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Yesterday Evening's Edition.

WEST INDIA NEWS.

NEW YORK, September 1.

The Herald's Kingston, Jamaica corres

pondent says that the headway which the

Revolutionists are making in Hayti has

been deemed by President Jeffrard suffi

ciently alarming to induce him to make

preprations for escape from his country.

mail steamer has therefore been chart

ered at Kingston to proceed to Port au

Prince, and there remain till the time ar

rives for him to take safety in flight, or

the danger of such an event has passed

away.

Owing to the severe drought of the pres

ent summer in the island of Jamaica, to

the heavy taxes and other causes, tbe ne

gro laborers there have been reduced to

the most abject poyerty and great suffer

ing, and thousands of them are on the

verge to starvation. They blame the Gov

ernor and his offloers as the cause of their

difficulties, and so strong and bitter 13 the

feeling against the local government that

outbreak cn their part is feared in the

western part of the Island, ia consequence.

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of which two gun boats have been dis

patched to that locality.

The Herald's Santiago correspondent

says that notwithstanding the havoc and

spoliation of the Spaniards during their in-

vaaiuu ui oaa jjommgo, crept are now

coming forward which promise ample sub

sistence for the inhabitants, and that the

sacriaces wnicn tne war has compelled the

people to endure have made them more

united and determined to maintain their

independence. This latter statement ia

hardly borne out by the r porta which we

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The Cleveland leader. (1865). Cleveland [Ohio], 1865-09-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035144/1865-09-02/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Cleveland leader, 1865-09-02.