Show THE SITUATION tim THE haytian situation is not so satisfactory to lovers of peace as the news manufacturers tried mohave to have us believe a few weeks ago then it was announced that the only means by which it seems serenity can again be induced to smile upon the black republic that is the conclusive defeat of one or the other of the contending factions had been accomplished in the overthrow of Pre president allent Legi time and the occupation of port au prince by the insurgent hippolyte the war so called has been seesawing along with trifling successes first on one side and then on the other for a long time now the fact that no decisive battle has been fought for the reason that neither party has men or money enough to make such a fight ought to have been sufficient reason for rejecting the fabricated dispatch when it came but it was believed as stated and the principal newspapers came i out with startling headlines announcing noun cing the consummation so much desired it seems that the are as firmly entrenched within the battered walls of port au prince as they have been at any time during the rebellion that Hippo lytes fortunes are as varied and uncertain as usual that peace is not prepared to locate on the island yet and that the attrition and depletion of two semi civilized armed mobs grossly mi a war will not cease just at present Ar armi in which there are more officers than private soldiers are not likely to be very destructive to each other in a numerical sense but they can and do distract the body politic and paralyze a trade which properly cultivated would make inake hayti a prosperous and eventually a wealthy nation |