Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-25

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FRoM JAMAICA AND PoRr-Au-PRINcE.-T
schooner Stranger, Capt. Tobey, arrived yes
terday from Dingstod, having sailed thence on
the Both ult.
As the Stranger was coming out of port she
met schooner bound in, having on board one
hundred and forty refugees from Port-auPrince.
Our lastaccounts from Port-au-Prince repre-
scented that the news from France had caused
great excitement there; now we have the
results. The following is from the Jamaica
Despatch Of the 29th ult
PoRT-AU-PRINcE.-This unfortunate coun-
try has again become the arena of a sanguinary
scene. We learn from respectable authority
that the black population have risen en- nsao8c
against the inhabitants of color, and were COM
uniting awful ravages among them. The eau
ses OF the outbreak we are unable to ascertain,
but 1t is supposed to be dissa tisfaction of the
browns to be governed by the present Presi-
dent. The British merchants resident at Port
au-prinCe engaged the brig Queen Victoria,
which happened fortunately to be there, and
sent through the British Consul, TO the commo-
dore on this station, requesting the immediate
presence OF q Ildn-OI-War 10 project
+! subjects and their interests. There a
French vessel of war at Port-au-P1ince, and we
are informed that her presence tended in great
degree quell the outbreak which took place
but which Notwithstanding, was of most Sc
rious nature.
The Queen Victoria anchored at Morant Bay,
on Thursday last, and the captain forthwith
came to Port Royal to deliver his dispatches
to the commodore. 1t was said that the num-
Der of persons killed in one day exceeded two
hundred
Herr, the pianist, was in Kingston on the
Both. He advertises for sale his piano being
. about to return to the United States"
A smart shock of an earthquake was felt in
the town of Falmouth on the 2lst ult., at about
; quarter past 6 o'clock. A. NJ. 1t was of brief
duration, not lasting more than few seconds,
and its undulating motion appeared to be from
nearly east to west.
Since the above was in type we have read
the following in last evenings Courier. being
an extract from letter to commercial
house.
7 Hayti has again been the scene of bloodshed,
t and murders. We learn that the brigantine
Queen Victoria, (of Trinidad Capt. Tucker,
from Port -au-Prince, bound to Hamburg, with
: cargo of coffee, &C., put into Morant Bay on
!, Thursday last to purchase stores, as none could
of procured at Port-au-Prince, in consequence
z of the state of matters at that place; and that
Capt Tucker reports that he has brought des-
patches from the British Consul there to Com
modore Bennett, on this station requesting that
!, vessel should be Immediately sent to Port-au-
Prince, where serious disturbance had taken
place-a large number (some say upwards of
hundred) of the colored population having
been nassacreed by their black brethren. The
cause of this outbreak has not been fully men
toned but it is said that the lives of people of
calor ware daily being sacrificed in large num-
bers This determination on the part of the
! blacks to exterminate the browns had been
i brewing for long time, in aCtsince the tyrant
Souloque has been President; and ii is now be-
! ing realized with vengeance that none but sa-
wages would be guilty Of committing.
! The commodore, we learn, has been unable
to comply with the requisition of herBritan-
mic Majesty Consul at Port-au-P Prince, there
not being a single vessel of war at Port
i Royal at this moment. excepting the guard and
storeships, which are useless in their present.
state.
1t is certainly a cause of much regret that
this island should be left so destitute of vessels
of war as it is at present. It has been said
that we can have no possible cause for alarm,
but who can tell what moment might pro-
duce. The present outbreak in Hayti, where
| the presence of man-of-war to protect British
| interests would be of much service, is a suffi-
cient proof why Port Royal should not be as
she now Substitute of at least one available
vessel of war to be used in cases ofemergency
! Who knows how many innocent beings have
by this time been sacrificed to merciless mob
who, had protection ueen afforded by one of
her Majestys vessels, would have been ena-
bled to save themselves and their families
| from the general massacre, which, we are
told, was going on in that unfortunate coun-
try.
The Alarm, Daring and Vixen are. it is said.
cruising off the island of Cuba, and it is
not known when they will return to Port
Royal.
We hope when this intelligence reaches En-
gland that the Admiralty will see the necessi-
ty of having large number of vessels of war on
this station than at present. England seems as
has been said, truly to have forgotten her colo
MES, and evidently cares little or nothing
about their prosperity when she leaves them
so unprotected and at the mercy of other ma
tons.
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