Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-05
NEWS BY 1LEGRlPH. From All Quarters. MORE TROUBLE IN HAITI. Return of the West Green
 land Expedition. HORRIBLE BANGING IN MISSOURI. An Interesting Budget of
 Foreign News. ANOTHER WESTERN TRAIN HELD UP. Further Details of the
 Chinese Riots.
ANOTHER WESTERN TRAIN HELD UP.
PORT AU FRINGE IN DANGER.

l FoRI AO FAsNCE IN DANGEH. Disturbing News From Hayt1-Presi- dent HypPoHte's Family Retire to a Safer Place-How Masters of For eign Vessels arc Unjust1y Treated MT. Howe's Experience.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-The Norwegian steamer Alert, arrived hefe this morning from Port de Paix and Cape Hayti, both of which ports she left on August 27, and re-
 ported that climax in Hayti's disturbed
 affairs would undoubtedly be reached very soon. News of the return to the Haytian capital of the exiles from Kingston, Ja., 7,
 was being industriously circulated in the other large cities of the republic, and the forts guarding the several seaport cities were being strongly garrisoned, especially at Port su Prince, and orders were issued by President Hyppolite that if the exiles returned to the city and made a successf ul attack on the palace, the guns were to be turned on the city. The palace is strong ly guarded. So strong is the belief that a revolution will soon break out in Hayti that many of the foreign residents have moved out of Port au Prince or are send ing their families away. On the day of the Alert's departure President Hyppo- lite's family was leaving Port au Prince for Cape Hayti.
 Hyppolite is said to have lost confidence in the strength of his followers, and is preparing to follow his family to Cape Haytien at the first news of the approach of the insurrectionists. General l.. Blot resides at this place and at his home Hyppolite will make his headquarters.
 From what can be learned of the insur- rectionists they are still at Kingston, Ja., actively preparing, it is said, to leave that place to make descent on the Haytian capital.
 William Howe, supercargo of the steam ship Alert, which arrived here to-day from Haytien ports, makes an interesting statement in regard to affairs in Hayti and particularly describes the unjust way in which steamers from America and Europe are treated on arriving there. He says steamers plying thence to foreign countries must conform to Haytien laws, but where new laws are made weekly only to be amended the next it is often impos- sible for captains of vessels to know pre- cisely what to do on arriving, as new regu lations have probably been made while the steamer is at sea. MT. Howe says: ''We are compelled to pay compulsory pilotage fees in all ports there. yet pilot very seldom DOarQS the vessel unCll the anchor is let go in the harbor. Then he is sure to come aboard for his fee-$27 Haytien money or $24. 55 our money. This fee is in the form of an order on the steamship company. MT. Howe particu- larizes some vacations, delays and evils to which steamships are subjected. It seems that on August "A the steamer Rowana, from New York, after discharging her cargo at Port de Paix sailed for another Haytien port where the captain was threat ened with heavy fine ($500), as steamers are not allowed to arrive after 6 p. m. or before 6 a. m. Owing to some derange- ment the steamer arrived shortly after the once entered the harbor, was 10th to sail again immediately, as he would be liable to another fine of $500-a penalty for sailing during prescribed hours. Upon sending ashore to ascertain from the authorities what was necessary to be done to expediate matters and vio- late no law, the captain found that all the officials were off in village nine miles away, preparing for junketing the next day. When Haytien customs officers and petty officials do not feel like work they can only be induced to attend to their busi- ness by the payment of heavy gratuities. On the last homewsrd voyage of Captain Howe's own ship (the AlerD a stoppage was made at Cape Hayti. This was only an accommodation for the port-to land mails, for which the company receives nothing, yet the vessel was detained, the officers badly treated and fined. MT. Howe is anxious to have American vessels know the unpleasant experiences to which they are liable in Hayti