The Springdale news., 1889-01-11
AFFAIRS IN HAITI.

Revolution In Iort-Au.Prlse. ~Re.orts
 to Heroic aTeasnra- Several Propotneot
 Merchants. Advocates and other. I'm.
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 tiess If the Lower Clastes os tl,e Se,lve.. } NEW YORK, Jap. s-TiIe S'1a's Port-an- Prince correspondent. writing AndaT dcte of December .a1 says: Despite tue fact tlfat Port-au Prince declaredfor Leeithae unanimously, and that the inhabitants of the place ehaered themselves hoarse when Legitime was proclaimed President, there are many weslthy and influential reF ss deats of the city, merchants aud others. who are Slisaffected toward Lsgitir6e's government and keep up secr# corre- spoudence with the Northern leaders,. Their numbers ant influence during the past few weeks have been iR- creased greatly. go much so that Legitime undoubtedly. began to fear that q counter-reEoiution might be started 5 against him iH ais own city. He held a council with his ministers, and they ai agreed that prompt action was necessary. Warrants we're secretly s5hed for the ar- rest of some t44a dozen residents of Port Au-Frince who were suspected and tho service of these were intrusted to General Herard, Governor of the Department of the south, and General ElheAer, chief of
  other Generals, few Lieutena6f- Gov ernors and one or two soldiers, sailed out on their tour of zAEe qp Decem- Der 27 sThe most prominent they arrested were NJ -I.avanH, edit or of the b'0eI; T. Augusta, ariv2- cate; C. l. Gentil, merchant; J. Legef and Alexander Fcrraud, advocates, and NJ. Coar~ois, editor of the PlaidoYer Ma tonal Some of tlte others atrested wsre clerks iii the custom .house and other de- partments Of the government. \ good msng of the Haytieas under the ban heard of whar was going eh and fled to the for eigu eousulates for protection.
 HIDING AT THE AMERICAN LEGATION.
 Tie American Legation harbored M. Leon Francis, J. Aeale and Bernard REspinasse, and these men joined the two other refugees Who have been i'll hid- $ne at the legation for month, M. Ber- atholemeir and L@ger CouYien. advocates. The Aaytiens arrested were. taken to the city Brisan. than which there is probably nos more abominahly vile place en the fdce of tbe earth. They were placed three apiece in sml1l dungeons about ten feet square, under ground, only lighted and ventilated by 8 narrow win dow on the ground leveI The dungeon. floors are covered with reeking fiIzsf the most h9rri.le description, and i-- k the prisoners were competed te sit. They we're chained down. great trons binding their legs closely together If the knees and ankles Among tfose seized was NJ. MaiiebraHche. Il bie coffee broker and sperulutor. wa1 k said to be worth twelve million dollars He was released this morning gn the teai4pl intefeessian os his wife Hlth President HegitiWe.
 PRISONERS AT WILL
 Tha arrested HaYfieus will have no trial. ana Rill he kept in prison ..s long ns Pres ibnt Legitiuf sees it. If he thinks 1t nAcessarg he 4ill.nHdoubiedly have some Of them taken ait and shot. There k q decided feeling of personal insecurity ii consequence af the arrests, and no one knows bat what he may be the next one seized.
 On the day af the first arrests President Legitime rode out, accompanied by his staff and body guard, for the first time since bis inauguration. The President halted his horse iH tHe Place De La Paix, opposite the Banque Rationale. A big crowd gathered composed ot soldiers and citizens and the country people from the market place near bv, and
 LEGITIHE MADE rHFN LITTLE SPEECH.
 Soldiers" he said, ''yoa know your duty and l need not tell it to you. You will perform it. l am sure, firmly and courageousiy and well. The safety of the republic, the safety of the peace and good order is in your hands. Citizens, realize that have been too merciful and Ieuient in the past. The time for elemeney is over. propose to put down with se- verity this encouragement ot rebellion in our midst and ta deal justly with those sympathizers of the Northern rebels here who would raise a riot and make the streets of Pert-au- Prince run with blood have this day caused the arrest of some If these men, aud they shalt prove that can rale with rod of iron as well as kindly.0
 The people aad soldiers loudly applaud ed the speech.
 CORRUPTION AND iaMdRALfrY
 The correspondent describes the public l lives of the natives as being hopeycombed with corruption. and their private life as l a mass of awful immortality. He says; 1 'sihe lower order ot the blacks have little 1 ideas of the relations of father andmother, 1 sister or brothers The slaughter of young ehildren by their mothers that
 THEIR Bonees MAY BE SOLD AS PORK, or fried down iuto land. is a comm = practice among the natives. Ever sea De l and then the foreign ressd nts of 's~. The Prince fnd served up ta thes1ften did no own tables, portions of the hast thelr quaf dren which have been gt4ement tnah eve public butcher hops. 1assaga saa S, aesh .ng reasons above stated .Ion or Ia,.,nn n is ostensiby of fore-S-. disl4ssi t nassi,,;,. the Haytteus get r. ,rla @Tss ,-le required for i Only two weeks a- in all forms for in the market plae' ,,faetically unlimited, selling as pork Augmented In no part
 THE ARMS re greater variety Of
 or .cuHr,e -tt,Oen the Southern States, recognized .aRes, swamps, forests and and pHasir can furnish an almost mex thas au ply for an indefinite period.
 14ntatinus alone could proba. {, ne s'l ' iHS ry pulp miIl in the United