, 1873-01-22
SANTANA BAY.
Something Concerning President Baez
and His Republic.
His Earlier European Fiscal
Schemes.
The Secret History Of the San
Domingo Negotiations. F.:
Some Light Possibly on Colonel
Fnbens and tho Now
Purchase.


Purchase.
The following comos to ua from nm authentic
source, and may bo takon aB furnishing tho clue,
frat to the attompt to SECURE tho purchase Of San
Domingo by thia Government and, following Its
failure, tho now rcalized sohome Of tho purchase
Of samann Bay and its appurtonancoa by an as-
eociation Of American capitalists. This last,
Without careful watching by tho public, may
provo only roundabout and moro costly method
Of complete realization Of tho first solomo
against the Treasury Of tho United Btatos.
From tho statements following it sooms that tho
nocessitios Of Baez, nB principal, have for Homo
timo been coupled with the purpose Of certain
bitten English speoulatcrs to get back thoir in
Vostments. With this introduction, no give
place to tho following remarkable communi-
ton:
Fon SALE, A nEruD11o.
To the Editor ~ TAe Chicago Tribune:
SIR: Your readers will appreciate certain in.
formation respecting the Bsn Domingo question
that will come in just at this junoturo. In fact,
the public hayo only aa yot received tho third
volume Of this Interesting edition Of political
schcming, and propose to remedy this omts-
sion by producing Vols. I. and II.
4 PORTRAIT OF BAEz.
Like every othor novelist, must ask my
roadera to look back q fow years. say to 1865 and
1865, and to make the acquaintance Of certain
individual In tho good city Of Bordeaux his la-
bilimonte denote not o1actly poverty, but the
noxt stage to It; his skin is brown enough to
prove decided dab OF tho tar brush, but, on tho
other hand, his bearing is erect, Of tho medium
height, light gray hnir, and about say, 80 years
Of ago. This, gentle roader, is senor Baez, ut
that timc ox-preaident Of tho nepublio Of santa
Domingo, and
HIS oDJEoT IN VISITING FRANCE
that of raising q loan wherewith to drive bis
enemy, Cabral, from whence ho himself had only
boon oustod short time previously. For years
that lovely Island, d porfoct paradise BY nature,
has been turned into a species Of bear garden,
or stamping ground for these two men and thotr
adheronta; first one, then the other, would OBJ
tain tho ascendanoy, and which evor gained the
day Immediately set to work to mako all he could
by plunder in as short space Of timo as possi-
blo for the tenure Of power neyer lasted long
with either Of them.
Months passed away, and poor Bao7 WIS faBt
beginning to realize the sad fact that raising
loan was not quite such an easy operation as lis
sanguine Imagination had pictured, and that the
French Government cared not ono straw w..stssr
Ao VE NAu1A4 EoHt&u6u ula UtAof60 4hcpuLhlE3
whom one lucky day he foil in with the truo hero
Of this work, one Edward Herzborg by name;
now Her2berg waB but clerk In mercantile
house in Bordeaux. but bo was ono Of those
clever fellows who, out Of 4 vosy slender salary,
managed to live in what may bo called very
pleaaant style.
AN ALLIANCE,
offensive aud defensive, against society in gen.
eral, was entered into, aud as Daeza means
(never at any time p1ethorio) we're now begin
ming to wax "small, and beautifully less," ho
became the guest OF his neHly-tound friend
Horzberg.
Again months passed sway, and still Dame
Fortune waa Us ohdurate as over, until, one
morning, ray Of hope shot into poor Baez'a
heart, On the receipt Of letter from certain Of
his adherants in st, Thomas, who felt certain
Of ouBting his adversary, Cabral. " Io went,
ho eaw, ho conquered" and, again in his Prosi-
Dental chair, ho and his Cabinet forwarded the
necessary documenta to Herzberg, who then
became the duly acknowledged
'tcoNoEgs1oHERE"
OF tho Republic OF San Domingo, with power to
raise 1oan on tho Paris Dourso Of 8,750,000
franco.
Horzberg changed the scene OF tho operations
to Paris, md doubtless did his loyol best to get
| tho money, but tho French fish wouldn't oyen
| nibble, 30 much more mike lively dash at his
bait. Hope was fast giving way to despair, when,
with a few Of his remaining sous he one day
sought relief from very annoying appetite in
tho cafa-wlere he met with ono Simeon Web
ator, an Engliahman; now Simeon delighted in
the imaginary tito Of Financial agout," md a
out all Horzborg'n troubles; Simeon latonod,
smiled e. pitying amile), . snilo that soomcd to
say tho oasiost thing III the world in my hands.
It succeeded, and Simeon became q financial
agent in reality for tho first and only tilno in Ills
life. The next day saw them
ON THEIR WAY TO LONDON,
but strange to say, for eomo reason Harzborg
found it convenient to change his name, and
landed in England as Edward Hartmont.
Now whatever Herztborg might have been
Ss1so ;s ;ss soS3Ips 5s5 ses. d @ IaaaSa: IL;
fed, clothed, lodged, and physioked him for sov-
oral months, at tho ond Of which timo both
Simeon and tho Concessionore began to find
raising loans almost as difficult game in Lon.
| eyes opened to tho diaagreeablo that Simeon
knew aa much about tho 1utlos of financial
agent aa ha did Of difereutial calculi, 90 Il
was decided to call in the assistance Of \ newly
privilege Of lfsng ting bss ut on % rare a' OCCASIONS o.
Change, to ono or two OF tho monoyod world
WAS looked up to by the worthy pair as
| THE MAN ITO 10 IT "
Degloy atrutted hH abort period, nay ovon suc
oeaasd 10 far, arrange to say, as to induce Hart
mont to become his partner, and tho firm o.
Hartnont d Co. was duly established ut No.
Great vt. Holous, London. Now, rs in this colal
try, 80 In London, 1t is not an uncommon thin{
for two or more parties to occupy tho same room
in business, and No. Q had long bebn in the pos
sossiou Of ono John Oglo, ship-broker
very groat orony Of Deglcy'a.) OF cours
Ogie was soon as oonvorsant With the details o
The proposed loan aH any Of them, aud 1lartmon
Boon found that the only man amongst them VIII
roally understood wlat ho was about waB til
willy ship broker; Ogle SAW this, went IN as
sleeping partner, and tho lot united to GUST poo
Simeon, who finding no other road open to sat
iafaotion, commenced
| a su1T IN UHANCERY,
which, doubtless, Is IN as advanced u atate a
this present date AZ Olanoery suits usually are
Ogle now took tho holm Of the sinking Ahl
| Mi IN .rnr1r r H.