Daily national intelligencer

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or tax collector, appointed by the Governor of the State.

The merchants have almost unanimously pledged them

selves to test the constitutionality of this law.

FROM IIAYTI.

From Port au Prince information to the 12th

ultimo has been received of a serious alarm, on the

part of the Imperial Government, in consequence of

the interposition of the French Government in sup

port of the Dominican Government, and also of a

threat

to

the settlement of the claims of

French subjects on the Haytien Government.

The

island remained in a state of quiet, but the army

was to be kept on a war footing of thirty thousand

men by means of a conscription.

Death of ADMIRAL WORMLEY.—Intelligence was re

ceived in this city on Saturday from Utica of the death,

by apoplexy, of Rear Admiral WORMLEY, of the Royal

Navy of Great Britain, who had arrived at that place on

a journey with his family to Niagara.

Admiral Wormley

has been for some time resident in Boston ami in New

port, being retired from active service on the half-pay

list. The intelligence of his sudden death will be received

with grief by many friends in many parts of the United j

States.

Riots on Staten ISLAND—Between 5 and 6 o’clock

I

Monday evening a desperate affray took place on Pavi

lion hill, Staten Island, between a party of foreigners and

a number of the islanders.

Some of the combatants were

armed with slung shots, while others used sticks and

stones.

Elias Butler, a resident of the island, about

57 years of age, had his skull broken, and has since died.

Several others were much injured.

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Daily national intelligencer. (1852). Washington City [D.C.], 1852-07-01. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1852-07-01/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1852-07-01.