The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-08

TAe sam V0mhu8o Au0tfs
The intelligence respecting the San Dorain.
20 AFFAIR leaves 1t very doubtful that Spain
has seized upon any portion Of 1t. The ap-
peal 70 the Douinicans, which has bean pub
iished, was more than two months old, and a
letter from Havana, dated the 18th, speaks Of
an expedition being only ready to leave. BY
some IL 10 believed that a revolu tionary fracas
had broken out, which could not be quelled
by the regular authorities, and that aid
has been asked of tho Captain. General Of
Cuba. This island has been the seat of fire.
Quent political disturbances and Of bloodshed.
From the time OF its discovery by Columbus
In l&e2, the portion Of il now seized remained
for three hundred years a Spanish colony,
till 17o6, when II was ceded to the French
The other portion OF the island now called
IIayti had at previous period been trans
ferred from Spain to France by the bold sci
xure Of IL by the buccaneers. The Spanish
colony embraces the largest part of thu island
and has not been the scene of so many hor.
rors as the French, From lsl4 to 1921 1t held
some slack allegiance TO the Spanish Grown,
bat then a lawyer, named Minez arrested the
Spanish Governor, and declaration OF In
dependence was At once issued, recognized a
few years later by France on condition that
its ports should be open to the ships of all ma
tons. From that time to 1S43 the Spanish
and French portions that is, the whole island }
became united under the presidency OF Boyer.
Then, after three years Of strife followed Sou.
louQue over the French part in ls4o. But in
the meantime the Dominican Republic, tthat
II, the Spanish portion OF the island,} with an
ares of II 900 50 uare miles, and a population
Of lse. 500, had declared its complete independ-
enoe Of the French portion. Spain, however,
has never, 1t seems, formally admitted Its in
dependence Of herself 1t has been forty years
oat Of her possession.
Mr.. James Redpath, who is officially con.
nected with the Republic OF Hayti, gives the
following OK planati of the reported usurpa
ton
"Since the independence of the Dominican
Republic two parties have divided and alter
nately governed 1t, whose representative men
arc Santana and Baez, as the words reunion
and independence indicate their respective
policies.
"Some years ago-{what say now is drawn
from Hay ten Official sources )-San tana bor-
rowed q million of dollars from Spain. Failing
TO repay it according TO the terms of the loan,
he offered to give a mortgage on the Gus tom
houses. Last summer, accordingly, small
band Of SPaniards, not more than eighty in all p,
arrived In st. Domingo, and the three officials
among them immediately entered on their du
ties As collectors at the ports. The rest were
mechanics. This is all the emigration that
has been sent to the Dominican Republic by
Spain.
''This policy of Santana furnished the mate
rial for creating an effective union among the
opposition to his government. See he is
selling the country to the whites, = Even as
early as last December, revolutionary circu-
lars and prociamations were in type in St.
Domingo, and a copy of the proofs, know,
were shown to a distinguished Ambassador at
Paris: But this project was nipped in the bud;
and Baez is still an exile. The intrigues of the
opposition continuing and increasing, Santana
has called for aid-first, in order TO secure the
perpetuity Of his own government. and, sec
ondly, to enable him to pay the loan.
This, venture to say, is the sum total of
tho whole hubbub that we hear from Ha-
vana.'"