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It appears from a letter in the New York

Post that Soulouque. who, when chosen hm

peror of Uayti, was not worth a sous, now

owns property valued at $2,000,000. lie

owns six large distilleries, with sugar plan

tations attached, for the manufacture ot tafiia

and rum—from fifty to seventy stores and

houses, mostlv in Port-au-Prince, and is

buying or buildiug all the time. lie bought

a new plantation quite recently, for which

he paid $60,000, with the intention it is said,

of attempting the manufacture of sugar.

Attorney General Cushing has given an

opinion that the President cannot issue his

proclamation until he shall receive satisfacto

ry evidence of the enactment by the Imperial

Parliament and by the Provincial 1 arliaments

of all the four provinces ot f.auada. New

Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince hdward

Island, of special laws ad hoc to give full

effect to the reciprocity treaty, according to j

the terms of the act of Congress.

Charles N. llaswcll, late engiuecr-in-chief

of the United States Navy, for drawings and

plans of steam machinery, furnished to the

Czar, at the request of the late Russian Min

ister, M. Bodisco. has received from Nicholas,

as an acknowledgment of this service, an

immense diamond—perhaps the largest in

this country. The stone is of the first water,

and is in size ?ery nearly if not quite half

an inch in diameter.^ _

The Winchester Republican says. “On

Monday last, the relief meeting met agreea

bly to adjournment from September court.—

There is now no doubt that there is sufficient

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Alexandria gazette. (1854). Alexandria, D.C., 1854-10-07. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85025007/1854-10-07/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Alexandria gazette, 1854-10-07.