The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-16
[ Correspondence of the Lancaster Gazette. ]
COLUMBUS, Dec. 8, 1859.


EDITOR OF tbs GAZETTE Since Tues
day morning, the Legislature has lone but
little business of any character whatever,
much lees Of so important a character as to
deserve the attention Of your readers. The
House is not in session to-day, having ad-
%journed over to give the use Of this Hall to
the Agricultural Convention that assem-
bled here this morning. The Senate sat
till noon, and then adjourned to give the Sen
ators (many Of whom are delegutes) an OPP
portunity to attend the sittings of that i'm
portant body. Tuesday was spent by the
House in committee OF the whole, on a bill
to better secure the privilege of hd6edS corpus
to the citizens ofthis State. The provisions
OF this bill were originally very stringent,
but in the course of consideration and a.
mendment it has been so tempered down to
constitutional conformity, that it wears but
a slight resemblance to its original malfor-
nation. 1t avowedly proposes to do what
the people of Ohio long since condemned in
John c. calhoun, and the people ofSouth Car
olina-and endeavors to stamp upon the un-
furnished escutcheon Of our State a stigma
that all good patriots have hoped would for
ever be ~monopolized by the "fre eaters."-
One Of the monstrous births Of the free soil
womb, it conceals its deformity in a garb of
popular c~atch-words, and attempts to under
mine the loyalty of the citizen by pretending
to dig out the pure gold Of human rights
Itis too late to chain Ohio to the car Of nul
LITIGATION.
The resolution Of the House, to cancelthe
bonds of Mr.. J. H. Gray, as printer to the
State, was laid upon the table, and a resolu-
ton to appoint two additional Sergeants'at-
arms was discussed in the Senate this morn
ing, and at length indefinitely postponed
The effort to increase the force was made
by certain Senators who were DESTROYS to
secure places for certain useful implements
in the business of a politician, and quite a
~furror was stirred up by the open charge OF
this kind of corruption made against these
gentlemen by Mr.. Peppard, OF HARRISON
The resolution was indefinitely postponed.
The Agricultural Convention had a long,
weary, and at times rather a stormy session.
Some difficulties seem to have arisen be-
tween members of the Board or their friends,
which were carried into the deliberations OF
the Convention, and the resolutions and
recommendations that were iterated and re-it-
Grated, seemed to heartily disgust the unin-
terested spectator. Messrs. W~orthington,
Mcintosh, Ladd, Cest and Steele, were cho-
sen to fill the vacancies in the Board and at
the session of the same Immediately after
their election, Mr.. Medary was chosen Pres
ident, Mr.. Gest Secretary, and Mr.. Sulli-
want Treasurer. The Board decided on
Dayton as the place for the next State Fair.
The bill to authorize the Governor to
make a contract with Powers for a statue
Of Washington has bean read the second
time in the House and is daily gaining
friends. 1t appropriates FIVE thousand dol
lars for the purpose and requires the execu-
ton and delivery OF the bust by the LIST day
of September, 1854. A report from the
Sinking Fund commissioners, laid on the
desk Of members to-day is the great subject
in political circles. 1t divulges a quarrel
between Trevett, Morgan and Pugh, on the
one hand and John G. Breslin on the other,
The quarrel has been ripening since last
spring, and all sorts of charges are made a.
gainst the Treasurer by the commissioners
Johns replication is looked for with much
interest. It is q trick of the old "Allen
war; and things now promise that this IA
nous controversy will be exposed in all its
detail to the public. 1t is thought howev-
err that in this particular case John has the
better Of the little Attorney General.
Yours, ENcuTHNEs