Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-17
Miscellaneous Dispatches.


ITEMS FROM NEW 1Ohhs
New YORK, March 15.-The Tribune's Wash
| ington special says there is n rumor tonight of
| advices received from Minister Sickles submit
ting as the result of negotiations he has been
conducting for several months past, PROPOSE
| ton from the government of Spain for the sale
| to the government OF Cuba and Porto Rico. The
amount asked is believed to be one hundred mil
| lion dollars, payable in installments.
John Wick had his skull fractured yesterday
in fight among the deck passengers on the
steamer City OF Hartford.
The name of the first mate killed on the
steamer Electra, in the collision at Hell Gate,
Yesterday, was VIM. Clifford. He had recently
married widow with one child in Providence.
His body was not found but it is supposed that
he was struck by the bowsprit of the schooner
and instantly killed, as fragments OF clothes and
some blood were found.
The Bussing will case was decided yesterday
by Surrogate Coffin of West Chester county IN
favor of the son, and the will admitted to pro-
bate. The daughters will appeal from the deci-
sion,
The strike of the Hudson river brick boat
mems association has ended in their defeat.
Julius A. Robinson, proprietor of the Park
avenue hotel, was declared bankrupt yesterday.
Liabilities SIS 900.
Gen Mcdowell says that the troops at Gov.
ernor's Island, reported to be held in readiness
to proceed to Santo Domingo, have been on the
island since last October, and will soon go to the
northwestern frontier.
The sentence of Chadwick, confederate of
Van Eten, the forger, was deferred yesterday.
Prominent men of Brooklyn, including Alder
man Richardson and Supervisor Sias b.
butcher, well acquainted with his past career,
but ignorant, until a few days ago, of his con-
yiction, appeared in court and appealed TO Judge
Woodruff to defer the sentence until steps could
be taken to justify Chadwick, if it be possible.
THE SAN DOMINGO COMMISSION.
PORT AU PRINCE, March 1.-THE commission
reached here the second of March, from Aqua.
All are in excellent health. They will wait
here for Commissioner White, who is expected
here by the 10th, bringing with him two scien-
tiic expeditions, under Professors Blake and
Ward, that crossed before him. The Tennessee
will then start Immediately for home, touching
at Santiago de Cuba and Key West for coal.
The questions of debt and disputed boundary
are the most important since the last dispatch
es. The Haytiens are bitterly opposed to annex
alton. The commissioners, however, were re-
ceived civily Cabrals strength consists al
most wholly of Haytien support. The intorma-
ton that the Tennessee had been reported miss
ing first reached the party here. The statement
of Gen. Banks that she was unseaworthy was
received with great Indignation, and denounced
as heartlessly cruel. She is one of the strongest
and best ships in the navy, with a select COM
pany of efficient officers, who expect now, I'M
less delayed by the Nantasket, to reach home
by the 25th of March, Or at the farthest, the LIST
of April. A delay of one week from this cause
Is pOSslbiG IL tuC hHlp 10 HC'iiu liOlH iOI
two weeks it should not cause anxiety. Mail
from the commission leaves for New York to-
day by the steamer Port au Prince.
Commissioner Wade is preparing a short pre-
liminary report which he hopes to get off on
the steamer this evening. He has also sent a
short letter to the president. Dr. Howe had ar
ranged for pretty thorough exploration of this
section of Hayti, but Wade insisted that there
was no authority for it, and it should not be
done. The second day after our arrival here,
lIessrs. Wade and Howe called, by previous
agreement, on the president and his cabinet.
The meeting bad no reference to annexation.
All the cabinet were present. Upon being pre-
sented Mr.. Wade said eve are commissioners
of United States, charged with the duty of max
ing certain inquiries touching the state and cOndi
ton of the Dominican republic, with view to
the possibility of more intimate relations be-
tween the two republics than have hitherto eX-
listed; and having performed that duty we were
reluctant to leave this beautiful island without
doing ourselves the honor of calling and paying
our respects to the president of the Haytien re-
public; and we desire to express our hope that
the same friendly and amicable relations that
have so long animated the people of both ma
tons may long continue. In doing this we but
express the sincere sentiments of the president
and people of the United States"
President Saget replied that he gladly recip-
rocated the feelings of friendship expressed by
Mr.. Wade, and he would do all in his power to
aid their researches.
After some informal conversation, Mr.. Wade
said he greatly regretted not being able to speak
in their own language, because he thought he
would then be able to say a great deal that
would tend to allay the present feeling toward
the United States by showing points in which
the Haytiens misunderstood us. President Saget
at this earnestly said that the educated class in
Hayti fully understood and appreciated the con-
dition of the United States, but large class
only remember the slavery which existed there
and the fact that they had themselves been
slaves, and it was impossible to influence them.
The president at the close of the conference said
he would try and visit the commissioners. He
is not expected, however, on account of the gen
eral and popular feeling against the presence of
the commission in the harbor. Cabra has sent
communication to the frontier for the COM
mission in answer to letter from DIR. Howe,
written at Aqua, but the letter is delayed until
the Haytien authorities can correspond with the
minister in regard to receiving it.
Mr.. Wade is anxious not to complicate mat
tiers in bringing him here wishing, as he does,
to avoid all appearance of being engaged while
in Hayti in prosecuting the Investigations look
ing to annexation.