The evening telegraph
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President Ulysses S. Grant championed a treaty to annex Santo Domingo (1869–1870), sparking a historic Senate battle led by Charles Sumner. Later coverage tracked President Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) and crushing European bond debt.El presidente Ulysses S. Grant promovió un tratado para anexar Santo Domingo (1869–1870), provocando una histórica batalla en el Senado con Charles Sumner. Informes posteriores siguieron al presidente Ulises Heureaux (Lilís) y la deuda externa.
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SummaryResumen
President Baez tells the commission he himself held an election with a perfectly free vote to obtain the true sentiment of the people. A Tribune correspondent's account of Santa Barbara de Samana follows, describing a poor village of 80 or 90 bamboo and palm-thatched buildings along half a mile of shore, with about 250 inhabitants in the village and about 3,000 on the whole peninsula, a majority of the villagers speaking English.
El presidente Báez dice a la comisión que él mismo celebró unas elecciones con voto perfectamente libre para obtener el verdadero sentimiento del pueblo. Sigue el relato de un corresponsal de la Tribune sobre Santa Bárbara de Samaná, que describe un pueblo pobre de 80 o 90 edificios de bambú y techo de palma a lo largo de media milla de costa, con unos 250 habitantes en el pueblo y unos 3.000 en toda la península, hablando inglés la mayoría de los vecinos.
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thing. In order to obtain the expression of the
true sentiment oi the people, l sent out to nae
an election held with a perfectly free vote, and
the people responded in the same spirit.
The Town of Santa Barbara de Saniana.
During the stay of the commission at Samaria
Bay the Tribune correspondent wrote as fol
lows: -f
Samana is a poor little dirty place enough, for
all its romantic and picturesque appearance. It
Is built in a random hap-nazara sort ot way
along half-a-mile of curving shore at the foot
of a ridge of high wooded hills, and what with
its rambling lanes and grotesque nuts, l thlnu it
is one of the most absurd places I ever saw.
There arc SO or WJ buildings, all told, consist
ing for the most part of a light frame work of
scautlings brought irom the Mates, ana clap
boarded with bamboos split in half and pressed
flat by piling stones upon them while wet. The
rude planking made in this primitive manner is
from four to six inches wide and a half a quarter
of an inch thick. Paint is almost nnknowD, but
most of the huts are whitewashed. The roofiag
is of cocoa leaves bound together with vines.
The flooring, when there is any, which is not
often, consists of rough-hewn wood, or bark, or
boughs, or the same leaves that are used lor
thatch. None of the houses or, perhaps, I
should eay cabins have more than one story;
few have more than one, or, perhaps, two
rooms. Doors and windows are luxuries which
the majority of the people have learned to do
without; but there are two or three houses in the
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
The evening telegraph. (1871). Philadelphia [Pa.], 1871-02-21. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83025925/1871-02-21/ed-1/?sp=1
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The evening telegraph, 1871-02-21.
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