New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-06-04

i 6snosed "a = very short time. The moys
menf a. almost spontaneous thr0ughou
H.vti. and the Aret rising took place i
:Iscmel about six weeks ago. A GeneeI
Bo;sroud- Canal appears to have mads hin
aelf verv popular in the island and to han
scsuired : rsnown for d3sintereeteduess-
rather rare quality here Aead the govern
ment Of General Dominique, who came int
Office two years ago, :as NwAJe locke
upon him - its bete n0ire, ana msde an O
tempt to assassinate him last year. Be
however, assisted by . few men armei
Nth murderous sixtesnshot Henri
ridee, put to flight the men sess|
70 arrest him, and took refuge in TIL
| United States consulate, whence he effected
hin escape to Kingston, Jamaica. Genera
| Domingue. the President Of the republic oil
Hayti, in accordance with the Haytian cusl
| tom Of making hay while the sun shines
| put his relatives in al tho best paying ohica
Of the State, and his nephew, Septimus Rs
| pacious did Rameau become that he %
sorbed the best part Of the revenues of I'll,
republic himself, and sent them to EuropI
| for security. This and other arbitrary aet|
were the cause of an iucipient revolutiol|
! last Nav, when General Brice, who ha@
| only then been recalled from his appoint
ment of Haytian minister to London, wa
assassnated by order of Dominique, AMI
| the movement quelled. Beyond An occa
rond. Canal from Jamaica, Dominique ana RAJ
meau did very much ~ they pleased until eli
weeks ago, when Louis Tanis, the General
in charge Of the reimbursement of Jacmel-|
an important town ON the south coast od
Havti-revolted against the government
and declared for Canal, who made an in,
effectual attempt to land on the island. Tho
President ct once sent down an army of
from 1000 to 5000 men to besiege Jacmel,l
Michael and the 1884" $50 called from the
year when Hsyti beosme . republiel toI
bomb it from the sea. Hayti. not boast.
ing any trained artillerymen, gave an act
ing commission - . gunnery lieutenant to|
. rovinx American named Gordon, who,
rumor says, has had practice during the
Cuban insurrec.ion. The Haytian squad.
ron renamed quietly outside until an un-
suspeoting English corvette, the Druid, en-
ing her intention to the officer in COM
msnd of the squadron and getting his per.
mission, she let 90 her anchor and pre-
pared to take some refugees on board, in
accordance with the wish of her British
maiesty's consul. At A. NJ, while quite
dark, to the ast0nishment OF oil on board,
the 1884," which had taken mp . position
directly astern Of the Druid began to|
throw shell into the town. The forts eould
not 1t first reply to this fire, as the 1884"
was quietly making the Druid into shield,
and had they fred tho probability is that
the Druid would have been hit. By the
time the latter vessel had got steam up and
was under weigh, it was daylight, and the
forts could bring their guns to bear on the
St. Michael and the "l8O4.' which
steamed away to distance Of 5000 yards,
and threw al their shell into the water in
stead of into the town. The land forces
were meanwhile attacking tho town on Gil
sides, but the insurgents, who were all armed
with the Henry rife, and who fought b.
hind strong barricades, were able to repulse
the government troops with scarcely
any loss to themselves, and . loss to thu
former Of over fifty killed. the dead we're
all buried after the engagement. The only
damage the ships received was caused by
their making fast their guns to prevent the
rec0il, the result being that tho lOO-pounder
Parrott gune carried away . portion of the
bulwark and came partly through the deck.
This WAS the only fighting that occurred
during the revolution, and the troops and
men-of-war, after listlessly blockading the
town for some weeks, went over to the in
surgents and declared for Boisrond- Canal
This was on Saturday, the fifteenth of
April That very day Dominique and Ra-
Mo0u, - 1OIt-au-1 IIoc0s 0PpoASeu " AaVo
an inkling OF what was about to happen,
and Rameau went to the National Bank,
where were deposited $500, 900 in silver and
millions in paper currency. With . party
OF soldiers he loaded wagon with boxes of
dollars and sent them down to the wharf.
to be embarked ON . schooner which ne
had chartered for the purpose. Already
one wagon load had been embarked, and
another load was being escorted down,
wh ho oif faA
seeing the money 90 openly stolen from the
bank, assembled by scores upon the wharf;
the scores soon increased to hundreds and
thousands, and they refused to allow the
dollars to be embarked. Cries of "A has
Domlngue," "vlve Bo;srond- Canal" be-
came general, and the soldiers in charge of
the money deserted in alarm. The whole
town now swarmed with armed men, who
went to the national palace, where Domin-
que. his wife and Rameau had taken refuge
The French minister, the Marquis de Vosges,
and the French vice consul hurried to the
palace to try and take them to the
French consulate and to save their
lives. Dominique, however, was dubbed
on the head with . musket, and then
stabbed, but was carried, still breathing,
into the consulate. Rameau was shot IN
the neck from behind, and, when fallen,
was most brutally murdered. The popula-
ton could not show their deteststion Of
him sufficiently, and trsmpled every vestige
OF humanity out Of him. One woman in
particular, q perfect fury-a sister of the
General Brice above mentioned as having
been assassinated last May-dipped her
handkerchief in Rameau's blood. and, wsv-
ing it over her head with one hand while
she shouldered q rife with the other, led
party of over five hundred men through
the town to the bank, which they at once
pillaged. The eoldiers and to wnsmeu broke
open the chests of dollars, which they
threw about the streets without thinking Of
Pocketing them. and thrust their bayonets
thr1ugh the piles of new paper cur rency,
almost ready for circulation-0nly wa iting
Tor Domlnsues signature to replace the
money hlched from the STATE BY Rameau.
The populace seemed mad with excitement,
and the money that had been embarked on
board the schooner was thrown overheard,
and some enterprising negroes have been
hard at work ever since diving for the
sunken dollars. No less than go, 900 are at
the bottom of the harbor, all round the
schooner, and of the 500, 900 silver dollars in
the Oank at noon not one was in it at four
o'clock the same afternoon. The English
anc American ministers had ridden of when
the outbreak first took place, at the Presi-
dents wish, to ask General Lorquet, who
was at distance of sixty miles from the
capital with 5000 Trustworthy men. to re-.
turn to the capital and try to prevent the
atrocities that were feared. Lore net. un-
fortunately, was almost as unpopular
as kameau; but he returned with
his staff and some hundred men,
and finding Dominique and Rsmeau muir
dered, he got his troops to cry give
Lorquet, President" apparently thinking
ne was in favor. The infuriated people,
however, would hear no name but Boisroud-
Canal, and having broken into Lorquet's
house they hrutallx murdared him Tzua