The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-25
News from Hayta.
ORR PORT All PRINCE CORRESPONDENCE

Arrival Of Captain Mayo, Of the r. W. Pdcker-TM
Counterfeit Money Casc-2he Latest Ncscs from tie Guy
Of ST. Domin9o-Dessrae Position Of Baes-Aissson
from the Santanisas to the Emperor, DC, d.
The business season Is about 10 commence and
trade is steadily improving. The price Of American pro-
visions remains good but the immense mportatons OF
these articles have made the sales rather difficult STILL
this week beef and pork have sold at pretty good prices
Lumber still arriving in large quantities, and the peo
pie begin TO ask what merchants thinking about
when they ordered ity Its price has fallen so low
as hardly to pay cost and freight The money market
has become still stringent and Of our mer
chants have hard work to collect enough for their run
The large crop the past year has caused all the paper
money 60 the hands OF the country people VINO put
into empty demjohns and then bury them Inc cizens
OF this great empire wofuly green that they prefer
the worthless hnpasters Of the government 70 gold ana
II to offer them gold at half its intrinsic value
they would not take it.
Business is carried here in perfectly unin
tegble to those not initiated into the secrets oil trade
tick" Let give you example with regard tooo
feeThe country people collect the coffee OF their little
patches Tor there estates OF any respectable size
here and after cleaning il as much as they think ne
cessary sel put up in small parcels. Half dozen
neghbors then throw their little parcels together and tho
smarest old woman they lind is put on donkey and
sent to sell the coffee All the gates OF the towns
crowded with coffee buyers, who lay hold Of
the in just about the manner Is the Chatham
street clothing Jews do the country grccnhorns ana IL
ter great deal Of bargaining and pulling about and subse
quent cheating in the weight the bargain at length con
Guided These coffee buyers then put up IN oags Of lao
pounds each and sell to somo small merchant ms one,
having united perhaps hundred bags, sells To some
importing house, which sells it again to several others,
deliverable at different times, delivers 70 the first,
buys up again has sold then through broker and
again bought up by another making change hands at
least fifty every last passes through the
Custom House board vessel but not even
there does the coffee find rest for Is sold and bought Sc
veral times, frequently after the ship has already sailed
The History Of a Bag Of Coffee" would be subject
worthy OF the pen Of able than your CORES
pondent and quite an Interesting volume might be gotten
hy puUinu ifZ In
pot where "poor Coffee after being ground up in such
low and vulgar company as roasted beans and peas,
and mixed with that execrabe chcory is at length con-
| signed to its watery grave.
Our monetary business is not less mysterously carried
on. Millions OF Haytien dollars exchange hands every
day, and not cent is seen Everything is done by the
brokers and jobbers who have completely monopozei
the market and without their interference 1t Is utterly
impossible to get either note discounted or bill on
Europe signed.
Capt Mayo of the r. W Packer and his steward, who
arrested time ago at the Cape upon charge of
introducing counterfeit money, have arrived here small
schooner, which is pompously styled "a Hayten min-of
| war" A muatto who passenger in the SAID brig
from the States and had the money in his trunks Spears
to be the guilty one and the law will probably be pretty
with him. The trial will come of on the 18th At
that time the captain and steward will have been over two
months in prison. Whether the government of the United
States will sustain them in their claim for damages for
! Illegal Imprisonment remains TO be seen.
We have additional from the Spanish side, which
Is not limited to the usual complaints about cattle stealing
ing 1t is even said that third and independent party
had sprung up in the very city of st Domingo whose first
act to put Baez in prison. but this is rumor which
merits no belief AT any rate the end Of the presenttragco
| comic drama seems TO be close at hand.
The last week has brought few officers of the Do
mnieans, entrusted with message to his 'most sable
| majesty" As they belonged to the Santana party,
their object was 10 Deg his imperial and most sable ma
have had time finish Baez which they think themselves
able to do in few days now, their siege train having al
ready arrived This siege train, Of which such great
things expected consists OF one entire gun, twelve
FOUNDER His majesty has consented to the request of
the spaniards after the customary hesitation on the
condition that they should afterwards uso their inu
| ence in bringing the whole island under his sway,
which, of course, they promised. The people Of tho
and this will prove the most powerful ally Of Santana.
Still they defend themselves well, and only few days
ago made sortc with the intention Of capturing the cec
braed twelve FOUNDER" The brother Of Baez WAS NOR
tally wounded this attempt aud died shortly Afterwards.
In the meantime his imperial and most sable majesty
quietly reposing his aurels Of the former campaign
and passes away the dull time by eating sugar cane OF
which he is amazingly fond. by the way, the whole OF
the garden the imperial palace has been planted with
sugar cane and some knowing ones say that Papa So
ouque ntends trying some time or other whether his inn
pcral princes and Mdrehaux dc Empire can make them
| selves generally useful by cutting and making
sugar as they used 10 do IA their younger days Papa
trouble ahead and likes the high pre Of negroes Cuba
The English sloopoi war Arachlo paid US flying visit
while on her way 10 Kingston.
The weather continues favorable for the gathering
OF the coffee CROP and that article Is pouring in from all
sides IN daily increasing quantities This week the arri
walls from the coast and interior have been nearly 5000
bags and there is now a right smart stock on hand
Under the latest from the United States its price
has gone down 10 s., and IL expected IN fall still
II is feared that this low price will have the effect OF keep
ing the naturally lazy country people from gathering, and
that consequently the crops may turn on, mach shorter
quantities but is price keeps steady at former rates 81 so
per 900 pounds.
understand that our ps, is quite healthy now.
Ny last letter about physicians has falsn like a
bombshe in the camp Of these learned disciples OF Es
cuapus" As like TO do Justice all will lust state
that they lay the blame OF the great mortality here
trely on the captains, who persist IN keeping the sick
sailors three four days board docoring them them
arr a.nt m 4 AZ Ia
lot them die Well doctors will disagree, and does not
astonh me bit that the captains and doctors hcrc can
not come Ia an understanding so let them nght out their
| battles Themselves
PoRT Az FRINGE, May ~, 1857.
Caytoin 8ryo's Cas--Hb Moral Acg,atat-Natiue I'm
yorers Of Counterfeit noucy-Oaal Tasolence 10 Aueri-
cans-Nsed If War Ship The Staton-Ra,es If the
Money Mdrket-CaGce and Logpcd.
The news received from the Stats relative 10 the i'm
prsonmcn Of Captain Mayo has been OF such positive
character clear him, his steward and Mr. Roche, tho
native partners of the house, entirely. The government
has also received dispatches from the Hayten Consul
In Boston, confirming the innocence of these parties AMI
showing that the only guilty Il certain person who
came AZ passenger the r. W. Parker This completely
endorses my opinion gwen previous letter and tends
to show how little credit must be 70 Information
gained from persons who hold oics under government
How the government still hesitate 70 berate CAPT
Mayo and his steward, and want them 10 60 through a
| trial, is more than can understand They are only
making their worse, and viii have 10 settle preiy
bill when the American men ofw arrive, which
daily expected II u feared though, that Mr.
Roche Is Iaytien he will be fairly dealt with. The
guilty Il also supposed 10 Dc a Hayden The in.
qurcs and Investigations made IN Boston have shown
that several native houses Cape Hayten have been in
the habit of importing whole carloads Of counterfeit
| money The s,creotype and clccirotype plates from
which the hills drawn were found there. II sad
that several of those violent IN denouncing Mr..
| Roche and Capt Mayo.
The continued presence Of ~ war mo matter
Of what naton) much required here The olence of
these negroes especially of petty officers, has become
| quite nsupportable. white daily nsulted by
these fellows and treated In the Infamous
There redress because these brutos shielded by
| ragged harlequin coat. with Mass buttons white
man cannot End jrstce here unless he condescenis 10
| bride all the Judges and onlcers
These the people who world be reduced 20 starva
uon " we were 10 withhold PROVISIONS Tor fx months
only. This Is that celebrated African race which keeps
politics In the United States in such continued turmoil
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