Lawsonville, Ala.—While the people of this place are engaged in building a church, they are enjoying a season of revival under their Talladega minister, Rev. J. W. Strong.
Mt. Spring, Ala.—Rev. Alfred Jones, of Childersburg, having preached a week at the out-station, Mt. Spring, was permitted to rejoice in the conversion of fourteen persons. A half dozen have also united with his church at home upon profession.
The Cove, Ala.—Rev. J. B. Grant has been assisted at this place by his fellow theologues, Y. B. Sim, T. T. Benson, J. R. Sims, and by Rev. P. J. McEntosh, in a series of meetings which have resulted in great good.
New Orleans, La.—Rev. D. L. Mitchel, who is in charge of the Presbyterian Book Depository in this city, is supplying the Central Church (Rev. W. S. Alexander’s) during the summer vacation. He writes thus under a recent date: “The congregation is quite regular in attendance, about seventy, and the attention is excellent. The prayer meetings are also well attended, and the spiritual condition steadily improving. I think this one of the most important fields in the South, and one of the most hopeful. May the blessing of our heavenly Father abide with your corps of Christian workers and give them abundant success in their self-denying labors.”
GENERAL NOTES.
The Freedmen.
—Of 142 cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis during the week, August 18th to 24th, 79 were of colored people—about one-half. About three-eighths of the total population are colored.
—Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church of 300 persons led by the pastor and deacons. They were from Delta, La.
—Sojourner Truth, the famous colored woman, who is now 103 years old, is at Chicago, en route to Kansas, to make a study of the colored exodus.