New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-03-17
IIAYTI.


PoRT-AU-PRINCE, Hayti, March 6.-The Ten
nesseo-bearing the two Commissioners, Mr. Wade
and Dr. Howe and all the members Of the expedition
except Mr.. White and the other scientific gentie,eh
who went from Santo Domingo to Puerto Ila'"
across the island-fnally took her departure Iion
Aqua the 2Sth of February, TO the nli'o u,i'9"
of all interested except Mr. Baez, VINO "'''' ="
sorrowful goodbye from the beach, baez h',S' nav
been glad when the Investigations were ilii9nI"'
| for they had given him some annoyance; but he
regretted 10 part company with the anu h-'"'N
guns composing the fine battery OF the leui'eS'oo'
MIR Baez is an arTant coward, ana the mere Innoi
that Cabral is making preparations Ior a lIon 'o'
him trembling. The proposition of DR.. Howe to
leave the steamer at Jacmel and make the IMP 10
this city by land having been abandoned, we arrived
here without interruption on the afternoon of the
Oh inst. after one of the most beautiful and de-
iebtful trips that can be enjoyed upon an ocean
whose surface is placid and whose breezes
are balmy and exhilarating. We kept close
to the main land for the most OF the way,
and the beautiful ranges of mountains, with rug
ged uneven. and unpTOductye surface presented
scene so bcauteOus and grand that its recollec-
ton is like q romance The atmosphere of the trop
les gives peculiar charm to all nature II sOftens
and subdues the most rugged landscape and II adds
richness to the most picturesque. The sky is buer
the clouds are lighter and more transparent, and
assume more beautiful shapes all the colors of
nature are frightened, the is soft with every
shade of blue and green, and the ship glides so mer
rily over the smooth surface that we regret when
day ends and night begins; and yet the twilight is
so delicious that ii is pity it does not last forever
All through the beautiful Bay which this city
looks for more than 20 miles, the water is peculiarly
transparent. At times the bottom can be seen dis
-, CO.. ;I,S fho dor IF ~
passed the island of B6ate, and farther on
the notorious little Alta Vela. which rises like the
top of a balloon from the Ocean-an insignificant
little thing to raise such stencil il has in Con-
gress and in the courts. Excepting an occasional
lazy shark with its dOTsa fin sticking foot above
the water, there was no living thing in sight al
though we were rarely beyond the view OF land
But 10 miles out from the city inst when it could be
seen with the naked eye, myfiads of little sailing
vessels came in sight, making rapidly toward the
city, under full SAIL before a brisk breeze that always
blows in from the sea i'll the afternoon. They were
like monster regatta in the distance. At least %
sail could be counted without difficulty. These little
boats go out every morning from the city with the
land breeze and the owners and their families work
all day on the plantations forests along the coast
filing their boat with the product of the days labor,
and returning to town in the evening to pass the
night and dispose Of their goods.
The city is very attractive from the bay at the
distance of two or three miles 1t is built on fiat,
slightly rising from the water and soping up to the
foot of the hills-whioh rise in the background to
considerable hight. And yet on close acquaintance
we find it the worst place we have yet visited. by
contrast Santo Domingo is adorned with every
beauty and every virtue. The houses are bad; the
streets are filthy the wharves are decayed and
dangerous the inhabitants like those of Santo
Domingo, are lazy, but unlike those of Santo Do
mingo they are also insOent the climate IL un-
bearably hot-Port- au-Prince, being known among
Navy officers, as the hottest place ever heard of
EXCEPT one besides there swamps on either side
Of the city which furnish musketoes in season, and
yellow fever and such things at other times. Dr.
Howe who has no affection for the ship has dis
covered other dsagTeeabe points about POrt-au-
Prince The Doctor always goes ashore to sleep II
he can obtain anything like decent accommodations
He spent the first night land He returned to the
ship by the first boat the next morning without MS
breakfast. He was in a terrible temper. Nh. Wade
asked him how he liked the city. The Doctor
said the first part of the night, and until Il o'clock
there had been a number of happy natives, who
nassed the gentle time away in drinking rum sing
ing hymns fighting and yelling Aiterward he was
driven wild BY musketOeS, which he declares VIII
desert friends and kindred TO come to him, and he
could only keep them oil By smoking bad cigars
which made him sick Toward morning, when
fatigue had brought him partial rest his tired senses
were set upon by cocks and dogs and dOnkeys, who
crowed and barked and brayed until he was driven
frauticallv to his boat The doctor is now very well
satisfied with the beds of the ship Even Frederick
Doupass the most generous of critics and the most
devoted friend of his race and believer III It's
latent ability for selfgoyeTnment cOntesses to afee
ing of sorrow and disappointment at the spectacle
presented So do Dr. Howe and Mr.. Wade Ihey
all acknowledge that the Negro Republic OF aytl Is
failure 1t possesses none OF the elements OF
success or strength stability. You need not go out
side of this town to become convinced of this. You
NAV see il in the terrible ignorance of the people,
their lack of energy intelligence their low cy-
zation which is not many strides from barbaIlsin.
They do not know what a government IS, nor the
meaning Q. the word republic. There is no public
safety and no public confidence. revolution would
not be an unexpected event were it 10 happen to-
morrow, and the Government feels by no means safe.
The Republic has not advanced the people have not
advanced. They have more truly gone backward,
and they have drawn their Republic after them.
wholly competent and trustworthy gentleman con-
nected with the Commission, whose name may not
mention here in this city 80 years ago, and he
says he cannot see the slightest improvement A
people that does not advance or less goes back
ward. There is no standing still. Can Government
be success which has had three revolutionary Pres
dents in five years, and 1900 majorgenerals in its
army, and of whose money it requires $1,000 to buy
pound of teal
BAD FEELING TOWARD THE UNITED STATES.
The feeling of the people hefe-I know not how it
has been engendered-is strongly against the United
States. do not think the people know the reason.
or the want of reason which actuates them. large
majority are bitterly opposed to our annexng Santo
Domingo. They do not know why they are opposed