April 22, 1862. Ezra Cornell to Alonzo B. Cornell: "Our appropriations are all right yet, and I think will remain so, but it is something like a band of robbers dividing spoils to get any thing. To see the way new or yearling members are kicked & cuffed about in those scrambles extants vows from many that they will never be caught at Albany again as a Member." Topics: Death of Elijah Cornell; coal oil business; New York State Legislature: legislation, bills passed for Tompkins County; New York State Agricultural survey; New York State Agricultural Rooms; New York State Veterinary College; cattle; telegraph industry; transcontinental telegraph line; Cayuga Inlet; sheep; Western Union Company; Tompkins County Agricultural Society Personal names: Robertson, Mary C.; Wood, M.B.; Cornell, John H.; Sibley, Hiram; Speed, J.J.; Cornell, Alonzo B.; Tillotson, D.T. Geography: New York City; Albany, N.Y.; Ithaca, N.Y.