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Show 1 W . .. 1 - HAYTIAN INSURRECTION. C3 Sixty Kebels Bliet to lirath by tha !(. 1 11 It Authorities. Nf.w York. June 8. The steamer Orange Nassau arrived today from j Pcrt-aii Prince, and brings tho first licliniiH news of the late insurrection in-surrection in llayti. . The uprising upris-ing was of a serious character and for a tiiuo threatened important eone qiieiices, but tho government repressed the rebellion by prompt auu stern measures. The insurrectionists stormed the prison at Port au Prince and a number of the prisoners were released, re-leased, when tho military appeared on the scene and captured the whole inn nuiuu uuil capiuruu me W0010 party. N'. li. Walker, a well known res'ulont of Port au Prince, aud a pasenger on the steamer states that there is considerable consid-erable excitement iu that city. Martial law was proclaimed and some sixty persons shot on May I.'H, llippolitte lias everything in his own hands, and the killing goes on at two or three persons per-sons a day. |