—A correspondent of the Christian Observer is informed that there are twenty-five Romish schools in the three States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free board and tuition.
—The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed by Gen. Lopez Analto, and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in Florida:
“I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that there are negroes from the United States at different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this day held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various pretexts, since the rebellion in the United States, and upon American vessels.”
The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden death of Judge Leonard.
—The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African Missions, are referred to on an editorial page.
—One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of new missionary stations in the interior of Africa, is the effect which such civilized settlements among the hunting-grounds of the slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian, Abyssinian, and negro boys and, especially, girls.
The Chinaman.
—In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge Sawyer has rendered a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who applied for naturalization papers, holding that Chinamen are not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the Naturalization Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens. “White,” he holds to be equivalent to Caucasian; and that, by exact construction of the provision, all but white persons, and persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever from citizenship. The case will probably be appealed.
—We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph Twichell, in his recent lecture at New Haven, to those who are either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese in America. Under his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually $100,000 in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut, where they are receiving a thorough course of education.