New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-22
VENEZUELA AND HAXTI,

As changing the doctor does not always prove q
certain remedy for the languishiDg body personal,
60 changing the ruler often fails to afford any per-
manent relief to the disordered body polite. The
good people Of Venezuela, not long ago, seemed to
think that nothing was wanting to their political
salvation except to drive out the Monagas family,
and when, by q revolution, that object was accom-
plished they appeared fully persuaded tina. their
political fortune was surely made. There is no
doubt that the Monagas family-ss is apt TO be the
case with srstocrats who rise to power BY pre-
tending to be ultra democrats, and by p,ndering to
the worst passions of the people-were very bad
rulers; but the change, as so often happens, has
failed to answer the high expectations entertained
of it, Gen. Castro seems to be almost as unpopular,
at least with part of the population, as ever
the Monsgas family were. /. has been found
that the change of Government does not In
vOlye any diminution of taxes Gen. Castro
is accused of burdenisg trade and industry
with heavy duties at the same time that he refuses
TO pay unquestionable claims on the Treasury
There and other causes have provoked great dis
contents, and on the first Of March an nsurrection
the military promptitude Of the President, backed
by large body Of troops. In consequence OF
these disturbances the Constitution, which the
yenezueans lately made such parade over, has
been suspended and the President vested with ex-
trsordinary powers, in other words, made mill
tary dictator, which seems TO be the normal con.
dtion of Spanish American governments, constitu-
tons being seldom of any practical force after they
are three months DID, and the greater part Of them
being stihed Immediately on their birth. Cestro
has quarreed, too, with most of his late co:d-
tutors. In consequence Of bis removal, in disre-
gard of the Constitution, it lie said, of Judge OF
the Court Of Accounts, al the other Judges have
resigned, and his Cabinet have done the sane thing
in consequence Of decree extending az amnesty
to the entire Monagss party except eI.Pre.ldent
Monasas himself The people Of Venezuela boast
ed loudly Of having accomplished their revolution
without any boodshed. They viii be lucky if
they do not get into a civil war before they are
through.
Nor do the good people Of Hayt by any means
frd the expulsion Of SoulOuque p,uscea for al
the ills of which they complained. Great expects
tor, were raised Of the reduction Of taIes. Ye.
Gefrard, after doing something of the sort, found
himself by the condition Of the treszury, immedi-
stely obliged to retrace his steps, and now he be-
gins to be complained Of as being as arbitrary and
severe az SoulOuque himself. An apology for that
ex.Emperos, addressed to PAR. i)urnsl mentions
certain f.cts, 70, which, if they be true, as We be-
Eeye they are, that parsonage ought to have al due
credit 1t lis ALI ged that, under his administration,
the cultvators and other inhabitants enjoyed de
gree Of prosperity in commercial point of view to
xhjch they had not before ataiaed. During the
ten years of hi, reign, the number Of young Hayti'
ems re.ortns TO Paris for education has increased
tenfold. and several Of them have attained to very
high distinction in the schools. This, st least,
il fact of which there can be no doubt
Asto the charge ag.n.t him that he appropriated
one-ffth Of the coffee crop to his own use, that is
attal misrepresentation. That tax WAS aPpro-
Eriated toward tie payment Of the PrinciPa! and