1880 he was secretary of the Republican national committee, and did much toward securing the election of Garfield and Arthur. His services com- manded the respect of his colleagues, so that he was tendered and accepted a banquet in New York, in February, 1881. At the time of the star-route exposures it was claimed that the necessary legis- lation was procured through his influence in the senate, in consequence of which he was indicted by the grand jury of Washington, and, as he failed to appear at the time appointed, a warrant was issued for his arrest, and for months it was impos- sible to ascertain his whereabouts. Later he ap- peared in court, and also addressed a card to the public in explanation of his connection with the mail contracts, claiming that his relations were disinterested except so far as they benefited his brother and brother-in-law, who held contractt.. The first trial resulted in a disagreement, and at the second a verdict of " not guilty as indicted " was rendered. Mr. Dorsey has since been largely occupied with real estate and other interests in the far southwest.
DORSHEIMER, William, journalist, h. in
Lyons, N. Y., 5 Feb., 1832; d. in Savannah, Ga., 26
March, 1888. His father was Philip Dorsheimer,
a wealthy citizen of Buffalo, one of the founders
of the republican party. William entered Harvard
in 1849, but at the end of two years impaired health
forced him to leave his studies. He was admitted
to the bar in 1854. In politics he began as a
Democrat, joined the Republican party in 1856, and in
1860 again supported the Republican ticket. In
1859 Harvard gave him the degree of M. A. At
the beginning of the civil war he was appointed
major on Gen. Frémont's staff, and at the close of
the Missouri hundred-days' campaign Maj.
Dorsheimer returned to civil life, and published a
series of articles in the “Atlantic Monthly,”
entitled “Frémont's Hundred Days in Missouri.” In
1867 he was appointed by President Johnson U. S.
district attorney for the northern district of New
York. His term expired in 1871. In the
Democratic state convention of 1874 he was nominated
for lieutenant-governor, with Samuel J. Tilden as
candidate for governor, and both were elected, Mr.
Dorsheimer having a majority of 51,488 over his
opponent. In the prosecution of the measures
against the Canal ring, Mr. Dorsheimer was an
efficient worker. He was re-elected lieutenant-governor,
serving from 1 Jan., 1875, till 1 Jan., 1880.
In 1875 he was appointed a commissioner of the
state survey, and in 1883 one of the commissioners
of the state reservation at Niagara, being elected
chairman of the latter commission. In 1882 he
was elected to congress from the 7th district of
New York, and became a member of the judiciary
committee, and was also chairman on the part of
the house of the joint committee having in charge
the proceedings of congress on the completion of
the Washington monument. He was a member of
the Liberal Republican national convention held in
Cincinnati in May, 1872, and also of the Democratic
convention held in St. Louis in 1876, a member of
the committee on resolutions in the latter body,
and reported the platform. He contributed to
periodical literature, delivered occasional addresses,
and took part as a public speaker in various political
canvasses. In 1884 he published a biography
of Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate for
the presidency, and in July, 1885, was appointed
U. S. attorney for the southern district of New
York, which office he resigned in March, 1886. In
September, 1885, he purchased the New York
“Star,” and began its publication as a daily paper
on 15 Sept. of that year. Mr. Dorsheimer was one
of the founders and original officers of the Buffalo
fine arts academy and the Buffalo historical society.
DORSONNENS, Eraste, Canadian author. He
is a resident of Montreal, and has contributed tales
and sketches to the French Canadian press, among
others, " Esquisses Judiennes " in " La Patrie "
(1856) and " Angelina " in " La Guipe " (1860). He
is the author of " Felhma " (Montreal, 1856) and
" Une a|)paritien " (1860).
DOSQUET, Peter Herman, Canadian R. C.
bishop, b. in Lille, Flanders, in 1691 ; d. in Paris,
France, in 1777. He studied theology in the Sem-
inary of St. Sulpice, Paris, became a member of
the order, and was sent to Canada in 1721 or 1722.
After a. short stay in the Seminary of Montreal he
received orders to go to the Lake of the Two Moun-
tains, where the Sulpitians had established a mis-
sion among the Ottawa Indians, but his health was
injured by the fatigues that he underwent in the
discharge of his duties, and after two years he re-
turned to France. He was summoned to Paris to
superintend the organization of a house of foreign
missions, and afterward sent to Rome as procura-
tor-general of the society. Here he was named
bishop of Samos by Benedict XIII., and conse-
crated in 1725. He was appointed coadjutor bishop
of Quebec in 1728, and arrived in that city in 1729.
In 1733 the needs of his diocese obliged him to go
to France, where he learned that the resignation
of Bishop Duplessis-Mornay made him titular
bishop of Quebec. Several young ecclesiastics of
the diocese of Quebec had entered religious orders
with the view of escaping the hardships of mis-
sionary life, and to counteract this evil he obtained
a decree from Rome that all candidates for orders
should take an oath before ordination to perform
missionary duty in the diocese of Quebec unless
they had the licence of the bishop or his successors
to leave it. He returned to Quebec after an ab-
sence of two years, rebuilt at his own expense the
Seminary of Quebec, which had been burned in
1705, endowed it with a valuable tract of land near
Quebec, and erected a large coimtry house for the
students. He founded a new Latin school in Que-
bec, and another in Montreal, and also established
a school for girls in Loiiisburg, conducted by sis-
ters of the congregation of Notre Dame. His
health was undermined by his labors, and he em-
barked again for France in 1735. Feeling his in-
firmities increase, he resigned his bishopric and was
appointed vicar-general of Paris.
DOSTIE, Anthony Paul, dentist, b. in Saratoga county, N. Y. ; d. in New Orleans, La., 5 Aug., 1866. He was a barlier in early life, laut became a dentist, and removed to Chicago, and subsequently to New Orleans. He was an active Union man during the civil war, and by his fearlessness gained both warm friends and bitter enemies. On the reorganization of the Louisiana government, during
the war, he was appointed state auditor, and he was also a member of the constitutional convention of 1864. Dr. Dostie, in company with a Republican minority in New Orleans, was anxious to extend the suffrage to the freedmen, and to deny it to all those who had taken part against the national government in the civil war. The convention of 1864, in adjourning, had resolved that it should be the duty of the president to recall it "for any
cause, or in case the constitution should not be ratified, for the purpose of taking such measures as may be necessary for the formation of a civil government in Louisiana." Dr. Dostie and his associates now began to agitate the recall of the old convention. The project was at first received every-
