Consuls right hand man is here
now only look at the caves as he says, but he is
up gold dust after the rains that the Americans
coming 10 make slaves of them, and that the coored
people he'd better be left under Hayt than the cruel
Yankees
IN no hurry TO have them for masters again. They
saw the white women collected and tied together and
driven of IN long file by herd Of negroes, and no
one ever knew their exact fate. The bravest Of them
provoked their savage masters TO kill them at once,
but some others known to drag out their misera
bic lives under the whip, like iltreated slaves the
country patches Of the negroes. No negro was res
ponsble by negro law for the murder or mareatment
Of even a mulato, much less Of white person. The
cruetes which the mixed bloods suffered in attempt
ing to hide and protect some white families Of San
C6risiovd and Santo Domingo, are still recounted
with horror by all colore and both whites and blacks
are afraid 10 have them come back again.
The British CoDsus plan 10 hoist the Hayden flag
will not work IL the American Cabinet does.ts duty,
and recognizes the Dominican Republic. But what
will say to the faireeeming professions Of friendship
England is making Or, will ii shut ts eyes aud re-
fuse to zee this impudent effort to nogrOize Eastern
Haytif II has redeemed itself from its African
ters by It's osn efforts, and the United States ought
either TO take il by the hand in good faith,
out honestly and say il willing to let the negroes
take and keep, and barbsrze the whole West Indies.
Its said all through the island that Gen. Cazneau
demanded the cesson of the Bay and Peninsula OF
SamsDa but Senior -, OF the Dominican Senate,
tells me that this is untrue and that the report origin
ated in the Circumstance Of the frigate Columbia
going round there as soon as it had landed General
Cazneau, the American Commissioner, without CON-
municatDg this intention to the authorities. Courers
were dispatched by the local officers with reports that
the Columbia people were examining the coal and
other mines and said they should plant the American
Gag before they left.
The phoie country once offered 10 the United
States, through the same Gen. Canaan, rhen he pas
travesg on the island and he refused 10 be the bearer
of ls proposition, and discouraged The Domiaicaas
from making the offer saying the United States would
rather see them independent and prosperous members
of the great family OF American nations. This idea
has got into their heads, and all the leading Dsmni-
cans are full of the American system and Perces in
sugural and now this gentleman does not to stand
ND 10 his own programme The Dominican Republic
IL rtlling 10 aRner out and out OF as Wtling upon
beag recognized, TO give to our citizens all the bene
6s Of an additional State to the Union, without any
cost or responsibility whatever, and yet he hestates
and permits Congress to adjourn before he signs the
treaty although is one he has shaped Ost ktps, and
is better than any other have ever seen for Amer
can interests.
Land that Is worth s40 or $50 an acre in Cuba, for
ceee and sugar be had here for 90, and that in
healthy and convenient situatons and mining lands
equal to the beet in the world be had to work
shares ON the easiest and most liberal terms Our
Government and our Commissioner should hesitate TO
refuse these things to our people.