Daily national intelligencer

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At Hamilton there has also

been a riot, growing out of a meeting called to in

vite Lord Elgin to visit that city,

there are still indications of trouble.

At Toronto

Hayti.

Late accounts from Hayti mention that

the proclamation of President SOtLOTQUE as Em

peror was received very coldly by the people. The

Emperor has since conferred on several of his Gen

crals the titles of Lords, Dukes, and Barons he

has also sent an expedition against the Dominican

Government, consisting of one corvette, one steam

er, and two schooners, containing troops.

THE NEW YORK CUSTOM-HOUSE.

T'he New York Express says

The rotundo of die Custom-house exhibits every day cu

rious spectacles.

Such is the press of business that men ar

range themselves before the clerks in order, in di tail, rank

atd dir. 14 they wait nt theurro. orA ne nlwnya they ore

i compelled to wait fi r a long time, sometimes all day—a new

business has sprung up—that of reading newspapers, eating

peanuts, playing pins, odd and-even-ing, &c., all to kill time.

But as men cannot afford thus to waste their time, boys are

hired to fill up the gips or links in the tail, and the proposi

tion out of doors now is to hire the lazzaroni of the city, on

low pay, to stand there all day till their time comes for bu-j

neSS.

The Bellevue establishment, if near by, might almost

l>e supported by letting out men to fill up the tail, with a head

man beside to watch, and to explain the papers as the papers

come along in the links of the tails.

We observed some boys

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Daily national intelligencer. (1849). Washington City [D.C.], 1849-09-26. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1849-09-26/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1849-09-26.