Interesting from Santo Domingo. THE BAEZ PARTY REDUCED TO THE LAST STRAITS—POSITION OF HIS FORCES AT SAN DOMINGO CITY AND SAMANA—WANT OF PROVISIONS—GENERAL PALMERO AT POINT OF SAMANA—NAVAL NEWS—GERMAN IMMIGRANTS DYING OF HUNGER, ETC.

By the schooner Brentea, from Puerto Plata, we have received files of the Gaceta Oficial of the Dominican republic to the 31st January, and a letter from our correspondent at St. Jago de los Caballeros, the provisional seat of government.

OUR DOMINICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

ST. JAGO DE LOS CABALLEROS, }

Jan. 19, 1858. }

Return of the Exiled Correspondent—Position of the Contending Parties—Sufferings of the Baez Partisans—Hopes of Recognition by Foreign Governments—War Vessels Fitting Out—Lack of Provisions—&c.

It is a long time since I had the pleasure to address you, but it has been owing to the political affairs of this country, in consequence of which I have been in exile, residing in Curaçoa and Turks' Islands. But now that I am in freedom again, you will receive my letters as regularly as before.

Enclosed you will find a file of the Official Gazette, by which you will perceive that Baez is confined to the city of St. Domingo, and that the provisional government, heading it in the form of a large army, besieging said city, where foreign provisions are very scarce, and none at all of the domestic. Cattle, equal to $4 to $5 per head produce, &c. are very few, and these destroyed almost daily, three by three and five by five, and sometimes in larger numbers.

The government, as shown by its decree, has appointed by the different conventions of all the communes of the republic, to meet on the 1st of February, at Moca, a town about twelve miles from this city, in order to make a new constitution, reform many of the old laws, and reorganize the republic on a firm and stable basis; and there is every reason to expect that the new political code will be fully adequate to prevent the repetition of the penalty of death for political faults being forever banished; taking a step forward in civilization, and harmonizing the democratic principles with the strength of the executive power, and granting broader security to foreigners; not only to those belonging to friendly nations, but to all, without exception, who may choose to come to the republic.

We entertain the hope that as soon as the new authorities take the helm of the state, foreign nations—such as those which have representatives in this country—will recognize it as a government, which, as it is strictly conformable to the national will, ought not to be delayed. Up to the present, trade has been at a total stand-still, and the entire population of the country are waiting for the extraordinary production of coffee and cocoa to commence, which will give life to business again. We have two small sailing vessels of our own fitting for war at Puerto Plata, and two others at St. Jago, besides three or four small ones that Baez has on the waters of Samana.

According to that account, which confirms us in our opinion that trade has already commenced again at Puerto Plata, and business goes straight and lively, the tobacco crop coming into a very large figure.

[Translated for the NEW YORK HERALD from the Gaceta Oficial, January 31.]

The facts which the Generals commanding the besieging army of the South, as well as those of the North, have officially communicated to the government as to the situation of the forces of the enemy inside the first of these two places, both as to us and other persons, give, week to week, the same idea as to their complete state of distress, and their utter inability to move. Such is the inference naturally drawn from the relation made by an individual who left Samana on the 7th inst., who states that at that date Baez had only sixty men in that peninsula, under the command of General Juan Esteban Francis, who had replaced the expelled Captain Baldomero Victorino.

According to that account, Baez prohibited that the condition which Samana at present is in be spoken of, or the number of his troops there; and brave Generals at the head of the army besieging that place, for the purpose of removing all suspicion on the part of the enemy, had permitted some thirty persons to be taken up by them over the troops of Palmerino. No other reason can be assigned for the extraordinary prohibition. In consequence of the official communications, in which General Juan Esteban Francis speaks of Samana, Baez repeated the default regarding various troops he had in Samana, and by force the fall of that place is inevitable. It is for this reason that he has taken the resolution to enter into a naval war which Generals Puelio and Mella are carrying on with some success in those seas, who have captured two small vessels and burnt two others in Samana, since on that point, Baez having in advance put a curb on the trade of the coasts and monopolized the bad news he is receiving from Samana.

But this is not the only reason which confirms us in our conviction relative to the speedy termination of the blockade of Samana, which was established by General Francis. As our readers will learn from the communication addressed by Gen. Bide, under date of the 7th inst., to the provisional government, the population of that peninsula, which is at present, and more particularly among the inhabitants who have taken up arms for the cause of the city, is going on increasing. When the Arriano left that bay, there were 100 head of cattle, a number not sufficient to provide the entire population of St. Domingo with meat, which is also wanted by the inhabitants of San Carlos and Pajarito, who, unfortunately for them, since the 21st of July, have taken the side of Baez; to say nothing of the troops, and the garrison of the race, who, although small in number, have been made one of the provisions. The stock of taro, planted by the force of Baez, has lasted for about two weeks; but will the poor be able to buy this crop at a cost of 24$ the quintal? This is impossible. Besides, the great majority of the population who inhabit the localities above mentioned, are composed of very poor people, who can find no work at present (since they can find not any) and others on their small farms which do not yield at this season of the year, or on small cocoa nuts, what kind of food can they get out of them? We do not see that there can be any other resource for them than to suffer the consequences of their temerity and folly.

To the above must be added three hundred military persons, who, in consequence of their not having provisions, came to the conclusion that their situation was not good, and left the peninsula on the 7th inst. under the command of Gen. Bide. Thus Baez has at present no sloop left at his disposal, since he can no longer use the three vessels he named the Liberador, the Australia and El Cirus, 19 of January, to carry provisions and troops to Samana, as, by the government, he is restricted from sending any more to the peninsula. This result is further confirmed by the directed balls of the besieging army before Pajarito.

As regards Samana, the capture of General Francis by the besiegers under the command of General Palmero, is confirmed, who, after having taken up his position at the point of the peninsula, has been reinforced by the governor of Puerto Plata in his dispatch of the 23d inst., in which he states that he had seen a foreigner left that place that he was not even able to speak; and there is no doubt but that the population of that peninsula find themselves in a very bad situation as far as provisions are concerned, a chicken bringing gold for five pesos, as is stated by the same individual.

This latter, with whose misfortunes we sincerely sympathize, adds that of his companions immigrants like himself, eight died in St. Domingo and six in Samana, one of sickness and the others by famine. The unfortunates, in September last, left Hamburg for Santo Domingo, with the intention of establishing themselves as agriculturalists, and have ended their career in the manner above mentioned. We hope that the government will take the necessary measures to prevent them from perishing by hunger.