RECENT RIOTS IN HAYTI.

The following letter, which the Journal of Commerce ascribes to an intelligent source at Port au Plata, Hayti, gives the most connected view of the recent events in that distracted island than we have elsewhere seen:

"PORTO PLATA, MAY, 1844.

"Since my last to you the chief events have been here as follows: The blacks and mulattoes of the West quickly assembled and armed to reorganize the government of the island. Many letters were sent up here from the Cape and Port au Prince, exaggerating the force of the armies that were on their march. Among others Gen. Cadet wrote, saying that the President was marching at the head of 25,000 men from Port au Prince upon the city of St. Domingo; that Gen. Pierrot was marching with 15,000 men from the Cape for Santiago; while he would march with 1,500 men direct from the Cape for this place. From what I can learn, the Port au Prince army, when it started, was about 8,000; the Cape army 6,500; while Gen. Cadet's force was incorporated in the 6,500 of the army of the Cape. The army of Port au Prince, as there is very little organization or discipline in the Haytien armies, possibly, when it arrived on the frontiers, was 7,000. It was there met and checked by the army of St. Domingo, which, it is said, consisted of only about 800 Dominicans; three combats, in the last of which it suffered very severely, and was obliged to retreat to Azua, where they now are. The second of the last month the army of the Cape attacked the Dominicans and driven over the frontiers; but they left encamped on a mountain near 1,000 men, who were small-pox, and were only firing for some person's attention. In the bay of Azua there has been a naval engagement; the Haytien fleet of three schooners was attacked and sunk by the fleet of the city of the same force. The greater part of the crews of the Haytien vessels were killed or drowned, and report says not one person was injured on board of the Dominican vessels. One of the vessels of the city is what was formerly the Grand Canal pilot-boat of New York. She was armed with 50 Frenchmen, spared from the French fleet that was in the city of St. Domingo previous to that affair.

"When the Haytien army of the Cape Haytien reached the frontiers it had lost 500 men by desertion. It was there met and checked by Gen. Imbert, and also by Gen. Don Titus Salcedo, who may be called the Cincinnatus of this country. He left a beautiful country residence, and has aroused his countrymen on this side, and was by them chosen General-in-Chief. He has been joined by Gen. Alfau, the advance of the Western army of the Cape, and caused it to retreat by the Port au Prince road. This movement caused the army of Santiago to fall back, and the retreat took place. The people of the La Sierra retired up their mountains, and from there they can defend the only mountain pass which commands the road from the Cape and Santiago to this place.

"On the 30th March, the Cape army arrived before and immediately attacked Santiago. They have lost thousands on their march, by desertion and fatigue, to about 4,000 men. They attacked in three columns, and were repulsed by the artillery of the city, with a terrible carnage. They again assembled, again attacked, and were again repulsed. They fled for the frontiers, leaving on the field, it is said, about 1,000 killed and desperately wounded, many more being drowned in the river Yaqui. It is said by those who were on the route to the frontiers they were repeatedly attacked by the army of La Sierra, and it is thought they will not have more than 2,000 reached the frontier. There they were met by Gen. Pierrot, who was on his march to Santiago, to whom they communicated their panic. The whole force, when organized, again made an attempt, unsuccessfully. In order to the defence of Santiago, not one person was killed on the part of the Dominicans was killed, and only one slightly wounded. This appears almost incredible, but it is nevertheless a fact. It may be called, with the naval action at Azua, miraculous. Gen. Pierrot, finding it impossible to induce the rest of the army of the north to remarch to Santiago, he sent to the General-in-chief, Pierrot, an order to shoot every third man in the army.

"The General refused to execute so atrocious an order, and sent a message to the President to that effect, who immediately ordered General-in-chief Pierrot, who was at the Cape, to arrest the General-in-chief and send him to Port au Prince. In the mean time the army had disbanded itself. When the last news arrived at the Cape, an officer who bore it had an order for fifteen brass field pieces, which are at the Cape, to be sent to the army of Pierrot; he was also the bearer of $30,000 towards the raising of a new army. The people of the North, on the arrival of the order, decided to keep the field pieces and the money—have declared the North to be a separate and independent State, and have appointed the same General-in-chief, Pierrot, to be their General-in-chief. The Port au Prince and Cape of the Cape are in this movement; they are now raising an army to march against Port au Prince, and I think it very probable that Hayti will witness the spectacle of another intestine war. The State of the North will take in all the old kingdom of Christophe.

"On the South, an army marched from Aux Cayes for the Port au Prince, being some four or five thousand men. They commenced an indiscriminate massacre of the mulattoes and their families. That is the last information we have from the South. All the Haytian armies are principally blacks.

"The Dominican Republic consists of all the country from the frontier to the East. It is here that the Consul for the United States is expected.

"When the Haytien armies commenced their march to this end, an order was received from the President to kill all the whites, and also all the mulattoes; but the blacks would have made few prisoners; all are killed.

"The country of the Dominicans, or Spanish, which is the classic soil of the New World, is not short of three hundred miles in length, and about one hundred fifty in width; white; many are the descendants of the first discoverers. In the interior the color is—the people are white. On the other hundred thousand are blacks, mulattoes, the different combinations of the two races, and some pure-blooded aborigines. The heads of the revolution are the white men of the country. By casting your eye over the names of the signers of their manifesto, you will see many noble Spanish names.

"The ten per cent. extra duty on goods and tonnage has been annulled by the new Government, and also the American vessel that has been here since the revolution. I enclose to you with this the official notice of the new duty. This letter and the document accompanying it, if you think proper, I wish laid before the Chamber of Commerce of your city, that they may judge whether it is advisable for them to request the United States Government to send a proper person to this country, to ascertain if they are worthy to be acknowledged as a nation. The rulers and the mass of the people are of our own complexion, and they have liberated themselves from the ignominious bondage of the blacks and mulattoes of Hayti. You will see by the manifesto of the people of the North, that they wish a Confederation. The Dominicans do not wish of this, and most certainly will not, for they are an inoffensive people; but they are determined that they are to remain a separate Republic, (or feelings, an entirely distinct people,) to have no confederation with them."