New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-02
MORE TROUBLE IN HA YTI.
FORTY REBELS SAID TO HAVE BEEN SHOT.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO DEPosE PREsI-
DENT HIPPoLYTE.


DENT HIPPoLYTE.
Authentic news has been received here Of
another attempted revolution in Hayti. The
growing discomfort against the rule of President
Hippclyte broke out on Nav 2s into an open
revolution in the capital. Port-au-Prince. The
cable dispatch sent to Minister Price said ::
Attempt at revolution May 2s. Port-au-Prince,
failed Rebels executed. public order not dis
turbed Department of the West placed under
martial law"
The steamship Atlas. of the Atlas Line. which
arrived here yesterday from Navassa. was at Port
au-Prince on May Z. Captain Mckee said yester-
day that when be was at Port-au- Prince an at
tempt had lust been made to abduct President
Hippolyte. but this was unsuccessful On the
night he left the port there large fire along
the water front of the town and great excitement
prevailed in the city. A cable dispatch to a down
town merchant said that the outbreak of MAY
% was serious affair and put down with
difficulty. Forty of the leaders of the ATTEMPTED
revolution were shot and the Department of the
West was on the verge of a big rising which was
likely to overthrow Hippolyte.
Admiral Bancroft Gherardi, who recently re-
turned from Port-au-Prince on the Philadelphia,
said last night that he was not surprised at the
news from Hayti. He said that when he left
Port-au-Prince he was confident that Hlppolyte
reign would be short and that he would soon be
deposed. He thought that the departure OF the
United States fleet had fastened the outbreak
There was no French man-of-war at Port-au-Prlnce
at present, he declared
The above information confirms the cable dispatch
published Saturday. which reported that the Haytian
legation at Paris announced that revolution had
broken cut at Port Prince, and state OF siege had
been proclaimed there. The news OF to-day Is more
precise and it shows The situation in Hayu to be stu
more critical than has been supposed for some time
nf UNn
as it did frequently under that of Soulouque and
salomon.. The revolt is evidently spreading against
that President who represents more especially the
northern portion of the country that in the vicinity
of Cape Hayen, against the Western and southern
districts of the Black Republic The causes OF Hyp-
politics unpopularty have already been explained IN
The Tribune of May IA, and on the 10th it published
exclusively the texts Of the decrees, by which the
Haytian President accepted the resignation OF NJ
Flmin his tried friend and Secretary Of Foreign Re-
lations; sent in exile Journalist NJ Emile Aredlan
suppressed the atters paper and proclaimed the state
of siege for the ACCOMPLISHMENT of Portau-Prince.
Now it appears that this last dictatoral measure is
no longer confined to the district of the capal but ex-
tended 10 the whole Western Department, the most
civilized and the most hourishing in the republic.
II had been rumored for some time also that Hyppote
had become unpopular even at Cape Hayden, and In
his own Northern Department. while he was compelled
to maintain for his safety, whole army at Port
au-Prince, Where no strOpg garrison Hdn ever Deen
kept permanently by former Presidents. Hyppo1tc
always has around him body of those soldiers who
followed him from the north to Port Prince whence
they chased President Lesltime. in August 1882
thanks to the assistance of foreign INGREDIENTS, who
furnished them with and especially with pro-
visions. Those who remember the career of Hyp-
polite and how. in order to his ambition he
melted the ever-atent Jealousy Of the Northern and
Eastern against the Western ard Southern Depart
ments will not be surprised that instead Of Initiating
Legitime he declined 10 withdraw from the country,
and has preferred to order the shooting Of forty
voted patriots.
II may be that the rebellion instigated
and directed by returned exile. like
Manigat, who is famous for the atrocities he
mtted at Jacmel after the surrender Of the city, when
he Minister Of SalomOn lie is an ambitions
and unScmpulOus. AS TO Leg1time, now In exile
also at Kingston, Jamaica, he is more of scholar
than of politician. and he would not plunge his
country in the throes OF bloody revolution for the
purpose Of recovering his former power. But the
fact Is that the discomfort In Hay has strong
against Hypponte, that revolution may break out
without being melted by any leaders; and 1t was
said Of another revolution in Europe, the crcum
stances in the Black Republic art such that the guns
Of the patriots might fire spontaneously Of themselves"