The Republican journal., 1876-05-11

Without action on the bill the House at 40 o'clock
| adjourned.
On Saturday May 9th the Senate spent the entire
| day on the impeachment business In the House the
official oath of office administered to j. V. LIE
moline, representative from Illinois, in place of Far
well bill to authorize the use of tents, camps and
garrison cquipage for veterans of 1872 and of the
| Mexican War, AT the Centennial, was passed. The
| House then Went into q committee of the whole on
the post office bill point of order was made on
| the paragraph containing the provision aboishng
the letter carrier system, in cities of less than 10000
inhabitant,, the argument being that such abolish
| meDi would not be economical, since il would neces-
state the appointment of additional post Office clerks.
The chairman decided that the abolition of the Office
| was lrma facie retrenchmcnt Of expenditure.
| In the Senate Monday May Sth, the arguments
on the question of jurisdiction in the Belknap
were concluded, to the relief of everybody. In the
| House number of minor bills were introduced, and
the bill to carry into effect the Hawaiian Treaty was
passed Tuesday no business done in Con gress.
| Wednesday both houses went to Philadelphia
Hayti.
Our adyices tiom liayti have already
briefly reported the elimination of the
popular discomfort in the Republic by the
rising of the whole people in arms on the
10Th of April and dangerously if not IA
tally wounding President Dominique kill
ing the Vice President. i.ameau, Kidding
his body with fifty bullets, and breaking
into the house OF General Larquet and
killing him also.
The following is an authentic account
of the terrible and stirring events, as Civ
en- by Mr.. j. lenyelnan. a merchant of
New York, who has Just returned from
layti and was an eyewitness to most of
the tragedies so lately enacted there. He
| saws:
For some time past the government
was very unpopular with the masses ow-
ing to the arbitrary conduct of Vice Pres
ident Rameau The President, an old and
feeble man. delegated nearly all the pow
er to the Vice President The latter rul-
ed the people with a rod 1T iron and the
slightest expression by any OF the inhabi
tants of dissatisfaction was the signal for
either imprisonment CT death. The dun
geons OF Port an Prince We're full Of pris-
oners who had dared to say something
| which had displeased Ramrau. and execu-
| tons were Of daily occurrence. The debts
of the government were also accumulat
ing rapidly and the people ground down
with taxes and levies for money. On
GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL IA,
the popular storm commenced to assume
| formidable proportions. The troops de-
serted and joined with the populace, aud
a hasty council of the President, Vice
| President and officers was held all through
| the night at the palace. The result was
| that ice President Rameuu early the fol-
| lowing morning procured schooner and
1 was about transferring the contents OF the
! Treasury on board her TO be taken to Con-
saves when the storm burst and the whole
| people flew to arms Eaineau hastily re-
| treated to the palace, here the President
| also was BY this time even the palace
guards had joined the people, and the
| CONDITION OF DOMINIQUE AND RAMEAU
was very precarious The American Con-
| sui, Mr. Bassett and the British Consul,
| MAJOR Stewart. We're communicated WITH
| and repaired 10 the palace to try and pre-
vent blood being shed. They clearly dem
onstrated to the President that his govern
ment was al an end and that he should at
| once take measures to leave the country
| and conciliate the now furious revolutions
| lists on Il massacre would ensue.
| All this time, about two O'Clock on Sat
| urday afternoon, 10th of April, the rev.
dictionary army. fully 5000 strong, I'M
der command Of General Larquet, was
about thirty five miles from Port-au-Prince
| The President proposed that the Ameri-
can and British Consuls should 90 and
meet the advancing army and propose an
| armistice Of twenty -four hours and that
! he would resi- gn at the end of that time.
| They carried the proposal to General Lar
| qutt and he agreed to the arnstice, lie
| then left his army where it was, with or
| ders 10 come on by easy marches and,
| with two OF his officers rode rapidly to
| Port-au-prince. lie arrived in the city
early on Sunday morning and found the
| mob perfectly wild and furious. Every
| thing was confusion and there was no one
| to restrain the bloodthrstv passions Of
| the people, now thoroughly aroused. They
| charged General Larquet with having de
! signs on the Presidency himself, and with
| a fierce yell OF rage and with all the fren
| zy which actuasd the Communists to such
deeds of violence ard blood in Paris they
| surrounded his house The doors We're
| soon battered i'll and a search made for
the General. They discovered him hid
! away in a closet. and in Il few moments
he was corpse. They flung his body in
TO the streets and danced over it and most
| barbarousy mutilated it.
! GENERAL LAEQCEK
| did not sell his life dearly, IS he had on
| ly a single barrelled pistol. with which
| he Killed one of his assassns
TIE CRY
was then raised to sack The pAluce but
| the French Consul and the Spanish Consul
| reasoned with the mob and quoted them
| a little Then the two consus went to the
| palace and offered President Dominique
and his wife and Vice President Rameau
and his wife the protection OF the Consu-
| late building. The now thoroughly fright
ened heads of the government willingly
accepted the protl'ered assistance, and the
whole party, with the French Consul On one
side and the Spanish Consul on the other
| started to walk to the. French Consulate.
| The revolutionist5 met them in the streets
and followed them, their passions every
moment waxing tiercer Suddenly they
| EECAME UNGOyERNAELE.
and the son of Monplasier Pierre. rushing
up to Y ice President Rameau, shot him
| dead on the spot
Fortunately for the party they were
near the Consulate and We're soon within
| its friendly shelter Several other shots
were fired by the mob at them and
PRESIDENT DOMINIQUE
which may terminate fatally, as he is an
old and feeble man.
THE BODY OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
was kicked about the streets Of the city
for two days and mutilated beyond all
recognition, after which it was thrown in
to hole outside the city and covered up
| with stones. Al the other Ministers of
| the government, or any one who held
office under Dominique, took refuge spec
Oily in the Consulate buildings. and were
left unmolested. After being two days
| guarded in the French Consulate, the de-
posed President got on a schooner, and
was taken TO st. Thomas, where he now
is. A military provisional committee was
then organized, with General Canal at its
head and partial order was restored. The
popular vengeance appeared to be salts
fled by the assassination of the Vice Pres
ident and General Larquet and the flight
| of President Dominique