A Question

It is a questlon among those who have the interest of the republican party at lieart in Washtenaw county, whether or not such articles as appeur in tlie Detroit Post from time to time, and especially the letter in the last Sunday edition, relative to the politics and politioians of thia eounty, are not productive of injury instead of good to the republicans. These articles show a división in the democratie ranks to be sure, but does the parading of these divisions and dissensions bcfore the public not tend to heal tlicni up rather than to widen them 1 Does not the publishing of these petty party quarrels not give the leaders of that party just tlie pointers that republicana, by all ineans, should conceal from them ? Do not the democratie leaders know better where and how to patch iip their party aftcr the republicans have pointed out the reuts, than they woulil had silence been inri i n tuin ei] ? As a general lliing, when un nterested party attcmpts to make trouble between othcr parties, the quieter he keeps nbout It the botter lie succeeds. These are simply questions tliat have misen in the minds i some republicana bere&boots. WheUier tliey art: riglit or or wrong is a question also. Our slow conteniporary, in a very calni(?) argumentatve(?) able(?) üispng8ionatc(?) convncng(?) etlitorial(?) last week, refers toa lbasty coutemporary's screed," its "lamentable ignorance " of "afl'airs in general," etc. If the " hasiy contemporary" referreil to were in search of knowledce, (bat remarkably bnlliant editorial(?) woulü render further effort futile; cverything thnt is worth knowing could evulently be found in the noddleof Ihe one who wrote that placid and deep commentary on nniveraity ull'airs, and " afl'üirs la general." But there are soiuc thingj upo which this news)aper Bóreas iails to enlighten its contemporary or the people. It makes no diflerence with the principie involved whi ther Prof. D'Ooge is to be absent one year or ten years. "Why is"the university's fair name and rrputation at stake " in aiding the maintennnce of a college in Europe? Some of the tax-pa3-ers of Michigan would be pleased to know why tbey sliould be taxcd to support a foreign institution when it s difflcult for thetn to pay the taxes necessary to carry on tbeir schools at home ? What benefit are the people of Michigan "in general" to derive from this school at Athens? Is it possible that "one of the university's sons is taking advantage of the privileges there offered " ? aud the people of Michigan forced to pay $2,200 per year for that procious privilege ! Should the people not be grateful for siich privileges? Or rather is it not thls sort of extravagance that remlers it difflcult for the true friends of the university to obtain from the legislature the necessary appropiiations for its legitímate expenses? as was painfully apparent at the last session of the legislatura. Another point which our contemporary, in its zeal to strike us, has entirely overlooked. The pay of the janitors which was reduced from $500 to$450 per annum. The question naturally sugest itself, if the people of Michigr.n can aflbrd to pay f2,200 yearly to aid one student in pursuIng bil education in Europe, can they not afford to pay a workingman, who puts in ten or more hours a day (without any vacation) a living salary ? These ideas muy not adjust themselves to the capacity of the individual who in his ardor to cali his neighbor hard ñames and display his own eruditlon, forgets the use of reason and candor in his studicd(V) nrticle; but there are many of the common people who would be glad to have the matter satisfactorily explained. It is most asíuredly a matter of congratulation among us Yankees, that the Puritan won the flrst of the teries in the great international yacht races now being contested in New York harbor. It is to be hoped she wlll be as successful in the contests to come and send the Kngli.sh Genesta home without the Queen's cup. Since Mark Twain wept over the grave of bis primal anccstor, Adam, there bas been nothing more pathetic than the meeting of Bret Harte and Joaquín Miller at the grave of Dickcns, as described by the latter. Their eyes fllled with tears, they clasped each other's hands in 8ilence, and though strangers before, went out of the sanctuary sworn and eternal friendc It was real aflecting. - Gratiot Journal.