Daily national intelligencer

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highest Court in a State distinguished for legal

talent cannot but exercise an important influence

in all the States and, among such a law-abiding

people as those of Massachusetts, especially, the

authority of this most able Decision must have far

more than ordinary weight.

OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS AT PORT

AU PRINCE.

We perceive by the Moniteur Haitien of the

5th of April that this important event took place

on the 27th of March, amid the most gorgeous dis

play of glittering tinsel ever witnessed out of the

precincts of an amphitheatre. His Imperial Ma

jesty and suite, consisting of the Princes of the

blood and all the grand dignitaries and noblemen

of the Empire, were robed for the occasion in mag

nificent costumes of variegated hues, just arrived

from Paris, presenting altogether a most imposing

and dazzling appearance. The toilette of Faustin

the First especially was perfectly stupendous in its

way and, as he caracoled along on a superb An

dalusian steed, his jewelled chapeau covered with

feathers, whose marvellous hues rivalled the glories

of the peacock and of the rainbow, the patriotic

feelings of a multitude of ragged urchins who were

following in his wake reached the highest pitch of

enthusiasm, and the welkin fairly rung with their

vociferous shouts.

At two o’clock in the afternoon a herald at arms,

appropriately accoutred for the occasion, announc

ed to the assembled representatives of the nation,

who also appeared in full costume, like the toged

consuls of ancient Rome, the approach of his Im

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1851). Washington City [D.C.], 1851-05-06. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1851-05-06/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1851-05-06.