BENEFACTIONS.
Col. Alfred Shorter, of Rome, Ga., has left $45,000 to Shorter College, the income to be used in aiding students.
R. G. Peters, Esq., of Manistee, Mich., has given $6,000 toward the Professorship Fund of Chicago University.
Miss Louisa Howard, of Burlington, Vt., has given $5,000 to the University of Vermont, to establish five scholarships, to be known by her name.
John P. Howard, of Burlington, Vt., gives the Vermont University $25,000 for the Lafayette statue, $50,000 for rebuilding the main edifice, making a total of $125,000, besides $150,000 given to other religious and benevolent institutions in the city.
Mr. Moses Hopkins lately gave $50,000, and $3,000 for repairs, to the Golden Gate Seminary, at Oakland, Cal., which is hereafter to be called Hopkins Academy.
The estate of Christopher R. Robert, of New York City, by a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, is now to pay $100,000 more to the endowment of Robert College at Constantinople.
Senator Jos. E. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., has given the State University $50,000, to be used in aiding indigent worthy young men.
Paul Dulane, of Princeton, N.J., has given $2,000,000, to be used in building and endowing at New Orleans an institution for the education of white young men in languages, science, literature and art.
We learn that a man in the South has made provision in his will to leave $25,000 or $50,000 toward the endowment of one of our chartered institutions in that region. This is a grateful foretaste of what is yet to come, when the people of that land shall join with those of the North in supporting these schools of higher learning for the benefit of our newly-made fellow-citizens. It also makes to other high-minded and patriotic men at the South the suggestion—“Go thou and do likewise.”