Condition of Hayti,
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Extract of Letter Naval officer on board lhe U. 3.


ship vandua. at Port au.Phnce


"St Domingo or Hsytl, the Island on which
exists the Negro Republic of Hayti, so much
Iaudcd and boasted of by the Aboltionists, was,
sixty years ago, at the time the French possessed
it. the most beautiful of the West India Islands
Itraised more produce, owned more shipping nm
ported and exported more than all the other ISL
ands combined. Sixty years OF Negro domlna-
ton has reduced it to almost desert its panta-
tons are destroyed, its sugar fields over.run with
brush ts beautiful towns heaps of ruins and
miserable huts; It's shipping gone, and its inhab-
ltants instead of being wealthy intelligent plant
crs with healthy, well-fed, well-carediur Slaves,
are set of lazy, filthy, naked or ragged free
negroes. do not exaggerate when | say that
The meanest dressed, most filthy Five Point"
negro is better clad and more decent looking than
the great mass of the population here. L! is
true, there are some fine-ooking, wealthy Blacks
upon the Island it would be very singular IN
deed if there were not, knowing as we do that
the whole property of the Island, Zone of the
finest in the world passed into the hands Of
few military leaders. Their descendants should
certainly still retain small portion of the
wealth.