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HAYTI. 



HENDRICKS, THOMAS A. 



$588,418, payable in six equal installments, 

 the first on November 30, 1884, the next on 

 September 30, 1886, and on the same date in 

 1887, 1883, 1889, and 1890. The first pay- 

 ment of $93,069 was to be refunded out of an 

 additional export duty of 10 per cent, that was 

 to be levied. 



On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of 

 his accession to the presidential chair, October 

 23, General Salomon decreed full and unre- 

 served amnesty to all that had been con- 

 demned for political misdeeds, whether then 

 in Hayti or exiled. 



A Question in Dispute. In 1872 an American 

 company established itself on the little Island 

 of Navassa, one of the territorial dependencies 

 of Hayti, and raised the American flag. Na- 

 vassa is simply a guano-island, about twenty- 

 seven miles from the mainland. This island, 

 the Haitians claim, belongs to the republic, 

 not only because it is a part of the same geo- 

 graphical system, but because it is mentioned 

 by name as belonging to her political jurisdic- 

 tion in her Constitution. At the time the isl- 

 and was taken possession of by this American 

 company, there was a vigorous protest that 

 this was done by a filibustering expedition, and 

 the matter was made a subject of diplomatic 

 representation on the part of Hayti in Wash- 

 ington. But the protests received no consider- 

 ation, and nothing has since been done about 

 it. The American firm remains in possession, 

 exporting the guano; claiming the right to do 

 this under sections 5,570 to 5,578 Revised 

 Statutes, which provide that whenever any 

 citizen of the United States discovers a deposit 

 of guano on any island not within the lawful 

 jurisdiction of any other government, and not 

 occupied by the citizens of any other govern- 

 ment, and takes peaceable possession thereof, 

 and occupies the same, such island may, at the 

 discretion of the President, be considered as 

 pertaining to the United States. The demands 

 of the Haytian Government for redress have 

 been renewed. 



The Coffee-Crop of 1881-'85. The following 

 was communicated from Port-au-Prince under 

 date of Sept. 10, 1884 : " The first receipts from 

 the new coffee-crop will make their appearance 

 in October, and their quality will be fair. 

 There has been rainfall enough just at the time 

 it was needed. At present low prices in Eu- 

 rope and the United States the 31,000 tons 

 will not command at the shipping ports over 

 $6 the 100 pounds. We shall not have more 

 than from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 worth of 

 goods to export, and our imports will also have 

 to be limited to that much. Business generally 

 has meanwhile been almost at a stand-still 

 for two months past, because of a dispute 

 that arose between the treasury and the bank 

 about the paper money that was put into cir- 

 culation. 



American Trade with Hayti. The following 

 tables show the imports and exports in the 

 American trade: 



American Manufactures. In his report to the 

 Department of State, Consul-General Langston 

 writes as follows: 



The imports from the United States have consisted 

 for the most part of provisions, such as pork, beef, 

 hams, flour, sugar, rice, codfish, herrings, mackerel, 

 butter, lard, cheesej canned meats and fruits, ana 

 soap^drugs and medicines, paints, hardware, agricult- 

 ural implements, hoes, shovels, spades, axes, furni- 

 ture and lumber, shoes, and carriages. For many 

 years past, too, denims have been imported and used 

 in Hayti. In fact, they have constituted for some 

 time the chief article of that special manufacture held 

 in greatest demand in this country, and it is now con- 

 ceded that they do, and will continue to hereafter, 

 hold the mastery in the Haytian market. They will 

 also prove, as many of the most intelligent merchants 

 of the country predict, the forerunners of the early 

 and general introduction of American cotton goods, 

 not only into Hayti, but into the West India Islands. 

 And this result will be produced upon the real merit 

 of the goods referred to, in spite of efforts made by 

 competing manufacturers in other countries, even 

 where more convenient terms of credit are given mer- 

 chants, and special endeavor is made to accommodate 

 what are falsely supposed to be the circumstances of 

 the Haytian customer, with a cheap, inferior article. 

 American denims, as compared with all others, are at 

 a premium in the markets of this country. Imitated 

 false trade-marks do not deceive in this matter either, 

 for the texture and quality of the goods constitute a 

 guarantee appreciated by the buyer. It is not strange, 

 therefore, that the Haytian mountaineer, in describing 

 his desire for such article, with other words failing 

 him, calls it " the cloth in which the Haytian is not 

 cheated." 



HENDRICKS, THOMAS ANDREWS, Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States, born near Zanes- 

 ville, Ohio, Sept. 7, 1819. On the maternal 

 side he is of Scotch descent. His mother, 

 Jane Thomson, was a granddaughter of John 

 Thomson, who emigrated from Scotland to 

 Pennsylvania before the Kevolution, and, by his 

 representations of the advantages of the coun- 

 try, induced a large following of Scotchmen, 

 by whom Cumberland County was chiefly set- 

 tled. Thomas's grandfather was one of the 

 pioneer settlers of Westmoreland County, Pa., 

 and held various township and county offices, 





