The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-01-18
san Domingo Notablss.

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ington correspondent of the New York
Mail:
Baez, so-called President, is man oi
about fifty years of age. He has about
one-sixteeuth negro blood, and proba-
! bly, as much of the Carib Indian in his
veins. He has been in rows all life long,
except some ten years or so which he spent
| as an exile in Paris--a city whittier it is
said bis ambition turns at the present time.
He is more anxious to see bis coffee planta-
tion prosperous than anything else, is well
well aware of the necessity of peace and
order, and like nearly all the educated
mixed bloods, either Haytiens or Domini-
cans, of whom l have heard, has no faith
whatever in any independent future for
their island nationalties. Baez is man
or polished manners when he chooses to
be, and is probably as Inscriptions.
Cazneau is a Vlrginian, l believe. He
is a man of some means, aud was formerly
our representative there. He owns large
coffee plantation, has large mineral aud
land grants, and his stake is o. considera-
Bile Importance, to him at least. His wife
is woman of decided ability, and was
trained here, in the old school Of political
intrigue and management, whose head
quarters were in this city.
Fabens is a Salem, Massachusetts, boy,
though his appearance would indicate
Southern or Spanish descent. He is q man
OF rather elegant appearance. An cid
filibustering companion of Lopez and
Walker told me to-day several incidents of
Fabens and Others The first named be
met in the Canary Islands, some fifteen or
more years ago. He e.was then engaged in
the experiment of employing camels in
Texas, upon the tstaked plains" and other
sections where the difficulties of obtaining
water over long stretches of country were
SO great.
Fabens was at the CANARY Island trans
shipping his camels. He afterward en-
gagged in st. Domingo in the same plan of
acclimating the ''ships Of the desert" For
several years be had some thirty camels
bringing ore down from the mines to San
Domingo and Samaha. AS they were all
males, there were none to replace those
whom death carried off. Fabens even
then owned large tracts of land on Samana
Bay.
1t is more than twenty years ago since
General Pickett, the ext Confederate, was
United States Consul at Turks Island.
While there he proposed the leasing or
purchase of Samana Bay to the State De-
partment. This, of course, turned the at.
tention Of such keen-witted spectators as
Fabens, Cazueau, O'Sullivan & Go. to the
value of real estate in that vicinity. 1t is
worthy of notice that in Hayti an alien
white man can not be, l think, either a
citizen or the owner of real estate. | am
quite sure of the latter prohibition.
A curious fact was told me by the fill
bustering general, Of whom I've already
spoken. When Kossuth was in America
in 1852-53, there was number of Ameri-
cans and others organized as filibustering
legion. They were originally intended to
aid Lopez in the Cuban movement. After
ward they were kept together for Kossutb,
there being some expectation of a>war be-
tween Turkey and Russia. A number of
Hungarian exiles were also out of business,
and had to be provided for. AT the time
Solouque, the black Emperor, was contin-
ually raiding on San Domingo. AS is
generally known, the Haytiens claim con-
troll over the island. Propositions had
been made to Pickett to employ his filibus-
ters in driving back Soulouque. After
ward Pickett himself went to San Domin-
go to renew it for Kossuth's compatriots,
as we'll as his own men. After he got
there the nature of his mission got out,
and the English, French and Spanish re-
presentatives, all fearing the advent of
clos Filibusteros," " sent their fleets to Port
au Prince, and made such forcible repre-
sentatious to the black ruler of Hayti that
the raid on Dominican territory ceased.
How history" mixes things. The
Pickett spoken of above was not our Con-
federate General Pickett, of San Juan Is
land and Gettysburg fame. He was contin-
ually in the United States army, from the
time he graduated at West Point until he
resigned to cast his fortunes with the South.
The gentleman the correspondent talks so
glihly about, was Kentuckian, called
Colonel Pickett, who was Consul for the
United States at Vera Cruz, under Presi-
dent Pierce, from 1853 to 1857.