The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12

Solomon and Liberte and Egalite came
down from Port au Prince looking for
iher; but, not finding her, pushed on
after. l suppose they must have de-,
laycd. looking for us in Jeremie; and the
storm coming on. they. missed u.s., for
,tunately for US. However,, as they had
not returned, and word was received
that we had been attacked and captured,
our revolutionary president, Bazelais, In
a. fit of dependency, believed the story,
and SO went into a room In his head
quarter and indited a note, bidding adieu
to beloved Hayti& and designating his
successor. and then shot himself In. the
head and died.
Several of the foreign warships now
came down and lay off Nnagoanes to
watch events, for Solomon had concen-
}trnted an armyaof about 49, 900 men to
clean up things. mn tt is easy for an old
sailor to tell Internationally Of vessel,
even If 1t does not run up It's colors.
On a Spanish vessel the sailors lay oloft
at shutdown, andNWith small sticks poke
In all the blacks,S the Americans and
English call this running tho devil out
of the sheave holes, for the Spanish sail
iors have superstition that the devil
got in the sheape holes on tho Spanish
Armada. so theEropes would not work +
and caused tie vessels to become i'm z
manageable. Then in a British war!
ship seven bessin the morning watch
CHAIR past O'clock) is never struck be-
cause at that hour the greatfmutny on
board the English fleet tool, pace at
the Move. in tho mouth of the Thames
River. On foreign war vessel no sailor
likes to hang his hammock on tire hooks
when man who died swung his ham
mock. but al American sailor cares
nothing at all for that or any other SUI
pcrsitlon. Foreign sailors believe in
compnsants, spirits, mermen, that some
officers are mlucky, and II Il IHiuander
lis on board 1t is All omen against a,
favorable cruise, On British vessels RAJ
lions of grog are issued, each man CIV
Ing his ration to the man whose turn
it is to cook for the moss. This is his
pay for tho extra duty, as no sells what
no does not want to his comrades.
General Epaminondas Dcsrockes be-
came revolutionary president upon the
death OF Bazelarls, and affairs began to!
look gloomy, so Hudson Williams and
began to think now show5we would get
our pay, Solomon sent. bodies of {, 900
mon to invest each Of the ports of Nina
goanes, Jeremie and Jacmel by land !,
while his gunboat patrolled the coast
And now feeling secure he began to glut
his negro appetite for blood iby ordering.
the execution OF numbers OF revolutions
lists who fell into his hands. But the
British and French ministers protested
and no desisted, issuing proclamation
| that nmnety would be granted to all who
Laid down their arms, except the leaders,
1 Under this great many, of our men
| gave themselves up. ! and the govern
i ment troops established a battery on the
sand bar below Nlnagoanes. which rak cd
the town and works. sos that the $50 men
| there had to burrow into bomb-proofs.
! Hudson fand had enc to Ieremie with
100 men TO reinforce General Mathurin
i Legros, whose command had been re-
duced BY desertion to eighty men. There
4 was a fort and two large square log
libuildings, like blockhouses, Immediately
4 back of the town, and Inside our line
i of breastworks We perforated the los
+ houses for musketry. had the two six
/ FOUNDERS In the fort and our force being
so small only retained a sklrmlsh line
in the breas works IN daytime