Weekly national intelligencer

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to acknowledging the independence of the Dominicans but

it waa generally atated on the day Capt. H. sailed that the

Chambers bad rejected the propoeition, and that the claim

made for the detention of the American brig Leander, and

the impriaonment of her captain, had/also been rejected. In

consequence of thia deciaion the Haytiena were anticipating

the arrival of au American squadron at Port au Prince.

Five of the persona concerned in the late conspiracy against

the Government of the empire were ahot while Cspt. H. wee

at Port au Prince. One of them, a cuatom-houae officer,

met hi* fate quite coolly, gravely saying that they might

shoot him, but there were plenty left; that an imperial Gov

ernment waa too expensive for auch a poor island, and neve*

would he sustained.

The Emperor 8olod?iu* haa called an additional military

force to Port au Prince, and parades the streets daily at the

head of two or three thousand men.

Boston, April 30, 2 P.M.

The steamer America sailed today with one hundred and

twenty five passengers and $100,000 in American gold and

3,300 Mexican dollars. Gen. W*. H. Whitehead bearer

of deapatchea to the American Legation at London, is among

the passengers. Many Boeton merchants and others, bound

for the World'* Fair, went out in the America.

Several Democratic clerka in the Custom House havebeeo

removed. It is aaid tbet Governor Bout well is preparing

to make a general aweep of the Whig* holding office under

the State Government.

Samuel E. Sewall, the Free-soil candidate for Coogiese

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1851). Washington [D.C.], 1851-05-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1851-05-03/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1851-05-03.