Daily national intelligencer

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and silver: and, furthermore, a large sum had been di

rectly usurped from the savings of the people. The peo

ple deplore the want of good roads and the want of an

organized defence against the empire of Hayti. All that

contributes to the public welfare, the proclamation states,

has been neglected by the Government, which, marching

in the path of despotism, has submerged the nation in

ignorance and deprived it of educational establishments.

Another proclamation was issued by the Dominicans

on the 16th of August, asserting that Baez had combined

with Soulouque to invade the republic, and had joined

with him in the-plan of dividing between them the spoils

of the country.

THE COMMERCE OF NEW ORLEANS.

In the fiscal year ending June 30,1856, out of the total

exports from this country to foreign ports the propor

tion of New Orleans was $80,576,652. During the year

ending June 30, 1857, her exports amounted to $04,

514,286—an increase of nearly eleven millions in a year.

If we add the exports to domestic ports, the total value

of produce, &e. shipped from New Orleans during the

year ending June 80, 1857, amounts to 3119,222,615.

This is an enormous amount for a single port. and gives

some idea of the scale on which business is transacted in

the Crescent City. For a port whose trade was thought

to be declining a few years ago, and sure to decline still

more with the extension of the Northern system of rail

roads, such an exhibit of prosperity is remarkable.

Oc

curring, too, in a year when the crops were not unusually

abundant, it gives us reason to believe that, during the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1857). Washington City [D.C.], 1857-09-19. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1857-09-19/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1857-09-19.