The Springdale news., 1889-05-31
THE BLACK REPUBLIC
A Civil War in Which the Revolutionists Will Be Victorious Hippolyte Master of the situation in Hayti-A PaymaSter AbsconIs.


 Will Ge Victorious Hippolyte Master
 of the situation in Hayti-A Paymaster
 Absconds.
 NEW YORK, May 29.-General Fleurvlle Hippolyte, g.. the head of his army, is marching on Port-au-P Prince, the Haytian capital and the last scene in tue pro- longed struggle for supremacy in tho lit- tic island is about to close in favor of the North Already two of Legitime's Con- erals have abandoned their posts and fled. The Southern army is almost total- ly disorganized, and complete state of anarchy exists in the capital. The resi- dents are living in fear and trembling of what may happen when Hippolyte's sol liers are once ill their midst. It is only a question of very short time when Lcgitimc, the Southern leader and al- legged President of the Republic, will have to abdicate or lose his freedom and per- haps his life. This is the news brought by the Royal Dutch West Indian mail steamship Oranje Nassau, arrived from Port-au- Prince. Mr. N. Boutin, native Haytian and a passenger on tho steamer, gave the particulars. Tho Haytian papers published at Port au- u-Prince, and La Vorire, Legitime's ONH OISdu, were IuIl OL COnHicIluR re- ports, and the situation is freely com- mented upon. On May l6, Mir. Boutin said. General o. Piquant, in command of the fortress at Dessalines, hearing that the Northern troops were advancing, fled with a small remainder of his comman to Port-au- Prince. Fearing the anger of Lositime at his having evacuated the fort, lie took refuge at tho French consulate, and afterward secured passage i'll q small steamer tO Cuba, where he now is, not daring tO return to the capital. General Anselme PrOhete, another Southern chief from whom Logtimo expected great things, abandoned his troops and fled to the capital. The soldiers of the two Gem erals disbanded and struggled back to Port-au-Prince in small companies.
 General St. Fleur is the only Southern commander now outside of Port-au- Prince, and as lie has only two hundred soldiers with him it is not thought lie can hold out long against an attack by the Northern troops. General Legitimo has not a sufficient force in the capital to guard the place or quell a riot should n popular uprising take place, and this event was momcmtarily expected when the Oranje Nassau sailed for New York May 2l. Added t0 this is the fear of Hipp0lyte's soldiers who are daily brig anding near the city. The peaceable residents wait in dread expectancy the fatal moment when their homes shall De reduced to ashes and the city become a scene of pillage and slaughter The dis banded troops wander lawlessly about tie city, and there is no attempt at or ganizatiou. Just before the Nassau left Hayti a report was received that Hippo lyte with his entire army was encamped four miles from Port-au-Prince. Tho Northern General was preparing to move his artillery into position in order to lombard the capital. Before doing so it was said that General Hippolyto would send flag of truce tO Legitime, who still occupied the palace demanding his inn mediate and unconditional surrender. Tho Mercedes and Carondelet are also said to be on their way south from Cape Haytian 10 shell Port-au- Prince from tho larbor.
 One of the Oranic Nassau cabin doors was badly shattered on her arrival, and the cause, 1t ts learned, was due to the at- tempted escape of one of Legitime's pay masters. The night before the ves sel sailed a Haytian boarded her and cn- gagged cabin passage for Brooklyn Ho was given passage, and took possession nt once. His baggage consisted of ono box. few hours before the vessel sailed, stephen Preston son of tho Haytian Minister at Washington; tho chief of police and some soldiers boarded the Oranje Nassau. They searched the vessel, and at last came tO the cabin occU- pied by the Haytian. The door was bar ricadcd, but the soldiers soon demsl- ished it with the butts of their rifles, and the inmate was ordered to surrender. This he did, and he was taken ashore. MT. Preston informed the captain of tho Oranje Nassau that the man they had arr rested had been sent by Lagitime's gov ernmcnt with SlS,000 to pay tho troops in the field. He failed to do So, and was making lis escape with the money at the time of his arrest. When tue man was taken on shore lie was given tko alterna- tive of death or restitution.