The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-13
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4 srEAMER.LOAD OF REBELS.
Hayti Invaded by Refugees From Jamai-
ca, Who Proclaim Now President.
KINGSTON, JA., February Is

KINGSTON, JA., February Is.
On the 1st of February news was
brought to General Boisrond Canal,
President of the Haytian republic, that
two bands Of armed men had landed to
the north and south of Port-au-Prince,
the capital of the republic, who had pro-
claimed General Morency Benjamin in
his stead, hoisted the white star, aud
were hourly attracting adherents to their
: standard. The Presidents spies in
Jamaica had kepthim so we'll informed of
the movement in organization in Kings
ton by the adherents of General Solo
mon that he was able to definitely warn
the English Governor, Sir Anthony Mus
grave, of the projected expedition before
the close of the year, and that gentleman
proclaimed the foreign enlistment act to
! De in force in Jamaica, and all who
harbored or, aided the insurrectionists
subject to its penalties. The work went
on, however, when it was rumored that a
suspicious steamer had entered Morant
Bay and was there shipping provisions
and men. The gunboat Plover, and the
Sirius, twelye-gun corvette, we're des-
patched to seize her, the report alleging
that she was laden with arms and ammuni-
tion for New York. But before the Brit
: ish cruisers entered the Bay she had dis
appeared. and with her the majority of
! the Haytian refugees in Kingston, the
rest subsequently following their lead
ers in small schooner purchased In
the port and joining them at an ancor-
age in the Bay of Gonaives, which was
the appointed rendezvous.
At Port-au-Prince couriers and rumors
constantly arriving from the north re-
ported new excesses of the insurgents,
but it was not until the 7th that Gener-
al Boisrond Canal, after declaring the
3 city under martial law, set out with q
strong detachment of troops in the old
steamer "lS04p for the seat of war in
the north, whittier, for the protection of
foreign subjects, the English and French
consuls had dispatched men-of-war.
Meanwhile the insurgents had landed
at the town of San Marco, their steamer
flying the red and blue-stripes of Rayti,
passing the harbor defences unchalleng-
ged. Afterwards boats crew surpris-
ed the chief battery, and overcoming its
guard ran up the white star OF revolu-
ton. The rest made their way to the
market place, where, after brief resis-
tance, they established themselves, the
inhabitants readily giving in their adhe-
sion to Morency Benjamin, to whom 1t
seems the other aspirants to the Presl-
dency-Solomon and General Tennise-
had yielded. The night was passed in
enrolling new adherents, replacing the
civil funct;onaries by rebel sympathizers,
political discussions and libations in pro-
pitiations offuture good fortune.
Next day the expedition pushed on UP
the river Artibonite to San Miguel-oth-
erwise known as st. Michel du Nord-
which also quickly surrendered to the
insurgents. Here they rested, recruits
and provisions coming in hourly, and
funds were obediently supplied by the
,townspeople and planters in answer to
their acquisitions.
On the evening of the 9Th thesgovern-
ment troops, headed by President Canal,
! were landed on the shore of the Bay of
Gonaiyes at q point near the bend of the
river Artibonite, on which San Miguel
is situated, and favored by the night
pushed their way to the village Of Hau-
terrie, where General Canal established
his headquarters, whence in the sunrise
the town might be seen full of activity
filled with armed men and the rebel flag
futtering from the mast in the plaza.
a reconnaissance in force was determin-
ed on, and the skirmishers plunged into
the wooded valley which separates the
hill on which the village is situated from
the precipitous Colder st. Michel, Which
dominates the town. In two hours the
sharp cracks of rifles and white pufs
rising in rapid succession from the woods
we're heard and seen. On the return of
the troops in the evening it appeared
that the rebels greatly out-numbered the
Presidential force, and it was therefore
resolved to await the return ofthe 1884"
from Port-au-P Prince, to which she had
been sent for another detachment, before
assuming the offensive. The night did
not, however, pass off quietly, an attack
being made upon the village by Moren-
: cy's partisans under LaMotte, but owing
TO the mist clearing off ald the aid af-
forded BY the brilliant moon it was effect
ually repulsed with the loss of thirty-five
s killed and eighty-nine wounded on the
government side. The loss on the rebel
side far exceeded this. No prisoners
were taken.
The next battle is expected to be
decisive of the fortunes of one side or
the other.
Stephen Preston, the Haytian minis
ter to the United States, has received
the following information with regard to
the troubles in Hayti:
On February 2 General N. Benjamin,
who has resided in thepominican repub-
lie during the last two or three years
as political exile, at the head of few
partisans crossed tho frontier and took
possession of the village of St. Michel.
The Military Governor of the District,
General St. Pierre Paul, having Joined
the rebellion, the other villages, Hinche
and emery, also took part. General Al.
Nicholas, at the head of the Militia
and troops of the locality, marched to
the seat of action. On February Pres
ident Canal, with few troops, went to
Gonaives, the nearest city on the coast
to st. Michel, about 100 miles distant.
When the steamer Atlas left Hayti for
New York it was expected that the re-
bellionlwould soou be crushed, rs the
rebels were without foreign aid.
With rcgard to the invasion of Hayti
bg-filtibusters from Jamaica, the facts
are as follows: On the ed of January
the British schooner Undine left with
about sixteen Haytian refugees. After
having tried to effect landing near Jac-
mel at lAnses Pitre, and not having
found sympathy on shore, the refugees
were conveyed to the island of Inague, a
British possession, where they were left
on the sands without means. The Undine
then returned to Miragoane, Hayti, where
she delivered to the authorities the arms,
ammunition and all papers belonging to
her ex-passengers. The other expedi-
ton came to nothing because the finan-