The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-28
HIS FAILURES IN FRANCE
AND ENGLAND---DOMINI-
CA FOR SALE-NO
PURCHASERS
DEFEATED.
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNI
TED STATGS-SOME LIGHT,
POSSIBLY, ON COL. FA-
BENS AND THE NEW
PURCHASE
QUESTIONS TO PRIEST. GRANT
THE BIG AND LITTLE "NIG-
GER IN THE WOOD
PILE-OUR alag"
[F.om the Chicago Tribune

F.om the Chicago Tribune.l
The following comes to us from an au-
thentic source, and may be taken AS fur
nishing the clue, first, to the attempt to
secure the purchase of San Domingo by
this government, and, following its fail
urs, the now realized scheme OF the pur-
chase of SANTANA bay and its appurte-
nancss by an association OF American
capitalists. This last, without careful
watching by the public may prove only
roundabout and more costly method of
complete realization of tho first scheme
against the treasury of the United States.
From the statements following it seems
that the necessities of Baez, as principal,
have for some time been coupled with the
purpose Of certain bitten English specula-
tors to get back their investments. With
this introduction, We give place to the fol-
lowing remarkable communication
FOR SALE, A REPUBLIC.
To the editor Of the Chicago Tribune
SIR.-Your reader will appreciate GER
tain information respecting the San Do
mingo question that will como in Just at
this junctuie. In fact, the public have
only as yet received the third volume of
this interesting edition Of political schem.
ing, and propose to remedy this omission
by producing volumes I. and IL.
APORTRAIT OF BAEz.
Like every other novelist, ] must ask
my readers to look back ieN years, say
to 1865 and 1866, and to make the ac-
qusintance Of certain individuals in the
good city Of Bordeaux; his habiliments
denote not exactly poverty, but the next
stage TO it; his skin 10 brown enough to
prove decided dab of the tar brush, but,
on the other hand, his bearing is erect, Of
the medium hight, light gray hair, and
about, say, fifty years Of age. This,
gentle reader, is Senior Baez, at that time
ex-president Of the republic Of Santo Do
mingo, and
HIS OBJECT IN VISITING FRANCE
That of raising q loan wherewith to
drive his enemy, Cabral, from whence he
himself had only been ous,ed short time
previously. For years that lovely island,
perfect paradise by nature, has been
turned into species of beer garden or
stamping-ground for these two men and
their adnerents; first one, then the other,
would obtain the ascendancy, and which
ever gained the day Immediately set to
work 10 make all he could by plumber in
as snort space of time rs possible, for
the tenure of power never lasted long with
either Of them.
Months passed away, and poor Baez was
fast beginning TO realize the sad fact that
raising loan was not quite such an easy
operation as his sanguino Imagination had
pictured, aud that tne French governme
cared not one straw whether he or Cabral
governed his beloved republic, when one
lucky day he fell in with the true hero of
this work, one Edward Herzberg by name.
Herzberg was but clerk in mercantile
house in Bordeaux, but he was one of
these clever fellows who, out Of very
slender salary, managed to live in what
may be called very pleasant stvle.
AN ALLIANCE,
Offensive and defensive, against society in
general, was entered into, and rs Baez' s
means never at any time plethortic) were
now beginning to wax Small, and beauti-
fully less he became the guest of his
newiy-iound friend Herzbsrg.
Again months passed away, and still
dame fortune was as obdurate Us ever, I'M
Ill, one morning, a ray Of hope shot into
poor BaeZ's heart, on the receipt of q lot.
ter from certain of his adherents in St.
Thomas, who felt certain Of gushing his
adversary, Csbral He went, he saw, he
conquered" and again in his presidential
chair, he and his cabinet forwarded the
necessary documents to Herzberg, who
then became the duly acknowledged
COMPASSIONATE
or the republic Of San Domingo, with
power TO raise loan on the Paris course
of e,750,o00 francs.
har rhu na1 4 ~
ations 10 Paris, aud doubtless did his leye
best TO get the money, but the French
ISL wouldn't even nibtie, 80 much NOR,
make . lively dash at his hook. Hop,
was fast giving way to despair, when
with few of his remaining sous, be on,
day sought relief from a very ANNOYING
appetite in the cafe-where he met will
one Simeon Webster, an Englishman
now Simeon delighted in the imaginar,
title OF financial agent" and a casual nd
mission Of this fact at once brought on
all Herzbergs troubles; Simeon listened
smiled 10 plying smile), smile tina
seemed to say, the easiest thing in In
world Ia my hands. 1t succeeded, aDt
Simeon became Q financial agent in re
ali,y for the first and only time in his life
The next day saw them
ON THEIR WAY TO LONDON,
But strange to say, for some reason Herr
berg found 1t convenient to change hi
name, and landed in England as Edwar,
usrtmont.
Now, Whatever Herzberg might hay,
been, certain II ia, Hartmont was q beegsr
not sou In his pocket Simeon did lin
magnificent, paid his passage, took him I,
his house Ia the suburbs Of London. fed
clothed, lodged and physiced him 70
several months, at tho end of which tim
both Simeon and the concsssionere beea,
70 Ind raising loans almost ss difficult
game 10 London Is In Paris. Gradual