Washington telegraph., 1865-10-11

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But men and girls who Thus win boast
OF soapng while they ,arrird.
! Will find al last with bitter cost
That both get shaved when married.
HAYTI That the negro is free is a
fact universally accepted throughout the
South. No one pr, poses to alter that,
and very few are weak enough to repine
at it. But wise and patriotic men, are
nevertheless anxious so TO regulate and
contrive him in the social economy, as
to prevent his newly acquired freedom
from becoming a curse te himself and bis
neighbors. They cannot think him ca
pabls of self government; and bel eve a
condition of pupilage, under which he
may be protected from his own Incidence
and vice. until by proper education it
may he discovered for wha precisely hc
may be fitted. the most conclusive 10 his
happiness. This can On v be effectually
carried out by the free white population
of each Site acting upon its own negro
population The following effects of ne
gro rule al. shown in communication TO
De Bows Review of June, 1855:
"PoRT-aUPRINCE. Jan. 20-If one
would criticise on the question of the n--
gro emancipation after our (Haytien) cir
cumstances, the r suit would be "A rather
confor,less one for a philauthropist, to
whom veracity would Yet be f more val
ne 'han the triumph OF his humane ef-
forts. This country has made since its
liberation no progress whatever. The
population partially lives upon the pro.
duce # the grown-wild coffee plantations,
the remaihers of the French dominion
Properly speaking, pla "tations, after the
model of the English. in jamaica, or the
Spanish, in Cuba, do not exist here.
Hayti is the most beautiful and tie most
fertile of the Ant lies. 1t has more noun
tains than Cuba, and more space than
Jamaica Nowhere the coffee Tree could
better thrive than here. as it especially
likes mountainous soil. But the indo-
l-nce of the negroes has brought Il e for
merly so splendid plantations to decay.
They now gather the coffee only from
the groun- lriid trees. he cultivation
Of the sugar cane has entirely disappear
ed, and the island that one Supplied one
, half Of Europe with sugar. receives now
Is OWN wants from Jamaica and the Uni
ted States To The banana tree aud the
half-wild hogs owes the 'iree-negro' al
most alone thathe by his laziness has
not vet died If starvation on this truly
paradsaical island. The impovrrish-
rnent increases visably since Emperor
SouIouque holds the Imperial scrpt.e in
his ha DIS. 1t appears especially from
The emo nous depreciation of he paper
money and The entire disappearance of
coins, as W. II as from the exterior ap-
pc rance of all cities, villages, and inhab-
itants of this island Since thu black ru-
Ter has monopolized one-fifth of the whole
coffee produce for his imperial use. and
since the price of coffee in tie interior
part has been much depressed by patent
ed commissioners who have the sole right
TO buy the same, the farmer hardly finds
his trouble rewarded if he only gathers
ii from The tree. By the hereby daily
increasing ind"Ience the negro will soon
consider his shirt and pants as an unnec-
essary lusus article, and adopi the cheap
! fashion of his African ancestors on the
Niger. Industry is wholly wanting
Hayti imports all manufactured articles
from Europe and the United State, and
has, besides the coffee aud dye wood
nothing to export. Even the beautiful
mahogany wood comes from the rupubl-
can part of the sland-from the Don.ini-
clan republic As. at the time of the
a.. London worlds exhibition. the govern
ment Of Hsyti WIS requested to transmit
also some contribution, nothing could be
found worthy of that demand but the
golden crown of Soulouque. ehich hos
Jeen made IN Paris! The few new houses
built III he cap al, Port-au-Pfince. since
the overthrow ot The French colonial gov
ernment. belong almost exclusively to
foreign merchants. who, of course, rs
whites enjoy no citizens rights. Be-
l sides these few elegant houses. the can
nom balls of the French men-of- war would
have found last summer very little drs-
tructible matter, even If the French com
mandant had carried into q fleet his mem
ace TO bombard the city, as al the rest is
,, either nothing bu rubhi Il aud ruins, or
built of such cheap material, that. i'll all
probability, the destroying material tthe
cannon balls would have been more pre-
lion. tLan .L.,. ta ha d,csr,vaI