III. 
iN'cuugatton anil Commerce. 
H ITHERTO the science of statistics has been utterly neg¬ 
lected in Hayti. Up to the date of the fall of Soulouque, 
the official statistics of all of the preceding Governments 
were worse than useless; for they were the result of a delib¬ 
erate calculation to deceive on the part of their public agents. 
Under the Empire, for example, the most responsible Custom- 
House officers received a nominal salary that was barely suffi¬ 
cient to keep them in cigars. Hence, ships heavily laden with 
French or English goods, which should have paid a duty 
amounting to thousands of dollars, were often reported in the 
Government returns as having arrived — with ballast! The 
comptrollers got rich in a few years with the profits of such bal¬ 
last, and proslavery politicians in America became Gradgrind- 
Jeremiahs when they wrote about unfortunate Hayti. A differ¬ 
ent system has been established by GefFrard, but sufficient 
time has not yet elapsed, owing to other serious and pressing 
duties, to organize a systematic Bureau of Statistics. The two 
following articles, however, from the Travail, (Port-au-Prince,) 
of September 16, 1860, are official, and their figures as nearly 
correct as it is possible to obtain them under existing circum¬ 
stances. An addition of ten per cent, on all the figures would 
give very nearly the true result, —thus allowing for the differ¬ 
ence between English and Haytian weights and measures, and 
