The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-10
Interesting from San Dominge.
oUR DOMINICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

DUB DOMINICAN CORRESPONDENCE.
SANro DOMINGO, Dec. 4, 1854
The Government Blockaded BY France and E.gand-Con-
tnuance of the Excitement Political Stroke Of
the Annointed SouloSQue-Louis Napoleon and Padre
Elies-Ho,c Santana is Bullied and the Americans
Hated-7Ae Treaty Negotiations in and out Of Con-
gress-InternationaI LaD- What sviu be Done at
Washington?
Our situation rather novel and extraordinary here
in Santo Domingo. The Dominican government Is in
state OF silent blockade by the naval forces of
and England 1t is every day occurrence to blockade
seaport but to blockade government to invest it, to
subjugae the action Of nation by force yet without
declaring war, is something new under the sun Our
neghbor Soulouque must have the credit He has had
the cunning make Of England and France his
private purposes and is in fair way to make them
conquer the whites for him without costing him dol
lar. Soulouque is not the thck-headed, thick Tipped
stupid negro Mr. Bgelow represents him. He is black
and cruel as his Internal majesty of still warmer
gions he has also enough Of his sharpness keep
the French and English steamers doing his errands
and may shove them into with the United States
for his own exclusive benefit.
When Ventura Baez President of the republic,
Sououque made bargain with him to deliver Dominica
to Hay but the plot discovered and Baez exed
One of the projectors Of this plot against the whites
was priest, named Elias who as the price of his
treason, was to be made archbishop Of the whole
island through the influence of France This Hsytien
padre was exiled with Baez and, like him, went to
France, and made much Of by Louis Napoleon, who
bought him body and soul for the cheap decoration of
the Of the Legion Of Honor He sent back to
Santo Domingo to excite revolution and kill of the
white government. The French Consul-General COM
PEELED ,he Dominican government to receive him, al
though sououque himself could hardly be bitter
b;u ayt;o Ti,a
ment he landed he commenced preaching a crusade
against treating with the Americans and organized a
party to bring back Baez and raise the Haytien flag
The city Of Santo Domingo is dirty, crowded town,
less than n lie square (wbin the walls) and pretty
much controlled by the negroes and foreign merchants
The trade is in the hands OF half dozen Jews. who
hate the Americans and entirely devoted to France
and England The Dominican government deserves the
fate it has met, for planting itself in such nest of
traitors and where it is also forever under the guns
the French and English of-war. The whites, and
all the solid respectable population throughout the
country, are in favor of the Americans but
they are discouraged by the cold and sluggish
action OF the United States They can see that Faus-
tin the First is too smart for them, and the Domi.
ncan dares not trust to the slow
Of American policy. II had hardly signed treaty with
the United States when five sh ps Of up here
and, without calling blockade they took positions
to command the city and stopped the treaty Maxine
Rayba manages this business he goes at any hour
from daybreak to midnight to the President who
dares refuse him an audience, and dictates his
action with regard to the United States The English
Consul lackeys his steps with the most udcrous serv-
ty and between them and their ships Of war; poor San
tana has an uneasy life. When Raybaud arrived, the
Dominican Congress about to meet for the purpo 10
OF ayng the treaty but the Consuls ordered Santana
and held it back. The Dominican Congress had been
called there to ratify the treaty but the members
told that France and England would bring Baez and
q Haytien army upon them, and Congress adjourned in
furry to avoid taking up the treaty Several members
of Congress went to the American Penpotentiary and
notified him that no free action could be expse.ed Of that
body these threats and the guns of Francs Eng
land. Seeing this, and that the Consus had Eo.ksed
the Executive well as the Congress- General Cazneau
wrote to the government and the foreign Consuls
to the effect that his government treating with the
Domincans only and would submit to the dication
This was shower bath for the Consuls--they began
to Iecoect how large the Yankee Congress had talked
about foreign interference, and it just possible all
this insulting dctaon might it to deeds. They
quit Growing about what the Baltic eetespecially the
famous bomb ketch Fanfarron-was coming here to do
with the Yankees and changed their course about the
treaty They directed Santana to put the treaty before
Congress, and have it suocated there under pile of
insults to the United States.
Raybaud and Padre Elias had arranged it through
their European tools in Congress. Amendments highly
insulting TO the United States written the
gin Of the printed copies in Raybauds own hand and
sent to the members in Congress- who to propose
and discuss them Everything ready for the scien
tfc atack-if not Slaughtered the treaty, when all
at the word like lightning through the city
that the American plenipotentary had Withdrawn IT,
II was said he boldly gave as reason that the Domni-
cans were under European dures and the United States
The whole community is in fever of anxiety.
Raybaud is frantic at being headed oil by Texan,
and he ordered his =, friends in Congress to go
Others say the treaty not withdrawn and that the
American plenpotentiary can have such power
the treaty after il is signed member of the D0mini
can Congress told that when found he could
not bring out insulting correspondents between the
Dominican executive and this tee de fer Of American
plenipotentary he sent two of the ministers up his
eagles nest on the heights of San Carlos to preach in
ternational law a3d force him into explanations But
IT appears they made nothing out of it. General
Cazneau told them plainly "the treaty was q null
lily, per Sc, as one OF the primary conditions OF
trea;y-namely, the independent and free action Of
the contracting partes-was wanting on the part of
Dominica; that granting the Dominican republic was
Tree from foreign coercion at the moment of its sigma
ture, this longer the case-that in the annih-
laton OF the independent action of the Dominican gov
vernmen and Of its power to render the proposed equ
vaent on its side of the contract the uncompeted
tract was annihilated with them he said he
thorzed By his government to treat with the Dominican
republic and not with France and England and there
FORE when France and England usurped the power to
arrest the treaty control its ratification, it be-
came something which his government had not
contemplated, and had altogether ceased to exist
free contract between the two sovereign and indepen
cent republics. He also said in reply to Raybaud's
position that his powers ended with the signature Of
the treaty; that he the American Plenpotentiary
presented that until it ratified by one OF the
powers and submitted to the other for the last action
but the treaty having changed its conditions through
foreign interference while still incomplete il is
void, and of no effect.n
Is this true international law is it. as the Hayten
party say only Gen Cazneaus law II this Is true has
upset the French English and project Of sending
of the Yankees in disgust by forcing the Dominican Con-
gress to reject the treaty There something queer and
perpexed in the face Of the British Consul and so sour
and yellow in Rsybauds that doubts II In St. Do
mingo Now, what will the U. States do with this block
adeS VIII they send downa ship and drop bomb or two
San Domingo to show these people they are not afraid
of France and England II thought you would take
under your care, would up the glorious stars
and stripes before this could to your hands, II Is
and cowardy in France and England to force this
poor Uriah of Santana to do what they dare not do
themselves but the United States will be almost as bad
IT, after all their Buncombe speeches. they let French
and English squadron drive them away from this island