Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17
AFFAIRS IN HAYTI.


INJURED in Foul Dungeons-Fearful Prac
| tices of the Lower Glasses nf the Natives
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-Tta SUMS Port au-
Prince correspondent, Se.ting under date
of December so, says: Despite the fac
| that Port-au-Prince declared for Legitime
unanimously, and that the inhabitants OF
the place cheered themselves hoarse wher
! Legitime was proclaimed President, there
are many wealthy and influential resi-.
| dents of the city, merchants and Others
who are disaffected toward Legitime's
| government and keep up secret corre-
| spondence with the Northern leaders.
| Their numbers and influence during
the past few weeks have been in
| creased greatly, so much so that
Legitime undoubtedly began to fear that
a counter-revolution might be started
| against him in his own city. He held a
| council with his ministers, and they all
| agreed that prompt action was necessary.
| Warrants were secretly issued for the ar
| rest of some two dozen residents of Port
| au-Prince who were suspected, and the
| service of these were intrusted to General
| Herard, Governor of the Department OF
| the South, and General Elhelier, chief of
| police who, accompanied by great many
other Generals, few Lieutenant Gov
ernors and one or two soldiers, sailed
Der 81. The most prominent they
arrested were NJ. Lavaud, edit
or of the L'Oeil; L. Augusta, advo-
| cate; c. J. Gentil, merchant; j. Leger
| and Alexander Ferrand, advocates, and
NJ. Courtois, editor of the Plaidoyer Ma
| tional. Some of the others arrested were
| clerks in the custom-house and other de-
| partments of the government. A good
| many of the Haytiens under the ban heard
| of what was going on and fed to the for.
! eign consulates for protection.
HIDING AT THE AMERICAN LEGATION.
The American Legation harbored M.
| Leon Francis, j. Acale and Bernard
L'Espinasse, and these men joined the
two other refugees who have been in hid
| ing at the legation for a month. NJ. Ber-
tholemeir and Leger Couvien, advocates.
The Haytiens arrested were taken to the
city prison, than which there is probably
no more abominably vile place on the
face of the earth. They were placed
three apiece in small dungeons about
ten feet square, under ground, only
lighted and ventilated by narrow VIM
dow on the ground level. The dungeon
floors are covered with reeking filth Of
the most horrible description, and in this
the prisoners were compelled to sit. They
were chained down, great irons binding
tuc1I lSoS SloSCis toECphCl aG tiIO hhSSS
and ankles. Among those seized was M.
Mallebrauche, a big coffee broker and
Spectator, who is said to be worth twelve
million dollars. He was released this
morning ON the fearful intercession Of
his wife with President Legitime.
PRISONERS AT WILL.
The arrested Haytiens will have no trial,
and will be kept in prison as long as Pres
ident Legitime sees fit. If he thinks it
necessary he will undoubtedly have some
of Tho II taken out and shot. There is a
decided feeling of personal insecurity in
consequence of the arrests, and no one
knows but what he may be the next one
seized.
On the day Of the first arrests President
Legitime rode out, accompanied by his
staff and body guard, for the first time
since his Inauguration. The President
halted his horse in the Place De La Paix,
opposite the Banque Rationale. A big
crowd gathered, composed of soldiers and
citizens and the country people from the
market + ,ce near by, and
LEGITIME MADE THEM A LITTLE SPEECH.
Soldiers" he said, ''you know your
duty and need not tell it to you. You
will perform it, l am sure, firmly and
courageously and we'll. The safety of
the republic, the safety of the peace a1d
SOOu OIuSI Is III Soul SlCILChS,
realize that l have been too merciful and
lenient in the past. The time for clemency
is over. propose to put down with Sc
verify this encouragement of rebellion in
our midst and to deal justly with
those sympathizers of the Northern
rebels here who would raise riot and
make the streets of Port-au-Prince run
with blood. 1 have this day caused the
arrest Of some Of these men, and they
shall prove that can rule with a rod Of
iron as we'll as kindly"
The people and soldiers loudly applaud
ed the speech.
CORRUPTION AND IMMORALITY.
The correspondent describes the public
lives of the natives as being honeycombed
with corruption, and their private life as
a mass of awful immortality. He says:
"Tke lower order of the blacks have little
ideas of he relations of father and mother,
sister or brother. The slaughter of young
children by their mothers. that
THEIR BODIES MAY BE SOLD AS PORK,
or fried down into lard, is a common
practice among the natives. Every now
and then the foreign residents of Port-au-
Prince find served up to them, on their
own tables, portions of the bodies of chill
dren which have been purchased in the
public butcher shops. It is very danger
Gus to buy cooking lard in Hayti, for the
reasons above stated, even when the lard
is ostensibly of foreign manufacture, for
the HaytieAs get hold of the old cans and
fill them with lard of their own make.
Only two weeks ago woman was arrested
in the market place in Port-au Prince for
selling as pork
THE ARMS AND LEGS OF CHILD.
Of coarse this killing of children is
recognized as murder by the Haytien law
and punished as such, but it is certain
that the cases which are discovered are
but a small proportion of those which
happen"
LEGITIME INTERVIEWED.
In an interviw with President Legitime
the CORRESPONDENT asked: ''What will be
done in the cases of the residents of the
city who were arrested on suspicion of
being in sympathy with Hyppolite, and OF
trying to start a movement in his favor
here?"
81 can not say" he answered. at wa
necessary for me to cause their arrest as
a war measure. 1 hope that the simple
arrest and confinement of these men will
serve this end"
Given Up as Lost.
New YORK, Jan. S.-The agents and
owners of five ships, which, with their
cargoes, are valued at $1,00O,000, and
which have been missing since the wind
storm of November % and 26, reported
to the Maritime Exchange this morning
that they have given them up for lost. The
ships are: Steamships banana, New
York, November, %, for Hayti; brig Nile,
West Indies aboIIt Npyen, her for New