Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-28
The East

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b Massachusetts, lastweek ratified the Con
1stitutional amendment Ie9j yud /
The Hudson river is open, the first boat
having passed from New York to ALBANY
on the s4th.ff aGmj'd rojaa9c -.
ST. The Rhode island Legislature has passed
the bill to prevent and punish criminal
abortion, under heavy penalties as4d az
Gov Geary, of Pennsylvania, has signed
the bill requiring railway companies to
carry all passengers without distinction OF
color
WAt st. Albans, vt, says a New York
HaGId correspondent, many strange MI
lesian faces are noticeable, and probably
that town will soon be the base Of Fenian
column in Canada. ''''' '
A rich member of the last Legislature OF
New Jersey, convicted of bribery, and SEN
fenced to one year in the State Prison, at
the December torn of the Court, has just
been pardoned. ".'' 1854 ,iJ - 80
The Winter Garden Theatre, New 7 ork,
was entirely destroyed by fire, ZION the
morning of the 2sd. itAll the properties Of
the theatre, including the magnificent
wardrobe Of Edwin Booth, were consumed.
The Southern Hotel, adjoining, was badly
damaged. Loss, about 100000
George Peabody gave banquet to Gen
eral and Mrs. Grant and the trustees Of the
g Southern Educational Fund, at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, on the evening
of the 29d Leading army and navy Off
GERS, several prominent Southerners, and q
number of the elite of New York were
among the guests. ' ..@.' 1854 -
General Gleason, the successor Of Ste
phens as G. O. T. r., made overtures to the
Roberts branch of the Fenian Brother
hood, recently, for urkon Of the two SEQ.
tons No action has been taken on his
proposition by the Senate, which is. in SEES
sion, arranging details for the grandaadI.
vance on Canadaiin the coming summer
t. A terrible state Of affairs is said to pre-
vail in the neighborhood of the coal mines
In Schuylkill county, Pa. A secret society
calling themselves "Polly Maguires. y
composed mostly of Iiishmen, have band
ed themselves together to control the mines,
and have not stopped short of robbery and
murder. Gov, Geary has been applied to
for aid. -... ..-. t..t, ii. ef..-...- r.....,
The Great Eastern will arrive at New
York about the first Of April, ready to take
5000 passengers to the great Exhibition
She has new boilers, a new shaft, steel
steam launch fifty feet long by twenty
wide, steam steering apparatus 500 lofty
and convenient state rooms, new deck
saloon that will dine 900 passengers, and
other saloons, equal to dining 1900 in all
at the same time H-a -hJ2' -.;. i'l O.
s4 Onlthe occasion of the celebration of ST.
Patricks day in New York, o dreadful riot
boocurred in Grand street, in which twenty
one police officers were wounded, though
strange to say, none were killed. A car
man had wished to cross the line Of the
procession, but being refused, turned his
team duietlygby the scurbstone! Asthis
crowded the procession a 1ittley the niate
/ Hibernians leaped1 from the rankss nearly
killed the driver, overturned his truck, and
for a time, triumphed oyer the, police.
Manyof the rioters have since been arrest
ed, and the more orderly, Irish have held
meetings expressing Their. dieapprobation
of the riot. ''''i'''-''