Denton Examiner, Audenshaw, Hooley Hill and Dukinfield Advertiser. — 1876-05-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

WILD SCENES IN THE HAYTI REVOLU TION.  On Saturday, the 'lsth April, when the Government troops at Port-au-Prince went over to the insurgents, General Dominque, the President, and Rowan, his First Minister, stood in fear of an attack. Rameau accordingly went to the National Bank, where were deposited $500,000 in silver and millions in paper currency. With a party of thirty soldiers he loaded a waggon with boxes of dollars, and sent them down to the wharf, to be embarked on a schooner which he had chartered for the purpose. Already one waggon-load had been embarked, I and another load was being escorted down when the citizens became exasperated at seeing the money so openly stolen from the bank, and assembled by scores at the wharf; the scores soon increased to hundreds and thousands, and they refused to allow the dollars to be embarked. Cries of "A bas Dominque," "Vise General Boisrond Canal" (who has made himself very popular in the island), °came general, and the soldiers in charge of the money deserted in alarm. The whole town now swarmed with armed men, who went to the National Palace, where Dominque, his wife, and Raman, had taken refuge. The French ndMster, the Marquis de Vosges, and the French viceconsul hurried to the palace to try and take them to the French consulate, and so save their lives. ominque, however, was clubbed on the head with a usket and then stabbed, but was carried, still breathing, into the consulate. Ransoms was shot in the neck from behind, anti, when fallen, was moat brutally murdered. The population could not show their detestation of hilts sufficiently, and trampled every vestige of humanity out of him. One woman in particular, a perfect fury—a sister of the General Brice above-mentioned as having been assassinated last May —dipped her handkerchief in Ramerm's blood, and, waving it over her head with one hand while she shouldered a rifle with the other, led a party of over 500 men through the town to the bank, which they at once pillaged. The soldiers and townsmen broke open the chests of dollars, which they threw about the streets without thinking of pocketing them, and thrust their bayonets through the piles of new paper currency, almost ready for circulation—in fact, only waiting for Dominque's signature to replace the money filched from the State by Rameau. The pope- i lace seemed mad with excitement, and the money that had been embarked on board the schooner was thrown overboard, and some enterprising negroes have been hard at work evOr since diving for tho sunken dollars. No leas than 20,000 dollars are at the bottom of the harbour, all round the schooner, end of the 500,000 silver dollars in the bank at noon not one was in it at four o'clock the same afternoon. The English and American Ministers had ridden off when the outbreak first took place, at the President's wish, to ask General Torquer, who was at a distance of sixty miles from the capital with 2000 trustworthy mon, to return to the capital and try to prevent the atrocities that were feared. Lorquet unfortunately was almost as unpopular as Ramses, but he returned with his staff and some hundred men, and finding Dominque and Raman murdered, he got his troops to cry "Tice Torquer, President," apparently thinking be was in favour. The infuriated people, however, would hear no name but Boisrond-Canal, and having broken into Lorquees house they brutally murdered him. True as it is—it seems almost like a romance—that the English Minister, Major Stewart, an old cavalry officer, role over a hundred miles on one horse to bring General Lorquet to the capital, and that on his return, the instant'the saddle was removed, the gallant animal fell down dead. It was a present from General Dominque to the major. The town is now comparatively quiet, but the streets are full of soldiers, and a Committee of Safety has been formed to look after the interests of the State until the elections have been held for the new Houses of Assembly. General Boisrond-Canal's election as President is certain.