Weekly national intelligencer

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been very heavy, as most ot the subsistence has been obtain

ed from Missouri. It is now designed to make the army solf

subsuting to a gTeat extent, and to establish the military posts

at points where the soil is favorable for agricultural purraita,

thus measurably beating swords into pruning-hooks.

OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS AT PORT

AU PRINCE.

We perceive by the Moniteur Haitien of the

5th of April that thia important event took place

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

piav 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 nobemen

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 Fiustin

the First especially was perfectly stupendous n its

way; and, as he caracoled along on a superb An

dalnsian steed, his jewelled chapeau covered with

feathers, whose marvellous hues rivalled the gltries

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 th*?r

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

Weekly national intelligencer. (1851). Washington [D.C.], 1851-05-10. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1851-05-10/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1851-05-10.