, 1889-01-09
AFFAIRS IN HAYTI.
Legitime, the Pretender, Vir-
tually Defeated.
Large Numbers Of His AIRY
DESERVING Him.
Horrible Stories of Cannibalism
Reported.

1OHT au fhlNCE hayu, Dec- oU.-As
this dispatch is being written the depos;-
ton of Legitime by the dissatisfied citi-
zens of the capital or the advancing VIC
torious troops of the North under
Hypolitite, appears to be shortly expected
by all but the immediate supporters of
Legitine. He has thrown into prison
all the prominent citizens and residents
of the North in Port au Prince suspected
of opposing him. Three battles have
been fought and lost by the Legitimists in
the past ten days. During a rapid re-
treat on the capital two divisions of the
Southern army deserted to the pursuing
Northerners. A stand was made the
next day at rising knoll of ground by
the deserted army of the South, but
they were able to stand but a short time
against the Hypolite's assaults.
The army of the North is entrenching
themselves some twenty miles from Port
au Prince, completing their lines of COM
munication. reorganizing their augmented
army and awaiting the arrival OF recently
purchased arms and munitions of war.
They are also devastating the great agri
cultural SECTION where they are now en-
camped. and from which Legitime re-
ceived a greater portion of his supplies.
General Hypolite having been elected and
declared the provisional president by the
Central and Northern departments, his
capture of the capital will demand a con-
gress of deputies from all the depart
ments and the election of a permanent
president, declaring Legitime's election
unconstitutional and void. He will prob
ably then be the only candidate in the
field. The repetitions of defeat and de-
s~ertions have raised to a high pitch of ex-
element the inhabitants of this section,
and hence Legitime is imprisoning all
possible leaders in the revolt against him.
He is showing great activity in securing
volunteers through press gangs, who seize
laborers in the fields and carry them to
the barracks frequently in chains to pre-
vent their escape. Without law. life or
property is unsafe in this section and ex-
cesses OF every kind is the rule. The
horrid canniballstic rules of voodouism are
revived and reports reach this city of the
meeting of several thousand on Christmas
night neal Jackmet and the sacrifice Of a
young girl and a greedy scramble for some
portion of the half cooked flesh. The
devastation of the central part of the
island has been the cause of the robbery
of recently buried bodies and the devour-
ing of the same. These are well authen-
ticated facts.
The steamer Haytian Republic is still
in the hands of Admiral Luce, as the
agent of the owner, Mr.. B. q. Morse.
cannot receive her until she is in a
more p~resentable state. While she has
been thoroughly disinfected by the sur
geOn of the United States steamer Gale
ma and her captain, Mr.. Compton, her
condition. by reason of her occupation by
the Haytian guards, is filthy in the ex-
treme. Under command of Lieut.. Spiers,
with a prize crew of twenty eight men
from the GaIena she will steam on June
10 to Santiago de Cuba. where she will
be enrolled and turned over officially to
Morse, who will then collect n crew.
The Galena will keep her in sight dur
secure $3.50, 900 indemnity demanded for
her detention and the damage TO the
property of her owners, passengers and
crew, it is thoughtit will be possible to Sc
cure some cash down. The government
pleads poverty, but las recently paid
$l00,000 IN gold for the former English
mail steamer which they have fitted out
as a gun boat, and on December &c paid
to the steamer Andes $27, 500 for 5000
Winchester rifles and 100, 900 rounds of
ammunition.
1t is also claimed that Lcgitime has ap-
propriated to his own privy purse all the
remainder of the cash in the treasury and
will fly by his fastest gunboat as soon as
his fall is an assured TACT. L~egitime's
official organ issues to the American aud
European press, under the title of "Une
lnfaniy' ian outrage), a long statement
defending the Selling of the Haytien Re-
public for having illegally lun a blockade
and saying 1t is deplorable for the great
and historical nation and the republic
as well to abuse its power by depressing
the feeble in Illegally opposing the power
of reason with its guns. 1t then goes on
at some length to i~nsinuate that the ac.
tions OF American Consul Thompson were
decidedly unfriondly to Hayti.