# Saturday Evening Gazette/June 7, 1856/Telegraph

Telegraph.
Special Dispatches to the Evening Gazette,
by the House Line.
Large Fire in Hartford.
Hartford, Ct., 7th.—A large fire broke out at one o’clock this afternoon in the extensive livery stables of Clapp & Sharp on Mulberry street rear of City Hotel. The building is of stone and extends through to Gold street. The fire took in the second story, and about sixty tons of hay and some forty carriages, sleighs, etc., are destroyed. All the horses were saved. The walls remain standing. Loss about $9,000, one third insured.
Buck and Breck at Bellows’ Falls.
The following important despatch was received this evening by us from Bellows’ Falls, Vt.:
June 7th. The nomination of Buchanan and Breckenridge was received here with much enthusiasm by the Democracy, who to-day fired a salute in honor of the event.
Indignation Meeting in Providence.
Journal Office, June 7th.—The meeting held at Howard’s Hall this evening, to express the public opinion upon the outrage in the Senate upon Senator Sumner is very full, and hundreds have gone away unable to get in. Alexander Duncan, Esq., of the House of Duncan, Sherman & Co., presided. The resolutions were introduced by Professor Caswell. They are temperate but firm. Speeches have been made by Professor Ganwell, Rev. Dr. Hedge, Rev. Dr. Wayland, Charles S. Bradley, Moses B. Ives, and others of the most conservative citizens are among the Vice Presidents.
Ship News.
New York, June 7.—Arrived ship James Foster, Jr., Porter, Liverpool, May 23d. Lat. 44:10 lon. 41 saw saw several large icebergs during the night. At 11 A. M., next day passed ship Buomah steering west. Also arrived ship Romance of the Sea, Henry, from Boston, in ballast.
Stock.
New York, 7th.—Canton Co., 22⅓; N. Y. Central, 90¼; Erie, 56¾; Reading, 91, 3 per ct. 100; Cleveland and Toledo, 75¼; Chicago and Rock Island, 91¾; Michigan Central, 96¼.
Democratic Meeting at Washington.
Washington, June 7th.—A large meeting was held here to-night to ratify the nomination of Buchanan and Breckenridge. The Hon. Mr. Smith of Tenn. presided. Mr. Cass was introduced to the meeting and was received with thunders of applause. He said a voice had reached them from the Far West, borne by that mysterious agent which defies both time and pace, announcing that the Convention has named to the party the name of a statesman for the chief magistracy of the United States, who will unite the hopes and exertions of the whole Union. That man is James Buchanan. He eulogised him for his public experience, his private worth and his strict adherence to democratic principles, and said let every true Democrat buckle on his armor, not the armor of Sharp’s rifles but the armor of true reason and persuasion, and go forth to conquer. He spoke approvingly of Mr. Breckenridge, the nominee for the Vice Presidency, saying he would be a faithful co-laborer with Buchanan. He wished success to both, but above all, success to this glorious Union.
Mr. Douglas was then introduced and was rapturously received. He endorsed, to their fullest extent, the remarks of Mr. Cass, and eulogised the patriotism and firmness of the President on the leading issues of the day, and claims for him a bright page in his country’s history, when the passions of the day shall have subsided.
He rejoiced that his own course on the Nebraska and Kansas question had been endorsed by the noble resolves of the Convention. The Democracy, he said, throughout our widely extended Union, would go to work in the good cause. He exhorted his hearers also to prepare for the combat. With such candidates we must triumph. If I have a friend in the Union, he said in conclusion, who loves me, let him put his shoulders to the wheel and do everything in his power to win the fight.
Messrs. Cass and Douglass were frequently interrupted by applause. When the music and wild huzzas had ceased, those who composed the meeting, formed in procession and proceeded to serenade the President, who, it was understood would make a speech in approval of the proceedings of the Convention.