Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-03-21
THE DRAFT.
HOW OHIO STANDS.

N " " " n " a N " o.
In response to an inquiry Governor
Brougb received on Thursday last the fol-
lowing letter from the Adjutsnt Generals Of
fee, which gives the true figures IS to the
number of recruits credited to Ohio at
Washington under the old call, and before
the last one.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March Il, 1854
His Eresllsney John BrOugh, Governor of
Ohio:
SR:-I have the honor to inform you that
from February 1st to February goth, 1884,
the State Of Ohio has been credited with TO-
267 volunteers for the three years service,
and also with 9s7 enlistments in the regular
army, from Sept. 8, 1862, up to date, 50 far
as reported. Veteran rs-enIistments are not
included in the foregoing.
Respectfully, &C..
THOMAS NJ. VINCENT,
Assistant Adjutant General.
The number of veterans that have re-en-
listed and reported on furIOugh in this State,
as we learn from the Executive Office, was
on March 18th fourteen thousand. With
these added to the new enlistments would
still leave the State about eight thousand be-
hind her quota under the draft which was to
have taken place on the 10th of the present
month.
It is estimated that ohiO's proportion of
troops under the last draft, ordered for the
18th Of April next, will be about twenty
thousand and the deficiency of eight thOus-
and noted above, so thai Ohio is required to
furnish about twenty-sight thousand men
within the next thirty days by volunteering,
or stand draft for whatever number she falls
short.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CoEvENTIoN.-The
Democratic County Convention, which mot
at National Hall, on Saturday morning last
for the purpose Of nominating delegates to
the State Convention to be held, on the 23d
inst, at Columbus, was q slim affair, as
gloomy and mournfuI as if it had been fu-
neral instead of a Convention. The attend
ancS, including delegates, officers, reporters,
and all the spectators, fell far short of hun
dred, whereas, if full delegations had been
present, the delegates alone would have num-
bersd over one hundred and ffty.
]. W. Fitch was elected chairman, and
John Friend secretary, Of the Convention. A
committee of one from each ward and town
ship represented was appointed to select del
egates to Columbus and their slternstes, and,
after prolonged session, reported the fol-
lowing list:
DELEGATES.
JIM. COfinberry, Cleveland.
J. W. Fitch, "
Morrison Foster,
D. B. Sexton, g"
s. NeWmsrk,
Z. H. Lewis,
F.W. Kelley, East +"
William Cole, Wsrrensville.
Bsnsjah Williams, Chagrin Falls.
R. H. Knight, Dover.
ALTEREATKs.
s. B. Conklin, Cleveland.
u.s.. Stephenson,
S. E. Adams,
q. H. Dodge,
John Friend,
Joseph n. Brown, "
J. W. Heisley, East Cleveland.
Perly Sheldon, WarrensYille.
Cyrus Ingersoll, Parma.
BueI Stearns, olmstead.
Mr.. E. A. Moss offered the following reso-
luton:
ResoIved, The Delegates appointed from
Cuyahoga County are instructed to use all
honorable means in their power at the State
Convention to be held at Columbus, to pro-
cure the nomination Of delegates to the Ma
tional Convention to be held in Chicago Ju-
ly 4th, 1854, favorable to the nomination Of
the soldier, patriot, and statesman, George
B. Mcclellan, for the Presidency of the Uni
ted States.
The resolution was unanimously adopted
AmOtiOn was also adopted, directing the
delegates to use their influence to postpone
the State nominations until after the Nation
al Convention.
And with a feeble attempt at three
cheers for the "soldier, patriot and
statesman" aforesaid, the Convention ad-
journed.