The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-26
HAYTI.
Horrors of the Civil wRr-Outrages
Committed by General DOminguP,
President Of the Southern Republic.

Committed by General DOmIngue,
President Of the. Southern Republic.
The New York Tribune correspondent writes
as follows from Aux-Cayes, Hayti Feb. l7:--
On my ARRIVAL here last week l found that the
Pickets, kind OF guerrillas who are in favor of
Salnave, had occupied the plains and hills in
the rear OF The city, and we're plying II with
shot and shell at fearful rate. The President
was in the hat Dor, on board the Galatea and
waiting with his gunboat, the Salnave, to arrive
before commencing the bonn bardment from the
sea. | found everything in confusion, and
everybody in state of wild alarm.
soon after my arrival, Mr.. Hollister,
the American Minister, came into port In
the United States shipOt.war Yantic, and
Immediately visited Mr.. De Long, the Ameri ,an
Consul. Mr.. De Long is very i'll, and occupied
who is now the acting Consul here. | found
in Mr.. Browns house at least 500 Haytian
refugees, who were lodged and fed at his eX-
pense. Their personal effects we're piled up in
all the rooms of the house, from the basement
to the attic. Mr.. Brown informed me that Mr..
Hollister, at the request OF General Dominique,
who calls himself the President of the South,
had an interview with his Excellency and eX-
planned to him the real situation of affairs at
Aux Cages, as he understood 1t. Mr.. Hollis
ter and Mr.. De Long begged Dominique
TO spare the town and to take care of
the interests OF foreigners there. Tue
President OF the new republic was very polite.
but expressed q determination to hold out as
long as he could, and to die rather Than yield.
last lew weeks surpass belief. On the third OF
February he sent a large force TO the prison
where he bad in irons many of Salnaves p1in-
cipal adherents, and murdered them all in cold
blood. few were killed in their cells, and the
others were turned loose into the jail yard and
shot by boys fifteen years old in manner too
horrible to relate. Boys use muskets in such a
clumsy way that 1t sometimes takes them gre Il
while to Kill person with small arms. In
several instances, am told, twenty shots were
fired at one prisoner. Tue women we're more
difficult to kill than the men; they struggled
and diought for lite in the most appalling manner,
and the eye'witnesses say that their shricks and
Imprecations were heartrending and too fright
ful TO be represented. nephew of the Hay
tian Minister to France, General Mentor, who
was under medical treatment at the time. was
placed in conspicuous position. and obliged
10 see his fellow prisoners murdered before he
found relief Then he was placed in a chair
within few feet of the muzZle of a cannon
and blown to pieces with grapeshot. One hun
dred and ten persons were massacred in this
shocking manner, Mr.. Hollister, am told,
saw Mr.. Rameau, the Secretary of State of this
new republic which represents Salnave as a
tylant and murderer, and which has for it's
motto Liberty. Equality. and Fraternity"
captain of the British ship-of.war Jason
were both present at the interview, but
no terms could be made with the rebels. IT
became necessary to take care of the women
and children in the city, ard with the consent
OF Salnave, Captain Abbot OF the Yantic aided
by the British sloop Jason, towed outside the
harbor, In three merchant vessels, about two
thousand persons. This was done with the con-
sent of salnave, who remarked that he "did not
wage war with women or children" The bonn
bardmeAt, on account of the non arrival of the
Salnave, did not come off according to pro.
gramme, and as the persons on board the mer-
chant ships had nothing to eat, President Sal
have offered 10 take them to the nearest port In
his possession, and fed aud protect them,
and return them to the city as soon as he
was master of it. His proposal was spurned by
the parties inter ested, who all went back to Aux
Cages to share the fate of the city. What that
will be cannot say, but our situation is very
alarming. The Pockets desire to burn the to Wn
Tor the sake of pillage. Dominique threatens,
in ga OF his defeat, TO lay 1t in ashes, aud the
President may be obliged to destroy il with
shot and shell before it will surrender. There
has recently been an attack made by the Cacos
upon Gonaives. They were repulsed with the
loss OF about 100 men killed aud wounded. II
is stated that the Cacos at st. Marc have re-
ceived from the UDited States a shlp.of war
known in our late struggle as the "Mounl
Vernon" 1t is reported that she brought III
her hold heavy guns concealed under heI
ha allaet