ST. DOMINGO AND HAYTI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 445, 10 December 1866, Page 2

ST. DOMINGO AND HAYTI.

A Havana correspondent gives a gloomy picture of these unhappy islands. H e writes as follows : ST. DOMING O. We notice no improvement in the social or political condition of that unfortunate island ; ou the contrary, from whatever accounts we receive from the different parties existing there, things appear to be deplorably worse, so much so that most of the accounts betray a concealment rather than a truthful relation of the hopeless condition of the country. We have failed to receive any papers except from Puerto Plata. It appears that the - triumvirate held a meeting there to award the election of the Presidency to General CabraL Still we. have letters from independent source?, upon which reliance can be placed, stating that affairs were getting worse every day, which was attributed to the fact that no government of any kind had yet been installed. Our correspondence represents all classes to bo in continual alarm, as the rabble factions, quite unrestrained, give themselves up to all kinds of disorder, many of them having been discovered attempting to set fire to dwellings and other property. The citizens have to arm themselves at night and form in groups to avoid any sudden attack oi "Vandalism. Foreigners have been threatened witli immediate expulsion if they did not reduce the price of their goods to tha capricious estimates of the populace, so that affairs have come to the extreme, and no other cry was heard but that of “down with the merchants” and “ down with commerce.” The Government compels trader, to receive paper money for their merchandise ; but the depreciation of it is such that several firms have closed their stores, and others have removed their goods to Bt, Domingo city and Santiago. ° Hayti is the next of kin—the poor unfortunato sable sister. Her physical condition is not tnueii better ; and as to the moral state of either, wo are at a loss which of the two most to pity. ■Anotncr revolution is on foot, uud whatever elements President Geffrard may count on, or whatever energy he may show to avoid it, another revolution is inevitable. The country is overrun with foraging outlaws, and pillage is increasing to an alarming extent everywhere. Ail sorts of, crimes are perpetrated with impurity. A most horrible case of child-murder has been committed, bf a man of the name of Charles March, the details of which we are compelled to suppress.