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"The Poorness of the Poor" in the College Courier is a very well written article on the condition of the lower classes in the United States. The writer, however, rests his claim to attention in his appeal to the sympathies of his readers.
The following, clipped from the News Letter, was translated from the Greek paper published at Athens: The brilliant sunsets of last week and this are a extraordinary phenomena for a warm climate like ours, and resemble the Aurora Borealis of northern lands. Every evening we have had a flaming horizon and magnificent combinations of clouds. But of all these brilliant sunsets the most brilliant in our judgement was that of last Saturday; we have never seen anything more picturesque and imposing. The altar-like mass of the Acropolis and the summit of Philopapos formed a dark outline against a fiery horizon. Above them like a black curtain hung a sombre cloud, and through its clefts appeared the silver crescent of the moon. More appropriate scenery for the chorus of the Furies of Eschylos, we cannot imagine.
The Almo and San Jacinto Monthly is among our new exchanges. In form and color it might be mistaken for Ayer's almanac; but a glance at the contents would soon remove that idea. "A Congress of Nations" is well handled. Although the idea is on the frontiers of radicalism, yet the writer shows ability in his method of treating it.
We venture the assertion that ye local on ye Baldwin Index is not married but is engaged. In proof of our assertion we append extracts from two marriage notices.
No. (1.) So may wedded life open its love- locked doors, and as you gaze on a smiling world from its mystic light, may you see life in all its beauty. No. (2). May the rolling chariot—time, bear many joys and blessings in your path through life.
—A lecture delivered by Professor H. C. Adams before the Junior class at Ann Arbor, in which he defined his position on the future of the laboring class, excited much comment. "There is nothing sacred," says the professor, "about property,or our present idea of private possession of it." * *
"We have abundant right to lay our hands upon property and dispossess the owners thereof, whenever it shall be apparent that such a course shall be for the interest of the majority." This seems tinged with communism.
An article, "Justice Indispensable," in the Alabama Monthly, laments the fact that the South has no hearing in Northern journals. But very little investigation on the subject will show that it is true. The Democratic journals of the north too are busy looking after local quarrels, and too fearful lest they may frighten away their timid constituents in the north, to take up the great questions relating to the south, and discuss them in a statesmanlike way. Hence the people are kept in ignorance concerning the true political condition of the south. As long as this state of affairs remains there can be no hope to bring about a unity of feeling between the South and North, and the cry of fraud in election will be raised in the North against the South, and the bloody shirt cry will be raised on the eve of every election.