Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-01
SAN DOMINGO AND HAITI.

Projected Annexation of she Two IsI-
 ands.
 NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-San Domingo is awaiting the result of the sauabble between the party of the North and the party of the South with more anxiety than is generally thought by neutral countries. It depends upon the result of the present war whether San Domingo will be plunged headlong into & war or not. It will not be one of her own making Ambitious Hyppolite and his am bilious legions have had their eyes on the mountainous square miles of San Domingo ever since the rebellion, which is now in &C., tive progress, first broke out They have, to use an old saw, been counting their chickens before their eggs were laid. In other words, Hyppolite's party are endeavoring to form an extensive land trust to annex San Domin- 90 to Hayti, to call the whole island the Re- public of Hayti and to throw poor old Presi- dent Ulysses Hereaux of the San Domingo republic out without ceremony.
 President Hereaux is not one who would allow his chair to be usurped without vig- orous protest. His actions of last December, when the citizens of Port au Platte had an uprising against him, bear witness to that fact.
 This startling and unexpected information 
 first mate of the steamship Victoria. Said the mate: Notwithstanding the fact that Hyppolite is most undoubtedly dead. the northern party are becoming stronger daily and Legitime is becoming correspondingly weaker The result of the rebellion will cer- tainly be in favor of Hyppolite's party.
 'The death of Hyppolite, if 1t really has occurred, doubt that is not expressed in any of his stronRholds in Northern Hayti, will probably give rise to many little battles between the many generals formerly on his staff Each one will be the self-elected com mander-in-ehisf. The North will become divided and weakened. In that case Legl- time will have fair chance of success. Otherwise he has not even a ghost of a chance. The defeat of the rebels will be beneficial to the Dominioans. Legitime is not as ambitious as his opponent. He would be satisfied to remain president of Hayti and let San Domingo take care of herself. Of course, then San Domingo is in favor of Leg itime's policy.
 "An accounting is therefore made for San Domingos accumulation of stray gunboats and old merchantmen with which to form the nucleus of a large navy. President Hereaux has now four gunboats; three are in his own hands, the other is ibelled by the United States Government. They are Fl President, which he purchased from Eng fish speculators; the Carondelet, which saile from here some time ago laden down with arms and ammunition, and the Mercedes, which sailed from Staten Island some two months ago, and has long since arrived at Samans.
 "With these gunboats and with several coasters, which President Hereaux has cons verted into men of-war, San Domingo is a formidable enemy to the party of the North.
 ''She has also standing army of about half a thousand, which is quartered in Samana. The army is devoted te President Hereaux, as is the general public also. If the party of the North is victorious and at- tempts to annex San Domingo and to dictate to her President it will have greater scufHe than they are now having with Legitime. If the Northern party is victorious the gum boats of the Southern party will undoubtedly go over to the San Domingo standard. With a navy of ten gunboats and trained army of thousand men San Domingo can clear the earth of the Northern rebels"