BENEFACTIONS.
—Yale and Hamilton Colleges are to receive $40,000 each from the estate of James Knox, of Knoxville, Ill.
—Dartmouth College receives a bequest of $5,000 from the late Hon. H. C. Burleigh, of Great Falls, N.H.
—Hon. E. B. Morgan, of Auburn, N.Y., has given Wells College, Aurora, $10,000, making his gifts to it upwards of $160,000.
—Col. Gardner A. Sage, of New York, has given $90,000 to the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, situated at New Brunswick, N.J.
—Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., has recently added to his gift to the A. M. A. of $3,600 for a church at Wilmington, N.C., $3,500 as the first installment for a school building to be erected in close proximity to the new church.
—A banker of Altenburg recently bequeathed $187,000 for endowments in the University of Jena. The government of Saxe-Altenburg, however, retained $54,000 of the amount as legal duty, thereby reducing the endowment to $133,000.
—Col. C. G. Hammond, of Chicago, has offered $20,000 towards establishing an endowment fund of $80,000 for the Congregational Theological Seminary of that city. Not long since Mr. Hammond contributed $25,000 for a library building to the same institution.
The endowment of the young institutions for the education of colored people South, presents a fine field for the exercise of such wise charity as is shown in some of the liberal donations above.