The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-02-21

origin; he carried instructions TO
Cabral TO make the greatest effort he could to
rouse some of the Dominican people, by the aid
of the Haytien force, appealing to them with
the idea that this annexation movement was a
mask; that its real purpose was to take all
power from the black and colored people, aud
place all in the hands of the whites.
Mr.. Wade-Cabral has created so much stir
he must have O considerable force. How many
men in reality has he now?
President Baez-There is one regiment about
full with him now and he is expecting two or
three others to come to his aid. He is on the
frontier, just inside the Haytien line, gas shown
on the map. His present positioni is about sixty
miles west of AZua.
Mr.. Wade-The people seem to be very quiet
about here. Are they generally SO?
President Baez-Our people are quiet and
peaceable they are orderly, and take no part
in this affair. AS the Haytien force, with which
Cabral is, advances, the Dominicans have all
fallen back in this direction. The insurrection
is pretense, it is in fact, an invasion. Well,
how do you Northern gentlemen like our cli-
mate?
President White-It is delightful. We came
from snow and cold winds so recently that this
warmth is very welcome.
President Baez-You will, of course, preserve
your perfect independence in making your in
quiries. l wish you to gain all the knowledge
that can possibly be obtained from all
sorts of people-understand their wants
and feelings. What they mostly desire is
security against invasion. Every two three
year comes an invasion from Hayti; and we wish
tranquility. Our people are quiet and friendly
to each other. Here there is equality among all
the people-perfect equality before the law. OF
course, any one may in his social life, in his own
house, indulge such prejudices as he pleases;
but in the country, as a nation, and before the
law, there is perfect equality among races.
Mr.. Wade-Your invitation to us to consult
with all parties shows that you have full conf
dence in the justice of your own cause.
President BaeZ-Perfectly, perfectly. have
myself done what has been called very bold
thing. In order to obtain the expression of the
true sentiment of the people, sent out to have
an election held with perfectly free vote, and
the people responded in the same spirit.
The Town of Santa Barbara de samaua.
During the stay of the commission at Samana
Bay the Tribune correspondent wrote as fol-
lows---+
SamaDa is poor little dirty place enough, for
all its romantic and picturesque appearance. 1t
is built in a random hap-hazard sort of way
along half mile of curving shore at the foot
of a ridge of high wooded hills, and what with
its rambling lanes and grotesque huts, think it
is one of the most absurd places | ever saw.
There are so or 80 buildings all told consist
ing for the most part of light frame work of
scantlipgs brought from the States, and clap
boarded with bamboos split in half and pressed
fiat by piliDg stones upon them while wet The
rude planking made in this primitive manner is
from four to six inches wide and half quarter
of an inch thick. Paint is almost unknown, but
most of the huts are whitewashed The roofing
is of cocoa leaves bound together with vines.
The flooring, when there is any, which is not
often, consists of rough-hewn wood, or bark, or
boughs, or the same leaves that are used for
thatch. None of the houses-or, perhaps, l
should say cabins-have more than one story;
few have more than one, or, perhaps, two
rooms. Doors and windows are luXuries which
the majority of the people have learned to do
without; but there are two or three houses in the
village rooted with shingles and supplied with
| all such modern conveniences as plank floors,
partitions and doors and windows. In the
centre of the settlement is the Plaza, or square,
| without which no Spanish-built town is thought
to be complete, and here is liberty tree, of the
royal palm species, planted by the villagers five
or six years ago to replace one cut down by the
Spaniards before they were driven away. We
landed from The ships boats on awretched wharf
which runs out about 100 feet into the shallow
water; and if the village looked comical from
the frigate, what shall L say of the nearer
view ? The platform swarmed with men, women
and children of all shades of color, gazing,
open-eyed and open-mouthed upon the strange
arrival. At least half the children under eight
| years of age were as naked as when they first
came into this wicked world.
Among the lower classes-if may be par.
doned the expression-economy in costume is
not confined to the children. There are men
whose whole wardrobe consists of q pair OF
pantaloons, and women who boast of no gar
ment whatever but a torn calico gown-not sc
much as a ragged handkerchief.
The population of the village is about $50
and of the whole peninsula about 5000. A ma
jority-at any rate of the villagers speak Eng
iish. There are very few white men-Mr. Burr
a live Maine Yankee of whom more hereafter
Mr.. Horau, sort of Spanish Pennsylvania
Yankee, Qf you know what that is), who has
spent many years in New York; Mr.. Price
formerly purser of the Tybee and now building
up for himself good business here; Mr.
Marciaque, French merchant, formerly o
New Orleans, but more recently partisan o
SalDave in Hayti. These, with three or fOu
more are all that have heard of. Mr.. Fabens
Judge O'sullivan, and some others, spend
great deal of time here, but can hardly b,
called inhabitants. All the colored resident
certainly majority of all-men, women
and chdren-speak English. Very few ar
natives of the island; indeed, have not thu
far, to my knowledge, met one who was not al
immigrant or the immediate descendants of i'm
migrants. Probably half of all the blacks, o
their ancestors, came from Philadelphia. TIL
earliest of the colony settled here in 1924 unde
President Boyer, and others have been sent b
colonization societies subsequently, or have fle
hither from Hayti.
San Domingo City.
The same correspondent describes Santo Dc
mingo City as folloWs:-
Santo Domingo City is nothing but a ruin.
have been here now two days, aud hav
searched vainly for anew house, fresh brick
a newly-quarried stone, or a lately-sawed scant
ling. Apparently there is not, in tn
whole city, a structure that is not 90
years old. All the houses bear the proof G
great age. Crumbling stones, concrete falling
decay ivy and other vines clinging to the wall
moss and mould and discoloration everywher,
Every street is but copy of its fellows. Ii
houses are like prisons, with thick walls ma
siye doors, and barred windows. But the Tr
bune readers are familiar with descriptions
this ancient town, aud ana glad to leave it
its decay for the story of the present.
STARVING PARIS.