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  December  10.  Saturday.--Returned  yesterday  from  Co-
lumbus. A most agreeable visit at Laura's, with all things more
charming, if possible, than usual. The general, Fanny, Jean,
and John, all interesting. Fanny Fullerton in excellent health;
good accounts of all the darling young folks.
  The business of the meeting of the university board was im-
portant and somewhat critical. But all points of difference with
the experiment station were talked over between the two boards
and so adjusted in a friendly spirit that there is good reason for
the hope that the farmers of the State will be content with the
university as an institution for practical education, and give it
a support hitherto denied to it. Colonel Brigham, president of
[the] State Board of Agriculture, with Mr. Ellis, Mr. Stevens,
and Mr. Thorne -- all of the experiment station and represent-
ing  the  farmers  especially--took  part  with  the  university
board in all of the negotiations looking to a settlement of dif-
ferences.  I hope for the best.  As the results were largely my
work as a peacemaker on liberal principles, I am very solicitous
that all may turn out well.
  I read an article on the labor question in the National Bap-
tist, December 8, which set me to thinking of the unfair ad-
vantages given to the very wealthy in the practical administra-
tion of the laws. Is this not true -- That in proportion to the
value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes
than those of moderate means?  Compare the amount paid by
millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary  citizens.  I be-
lieve that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half
as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.
  On my way down to Columbus I made an agreeable acquain-
tance with the superintendent of the new insane asylum at To-
ledo, Mr.
  Also, on return, with Isaac 1). Smead of Toledo--a builder
of ventilating furnaces and the like.
  Rev. John Henry Pitezell, of Three Rivers, Michigan, since
1862, was preacher in Lower Sandusky August 1835 to Sep-
tember 1836. Preached in upper part of the old frame church,
corner  of Garrison and  Arch  Streets.      John  Kinnear  was
preacher in charge.  Don't recall any brick houses in town.
No pickets at the fort. Same church members as in time of
Kellam. Bartlett in a liquor place as clerk. Got an anony-
mous letter supposed to be inspired if not written by him. Soon
after Bartlett left the church. In that day went Sunday morn-
ing ten miles [to] Mud Creek and preached at 10:30; thence
to Port Clinton and preached in the afternoon. In the evening,
about three miles down the lake, preached again. The active
men in the church were Hawkins, Bowlus, Beck, Priors, Main.
Preached at twenty-three or twenty-fours places, viz., Lower
Sandusky, at White's, Port Clinton, Peninsula, Portage (three
places), two in Black Swamp, east side of river up at David
Gray's, an old preacher (died at Findlay a few days or weeks
ago), at Treat's, Green Spring, at Butternut Ridge, east of
Green Spring, near Bellevue, Mr. Croft's a stone house, north
of Bellevue, Hamer's Corners, Stephenson's, three miles from
Hamer's Corners towards Sandusky, and a settlement in the
woods where "we used hickory torches to light us through the
woods." "Early candle-light" was the time of meeting, with tal-
low candles for light.
  Born  in Frederick County,  Maryland, fifteen miles from
Frederick, Graceham, April 18, 1814.  Left in 1823; came with
father to Ohio in Licking County, five miles west of Granville,
New Alexandria. Five years there; then to Tiffin in 1829.
Lived there five years. An apprentice five years with Jacob
Huss, a saddler.  Then to Norwalk in 1834.  Rev. John Edward
Chaplin, principal of the seminary.
  Chaplin drunk at a meeting, converted. At Norwalk a year
or more. Bishop Harris a student. He taught school at Hunt's
Corners. "I worked at a saddler's in Monroeville and taught
in Seneca County thirty scholars for twelve dollars per month."
  In April 25, 1835, licensed to preach, John H. Power, pre-
siding elder.  Went to Lima circuit--twenty-two appointments
-- one hundred dollars per year.  Some presents -- ten dollars or
twelve dollars. Fully paid; a suit of jeans also. Here one hun-
dred dollars per year.