Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-24
WAR MATTERs.
IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES OF VOLUNTEERS

such sums as they may wish to send their
families or dependents. Official notice of
this resolution was directed to be made in
the different city papers. Mr.. Swartz ex-
poets to leave on Tuesday, the lst of Octo-
Der, and will cheerfully take with him all
letters and messages for our troops, If left at
the County Auditors Office, previous to the
specified time.
COMPLIMENTARY PRESENTATION.
Captain w. p. Wiltsee was, last night pre-
sented with beautiful sword and pistol by
the officers and clerks of the Cincinnati Gas
Light and Coke Company.
THE HARRIS REGIMENT.
The Second Ohio (Harris's Regiment)
leaves Camp Dennison to-day for Kentucky.
They will encamp for few days back of
Covington, and then move wherever ordered
into the interior. The regiment is Differed
as follows Colonel, l.. A. Harris, of Cincin-
natii Lieutenant Colonel, Kell; Franklin,
Major; McCook, of Steubenville, Adiutant;
Geo: vqndeeITif Of Ginoiprnati, Quarter
MASTER Rev. NJ. ?. Gaddis, Chaplain. Cap
tains Beade, of Goshen; Maxwell, OF Frank
lin; Mckinney, of Dayton; Smith, of Cncn-
natl; Herrel, of Cincinnati; Learratt, of
Steubenville; Berryhil, of Urbana: Haz.
lett of GAINESVILLE; Mccoy, of Lancaster.
The regiment has the minimum number. but
will be completed on Thursday by the ar
rival of another company from Franklin,
Ohio. They are furnished with good guns
The thanking company have the Enfield rifles,
and the Others have the regulation rifed
Springfield musket. The field officers are
good men. They were promoted to their
present positions from the First and Second
Ohio on their return from the defense of the
National CapitaA They, together with all
the captains, lieutenants, and many of the
non commissioned officers and privates have
hn ho~ 81 ~saa e. Al.
paign, and have been tested under heavy
firing. Colonel Harris is very popular with
the men, rs are likewise all the officers, and
we predict for them q successful and brilliant
career when they shall enter the campaign.
DISCHARGE OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
Eight of the Nineteenth Illinois Regiment,
wounded by the recent railroad accident,
were discharged from the Military Hospital
yesterday, and about as many more will be
dacharged.to. day. The remainder are doing
well, and most of them will soon be able to
join the regiment which leaves Camp Denni-
son for Kentucky to. day.
RETURN OF THE GUARD.
Captain Dasher, of the First Kentucky
Regiment, returned to the city this morning
from Camp Chase, whittier he had been with
twenty men-half of them from the First
Kentucky, and the remainder from the
Seventh Ohio Regiment--to escort the
thirtyHsix rebel prisoners to their head
quarters. The men under Captain Dasher
were well pleased with their trip and will
soon return to their several regiments.
ARMoRY.
The military authorities at the Orphan
Asylum have transformed one of the rooms
on the first floor of that building into an
armory. Racks have been constructed for
stacking muskets, capable of holding five
hundred and seventeen of them, arranged in
seven different rows--the whole presenting
a neat appearance. The arms, consisting Of
old guns which have been FURNISHED aud re.
paired, have all the appearance OF new arms
when they glisten in the light. Six hundred
guns have been sent to Greenwood's foundry
to be rified.
UNION BARBECUE.
On Saturday last a grand Union barbecue
was held near Maysville, Ky. The attend
ance was very large and enthusiastic. Rev.
W. B. Carter and Hon. Horace Maynard, of
Tennessee, addressed the people in good stir
| ring speeches.
The troops of the vicinity were reviewed
| by. General Nelson, who is organizing q
brigade at Washington, three miles distant
from Maysville.
| KENNETT's REGIMENT.
| There are now about seven hundred men
| ing for active service. Lieutenant w. II,
Hoon, of Captain Ewing's company, is re-
| cruiting on Vine street, below Fourth
Lieutenant II. was formerly q member OF
the Rover Guards, and was with the com>
| papy during their campaign in Eastern VIZ.
GINA, and was engaged in the fight at Bull
Run.
FOR 81. LOUIS.
A squad of men will leave our city thi.
afternoon, designed for Colonel Morton!
regiment, now organizing at st. Louis
They are from the country, and are strong
| and well-built men.
PAY OF SECOND KENTUCKY REGIMENT.
All three months men of the Second Ken
lucky Regiment can get their pay so soon as
pay-rolls are made out if they will report
themselves at the hail in the upper story Of
| No 27 Third street, between Walnut and
Main, to- morrow Wednesday, from ten tc
eleven A. NJ.
RECOVERING.
We are pleased to announce that Captain
stephen McGroarty, whose wound had as
sumed dangerous character, is once mort
considered out of danger. A robust anC
vigorous constitution has assisted him in
weathering the turning point
The numerous friends of Colonel Lytle
the commander of the gallant Tenth, will
also be glad 10 know that he is progressing
fIely, his principal source of annoyance
being the fact of his being compelled to leaG
a temporary life of inactivity during the heal
ing process.
| MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS TO KENTUCKY.
Troops have now began to pour into Ken
tucky with rapidity which bids far to give
General Anderson a force, in a short time
able to drive Zollicoffer and Buckner back u
their dens in Secessia Yes terday afternoon
several companies, of not less than sixty
each, among which were the River Guards
Pendleton Light Guards, Kirby Guards,
company from Lockland, and one from thu
Twelfth Ward, took the cars for parts in thu
interior of Kentucky.
We have elsewhere mentioned the de
parture of the Harris Regiment Colone
Hecker's Twenty-sixth Illinois Regimen
departed yesterday for Louisville. Colone
Gibson's Forty ninth Ohio Regiment ar,
there now, and Colonel Turchins Illinoi
leaves this afternoon.
POLICE CoURT ITEMs.-In the Police Cour
this morning, thirty-two cases on the regula
docket were disposed of.
The most important was that of VIM. Lam
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