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DREUX DREYSCHOCK 263 the construction of new streets and buildings. A century later it was still further beautified through the erection of an opera house and other places of amusement, and through the laying out of the great garden.. In 1686 that part of the town on the site of the present Neustadt was destroyed by fire; but it was rebuilt with very great improvements by Au- gustus I. in 1724. Under that prince and Au- gustus II. the city enjoyed perhaps its bright- est period. The Friedrichstadt was founded by Augustus I. in 1730 ; new buildings and in- stitutions were founded by both the kings ; and the prosperity of Dresden was only checked by the seven years' war, during which another great fire swept away the WilsdrufFer-Vorstadt and the Pirnaische Vorstadt, and the whole city suffered greatly through the bombardment it endured in 1760. From the close of the seven years' war until the beginning of the present century it enjoyed a period of com- parative peace, and had recovered much of its old beauty and prosperity when the wars of Napoleon subjected it to many evils, the chief of which was the constant quartering of large detachments of French troops within its walls ; and 20,000 wounded were brought into the city after the battle of Bautzen. On Aug. 26, 1813, the French in Dresden were attacked by the allied armies, but Napoleon, by advancing large reinforcements, won on the 27th the battle that ensued (battle of Dresden). On Oct. 7 he left the city with the principal part of his army ; the Russians soon after succeeded in surrounding the place, and the French gar- rison of 30,000 men left in it was compelled to surrender, Nov. 11. After the restoration of peace the fortifications of the city were removed, the work being completed in 1817. Many improvements were made under King Anthony, whose name was given to the Anton- stadt. During the insurrection of September, 1830, Dresden was the centre of the agitation for constitutional government, and witnessed much disturbance. In the insurrectionary movements of May, 1849, it suffered from pop- ular violence, streets and prominent buildings being injured by the insurgents. Measures were taken in 1874 for the removal of all mili- tary establishments to the outskirts of the city. DREUX, a town of France, in the department of Eure-et-Loir, on the Blaise near its junction with the Eure, 20 m. N. by W. of Chartres ; pop. in 1866, 7,237. It is situated in a plea- sant valley commanded by a high hill, on which are the remains of the castle of the ancient counts of Dreux. The space within its walls is now a garden, in which stands the magnifi- cent Greek temple built by Louis Philippe for the mausoleum of the Orleans family. In the town the hotel de ville and the parish church, a handsome Gothic structure, are the principal buildings. The chief manufactures are serges and woollen hosiery. There are also iron foun- deries, tan yards, and dye works, and a trade in cattle, sheep, and grain. Dreux was called by the Romans Durocasses, which, contracted into Drocae, was the origin of the modern name. It was one of the early acquisitions of the Northmen in France, and became the capital of the Norman county of Dreux, which was taken by Robert II. in the llth century, and was afterward held by members of the royal family till 1585, when it was sold to the house of Nemours. It returned to the crown under Louis XV. The town was burned by the Eng- lish in 1188. In 1562 a bloody battle was fought near it between the Catholics and Prot- estants, in which the latter were defeated and the prince of Conde, their commander, taken prisoner. In 1593 Henry IV. captured the town after a siege of 12 days. In November, 1870, it was occupied by the German troops. DREW, a S. E. county of Arkansas, drained by Bartholomew bayou and affluents of the Saline river; pop. in 1870, 9,960, of whom 3,854 were colored. The area was about 900 sq. m., but a portion has recently been taken for Lincoln county. It is nearly level, and has a fertile soil. A great part of the land is covered by forests of cypress, ash, &c. The chief productions in 1870 were 8,828 bushels of wheat, 222,140 of Indian corn, 9,850 of oats, 32,775 of sweet potatoes, and 6,661 bales of cotton. There were 1,284 horses, 3,079 milch cows, 6,111 other cattle, and 12,613 swine. Capital, Monticello. DREW, Samuel, an English clergyman, born at St. Austell, Cornwall, March 3, 1765, died March 29, 1833. He was apprenticed to the shoemaker's trade, and his early education was limited. In 1788 he became a local preacher of the Wesleyan church. He pursued an ex- tensive course of reading, and early attempt- ed authorship. His gains from literary work induced him to leave the shoemaker's trade in 1809. In 1819 he became editor of the " Imperial Magazine," published at Liverpool, which under his management was eminently successful ; and he continued to edit it after its removal to London until the year of his death. In 1824 Marischal college, Aberdeen, bestowed on him the honorary degree of A. M., and soon after he was offered a professorship in the Lon- don university. His chief works are : " Re- marks upon the First Part of the Age of Rea- son, by Thomas Paine " (3d ed., 1799) ; " Es- say on the Immateriality and Immortality of the Soul " (1802) ; " Essay on the Identity and general Resurrection of the Body" (1809); "Life of Dr. Coke" (1816); and "Treatise on the Existence and Attributes of God" (2 vols., 1820). DREYSCHOCK, Alexander, a German composer, born at Zack, Bohemia, Oct. 15, 1818, died in Venice in April, 1869. He studied four years under the direction of Tomascheck, and in 1838 undertook his first tour as a pianist through northern Germany. The years 1840 to 1842 were passed in Russia, after which he was repeatedly heard in all the principal Eu- ropean cities. In 1862 he was appointed pro-