GENERAL NOTES.
The Negro.
—We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the income of the Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees distributed, in eight States, $35,400; in 1873, in ten States, $137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their report, and take the largest and smallest.
—April 21st, the barque Azor sailed from Charleston, S. C., with 250 emigrants, one-fifth being children. They go under the auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association to Boporo, about sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from the Charleston News and Courier accompanies the Azor.
—Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization Society, writes that vessels will sail under their auspices in June and November. He fears for the new exodus movement, as having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances, which evinced the need of a competent controlling agency in the management of their affairs.”
—A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks ago, to organize a colony for the West, and measures were taken to promote that object. They denounced the Liberian exodus.
—Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to all the colored people who may choose to emigrate thither, a cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection of her laws, and equal facilities for education.
—“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association, giving little more than $200,000 a year towards founding Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits, among four million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we do little to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific slope; and our labor among the Indians is light. But our Romish friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year among the freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly schools. There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indians.”—President E. P. Tenney, Colorado College.
—“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres of land within nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on the industrial farm plan.”—Evangelist.