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Chepachet, ten miles from Providence ; but only 300 of Dorr's party were present, and. as nearly ten times their number were opposed to them, Dorr ordered them to disperse, and quiet was restored by 28 June. In this same month the legislature issued another call for a convention, which met at Providence in September, adjourned to East Grreen- wieh, and on 5 Nov. adopted the present state con- stitution, doing away with most of the objection- able features of the old charter. This was ratified by the people almost unanimously. The affair thus terminated is known as '• Dorr's rebellion." Dorr fled to Connecticut, and afterward to New Hampshire. A reward of $4,000 had been offered by the state authorities for his apprehension, and on his return to Rhode Island he was arrested, tried for high treason, and on 25 June, 1844, sen- tenced to imprisonment for life. He was released in 1847 under a general amnesty act, and in 1851 restored to his civil rights. In 1854 an act to re- verse j udgment in his case was passed by the legis- lature, but declared unconstitutional by the supreme court. See "Life and Times of Thomas Wilson Dorr," by Dan King (Boston, 1859).

DORRANCE, Gordon, clergyman, b. in Stirling, Conn., in 1765 ; d. in Attica, N. Y., in 1846. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1786, taught at Griswold, Conn., and studied theology. He was pastor of the Congregational church at Windsor, Mass., in 1795-1834, and afterward preached in Sunderland, Mass., and its vicinity. He published a " History of Windsor " (Pittsfierd, Mass., 1829).

DORREGO, Manuel, Argentine soldier, b. in Buenos Ayres, 15 Feb., 1787; d. at Navarro, 13 Jan., 1829. He was graduated in law at the uni- versity of San Carlos, in his native city, in 1809, and went to Santiago de Chili to finish his studies. While he was there the news of the revolution against Spanish rule in Buenos Ayres, 25 May, 1810, arrived, fol- lowed in June by that of the de- posal of the Span- ish governor of Chili, Carrasco, and the forma- tion of a revo- lutionaiy junta, 18 Sept. Dorrego joined in the rev- olutionary move-

ment, and the

Chilian government, after its independence was recognized, struck a medal in his honor, with the inscription, "Chili to its first defender." In 1811 Dorrego returned to his native city, was appointed commander of a regiment of cavalry, and distinguished himself in the battle of Salta under Gen. Saavedra. In 1812, com- manding a brigade in the army of Gen. Pueyrredon, he marched to Upper Peru, and defeated the Spanish forces in Nazareno and Suipacha, being severely wounded in the latter battle. In Sep- tember of the same year he took a distinguished part in the battle of Tucuman, and in February, 1813, in that of Salta, and when Artigas took possession of Uruguay in 1814, Dorrego defeated him in the bloody battle of Guayabo, and in the following year participated in the battles of Barrios and Sourena, in which he captured many prisoners, and those of Pozo Verde and Llatarte, saving those towns from conflagration and pillage. When Pueyrredon, 26 March, 1816, declared him- self dictator, Dorrego energetically opposed him in the press, and, on a charge of military insub- ordination and arrogance, was banished. He went to the United States, resided there nearly four years, and published " Cartas apolojeticas en contestacion al auto de expatriacion " (Baltimore, 1817). On the downfall of the dictator in 1820, Dorrego went home, was elected governor of Buenos Ayres, and organized troops to subdue the lawless bands that opposed the authorities in the interior under the name of " montoneros," whom he defeated, 2 Aug., at San Nicolas de los Arroyos. In 1823 he was elected, by a popular vote, a member of the Junta de Representantes, and in 1826 of the constituent congress, where he distinguished himself by his eloquence, defend- ing federal principles against the central party or " Unitarios." In July, 1827, he was again elected governor of Buenos Ayres, on the resignation of Gen. Rivadavia as unitario president, and as such recognized the independence of Uruguay, notwith- standing the opposition of the other Argentine provinces, but with the general approbation of other American rejsublics and European govern- ments. On 1 Dec, 1828, Gen. Lavalle pronounced against Dorrego's government, and the latter, with such forces as he could collect, marched against the insurgents, but was defeated at Navarro on his flight, taken prisoner by Maj. Pacheco, and shot the same day, by Lavalle's order, without a trial. When in 1862 the federal principle triumphed, the govern- ment erected a monument to him in Buenos Ayres.

DORSEY, Anna Hanson, author, b. in George- town, D. C, 12 Dec, 1815; d. in Washington, 26 Dec, 1896. Her father was a chaplain in the U. S. navy. During her girlhood she contributed many short anonymous poems to periodicals. At the age of twenty-two she married Owen Dorsey, for many years judge of the Orphan's court in Baltimore. In 1840 she became a convert to the Catholic faith. Her works include dramas, poems, novels, tales, essays, and stories for young people. Many of her stories have appeared first as serials, and when issued in book form have been reproduced in for- eign countries. One of her books, " May Brooke," republished in Scotland, was the first Catholic book issued in that country since the reformation. She also wrote many political articles, as well as sketches and poems on national topics. The fol- lowing is a partial list of her books : " The Student of Blenheim Forest " (Baltimore, 1847) ; "Flowers of Love and Memory," poems (1849) ; " Oriental Pearl " (1857 ; translated into German, and repub- lished in Vienna); " Woodreve Manor" (Philadel- phia, 1852) ; " May Brooke " (New Y'ork, 1856) ; " Coaina, the Rose of the Algonquins " (1868) ; " Nora Bradv's Vow " (Boston. 1869) ; " Mona, the Vestal" (1869); "The Flemings, or Truth Tri- umphant" (New York, 1869); "The Old Gray Rosarv " (1870) ; " Guv, the Leper," an epic poem (Baltimore, 1850); " Tangled Paths " (1879) ; "The Old House at Glenarra " (Baltimore, 1886) ; " Warp and Woof " (1887) ; and " Palms " (1887).

DORSEY, Godwin Volney, physician, b. in Oxford, Ohio, 17, Nov., 1812; d. in Piqua, 15 May, 1885. He was educated at Miami university, and was graduated at the medical college of Ohio in 1836, when he settled in Piqua, Ohio. He was for many years a president of the Miami county medical society. He was an elector on the democratic presidential ticket in Ohio in 1848, a member of the Ohio constitutional conventions of 1850 and 1873,