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gates, held at Springfield......June 17, 1863 Political disturbance at Charleston, Coles county, between citizens attendant upon the circuit court and veterans of the 54th Illinois Regiment; seven lives are lost......March 22, 1864 Discovery of fraudulent reissue of $224,182.66 of ninety days redeemed canal scrip dating back some thirty years, by the use of checks signed in blank at that time. Suspicion points to ex-Governor Matteson, who offers to indemnify the State against loss, Feb. 9, 1859. Other evidences of fraud in office coming to light, under a decree rendered in the Sangamon circuit court against Matteson for $255,500, the State secures $238,000 at a master's sale of the ex-governor's property......April 27, 1864 Democratic National Convention meets at Chicago......Aug. 29, 1864 Plot to liberate Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, is exposed, and leaders, arrested November, 1864, are tried by court-martial and convicted at Cincinnati......January,