Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-06
The East.

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gate to the Southern Radical Convention,
from Rochester, New York.
A New York dispatch states that the
President has come to the irrevocable
decision that Mr.. Stanton must leave the
Cabinet. aao
The United States sloop of war Manitou,
said to be a perfect model of nautical beauty,
was launched from the Charlestown (Mass.
Navy Yard on Saturday last.
A great conservative meeting, called to
ratify the action Of the Philadelphia con-
vention, was held in Faneuil hall, Boston, on
the, evening of the 9th. The hall was
crowded.
The delegates to the Labor Congress re-
Gently held in Baltimore, had an interview
with the President on the 25th. Mr.. John
son expressed his sympathy with the object
of their gathering.
Gillian agents in New York city are try
ing to buy the steam ram Dunderberg. Mr..
Webb, the builder, offers it is said, to sell
her for SIS, 100000 delivered at Valparaiso,
or for So, 100000 taken at New York.
An attack was made on a negro camp
meeting near Baltimore, on Thursday night,
by party Of men whose names are IN
known. Pistol shots were fired, and q
white preacher was hit in the head. The
meeting was broken up.
Professor Newton of Yale College finds
that a prodigious flight of meteors, the most
imposing of its kind, will make its appear
ance, probably for the last time in this CEN
fury, on the morning of the 18th or 18th of
November next. Only thirteen Of these
showers are recorded between the years 903
and 1888.
On the morning Of the 31st ult., the Presi-
Dental exeursionists left Albany on the
New York Central Road arriving at Auburn
about two o'clock, weere they were enter
tanned at the residence of Secretary Seward.
On the 1st inst Saturday the party left for
Niagara Falls.
Two distinguished men died on Sunday
night, the 26th. Rev. John Pierpont, poet
and preacher, departed this life at his resi-
dence in Medford, Massachusetts, at the
ripe age of 81 years; and Dean Richmond,
President of the New York Central Rail-
road, also prominent Democratic politician
of that State, in New York city. TIE New
York World states that the illness of the
latter was caused by his unsr.ring labors
to accomplish the success of the Philadel
phia Convention.
1t appears that Santa Anna came to this
country as the victim of cruel hoax. His
private Secretary gave him letter at St.
Thomas, purporting to be from Secretary
Seward, urging him to come immedi lately to
the United States. He then purchased the
steamship Georgia in which to convey him
self and his suite to New York. On arriving
in this country he ascertained that the
Seward letter was forgery of the private
Secretary, and the great Mexican was the
victim of hoax, which cost him $4,000.
An order has been granted by New York
Judge for the arrest of the deceitful private
Secretary.
A train with eight loads of petroleum, on
the Erie road, was collided with on the
26th, near Nslrowsburg, New Jersey. Sew
eral cars were smashed, and the petroleum
caught fire, and exploded and burned the
VIII ole train. Three dwellings, wagon
shop, carpenter shop, hide house, and
$4,000 feet of lumber caught fire from the
burning oil, and were entirely destroyed.
A Mr.. Williams, while endeavoring to res
cue his two children from one of the houses,
dropped one, and while attempting to rescue
it, all three were fatally burned. The two
children died, and he is not expected to re-
cover. Mrs. Williams, his wife, jumped
from second story window, and imme-
diately gave birth to child She is not ex-
pected to live. The conductor Of the train
was badly burned. The loss of property is
about $4,000