States.

It is our work, as an Association, to do what we can to render these people the help needful. Will not the friends of Christ help us "remember the poor?"

Christian Educators in Council is the title of a pamphlet of 266 pages, giving full report of sixty addresses by American educators at Ocean Grove last August, arranged topically as follows: I. Education and Man's Improvement. II. Illiteracy in the United Slates. III. National Aid to Common Schools. IV. The Negro in America. V. Illiteracy, Wealth, Pauperism, and Crime. VI. The American Indian Problem. VII. The American Mormon Problem. VIII. Education in the South since the War. IX. Christ in American Education. Tables: Illiterate and Educational Status, United States, 1880. Rev. J. C. Hartzell, D.D., the editor and compiler, purposes to issue a second edition for general circulation. He may be addressed at the Methodist Book Concern, New York. We know of no one document of equal value, on the subjects discussed. The price is one dollar.

SOUTHERN MANUFACTURES.

An account of the Southern manufacturing and mining enterprises for January and February is given in the Manufacturers' Record, and illustrates the growing thrift of these industries in the South. Kentucky shows the largest aggregate, which foots up $6,851,000. Alabama is second with 5,210,000; Virginia, 3,830,000; Texas, 3,593,000; Georgia, 2,074,000; Maryland, 2,015,000; North Carolina, 1,227,000; West Virginia, 916,000; South Carolina, 904,000; Tennessee, 846,000, and the other States a little less than 500,000 each. The cotton mills begun since January will cost over $325,000, and will add more than a hundred thousand spindles to the number now in the South. The Eagle and Phœnix Mills, Columbus, Ga., intend to erect a new structure at the cost of $1,000,000. At Rome, Ga., and at Birmingham, Ala., new cotton mills to cost $100,000 each are about to be erected. Confidence, which can only spring from intelligence and Christianity, is the one thing needful in order to secure the capital wanted for the development of the vast manufacturing interests of the southern portion of our country.

The Early Dawn is the title of a paper published at Good Hope Station, Sherbro Island, under the management of Rev. Mr. Gomer, the colored Superintendent of the Mendi and Shengay Missions, now in charge of the United Brethren in Christ. The Early Dawn is welcomed.

A TURN IN THE ROAD.

Gov. McDaniel, of Georgia, has commuted the death sentences of two negroes. One of these, it is said, had no fair chance of defense, and the other killed the invader of his domestic peace, for which offence the Governor said he would never allow a man to be hanged. It is to Mr. McDaniel's credit that this clemency was exercised in full view of the desperate efforts which have been made for more than a year to save from the gallows one Turner, a man of influential family, for whose crime there was no excuse. All recourses of appeal to the courts having been exhausted, Turner's friends are bringing every pressure to bear to have the Governor give him a "negro's chance," but that official has decided to let the law take its course.

JOHN F. SLATER.

The death of Mr. Slater, which occurred at Norwich, Conn., May 6, removes one of our foremost philanthropists. His well-known gift of a million dollars for the emancipated race in America was made after years of converse with eminent scholars, statesmen, capitalists and Christian philanthropists. The act was in every sense deliberate. His successful business career, extending over many years, his knowledge of men, gained by his relations with business interests in the great centers of trade; by his employment of large numbers of laborers; by his observations while traveling at home and abroad—gave him opportunity to reach the best conclusions as to what people in our land were the most needy, and where the gifts would yield the most abundant results. He took a business man's view of the subject, and has left an expression of judgment, supported by a princely benefaction, of great value to others who are prayerfully considering how they may best promote the interests of Christian civilization. Modest, consistent, dignified, courteous, a regular attendant at a Congregational church, a good neighbor, a good citizen beloved—such was John F. Slater. He has left a name better and more enduring than his great riches.

BENEFACTIONS.

The late Lucius J. Knowles bequeathed $5,000 to Doane College, Nebraska, and $10,000 to Carlton College, Minnesota.

A professorship at Williams College, in honor of Dr. Mark Hopkins, has been provided for by subscriptions amounting to $25,000.

The New York University is to receive $5,000 from the estate of the late Augustus Schell, and the New York Historical Society $5,000.

Mrs. Louisa L. Vought, besides other gifts to the Protestant Episcopal Church, left $10,000 for work among the colored people South, and $1,000 for the Indians.

Harvard College is to receive $5,000 for the astronomical observatory connected with that institution, from the estate of the late Thomas G. Appleton.

The Yale Corporation has voted to accept $50,000 from the Frederick Marquand fund for a chapel for the use of the College Young Men's Christian Association.

Knox College is to receive about $60,000 from the estate of the late H. H. Hitchcock, of Galesburg, Ill.

Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, bequeathed $50,000 for a German teachers' seminary in Milwaukee.

Hon. John R. Bodwell, of Hallowell, Me., gives $1,000 toward the new building for Industrial School for Girls in that city.

Persons desirous to help where help is most needed, to help where it will do most to promote national prosperity and true religion, may well consider the question of endowments for the educational institutions of the A. M. A.

GENERAL NOTES

AFRICA.

—The two brothers Denhardt, already known by their previous explorations, are preparing an expedition to the Dana, which they will reascend to reach Kenia.

—The Universities' Mission has constructed for the eastern side of Nyassa a steamer which will bear the name of Charles Janson, a missionary recently deceased.

—Messrs. Taylor and Jacques, missionaries at Saint Louis, have made in the Oualo, inhabited by emigrants and the Wolofs mussulmen, a journey of exploration with a view to the extension of their field of activity.

—The French Consul at Tangier has interdicted his French subjects, and the mussulmen placed under his protection, from buying, selling or possessing the slaves of the Maroe. His example has been followed by the representatives of other powers.

—General Bacouch, a great proprietor in Tunis, encourages, in a domain of many thousands of acres, the cultivation of a plant imported from Java, which may replace the cotton of America.

—Messrs. Lindner and Von der Broock, in the service of the International African Association, have set out from Zanzibar for the Congo, taking with them 200 negroes to replace those whose term of engagement has expired.

—According to the Natal Mercantile Advertiser, the German Government has charged M. A. Schultz, of Durban, with making an exploration with a view to establishing a series of commercial stations as far as Zambeze and the Congo. He will be accompanied by a surveyor and a geologist.

—M. Lagarde has been charged with proceeding to the limits of the