St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-21
The Black President of the
Haytien Republic in Hard
Luck.
Gen. Hyppolite, the Insurgent
Leader, Sweeping Every
thing Before Him.
Anarchy Reigns in Port-au-
Prince, but Legitime Will
Not Leave.
His Soldiers Are DESERVING
Him, and He Must Sur
render Soon.

NEW YORK. June 2O.-The following
was received to-day from Hayti by the
steamer Saginaw:
Cape Hayti, June 5. 1SS9.-After the
brilliant successes of the Northern arms
during the first fortnight of May.
ending on the 18th with the fall and
occupation of Meribolais. and On the =.
10th with that of Los Cehrdas, two ar :
rondissements of tine Western depart
ment, the vanguards were pushed for
ward still farther west. and occupied
the districts of Grand Bois and Les
Orangeres, the latter place about four
and half miles from Cruix des Bou-
quets. in the plains of Cul de Sac. On
North, was occupied, and during the
night on the Goth, Grand Saline,
at the mouth of the river Artibonite,
was evacuated. Some 700 men. includ-
ing 400 sick and wounded, were taken
on board Legetime's vessels and landed
at various points. Gen. Piquant, who
commanded the Second army corps,
operating on the Artibonite, after
the battle of Marebaud. May 6.
retreated by st. Michael, Hinche and
MeribOlais, and arrived at Port-au-
Prince with some 700 men, the remnant
(besides those left at Grand Saline) Of
the 5000 or 10000 men he had in his
command. He entered the capitol the
some harsh words with Legitime took
refuge in the French consulate and the
18th. at a. M, was shipped on board
the French man-Of-war Kerguelen. and
then transferred to the Spanish mail
steamer sailing the same day for San
tiago de Cuba. The First army corps,
under command Of Anseline Prophita,
operating on the north, broke up still
worse than the Second corps, and
WITHOUT STANDING TO FIGHT,
443 men who managed to cross the Do
minion frontier begged to submit and
join the Northern cause. This has been
done. Another batch of 500 men were
taken prisoners between Hinche and
Los COhabas, and with them Gems.
Boissend, Juru, Antoine Pol
have been sent under parole to Go
naiveS, and the men have enliSed in
the Northern ranks. There must be now
at Mirabelais general quarters) and on
the road from the north to that place
over 1900 men. Gen. MinpOint. vino
commands the troops operating on
the line from st. Marc. has a force of
1000 men or more. Jean Tumean, at
GOnaives, is at the head of from 200 to
1,500 men. and will also operate by
Arcohau. Yesterday afternoon Gen.
HyppOlite, provisional president of the
republic, arrived at Cape Hayti with
about 1000 men. He was very
well received by the populace.
mountains in the districts of Valliere
and Thau and occupied fortnight ago
by the so-called "Cacas." The princi-
pal leaders of these mountaineers have
sworn allegiance to the northern cause ?
and are among the escort of the
president. Now not single place
in any of the three depart
ments of the North is occupied by the
enemy. Yesterday we had news from
POrt-au-Prince up to the 31st ult. Fur
ther deSertiOns in the ranks of Leg
times friends are reported. Anselme
Prophite, Legitime's minister of war
who had left his command in the North
first army corps and reported at
Poru-au-Prinee before the breaking up
OF his army. has resigned and left the
country. Gen. Laforest, who was mill
tary governor at Port-au-Prince, has
also left. A new military has been
formed. The archbishop OF Port-au-
Prince, and other friends of Legitime
called upon him, begging him to leave
the country to insure peace. He re-
fused to do so. /. 1. Andain, for
ner proprietor of the journal LIE
Peuple. and minister for Liberia, has
had his exequatur taken from him and
has been arrested and imprisoned. Sew
eral well-tO-dO foreign merchants have
been advised by their friends to keep
on the lookout, as there were rumors
that
THEY WOULD BE BANISHED,
hoinp oopcidarad friopdlv fn tho Mouth
All letters received report the capital
to be in very unruly spirit. The
newspapers are full of threats against
friends of the North. The village of
Dessalines was taken after two
and a half hours fighting by
Gen. Jean Sumeau May S. The
enemy left on the field three
Gatling guns and quantity of
rifles and ammunition and forty prisoners
were taken. The same day Petite Ri
Were and Venettes were evacuated. On
May 8 and 9 Marmelade and st
Michel surrendered. st. Raphael was
occupied by Gen. NOrd about the
same time. From st. Michel Jean Su-
the village on the 10th or 18th. From
the 18th to the 18th. st. Suzanne,
Piguui and Ranquiuntte were evacu-
ated and occupied by Gen. Nord.
Gen. Albert Salirave and others in
vested the village of Mirelbalais and it
surrendered on the 18th. From the
9th to the 18th nine communes, compris-
ing eleven villages. were occupied by
the Northern troops in the department
of the North and Artibonite. The only
village now holding out in the
North against the provisional gov
ernment is Valliere, and it is almost
certain that the place will fall by the
Goth. In the Artibonite, Grande Saline
is the only place occupied by the Legi-