Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-01-04
YIELDED TO UNCLE SAM
American Aen-of-War Badly Scared
President legitime,
And the Captured Hay tien RepubIic
was Quickly Surrendered.
dad a French MaH-of-W War Been There
il Might Have Been Different.
Minute Details of How the Whole
Thing was. Accomplished
NOW IT WAS DONE.

.kNN II " 40 bNNE-
The Surrender of the Haytieu Republic Ac-
complished Without EloodShed.
On BoABD THIS UNITED SrArEs STEAMER
GALENA; OFF PoRr Az PRINCE, Dec. u.
The Ualted States steamers Galens and
Isngic which LET'S New York Dec, II,
steamed into the hsr5or of Port-au-
Prince, Dee. ~ sc = O'Clock 3. M, with
shottsd guns, torpedo hooms, the ships
cleared for Sctiou and the crews standing
at quarters To demand of the slleEed
Hsyuau government the release of the
steamer Haytien Republic. Ca the ar
rival in the OCter harbor, Rear Admiral
Luce transferred his hsE 10 the
Iantic, which has drauKht of
but fourteen feet, The Ganuc was then
run slowly into The inner harbor to with
In 100 feet of the docks where the HAY
uen r. sPubhc WAS at anchor. Anchor
vas dropped and a stern line was at
once attached 80 the Hsyuvu Republic,
the guns Of the Nanlc being trained
upon the city. The Galcna remained in
the outer harbor, with guns trained on
the Hay tiau msu-nf war Dessahnes, and
prepared To fire q. the first hostile dem
oustrauon. The DesSailues cvsw also
stood N their guns unit the result of
the interview of Lieutenant Gritliu with
LeEi'lme was made known. Lleuteuant
Gutiin wvut ashore sEortly after
O'Clock, With communications from the
state departments and Admiral luce's
demand for the release wlthIu tours hours
of the detained steamer Haytlca Repua-
lie. LegIume fading that no delay
would be tolerated, under formal pro
test aud an appeal for future arbitration,
commanded one Of his gunbuats TO TOW
the Haytien Republic TO the position II
the outer harbor occupied by her when
captured and To have such slight damage
as had been done Ia her repaired hy h,s
mechanics. Night tell before her cahl,
could be served, as her aUchur chains
had heeu badly fouled. The fIrruaj re.
turn was not mHie uuuI thau,y day.
The moral effect ot this prompt sctiou
ot Admiral Lnce has been urat SANTA.
ry 1u The Haytlau people. The lutncncu
of Che French Eoycruuaut, tnrough hev
mln'sroC nj Purr an pruce, Is very stIoug
with the Lagjuwc government, and il Il
Thought thtt the la, tIeu Republic wuuld
not have been relrl-ed 5a6 Frruch
man IT war been in the harbar L. Is
also claimed that the French govern
ment's ini0ouoe has been backing Lrgi-
time since hlS return from. exile. The
German EUve eminent Il generally under
stood tu be back nf the HNppulite fac
tioI in the north. Tho release was most
upportunr from the aokuusleagvd fact
that LeKlrIne had con 'racted To sell the
Hayhen II public "a ,he Atias line; in
tact, wns abou. to turn her over to "A
crew which had arrived that morning
from JSnuica.
Decenher IL, the Haytran national
'oonatitnuOUaI assembly, which had
been III session for the previous four
days, after much dispute, endorsed the
existing constitution and then immedi-
gtely proc oded 10 vote Il continuation
uf the action uf the en'ral revolutionary
IL rlectrng LrgItlme preai-
dent. The vote was a unanimous one,
At forty of the forty four deputies pres
ent were from the southern departments
LeRitlme and the remaining
four were passengers GA the HaytIen
Il public wltu captured, aud were d..
tanned at the presidential palace, dmed
and wiuod aud Convinced of the avail
ability OF LegltIme to govern for the
northern departments they represented.
All foreign powers were Immediately
Informed of his cleotion,and portion of
tie navy was ordered 20 this post to
IN the demonstration IN hon
jr of that event and H. take part in the
inaugural fetes. The United States flag,
after an absence OF eleven dpys, was then
-etgrned to the masthead of the HAY tian
Republic 10 enliveu the harbor and was
lying ON tho arrival of the American
vessel.
After having bombarded Cape Hay
lieT, Port de Suiy, San Marc and other
smaller ports on the north and west
coasts, and completely domoralized nil
foreIRg and cuas'iuE trade, IT, has been
decided TO advance the war-hi * IN con
neotion with the army nov marching To
meet the forces of Gen. Hyppolite.
Skirmiahes havr 0ccErred on tho frontier
small dctachments of tha
armies, aud the news of general en-
gagement near S IN Marc is m0mentarily
looked for. While the navy and the
scat OF COVE nmnnt are in the hands OF
the LeRItIme faction, troops under Hyp-
polite are superior i'll moral and in gen
eral efficiency ard consider their CON
mander Second Napoleon"
no lhhhDtfHuNH NH VI Dan ware, EtttHhty
bUmbarded, are in a most destitute con
ditiOn, such being the situation to some
extent Of all the bOmbarded ports.
Friday afternoon an official visit was
made by the admiral and thirteen officers
of the Yantic and GAlens to President
LegItime and his cabinet. President
Lagitime expressed in his speech of wei
come the friendiiest of feeling for Amer
leans and entertained the officers at his
palace in the best of style. Admiral
Luce replied to his speech as follows:
THAT II has always been the policy of
this country to encourage republics, es-
pccially those of the West Indies, and
more especially those of the eufranchis-
ID Africans, for America has but recent
ly passed through a conflict. the ultimate
object of which was the freedom of that
race in the great republic
At conference to morrow of b. g.
Morse, the q Ener of the Hayten repub.
lie, with Legitime, the former will sub
NIT a claim for 100000 damages caused
by the detention of his ship and $3.50 600
oOn pens alton for the crew and two pas
5eDgers.