New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-14
A YISIT TO HAITI
JOURNEY TO GONAIvEs CONTINUED.
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West India lsidnus, anu consequently IcSdlohu
b;,aself as a true born Englishman. 1t is custom
ary with the foreign-born blacks we have met to
claim the nativity and nationality Of the country
they were born in. There have been several emf
erations for example of persons Of color from the
United States and Canada and the British West In
dia possessions They all call themselves Amer-
cana or Englisbmen: and, without exception, speak
of the native Haytiens with all the PreJudices OF
race of their white fellow countryInen
Jean was no exception TO the rule. When he
went with US 10 the Office Of the Commandant DE
Ia Place, he made it convenient to visit great
number Of his friends; and he introduced us to
them with much and transparent comPlacency.
When we returned be told US that his friends
had said to him-'Ah Jean! You're becoming
great man; you get the white gentlemen to stay
,,ah vou." "Yes says l." continued jean,
"Thats the way We Englishmeo do; we slgays
prefer, in travelling to stop with our own country
folhsr
Before retiring TO bed or rather lying down to
sleep, We had long talk with the above English
man.
From him, then and there, we obtained these
facts:
A great deal of the bard work on the farms is
dane by the women, because the men, during the
reign Of SOulouque, were engaged more than hall
the year in marching through the country or 10
other military duties. During Soulouque's reign
there was 10 chance for poor men, 10 consequence
Of the existing military system. lie would call
them hundred miles from hOWe at the very mo-
ment " ben the crops required their utmost care
and would keep them il dstan; ACCOMPLISHMENTS
not unfreqneDly for SIX months at time.
When uen get the chance they work hard here.
The hours Of labor are from to II O'clock 10 the
forenoon, and from till O'Clock in the evening.
They rest during the sultry houcs-a practice which
no humane person condemn. Their wages are
from thirty six TO sixty cents day.
Men do all the cutting and blowing on farms, but
women do almost all the hoeDg.
Women do all the marketing. There are hun
dreds 20 to Cape Hay tien from the vicinity of
Limbo. More walk and carry their burdens gu
their head than ride or have donkeys to transport
their produce. They start at II o'clock on Thurs
dny night or at twelve, walk ride al night snd
enter the gates early 10 the morning. They often
carry lees than fifty cents worth of produce.
Ten Hay ten dollars worth (60c.) is not an un-
u,usllv small load; 81 20, American, is esteemed
fair supply; it is only the ~elto-do who have
horses or doDkeys to carry them and their load,
who can afford to bring from $50 to 800 Hayden
into market-from So ~ So so American The
distance is from 1o to 20 miles Jeans wife arrived
from the Cope late in the evening. She said she
met us al che entered the city ia the mOrnng-at
o'clock-baving rode all night; and, after spending
some hours in market, she had ridden back TO
Limbo. i need not say that the poor woman was
very much fatigusd.
When men work plantations not their own
property. Jean told that they received equal
sharvs with the proprietor.
Farming land during the Emper0rs time, was
VERY b gh according " our hosts ideas of value.
Close " Cape Hay ten, land was worth thousand
dollars an acre. Coffee land, within half mile of
Limbo, was worth FIVE hundred dollars an acre.
Wooded land sells higher than farming land. Wood
il valuable as fuel aud for expectation. donkey
load of frewood was worth from twenty to twenty
four dollars.
Mahogany, eighteen inches wide and six inches
deep, slls ut irem two to four dollars foot, ac-
oordipg to the quality.
Land ia generally held 10 small lots yet some
of Souk uques generals own from two to three
thousand acres But FIVE aud ten acres Is the aver
age extent, while twenty acres are reckoned .
COED. sized farm.
Coffee and suup are the most profitable produc-
To srow the coffee trees the land must be ofthe
first qualty but any Character oil soil VIII pear Inc
sugar. cane.
The land CD the plains is the best for farming
vet mountain lands Of good quality sometimes sell
for three, four and FIVE huu fred dollars an acre;
some OF il as low three hundred dollars.
The second quality of land bears plantains: any
kln0 VIII pchT the cOCOh, Uut ~ Picicls
ishes beat near the coast.
From good land one can raise FIVE hogsheads OF
siruP. Market girls sell it by the gill, at ~ a
pint
- Haytien sirup by the way, is very super
iOr article, much superior Ia anything We ever
noticed in the American market for 1t Is not the
refuse of sugar but, on the contrary, contains al
tie juice of the cane No sugar is manufactured
in this Island now: the nearest approach to it is
rappadore: a Kind of a brown sugar cake, sold
candy. This sTup is extensively used to sweeten
coffee to favor preserves, TO drink with water, TO
use in every kind 1T cookery.
Jeans ideas Of Soul,uQue so truly represent
the popular opinion Of him, that took down his
talk about the Emperor in short hand, and will now
Translate it, Jean himself had suffered from Sou
louQue's ty ranuy his sister io-l,w one of his
Msiesty's tavorite mattresses; bat, having offended
her, he was suddenly deprived of five acres of land,
which were given to Il favorite general of the En-
pcror's-a loss which poor Jean felt very much,
and from which he had not yet recovered His
sister-iu-lsw was the Duchess Of New ISLANDERS IN
Hayti Jean had parted from his first wte-the
Duchess sister. in-law characterized her as bad
woman praised, however, his present wife in
rather extravsgsnt terms. His first wife Is still
living, and so are her children. | suppose jean
was never married to either wife.
''Soul,.uque, said Jean, ''acted very bad with
the people he acted 40 that we could not afford
to get cloth he made every thing high by his
tariff that clothing t''o dear for poor men Z"
buy. You couldn't buy cosrse Osnaburg or com
mon cotton checls tor lcss than 81 a yard. You
zee he put such high prices on the harbor; that
was the reason. Rich people could live, eecau,e
he gave monopohes TO merchants; but poor people
could not live.
"Tbis Emperor did for hsself and family not
for the people nobody could speak nothing
against BIN, and if they spoke anything, ne would