New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-01


brought TO q close in the Republic Of San Domingo
the name gseD ss our readers Will recollect to
the eastern Spanish part of the Islan1 Of Hsyt-
seems to have been to 9 considerable extent q
geographical contest between the northern and
southern sections Of the leland, led On by the rival
cities Of Santiago and San Domingo. Sac DOmn
90, funded in l496 by Bartholomew Columbus
brother Of TIE great discovsrer was the Old Span
sh capital snd in the days of the greatest prosper
ity Of the colony, q rich aud splendid city. OViedo
described it in 1898 as equal 10 the m.guifcence
Of its buildings, to any city in Spain. Its decline
however, began centuries ago. 1t was pIlsged BY
Sir Frarcis Drake il 1856. A hundred years later
it was almost ruined BY earthquakes. The sts-
toaaIy or declining condition of the colony held
out 10 means Of recovery. AID it has now suuk to
town Of some ten thousand inhabitants; still xbb
itng, however, in its architecture some remains Of
its former msgri6cence 1t has but an Indifferent
bartor, AID ts exports consist almost entirely of
mahogany and dyewoods. the spontaneous products
Of The reighboripg forests.
Santiago, as well as San Domingo, il az ancient
Spanish city, founded, it is sad, By the dissOlute
hidalgOs whose presence 10 the island caused Co.
lunbus so many annoy ances. Hence its title Of
ssntingo do 10. Cabseros 1t is situated on an ele-
waited pain on the north eide of the inland, some
three Thousand feet above the level Of the sea,
from which it 10 distant upward Of thirty miles.
The River Yaqui, TIE upper sourse CT which passes
nesr the city, is Of the largest rivers Of Hayt.
Porto Plata serves as its harbor, and il the chief
seat Of the maritime trade Of the north part Of the
Republic. The cultivation Of tobacco, introduced
some years sirce into this part Of the island, has
given occasion to certain degree Of industry and
activity presenting ,tropg contrast to the languor
and decline wii,h rss Is in ths City Of San Domingo
and its reghboIhOOd. Santiago, which BY virtue
CT ts elevation possesses q fne climate, can boast
quite q number of handsome new buildings. Its
population greater than that Of its southern rival
aid i. is tie policy of tie prevailing patty 10 the
late civil war 10 make it the seat Of government.
Ibe leader In this mOvemeUt is PEDRO Santana
who has Played Loading part in the affairs of the
Republic Of San Domingo.
This Spanirh colony, thorgh ceded to France in
Bo2apartes time yet having got rid Of the French
ga.rscn, reattached itself 10 Spain. the authority
of which country il continued to acknowledge till
1921. In that year, simultaneously with Mexico
and Guatemala and, like those countries, Tot salts
fed with the constitutional government st that
time established in Spain, it declared it's independ
ence, ard assumed the name Of the Republic of
Spanish Hsyti. The mass of the inhabitants, how
ever consisting Of mulattoes, preferred u union
with the western or Haytien Republic the former
French part of the ISLAND then governed BY Pre.i-
dent Boyer. Boyer marched an army of twelve
thOusana men ou San Domingo, forced the provi-
scDa Government to res; ;gn, and unit ID the whole
islard into siosle State. So things continued for
twenty one years, wten on the fall of Boyer, the
opportunity was avaled Of by the people of San Do
Lii 20 to regain their Independence. On the night
of Feb. "a, lS44, rumber OF determined young
mer, Of whom Santana was one, rose 10 arms, and,
having driven toe Hsytien esrrisOn into the citadel
Ereelamsd tie next mOrniig the Dominican Re
public The Haytien troops soon after gaze up
the ciisdel. or eordition Of being sent to Port su
PRICE. Ths new President of Hayti, Hegsrd
RiyjtIe, thereupon marched upon San Domingo,
with Ar army Of 20 900 men, but he wac met at
Azua by tie Domiu-caD, led BY Santana and
compelled TO retire. A Constitution for the new
Repub,ic vas then framed under which Santana
va, elected President, IN which offce he was sue.
cseiei, in lS4S by Gen. Jimenss. The next year
Siuicuqrs, row Emperor, tier President Of Hayii,
WITH an army Of /, 900 peu, renewed tie invasion,
but re was net and signslly defeated on the river
Ocvs by Ger. Satsns, with q comparatively small
number oi troops For This victsry Santana re-
c. we'd from the Dominican Congress the title Of
"Iite-stor' and slso haniso me pecunay grant.
Dissatisfaction, however, soon sprung up with
TIE government Of Jimenes, followed BY
civil war much Ike that which has Just
Terminated. Santana then, as now, laid siege
10 he City Of San Domingo; but after 8 while
Jneues, through the intervention Of the Consuls of
Ersland. Trance ard the United States, was in
eucsd to resigp, and to retire to Curaeoa, with
humber Of his partisans. Upon the Recommendation
Of Sxntars, Baer, the very same person who
Las hees the leader agsrst him u the late civil
war. was elected to the Presidency. he, however,
farsd, Ike his predecessor, to give satisfaction,
and his administration Wa cut short in the same
WAY, by bis being compelled 10 retire from the
eountr,. He returned about year ago, got pos
session OF the City Of San Domingo, and set on
,oot the late civil war; which hss resulted how
a. .ye;. in Iii. going inso exile a second hus.
II . to be hoped that this settlement OF the
ot th- D,u.s;ca2 Repubic may be pefms-