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��EDITORIAL MEMORANDA.

��While the young men of New Hamp- shire "go West" in large numbers to en- gage in business, few, as yet, go there for educational advantages. The last calendar of the University of Michigan, the -leading educational institution in the Western States, contains the names of but four students from New Hampshire in a total number of 1230. Of these, two are in the Medical and two in the Law Department.

��souud judgment and practical sagacity of the Commissioners.

��The Granite Monthly is a non-sec- tarian as well as non-partisan magazine. This fact, however, does not preclude the publication in its pages of any fair statement of political or religious faith, as entertained by parties or denomina- tions, which may be furnished by con- tributors for general information. We make this statement, that no misappre- hension may arise in the mind of any upon this point.

��The proposals for the different classes of work upon the new State Prison, for which the last Legislature voted an ap- propriation not to exceed $200,000, have been quite numerous, and on the whole, most satisfactory to the Commissioners. In fact the public are assured that the new prison will be erected at a cost with- in the sum specified by the Legis- lature, and the work and materials be at the same time of the most thorough or- der and best quality. If such actually proves to be the result the people of New Hampshire may well congratulate them- selves upon a most fortunate escape from the wholesale jobbery and plundering which has afflicted almost every State in the Union where public works or edifices of any magnitude have been built, dur- ing the last two decades, and the credit will be in a large measure due to the

��The excellent portrait of Prof. Edwin D. Sanborn, of Dartmouth College, with the interesting sketch of his career, from the pen of the Rev. Silas Ketchum, which we present in this number, will be greet- ed with pleasure by many of those at home and abroad who have enjoyed the benefit of his wise instructions in the re- citation room or from the lecture plat- form, and, in fact, by all the readers of the Granite Monthly, to whose enter- tainment his pen has so liberally contrib- uted.

��The poem in this issue entitled "Wings of Flame," by Rev. Leander S. Coan of Alton, was read by the author at the ded- ication of the new Congregational church in Pittsfield, erected in place of the one destroyed by the disastrous fire of the previous year, and was written expressly for that occasion. It has never before been published, and will be of interest to those in that locality, as well as to the many admirers of Mr. Coan's produc- tions throughout the State, and beyond its borders. Its peculiar rythmical con- struction, as well as intensity of expres- sion cannot fail to attract attention and excite admiration. Several of Mr. Coan's poems have attained a wide popularity, that entitled " Better in the Morning " being a notable example, the same having been copied by numerous papers in all sections of the country, and called forth the warmest expressions of commenda- tion.

��A question of no little interest is to arise next June, as to the duty of the Legislature then assembled in reference to the election of a United States Sena-

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