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i favorably with thoee of preceding quartern. Tire Haytien

currency remains tirm at the rate o^ixtccn lluytieu dollars

to one Spanish or Ainericair dofltr.

Trade between thin port ruid the United States is in a

prosperous state. A large quantity of American provisions

are imported here yearly, turd u|h>u these iinporta.

j lions tire people arc entirely dependent (or their1 daily

food. Agriculture here is now almost entirely neglected,

f and it soil which Iras probably not its equal in the world

lor richness and fertility is allowed to run entirely to

wale. During the four years which I have been a resident

of the country the provisions raised here lutve lucre than

tripled their value.

'The ]K>litical state of the country is very quiet. On

the demand of the consuls guftcral of Trance and England

f at Port au Prince, the Emperor has grunted u truce to the

inhabitants of the eastern or Dominican jiart of the

isluml, to commence from tire 14th of February, 1857,

and to extend until the same date in the year 1859. In

consequence orders were immediately given to cease all

hostilities on the line occupied by the military posts and

s garrisons of tliis government. The Minister of foreign

Affairs, in his despatch of tire 19th Match, lurs, besides,

H announced tiiat the Emperor |>vrmits to the inhabitants of

the eastern part to travel freely, mid to transact all kinds

of business, either civil or commercial, within the extent

of the empire. If this truce is accepted, a great benefit

will result from it to the commerce of this port, as a

large trade may at once he opened with the eastern part,

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The Washington union. (1857). City of Washington [D.C.], 1857-05-14. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82006534/1857-05-14/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Washington union, 1857-05-14.