Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-01-31
From Columbus.
Correspondence Gallipo.is journal.

week OF the session Of the Legisla.
ture has just commenced, and, al
though a large amount Of business
has been transacted in quiet way,
nothing to excite much interest has
transpired. asss.ss-a1
1t was generally thought, at the
comm encement, that the session
would be short one, but business
has been constantly accumulating.
so that it is now doubtful whether
an adjournment will be reached
much, if any, before the first of
April.
The question of the establishment
of our Agricultural College is exeit-
ing considerable attention just now
and seems likely to absorb consid-
cradle time in its adjustment.
1t is well known, that in 1862,
Congress passed an act granting to
each State, which would accept the
conditions, lan1 scrip to the amount
Of thirty thousand acres for each
member of Congress, to which such
accepting State Is entitled. This
gave to Ohio six hundred and thirty
thousand acres. The terms of the
grant were that each State accepting
thereof should, within Eve years from
the time of the passage of the act,
establish one or more colleges in
which agricultural science, the me-
chsnic arts, and military tactics
should be taught. I. was also pro-
vided that no part of the fund for
which the scrip should be sold should
ever be applied TO the erection or
repairing of college buildings,
The State of Ohio accepted this
grant, upon the terms stipulated, and
have sold all the scrip, by which she
has became possessed of fund of
S340, 1894 4O-100. which can be used for
no other purpose than the endowment
of such college or colleges as is re-
quired by the grant. The time
limited for the establishment of the
colleges will expire before the meet
ing of the next Legislature, so that
proper disposition of this fund must
be made at this session or it will be
forfeited to the United States. There
are two methods proposed for its dis
position, one is to establish a large
institution in some central position
of the State, and indow it with the
whole fund; the other is to divide
the fund between several colleges
already in existance, requiring them
to establish the proiessorship re-
quired by the grant
Between these two methods the
Legislature seems to be nearly equal
" divided, SO thatit is impossible, at
this time to say which will be adopt
ed. i+
A resolution is pending in the
House, ard is made the special order
for to. morrow, establishing one cen
tral institution. There will be sub
stituts introduced, dividing the fund
among several colleges, Which ever
method is adopted in the House will
be likely to be concured in by the
Senate
Very little is said here, at this
time, either in the Legislature or out
of it on the subject of national poll
cy, but there is visible to careful
observer, a strong under current of
preparation for the next fall com
paign, by both the Union and Cop
perhead parties.
You, doubtless, have observed
that, while the Copperheads at their
9Th Of January convention, refused
to adopt their old, extreme, Stare
sovereignty policy, at least SO far as
to leave out the Virginia and Ken
lucky resolutiens-they utterly dis
carded "my policy and the whole
"bread and butter brigade" They
have "taken the bull by the horns,'
and have excluded every thing from
their ticket which is not unadultera-
ted Cepperhead. ElaC
Judge Thurman, their candidate
for Governor, is the gentleman, who
in 1861, sent the greetings of the
supposed 2O0,0 900 Democrats of Ohio
to the "North and South" informing
them that "when the people Of the
North should fulfill their duties to the
constitution and the south, then, and
not till then, would it be proper for
them to take into consideration the
right and propriety of coersion."
And at the same time he said in q
speech that "the South had mere
reason to complain OF the treatment
of the North, than ever Hungary had
Of Austria. These are fine recon-
mendations for a governor of the
great and patriotic State of Ohio.
Their candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, Mr. Uhl, is from the no
terious Copperhead county of
Holmes. the county which In the
summer of 1868, went into open re-
beIlion against the Government, and
was obliged to be visited by United
States troops before their insured
ten ceuld be euelled.e This man
was the representative Of that county
from 1862 to 1865, and during all
that time, to the certain knowledge
of your correspondent, was a very
fit representative Of his rebellions
constituents-he always seemed to
exult at our defeats and lament at
our victories.
The rest Of their ticket is all Of the
same stripe. 1t is evident that the
Democratic party in Ohio, as well as
elsewhere throughout the Union, has
fully Invested itself Of very Democratic
element, and has nothing left but the
miserable skeleton of foul despet
ism. ,tsssa
GALLIA.