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TIONS WITH HAYTL

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GREAT IMPORTANCE JUST NOW OF

THE TREATY OF 1864

IT GIVER THIR COUNTRY SPECIAL PRIVILEGES,

WHICH WILL BE INSISTED ON IN THE

PRESENT CRISIS,

(Copyright: 1808; The Associated Press.)

Port-au-Prince, Hayti, May S.-It is estimated

that there are about one thousand Cuban refugees

in Hayti, the great majority, of course, in this

city. A singular absence of enthusiasm among

them over the intervention of America in behalf

af their people has been remarked. If hope is at

the fever point they do not show it. At one special

resort in Port-au-Prineca Cubans of nearly every

class congregate in the evening, drink, smoke, play

cards, sing and talk of the war. They evince by

far less excitement over the hostilities than do the

Havtians, who group themselves daily a little be.

fore and a little after the hour of the “siesta” in

front of the Restaurant de ia Paix and the Hotel

and divide their attention between the

Central,

movements of the gold premium and the achleve-

ments, actual and prospective, of the Americans,

The wildest and strangest and most absurd rumors

find ready currency in this city. Not one In ten,

when traced anywhere near {ts source, proves to

have a serious foundation. Whether the Cubans

invent the majority of these, in competition with

the Spaniards at Havana, It ts impossible to say.

Abont a week ago a former Haytlan general,

Dorsainville, called on the American Minister and

to raise a battalion of 5) men to serve

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New-York tribune. (1898). New York [N.Y.], 1898-05-16. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1898-05-16/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1898-05-16.