Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-30
APROMPT RESPONSE
Hayti Surrenders the Haytien Re
public as Soon as Demanded.
Admiral Luce Runs His Flagship Up to
the Detained Vessel and Hooks
on the Stern Line.
The French Government Said to be Backing
Legitime in His Actions-Demand Made
at Critical Time.

NEW 1ORh, Dec. zJ'-Iue sledlHeF
Prinz Maurits which arrived here this
| morning left Port au Prince December
%. She reports that she left the men of
war Galena and Yantic there and also the
steamer Haytien Republic. Chief Officer
Sibble stated to reporter that he found
no excitement at Port au Prince and at
the other ports where he stopped he found
apparent general satisfaction with Lee
gitime's presidency. The Haytien Re-
public was lying in the harbor literally
covered with armor and flags, and every
body seemed to be making merry over
the settlement of the difficulty. Captain
Sibble states there was no truth in the
story of the bombardment of Cape Hay
team, though all the northern ports were
blockaded.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-Captain n. Null
Ter of the Dutch steamer PrinZ Maurits
reports everything quiet at Port au Prince
when he left. Legitime was inaugurated
president with great pomp and ceremony
on the 18th. The Haytien Republic is
lying outside the inner harbor moored to
buoy. President Legitime boarded the
Galena and had a conference with Adj
miral Luce. 1t is understood he made
no resistance to the demand for the Hay
tien Republic s release. The Yantic
grounded in the inner harbor. Her Off
GERS afterward made Il survey of the har-
Dor.
PASSENGERS on THE PRINz MAURIs.
Among the Prinz Mauris passengers
were Comte De Deloa, lieutenant in the
Haytian army Professor NJ. Brougher, H.
S. Wegnall and Madame j f. de Conte-
ras, wife of the HayUian general of that
name. The three gentlemen are con-
nected with the Haytian department of
the north, and at once took pas
sage On the French steamer La
Champagne, which sailed from
Havre for Hayti this afternoon. They
declined to make known their purpose in
coming here. 1t was the belief on the
vessel, however, that these officers were
going to France to make strenuous efforts
to interest the French government in the
Haytien difficulties, and if possible to
get that foreign power to furnish man
of-war for the use of the army of the
north. Madame de COnteras has also
evidently gone there on a mysterious
mission. She kept her own counsel on
the voyage up, and positively refused to
talk about the purpose of her Journey.
NEWS FROM THE GALENA.
On BOARD TIE L. S. S GALENA, OFF
Port Az PRINCE, Dec. 2l.-The United
States steamers Galena and YaLtic,
which left New York December u,
steamed into the narbor of Port au
Prince December 90 at q. m. with the
ships cleared for action and the crews
standing at quarters, to demand of the
alleged Haytien government the instant
release of the steamer Haytien Republic.
On their arrival in the. outer harbor
Rear-Admiral S. B. Luce trans
ferred his flag to the Yantic,
which has a draught of but fourteen
feet. The Yautic was then run slowly
into the inner harbor to within a hundred
feet of the docks where the Haytien Re-
public was at anchor. Anchor was
dropped and the stern line was at once
attached to the Haytien Republic, the
guns of the Yantic being trained Oh the
city. The Galena remained in the outer
harbor with broadside and pivot gun
trained on the Haytian man-of war Des-
salines and
PREPARED TO FIRE
at the first demonstration. The Dessa-
lines crew also stood at their guns until
the result of the interview of Lieutenant
Griffin with Legitime was made known.
Lieutenant Griffin went ashore shortly
after O'Clock with communications
from the state department and Admiral
Luce demanding the release within four
hours of the detained steamer and the
withdrawal of her guard. Legitime find
ing that no delay would be tolerated
under formal protest and appeal
for the future arbitration, = COM
manded his gunboats to tow the Hay
tisn Republic to the position IN the
outer harbor occupied when captured,
and to have such slight damage as had
been done to her repaired by his mechan-
les. Night fell before her cable could be
severed, as her anchor chains had been
badly fouled. Formal return was not
made until next day.
The moral effect of this prompt action
of Admiral Luce has been most salutary
on the Haytien people.
THE INFLUENCE OF THE FRENCH GOVERN
MENT,
through their minister at Port au Prince,
is very strong with the Legitime govern
ment, and, it is said, the Haytien Re-
public would not have been released had
q French man-of-war been in the har-
Dor. 1t is also claimed the French gov
eminent IS influence has been backing Lee
gitime since his return from exile. The
German government is generally under
stood to be back of the
Hypolite faction in the north. The
release was most opportune from
the acknowledged fact that Legitime had
contracted to sell the Haytien Republic
to the Atlas Line, in fact was about to
turn her over to crew which had arrived
that morning from Jamaica.
AT the conference tomorrow of Mr.. B .
C. Morse, owner of the Haytien Repub-
lie, with General Legitime, the former
will submit claim for 5000 900 damages
caused by detention of the ship and $780,
600 compensation to the crew and two
passengers.
When the steamer Prinz Nauris left
Jasemel on December 20 a riot was in pro-
gress and half the town was in flames.
On December Is, the Haytian national
constitutional assembly, which had
been in session for the previous four days,
after much dispute endorsed the existing
constitution, and then Immediately pro-
ceeded to vote confirmation of the action
of the central revolutionary committee
in electing Legitime president. The vote
was a unanimous one, as forty of the
fortY-four deputies present were from the