Weekly national intelligencer

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paper money, and $100,000 in copper coin.

1 he Traveller furnishes the following information relative

to Bobo, the principal in the late inaurrection

"Bobo is upwards of seventy-five years of age. He Wat

a chief among the blacks at the time of their rising againal

tbe French when the terrible massacre of whites took place

and since then has been second only to the President or Em

peror. He is quite illiterate, not being able to read or write

and this is supposed to be the reason that his name was noi

found attached to tbe papers connected with the late Socialist

rebellion. The letters from the Cape atate that, after Bobo

refused to go to the capital at the command of the Emperor

he went into the mountains, but aftsrwarda returned to the

P?, "ere 11,6 authorities, after a hot debate, concluded to

take him prisoner, and sent fifty horsemen and fifty foot it

pursuit; but they were too late, he had escaped."

A letter from Port au Prince dated April 23 mentions a

report that Bobo bad made good hia escape to tbe Dominical

part of the island.

Islands Discovered.?The late Paris journal*

report that Capt. Guesdon, commanding the French

whaler the Salamanders, just arrived at Havre

gives an account of the discovery of a cluster ol

islands which is not marked upon any of the charts.

They lie in 172 deg. 56 min. west longitude of the

meridian of Paris, and 9 deg. 38 min. south lati

tude. They are from twenty-five to thirty in num.

ber, three of them of some extent, and all covered

with cocoa trees. On the same day he discovered

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1851). Washington [D.C.], 1851-05-17. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1851-05-17/ed-1/?sp=5

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1851-05-17.