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


| LIEUTENANT Colonel VIM. H. Young of
| the 26th Ohio has resigned, and Major Will
liam Squires has been promoted to fill the
vacancy, and Captain Morris |. Peatman has
been promoted to Major.
SEVERAL veterans, of the 23d Kentucky,
were arrested recently by the military au-
thorities at Cincinnati, for q brutal assault
upon an old man and woman in Taylors-
vile, Kentucky, some ten miles below the
city. The soldiers claim the parties were
disloyal, while they assert they can sub
stantiate their loyalty.
THE 4TH OHIO BoYs.-The Marion Mirror
of Thursday says:
The Veterans of the 4th Ohio Regiment,
at home for the past month on furlough,
returned to the regiment to-day. The boys
were 'gay and happy" with their fighting
weight considerably enhanced in conse-
qence of their stay home and good treat
ment from our citizens. Bully for the 4th,
we hope they will all live to return home
safe.
The CIRCLEvILLE POISONING CAsE.-The
Circleville Union states that Miss Lydia
Bruner, charged with administering poison
to her mother was brought before Esq.
Case on the 25th ult. examined and, COM
mitted to jail to await her trial at the April
term of the Court of Common Pleas. The
body of the mother had been disinterred
and the contents of the stomach submitted
to chemical analysis. Arsenic was detect
cd, which was regarded as settling the
question that her death was the result OF
poison.
ESCAPED FROM THE SHERFF.-The Mari
on Mirror of Thursday has the following:
At the term of Court last week Phi
Pierce was found guilty of grand larceny
and was sentenced to the Penitentiary for
five years. Sheriff Corbin started with
him for Columbus Tuesday morning, but
while at Gallon he got away. Up to going
to press he had not been recaptured.
A GIRL ELUDEs THE SHERIFF-The Can
ton Democrat of Thursday says: fr71
Last week a girl who was temporarily
employed to do house-work by A. G.. Nc
Millin, ESQ., of Wooster, Ohio, absconded
with about hundred dollars worth of
clothing and jewelry, and some money
Mr.. McMillin pursued ana ARRESTED har at
Upper Sandusky-recovered most of the
stolen goods, and had the girl brought back
to Wooster for trial. She was bound over
to next Court, and falling to give bail, was
ordered into Jail at Canton, Stark county,
the Wayne county Jail having been destroy
ed by fire. The sheriff undertook to keep
her over night at the Eagle House, but the
next morning she was missing.
ONE of our subscribers in Williams coun-
ty, Ohio, writing to renew his subscription,
adds the following:
81 never saw the wheat and rye crops
look more discouraging than now, in this
county. The peach crop is all destroyed,
and many of the trees are killed.
C,ETT. JAMES CARTER"
MORE INCENDiARIsM IN GUERNSEY
CoUNrY.-The Guernsey Cambridge JET
fersonian of Friday states: Mr.. Isaac War
den, who resides three miles southwest of
Liberty, in this county, had two dwelling
houses and their contents burned to the
ground on last Saturday. The. fire must
have been the work OF an incendiary. sthe
houses were so far apart that it would have
been impossible for the flames to have ex-
tended from one to the other. A lady named
Sarah Warden has been arrested on the
charge of firing the buildings, and is now
confined in Jail in this place. She is the
same woman who was arrested some months
since and charged with killing her sister-in-
law; but of this she was acquitted, as there
was not sufficient evidence to c0hvicther.
CoURT-MARTIAL AND SENTENCE OF ONO
SoLDIERs.-The following is copied from
the Cincinnati Gazette of Saturday. 1t is
not stated of what offense the soldiers were
found guilty: oe
The following privates of Company c,
Second Ohio heavy artillery, were recently
tried by court-martial at Louisville, found
guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment at
hard labor: Lucien Stevens, for one year;
David Walker. one year; Calvin p. Shaw,
two years; Henry Washburn, one year;
and John w. Steele, six months. Steele's
youth and previous good conduct had an
influence with the Court in mitigating the
severity of his sentence. The finding and
sentence of the Court in each of the cases
has been approved by the commanding
general. The prisoners have probably been
sent to Camp Nelson, under guard, to work
out the term of their sentence.
JUDGE EDGERToN, of Idaho, exhibited on
Friday, on the floor Of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes at Washington, nugget of gold.
worth $500.
GEN. SHERIDAN has been ordered to COM
mand the cavalry of the Army Of the Poto-
mac, uice General Pleasanton ordered West.
GEN. BURNSIDE has been appointed super
intendent Of recruiting colored men In
Kentucky for the army. l ltf.4
THE Vermont 'Unionr (Abolition) Com
mittee have the National Cab
olition) Committee to postpone the time for
holding the Baltimore Convention for the
nomination Of an Abolition candidate for
President. eai s1ra2 ee
Senator Hicks, of Maryland, has so far
recovered from his recent severe illness, and
from the surgical operation which he lately
underwent, as to admit Of his removal from
his lodgings in Washington to his home in
Maryland, whittier he proceeded Monday,
the 18th ult.
THE Assistant Provost Marshal for Ken
lucky protests that numerous shareholders,
claiming to be loyal, complain that many of
their able-bodied slaves have fled to free
States or to Canada to avoid military SER
vice. He earnestly requests that measures
be taken to prevent their exodus.
THIS truth does not rest at all on anti
slavery testimony. Whoever will read
Chancellor Harper's Vindication of Slavery,
will find that he admits the universaslity of