The New York herald., 1869-06-07
ST. DOMINGO.
Condition Of the C0untry-Disappearance Of
the Paper Carrency-ManGnvres Of Cabral-
The Annexation FeeiinR-Trade with Eu.

Condition Of the C0untry-Disappearanco Of
the Paper Carrency-ManGnvres Of Cabral-
The Annexation Feeiing-Trade with Eu.
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ST. DOMINGO. May 20, 1862
complained in my last-of the 18th instant or
thereabouts-that the rains were over DUE but had
not come. Since then they have been up to them
duty Nearly every day or night we have had at
least one lively shower, and the crops and pasureA
are smiling gratefully In return. The roads win noa
improve as kindly as the vegetation, however,
though O courier from the confines of Haytl, whom
caught on the wing says they are In fine order
from here TO Azua This courier brings letters worth
reading, not from their intrinsic importance nor
their literary value but for their curiousy confused
statements. One minister writes that his "govern%
mentr will unite with that OF the Dominican republic
In raising the dag OF the United states If President
BaeZ VIII share with his neghoor the loan he has
lately obtained from England. Another OF the min
isers expresses his 'loyal desire for a lasting peace
With our Dominican brothers " but there can be no
peace long the 'evIl disposed traitors OF Santis
ago and Porto Plata are plotting to sell their country
TO the Yankees So he proposes to use Just porA
ton ofthe English loan to extinguish the CabraCacos
and establish peaceful and united government oveB
the whole Island. These o.iical letters-else
I might have missed the pleasure Of reading them
out the private communication OF views TO be acted
upon In the Dominican President should enter
tain them. The point OF the JOKE Is tnat this gov
emment1 was not get in existence but proposed 70
organize very soOnJnat is, early IN May The chiefs
OF this coming government had, IL WOu d SEEM eltneH
failed TO compare notes, agreed 10 disagree.
There were more erters by this courier but one and
all Ignored Salnave. and all admitted that the snew5
OF war are sadly wanting in Hayti.
The issue OF paper money, winch mas hitherto Deen
the main element OF revolution making. Is played
out. dominican paper currency has entirely DIS
appeared. after going down TO tnous ul1 ior one
under the last months oil Cabral. and hayten paper
is now more than two hundred for one, and getting
rapidly worse on the frontier.
Thls paper currency is tne key to the whole sius-
tion-and all the situations-ol TINS Island me
various chiefs printed It o1 by wholesale and sold le
TO the merchants, VINO paid haI or two-thirds Oh
their duties with IT, besides using II TO buy produce
The So diers received Their pay ~ IT, ana everybody
was SO overlooked with 1t that the traders would
not receive at any price For time each success
iul chief would the virtues OF special ISSUE TO
be taken in preference at the Custom Houses, bue
one and all were finally overlone and repudated-
Thus the masses-on whom the evils OF depreclatiou
always iell most severely-haye conceived a deep
rooted aversion to government currency. The pro-
mise TO redeem with silver tho Caori issue was the
staple OF the Seybo attempt revolution about the
beginning OF January, but even that bait did not
bring out 200 people, and the AFFAIR was snuned oue
General Cabral entered the Dominican territory
nearly three months ago, ana has been LETT In tnq
possession OF the depopuated border belt; but ne
neither gets further into the country nor Is driven
entirely out OF 1t. Letters from both sides have
had skirmishes they call them battles Ia which
each asserts itself signaly victoroas but the value
not dozen men have been killed or taken on ethe4
| side up to May 3, the very last date OF reliable
accounts
| The news that Congress adjourned without inviA.
ing the Dominican republic 10 enter the Cnlon waI
great DISAPPOINTMENT here. Any number Of AmerlR
can flags had been found, made, 10 be In readki
ness TO Haunt on the arrival Of the hrst United Sate
ship-ofwar. The people have SO generally made up
''our starry nag,n "our beautiful money! and
"our nice -four" United States quarters and dimes
circulate largely IN all the West India islands since
the use OF paper mas maze them scarce home, and
they favorite "medlumsr-they mean and MAKE
good their say.
Yesterday the 10th, a schooner came in from Porto
Rico overloaded with a live relght OF DominicanY
expelled from that Spanish colony by orders or
the home government. 1t was prooabiy necessary
precauon, not one OF them could be trusted since
the revolution in Cuba. Pnty-nve-eolnting babies
sxty-persons came over with tnelr little all by thH
small craft which they cluboed their ineagre mean$
TO charter and others are to follow as soon as the1
can nnd the means. TheJ made melancholy show,
being mostly OF the poorest class VINO had enlisted
10 the spanish army during the period OF occupatia-
at st. Domingo. TINS arrival anu the theatre Ora
the CHIEF excitements OF the hour, repeat thaS
there not nor has there been, the least shade Of
public excitement here about the border inovementA
No one believes there will anything come of It, and
II there should no one would care except the Of
ncals who are marched out.
Business Is more animated With Europe for TO- 600
ceroons OF superior tobacco afe on the lists OF sale
and shipment principally on Geruan account and
its value comes back in European goods Even
loaf sugar, winch It's nearer nelgbOors ougNt 10
supply. comes from France, and sucn articles q
calicoes, sheetings and other cotton fabrics are
most never seen here OF United states manufacture
The only American cott0ns nave IN the coun.
try were few nales OF sneetnys imported by Leyba
& Co., and bale OF Mernmac calico, consigned tn
Read Ricart 70 try toe market. While there ara
three vessels loading on the coast for England there
Is nut one small craft taxing IN cargo for Boston.
This - all wrong for the unted states ought TO
supply every yard OF cotton goods used on this il aud
anu would 80 DO II aralrs were rlgn lY managed.
The news from the north slde SHOWS the tobacco
crop 10 be larger than any previous year. 1t is esti-
mated that not less tnan l2JO-0 ceroOns OF tobacco
Will be exported from Porto Plata TINS season.
Professor CEbb, state geUlOglst, goes % New YorR
by this steamer. Tue Professor ~ very reticent az
10 tue result OF his preliminary labors buJ taere IA
certain tWInke IN his eye that beOKens IN ward sas-
faef