Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-16

very sweetly. An examination of tn,
classes does not reveal any striking men
tai progress, the professors having evi
IDENTIFY been anxious not to have theil
students exceed the safest limits. .Sount
learning" is the cry here, of course, auc
Science, falsely so called" text used tx
excellent advantage in keeping back the
search for Gods truth as revealed in biz
works. But on the other hand, they have
one advantage. ANYMORE than ever con
vinced that the doctrine I supported il
my inaugural address, that we should d.
more to cultivate among students thu
greatest of the arts God has given us, thu
one which does most to lift us up toward
Him, the easiest, the most universal-ths
Art Of Music-is true, and that we neg
lect it at our peril. As have heard those
voices, l have thought that while perhap!
we get nearer the source of Truth ano
Beauty on one side, they get nearer it or
the other. Who shall say that scientific
truth is more real than artistic truth
How shall it be proved.
INTERVIEWS WITH BAEz.
Our interviews with President Baes
and his ministers have been very satisfac
tory. He acknowledges the necessity Of
our maintaining an independent position
in all respects, and there seems thus far
no disposition to withhold any fact OF
document. By the aid of our stenograph-
ers we have taken vast mass of test.
mony from all classes, from the Vicar
Apostolic of the Holy See to the cartmen
on the wharves, and we have insisted on
a full interchange of views with Baezists
and CAPITALISTS alike, and the President
has consented to give safe conduct to
any of the insurgents to and from any
point where we may wish to meet them.
FIVE EXPEDITIONS.
We have now four main expeditions
out fret, Professor Blake's party, includ-
ing Professors Crane and Wright, across
the mountains to the north side of the
island, which will take three weeks. and
will visit the mines of Cibao second, Prof
Wards expedition, with Prof. Brummel
as botanist, which is coming up the famous
valley of the Youna-the Vega Reale, or
Royal Valley, as the Spanish chroniclers
call it; third, Gen. Sigel's party, which is
examining the coast on the south side be-
tween Santo Domingo and Aqua; and
fourth, Prof. Marvine's party, which is
investigating the copper mines and salt
deposits range. A fifth party will soon
be organized to go through the prairie
country of Los Llanos to the southeast of
the central chain of mountains.
Prof. Parry is making a careful inves-
tigation regarding the plants and trees
having a commercial and economic value
in this part of the island. Dr. Newcomb
is examining physicians, hospitals, ships
crews, etc, which will enable him to re-
port on the prevalent diseases, their
sources and the means of sanitary i'm
provement, and Frederick Douglass is
doing here admirably what he did at Sam
ana, examining and reporting on the con-
ditiop, ideas and prospects of the colored
colonists from the United States and their
descendants.
CRY FOR ANNEXATION.
The dilapidation of this old city is
frightful, and the general stagnation is
wretched. But there is little, if any, suf-
fering from poverty; we have not yet
seen teggar. Still the long continued
anarchy and uncertainty have apparently
taken the life out of the great mass of the
people. Their cry is for annexation to
prevent their being dragged to the Hayti-
an frontier to keep of the invaders, or to
the mountains to fight the instruction
lists. There is certainly great freedom
from crime, perhaps because there is so
little temptation to robbery. No one
thinks of carrying firearms on the long
est journeys, and no one of our whole par
ty of twenty-five has, SO far as l know,
seen a fight or an exhibition of violence of
any kind. Admiral Porter told me in
Washington that he travelled all over the
districts with sort of toy pis-
toll in holsters, which he never had ocCa-
ion to use, and the testimony in all geolog-
ical and surveying parties seems to cor
roborate his statement that in ordinary
times violence is unknown.
We shall probably remain here about a
week longer; then we make some over
land excursions to points of interest.
Those we have already made have inter
ested us much, but most pleasant of all
was our trip in the steam launch of the
Tennessee up the Ozumu, on which this
city is situated, when we investigated
more closely than before the culture of
various products.
All our parties are charged, in addition
to their scientific mission, to report on the
condition and ideas of the people, and
on the subject of annexation,
careful schedules of questions being fur
nished them.
Our next main voyage will probably
be to Puerto Plata on the North side
thence inland, over the mountains OF
Cibao to Santiago and the Vega Reale
thence to the valley of tie Yagui then
by sea to Cape Haytien and Port au
Prince and so home, touching at Santiago
de Cuba and perhaps Kingston, Jamaica
am anxious to visit Kingston to see
what Anglo-Saxon races, even of bad
sort, can do in the tropics.
Our ship is noble one, and called by
some the finest in the navy, and her cap
tain Temple is worthy of her in all re-
,pects 1t seemed not little strange at
first to be one of the three men vested with
power over ship of the line and six hun
ired men, directing her whittier we
would, but our "brief authority" will, l
trust, not be used to the endangering
peace of mankind.
RECEIVED WITH KINDNESS.
Thus far all classes of people have re-
oeived us with entire kindness and respect,
but nothing has touched us more than the
hearty feeling shown by the America.
African colony toward the old flag and
toward us as in immediate relations with
the old government. The arrival of our
ship was godsend to their community
at SANTANA especially, and their new
church, thanks to the exertions of Fred
erick Douglass, received aid from the
of the expedition which will
carry it through their endorsements.
We all became good Methodists under the
influence of such hearty greetings.
ANDREW WHITE,
President Cornell University.