HARPER, JOSEPH W. 



1IAYTI. 



883 



As no declaration of the value of exports 

 Hamburg is demanded at the Hamburg 

 custom-bouse, it is impossible to obtain reliable 

 information concerning the export trade. The 

 movement of transmarine shipping, in 1869, 

 was as follows: Entered, 5\192 vessels, of 

 1,069,208 lasts, among which, 4,515 vessels 

 with cargo, and 677 vessels in ballast ; cleared, 

 5,201 vessels, of 1,063,964 lasts, of which, 3,351 

 with cargo, and 1,850 in ballast (1 last equal 

 to 4,000 pounds). The merchant navy con- 

 sisted, at the end of the year 1869, of 473 sea- 

 faring vessels, together of 127,421 lasts, among 

 which, 30 screw-steamers, together of 19,698 

 lasts. 



The number of emigrants from the port of 

 Hamburg amounted, in 1869, to 47,294, hailing 

 from: 



North Germany 81,911 



South Germany 5,419 



Austria 852 



Other Countries 9,112 





HARPER, JOSEPH WESLEY, a distinguished 

 publisher, the third in age of the well-known 

 tirm of Harper & Brothers, born in Newtown, 

 L. I., December 25, 1801 ; died in Brooklyn, 

 L. L, February 14, 1870. Like his elder broth- 

 ers, James and John, he served an apprentice- 

 ship to the printing business, and on coming 

 of age, in 1822, joined his brothers as a jour- 

 neyman and very soon became foreman and 

 proof-reader of the composing-room. In 1825 

 ho and his younger brother, Fletcher, were ad- 

 mitted as members of the firm, and the old 

 title of " J. & J. Harper " was changed to Har- 

 per & Brothers. He had acquired a thorough 

 knowledge of his profession, and veteran print- 

 ers, who served under him, say that he was 

 the best foreman they ever knew. As the 

 business of the young firm increased, each 

 brother became the head of a department, in 

 which intellectual labor took the place of me- 

 chanical service. To "Wesley Harper, in this 

 division of work, fell the department of lit- 

 erary correspondence. With the vast busi- 

 ness of the house, the duties of this depart- 

 ment were arduous, and often required the 

 utmost delicacy, courtesy, and patience, for 

 authors are almost proverbially irritable, and 

 sometimes unreasonable. It can be said with 

 truth of Wesley Harper that, in all the forty 



years and more in which he conducted this 

 correspondence, ho never forgot to be cour- 

 teous or thoughtful of the feelings of others, 

 and, so far as is known, he had not an enemy 

 among the thousands with whom he corre- 

 sponded. More than this, in these years he 

 had formed thousands of acquaintances, and to 

 each his manner was so kind, considerate, ten- 

 der, and so evidently full of interest in their 

 circumstances and position, that no one of 

 them ever left him without feeling that he had, 

 in Mr. Wesley Harper, a warm personal friend. 

 He had become, by the diligent use of his lei- 

 sure, and his intercourse with many of the most 

 eminent scholars of our own and other coun- 

 tries, a well-read, cultivated, and thoughtful 

 man ; but he was always modest in the pre- 

 sentation of his own views, and, although ho 

 had well-formed and decided opinions on most 

 subjects of general interest, he never forced 

 them on others, but rather sought to learn 

 their sentiments. Of late years he had been 

 in feeble health, and his eldest son had assisted 

 him in his duties, and latterly had almost en- 

 tirely taken the burden from his shoulders. 

 The sudden death of his elder brother James, 

 in March, 1869, affected him very seriously, 

 and probably hastened his own dissolution. He 

 was occasionally at his office after this sad 

 event, but he missed the dead brother greatly, 

 and his interest in the business seemed to have 

 lessened. In a few months there came another 

 attack of the old disease, which had so long 

 threatened his life, and for weeks and months 

 ho was nigh the gates of the grave. During 

 all this time ho was not only perfectly con- 

 scious, but cheerful and composed. He was 

 desirous, through this protracted struggle with 

 death, of seeing those with whom he had been 

 acquainted in his active life, and with each of 

 them who visited him ho conversed calmly 

 and cheerfully. His death, at last, was so quiet 

 and peaceful that none knew the exact mo- 

 ment of his departure. He died as ho had 

 lived, in charity and peace with nil men. 



HAYTI, a republic in the West Indies, 

 forming part of the Island of San Domingo. 

 Area, 10,205 square miles; population, in 

 1868, 572,000. After the capture and execu- 



