New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-21
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MAIDEN, Nsss-, April ~, 1859.
Az ExEcUTrOS AT PoRr-Au-PRISCE. !

Az EXECUTION AT PoRr-Au-PRIyCE.
The execution was announced for O'Clock. So
we went bone, dressed, bathed and TOOK coffee,
and before the hOar appointed for the death Of the
murderers, stood patiently before the gate OF The
City Pr''op.
Some days before, in company with Mr Menan
Of Boston, / had visited this municipal Institution
A ragged sebtinel sat smoking at the doorway,
through which We we're permitted 70 pass IN
challenged. We bad written permit from the
Secre,ary Of State 10 visit every public Institution
:. IN, Repubc. IL stated that II was gwen al the
.pecisl request Of .he President, and this fact OF
course. procured us every attention from the
officers.
IN JAIL.
The prison was built by the French. II hss spa
sions yards and several compartments, with large,
airy cells on either side Of them; but 1t is not con-
Quoted on the modern pisa of attending at once 70
the moral improvement and the physical health oil
the prisoner. The yard or court of the petty
sd.Ider. in particular, was in q truly shocking
condition Forty or fifty able bodied prisoners, OF
various degrees OF suilr were longing abont 10
inter lstles.Dess while the waste water and refuse
stood in pools ard heaps around the ysrd, wnlcn
was i'll paved, dirty and unprovded with the neces.
ssry accommodates for performing the offce' OF
opers TO work to clear them away, these nulsances
have long remained untouched and accommodating.
II WIS thus in every department OF Souiou4ues
government. He care! for nothing but to make
money for himself.
Never mad Reformer better opportunity for
exercising his talents ard immortahzing hls n.me
than Fau,tin the Fir,t has bequeatbed TO his he
pubbcap successor GefraTd. lie has work enough
10 do for one mab's lifetime in every department OF
government and society. He VIII do IT, TOO,
think: 80 long life TO bin
The womeu's department WAS in another part OF
The buildings. Their cells stood ri one side OF
spacious yard. All the cells one story ooly IN
hight; they are cOmmOdous but greatly erO"deo
at nlghp.
There is DO Lunstic Asylum in Hayt; lunstics
ere allowed 10 90 az large If dangerous are sent
10 JAIL From the bars Of the wOmen's CELL one
uDb7ppy idiot shouted 70 us. She could talk En-
pl,h AID waited 10 know # either ~ us was Mr..
Yud-the circulation of the name Of an American
Missionary. went pear AID saw crowded cell.
There was evidently 40 system OF arrangement;
criminals Of all grades we're huddled together.
How the prisoners all live ! could not find out
The State gives them nothing. They are supported,
Was told, BY their friends or, if they arc friend
less, by charitable per,ons. What Precar'ous
subsistence 1t must necessarily lead 10 vice and
brutality.
There are sad stories told Of the prisoners
runors about the women being permitted 20 find
food BY pro.ttut on with the soldiers within the
walls Of the jail; AID tere, translated from the
FtEiHe de Commerce, is the actual experience OF an
incsIceTated editor during the decline of the
expelled ex-EmpeTor's autt ority:
GLIMPSE AT PRISON LIFE.
al was innocentIy arrested says M. M1lary, but
on entering The prison indignation seized my soul;
every sentiment Of gratitude extnguished IN my
heat then and not tall then, did commence consp!r-
imp against Gen. Soulouque and his Government
"A large number of individuals were Imprisoned
with without cause fsr from delivering them up to
the tribunals, they divided them into bands called
corsees-one for each oiical-who employed them IN
cul;va,ing bis garden or kept them at work on his
buildings, hired them ont To other persons. These
aIfoTt aBstes lived only on blows, the allowance OF
twelve cents week from the State and on the aims OF
charitable souls. There among them men who
had grosped under this system for four, 1--WE and ten
year. without the hope of even recovering their
Liberty. Those who we're 81 mprudent a. t" complain,
were relen,lessly pnt in irons for several years.
81 saw the poor wTetches fight among themselves
to obtain bone thrown from the plate of a wealthy
prisoner into the pool Of urine which covers the court
or jallyard .,..,
their liberty by agreeing work in the garden Of the
Imperial Procurer, or for some other magistrate.
According the terms OF the code o Crmnal ls rue
ton II Is the du'y Of the Pubhc Ministry aud The
uc es 10 see to the maintenance Of the prisoners and
the cleanliness Of the jail
THE soLDIERY.
Long before the hour appointed for the ~ Gu
ton of the muIderers there We're three az four
Thousand persons collected in the street III front OF
the CITY Prison. Ii Was supposed that the prs
oners we're 10 be shot, as usual, In the public
square adjoining the cemetery.
About the drums were heard, and the soldIery
were .een approaching. There were several regi-
mepts, in al about ECO or geo men. The officers
rode on horseback; their horses small IN stature,
but sele tough, and besutfu ly osparisoned; their
own uniform, unlike the dress OF the men, rich
tasteful and new.
A Haitian regiment Plumbers frou two to three
hundred men. fence Generals, ColOnels and Big
adler, are as common in the Black Republic, as
they are in Kansas Territory, or the Old Dominion
The soldiers were better clad men IN the north
Of Hayt but would have sstOnlshed every one IN
Broadway. Rsgged, dirty in dress, often bare
footed or with the soes merely of worn out uppers
fastened by piece of striUg To their FEET; their
sIms held 10 various attitudes, hing rreguary.
ard without the imposing military ar, they, too,
wee a visible and sad evidence OF the rspacity aud
brutality which distinguished the reign Of the
iguorput and ~ raDncsl Barbarian Soulouque. GET
ffard has already commenced the reform of the
array, hercueaD work for 1t is the pillar of every
governmental iniqulty, and the source Of unnum-
bered evils 10 the couItfy.
THE BRASS BAND.
The regiments were preceded BY brass band,
the obiefcharacterlstc of which, of every military
brass band IN llayu, was the extraordinary number
of drums aud the admirable skill o! the drumners.
As general rule, the military brass bandss are COM
pcseo OF poor player for every man seems to play
on his own sccount, without the slghtes, consd-ra
tion for the efforts of his neghbOr. They have re-
ceivrd no instruction That they have great musical
aptitude is everywhere evident; their drumming
proves IL. i have been told by travellers that they
are toe moot sklllful drummers in the world. They
excel the French Germans, Enghsh and Amerl-
..,a IL common CuOuuh IL hear little halt