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Hayti, June 17, 18M.

The Insurrectionary movement In Haytl, reduced to a

few hundred malcontents, shut up in the town of Cape

Haytien, and closely invested both by sea and land,

vu, at tne last an vices, nearly suppressed.

President Ueffrard UkiioiI a proclamation ou the 14th

ult. declaring Ihc port of Cape Haytlen in a state of

blockade, und the war stoumer* OeflVard and Marian!

were stationed at the entrance of tbe harbor to enforce It.

In addition to which the government had eight thousand

men strougly posted on the beighta overhanging the

town, and a train of seigr guns were just lauded and

about to be put in position 10 bombard '.he

place. Tbe rebel forced, ronnletiog cblefly of Dominicans,

entirely cut off from succor, having ^ufT?p-d

severely from the carbines of the icovecnm?nt sharpshooters,

were being constantly thinned by drsertiou,

and their auppllea were nearly exhausted, while tbe besieging

forces, wall supplied with provision*, were receiving

continual acromion* of men anil munitiona by

land aud water. Were it not that tbe commnudnr of the

government forces, General Carrie, carrying out the Pre

sldent'a desire, wishes to spare the effusion of blood and

the horrors attending tbe taking of the town oy assanlt,

the affair might have been terminated aonie time ago.

The city won on the poltit of being raptured on the

5th ultimo. Thetr outworks had be>n stormed and

tbe columns were about moving to the attack

of their main jocltlon, when a ausponalon of

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The New York herald. (1865). New York [N.Y.], 1865-07-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1865-07-22/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1865-07-22.