Weekly national intelligencer

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I caper zeal in die cause of the Haytien constitution and laws.

On the 21st ultimo a vigorous combat occurred between

the hostile armies, consisting on the one hand of the 11 th and

22d Haytien regiment*, numbering together only 61 Omen, and

on the other of 1,500 Dominicans and their insurgent allies.

The latter were protected by the strong post of Ketolu and

Cachiritan. The iwttle lasted for four hours, during which

the firing did not cease, and at intervals portions of the two

armies contended fiercely hand to hand. The result was the

abandonment of the field by the Dominicans, leaving Uieir

dead and wounded behind them. Their loss is lepresentedas

considerable, while that of the Haytiens was but four killed

and twenty-six wounded.

The Haytien army immediately prepared to attack Fort

Cachiman, and their prejiarations held out such prospect of

success that the enemy altandoned the {>ost in the night of

the 22d and 23d, and on the morning of the latter the Haytien

flag waved over its ramparts.?Journal of oinmerct.

Th* Mo>rot. Railroaii was sold at Macon, (Jeorgia, on

the 6th instant, by an order of court, for $155,100, and was

bid off by J. Cowles. It is understood one-half of die pur

chase was on account of parties in New York, and the bal

ance for citiiens of Macon.

The Savannah Republican anticipates from this sale the im

mediate use of this road for at least eighty miles, making a

line of communication from Savannah to Macon, 190 miles;

from Macon to Marthasville, 101 miles; part of State road 80

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Weekly national intelligencer. (1845). Washington [D.C.], 1845-08-16. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045784/1845-08-16/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly national intelligencer, 1845-08-16.