Beauties of Negro Rule [pp. 710-712]

712 BEAUTIES OF NEGRO RULE.
one year, the whole imperial army, the nobility, and even the
court itself, would be reduced to the primitive costume of their
black congeneric relations in Sudan. Hotels exist in this interesting capital not at all, and the foreigner who, not like
the black farmer from the country, dotes on lying on the footdeep rubbish in the streets, is placed in the greatest embarrassment.
The exportations fromn Hayti, amounted in Sugar-pounds.
Raw. White.
1789, Frenchcolonial government.................. 93,573,300 47,516,531
1801, under Toussaint Louverture.................. 8,016,540 18,517,381
1819, government of Henry Christoph.............. 1, 200,000
1824, under President Boyer....................... 2,500,000
1828... do.............................36,332
1829............do............................... 40,470
1850. Has ceased entirely to be an article of export.
Coffee-lbs.
1789, under the French colonial government...................... 76,835,219
1801, under Toussaint Louverture............................... 29,510,450
1819, under Henry Christoph................................... 15,500,000
1824, under President Boyer......................... 30,000, 000
1828............do............................................ 8, 369,299
1829............do............................................ 5,995,811
1848.......................................................... 80,608,343
Cotton-lbs.
1789, under the French regime.................................. 76,835,219
1801, under Toussaint Louverture..................... 2,170,440
1819, under Henry Christoph...... 2, 000,000
1824, under President Boyer.................... 3,500, 000
1828............do................. 500,000
1l829.........do... 300,000
1849...................................................... 664,516
Indigo, of which, in 1789, 7,004,278 pounds were exported; and tobacco, (since
1847,) have also ceased to be cultivated.
Comparison in francs.
Total exportations from Hayti in 1789.......................... 205 36 0,007
do...........do.....1801.......................... 64,768,179
Dim inution............................................. 140,581,888
Total exportations from Hayti in 1801..........................64,768,179
do...........do.....1824.. 8*.....22'410,000
Diminution............................................. 42,358,179
Total exportations from Hayti in 1829.......................... 3,639,840
Therefore the exportation has, in the period of 1789-1829, decreased from 520
millions to 32 millions!!
NOTE.-BooK NOTICES, ETC., ETC.-The incompleteness of notices of the fol lowing new books received this month prevents their appearance in this number, but
they will appear at length in our next: From Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Wailes'
Agriculture and Geology of Mississippi. From Harper & Bros., Literary and
Historical Miscellanies, Bancroft, Travels in the Chinese Empire, History for
Boys. From D. Appleton & Co., Chemistry of Common Life, The Summer
Land, Grace Lee, Kenneth, My Brother's Keeper. The New Pastoral, from
Parry & McMillan. The Hireling and Slave, from Jno. Russell. America, by
Jas. Robertson, Westminster Review for April, through Messrs. Frank Taylor,
Farnham, and Taylor & Maury. The continued indisposition of the Editor will
be a sufficient apology for any deficiencies which may appear in this number.