Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-04
STATE AND GENERAL NEWS.

! The Cadiz Sentinel says that quite num-
Der of recruits have started lately for the
distant West to enter the frontier service.
The romance and exciting adventure of
that distant region is very enticing; so much
so that the temptation was too strong for
a lot of young boys about Cadiz, who, CIV
ing their parents ''the slip" ran off and vol
unteered in this service.
THE Steubenville & Indiana railroad was
sold on last Saturday, in Steubenville, for
81 ZOO, 600, to parties mostly in the east.
The Sandusky Register says the ice in the
Bay has about all isappeared-only,a q few
white blocks being left to mark its so lately
supreme dominion.
COMPANY H, 18th 0hio-the first to re-
spond from Harrison county when the firing
upon Fort Sumter called the nation to arms
arrived in Cadiz last Thursday, after an
absence of nearly three years, and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic demonstrations of
joy.
The Coshocton Democrat says:
The vallandigham supper, got up by the
ladies of f" Gallant Old Perry Township"
on the oath of February, was a gay and
brilliant gala-over two hundred persons
| partook of the most bountiful and magnifi.
cent repast the most fastidous epicure could
desire. The guests enjoyed themselves to
their hearts content-while the gents We'd
/ with each other in their praise of the fair
daughters of Perry for their excellent taste
in preparing feast. All were highly de-
lighted, and the guests departed with the
best of feeling.
About $50 were subscribed to the Vallan-
digham Fund. fa
THE Dayton Journal is "fornenst" the
recruiting of mere boys into the army. 1t
says
Recruiting agents everywhere should re-
fuse to enlist mere boys; should discourage
them so pointedly that they will give up
the very idea of enlisting. A great deal Of
trouble and annoyance is given families by
recruiting agents accepting into the service
bows of from fourteen to seventeen years OF
age. And they are also the means of taking
the boys away from proper parental re,
straint, and putting them on the high road
to ruin. We acquit the agents Of the Gov
ernment here of enlisting boys, but they are
enticed away from home by specious repre-
sentations, and promises never to be fulfill
ed, and are made aware of the cheat only
after they have been betrayed and placed
out of reach of home. Scarcely day pass
es but that we hear Of boys in this city
who have either been coaxed away from
home, or have been detected In plans to rllI
off from their parents and enter the gunboa
service, causing vast deal of uneasiness,
s concern and sorrow. This condition
things would not be, If the boys were. no
encouraged in their course OF waywardnes
and wrong. There Is no adequate punish
ment in the service for the scoundrels wn'
/ will entice mere boys away from home, o
accept them in the army or the navy.
THE 9th Ohio Battery, organized at CAM
[ Wood, near Cleveland, in October, 1861, ar
rived In that city on the afternoon OF tn
! 1st inst. from Tullahoma, Tennessee, having
re-enlisted as veterans. At
JAMES CLARK and Isaac Clark, father AM
, SON, of Clark township, Coshocton county
, charged with harboring and concealing dc
, serters, having been arrested and taken t
: Cleveland, were on the 1st lust. examine
; and held to bail TO appear at the next teri
. of the United States Court at Cleveland.
$ THE 18th and 2lst O.V. /. passed throug
a Cincinnati on the ID inst- on their way
the front. The former had 25O new n
: cruits, and the latter, 300.
9 GEN. SHERMAN, a rebel paper says WI
IS on the 18th ult. at Meridian, which is ne'
= the Tombigbee, and l7O miles from Wick
e burg by the Southern Mississippi Raiiroa
= The rebel troops in Lees army have nea
Z ly all re-enlisted.
Z A BARN AND CONTENTS DESTROYED
Z Frnr<--The Cincinnati Enquirer Of the
y inst says;
- About nine o'clock on Friday night "a
= barn containing few tuns Of hay, Q fe
le bushels 0fwheat, five horses, carriage, ga
Ia die, harness and farming implements, .
a. longing to Moses d. Hardy, the prosecutir
!. WITNESS in the Noble county riot case, w
y iesfroYed by FIRE. The loss wiz be abol
- $4,000. "A ridiculous and silly attempt
being made by Hardy and his friends
charge the parties in that riot case VIII
at i having set the stable on fire, and We pr
ia 4 sume that every mishap that may happ'
4 10 any Republican IN that county for y
~ years 10 come viii be charged TO their Q