POPULATION.

The population of this district consists of 11,265 whites and 4,023 colored; in all, 15,288 inhabitants.

Particulars about navigation and exports are given in the corresponding accompanying returns. The health of this district is good. ROBERT SCHNABEL, Acting Consular Agent.

Exports from Aguadilla, P. R., for the year ending September 30, 1882.

Navigation at the port of Aquadilla, P. R., during the year ending September 30, 1882.

British

Danish.

Total..

United States

Spanish

German

French

Norwegian..
British

Danish

Total.

Navigation at the port of Aguadilla, P. R., &c.—Continued.

NOTE.-Besides the above stated vessels have touched at this port: The Spanish (Empresa Maritima Puerto Rigueñas) coasting steamship San Juan and Cristobal Colon, and the Spanish (Olano Larrinaga & Co.'s Liverpool, England) coasting steamship Elcano, four times a month each.

ARECIBO.

Statement showing the imports at Arecibo, P. R., for the year ending September 30, 1882.

Statement showing the exports from Arecibo, P. R., for the year ending September 30, 1882.

Statement showing the navigation at the port of Arecibo, P. R., for the year ending Septem

ber 30, 1882.

405 1,320

Statement showing the navigation at the port of Arecibo, P. R., &c.-Continued.

Statement showing the imports and exports between Arecibo, P. R., and the United States for the year ending September 30, 1882.

HAYTI.

Report by Consul-General Langston on the commerce of Hayti for the year 1883.

SOIL AND CLIMATE.

To a climate, genial and friendly to the inhabitants beyond the general belief; to a soil whose spontaneous productiveness is only equaled by its richness; to a confluence of circumstances which has brought into the country a large amount of foreign capital, with foreign brains, purpose, and hands to operate it; and to the election, occasionally, of a man to the Presidency, who, in the cultivation of genuine patriotism, intelligent effort, and manly purpose, as in the case of Geffrard years ago, and Salomon at present, advances the welfare, material and moral, of the country, are to be attributed the present tolerable condition only of the industry and trade of Hayti. With coffee, sugar, and cotton so prolific, cultivated with the least possible labor, in the rudest manner; with logwood, mahogany, and fustic growing in the past, if not now, without culture, in the largest quantities; with sheep, cattle, hogs, horses, bourriques found in sufficient numbers for every use without special attention; with all the fruits and vegetables peculiar to such a tropical country proffered, as it were, from the hand of Nature herself (among the products named there being some of the most desirable and valuable), it is not difficult for me to understand that with the revolutionary condition mentioned, existing from the very foundation of the Government, the country might be found in what may be characterized as a tolerable, though declining, state as to its agriculture and general industry.

HAYTIAN AGRICULTURE.

Depending upon its agriculture for its wealth and progress in every essential industrial development, the efforts of the present administration, whether they concern the improved growth and cultivation of coffee, sugar-cane, cotton, or other valuable product of the island, cannot be regarded with indifference by the citizens whose interests are advanced thereby, nor the resident foreign merchants of the country whose business relations thereto and to the Government are largely also improved and conserved thereby. Hence these two classes would naturally unite in common applause of such efforts, and are equally hopeful and desirous of their success. And herein is to be found very much of the real sympathy which President Salomon is receiving in his endeavors to subdue the present revolutionary movement which hinders so utterly the general good and advancement of the country.

TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES.

Such views, correct as stated generally, find at once illustration and confirmation, as regards trade with the United States and the most prominent port of Hayti, in the fact connected with the importations therefrom at the port of Port-au-Prince, that while the value of such importations for the year 1881-82 amount to $3,020,626.11, those of 1882-83 amount only to $1,972,379.68, making a difference of $1,048,246.43 as matter of decline, a little more than one-third of the total amount.