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and he would protect them in the course. One of the officers exhibited a long list of the names of the prominent Unionists of this place, and said he was fully posted in regard to the feeling of the people of this section. A Drafting scene in Ohio. The town of Bucyrus, Ohio, was the scene of a most disgraceful disturbance on the 6th inst., of which we find this account in the New York Times. During the morning a large portion of the drafted men from the towns of Holmes and Chatfield marched into the square and gave three cheers for the "Constitution as it is, and the Union as it was," then "three cheers that we won't fight to free the nigger," and then three cheers for a huge bowie knife that was shown by one of the party. The men nearly all had knives or revolvers, and several of them rifles. All had guns with them until within a mile of the town, where they drew up in line of battle, and loaded their places with all the coolness of veterans. Throughout the day th