In reply to such questions, we are happy to give all the light we can. A lady missionary, to devote herself to the work named above, can be sustained for from $350 to $450 a year, according to location; or, a lady teacher in one of our established schools, for $250. A student’s scholarship is from $70 to $80. We are, of course, glad to accept money for such special purposes, and to use it as we are instructed by the donors. One of the most pressing needs just now, in which we are sure of sympathy from the house-keeperly instincts of our good sisters, is that of bedding and table-linen for our Educational institutions. We hear from the matron of Tougaloo University, that the press of students is so great that she has used her last quilt, and may have to take up carpets to cover the students by night. Others are nearly as badly off. Perhaps the women of the North can do no better thing than to supply this want for the remainder of this winter, and more fully for another year. We have no fear that we shall for a long time lack specialties of wants and pressing needs, which will appeal to all who have an ear to hear, and a heart to sympathize. Meanwhile, the great work goes on in all its length and breadth, in which the Christian women of the land may well join forces with the Christian men, as they have always done, and do their part to save and elevate a needy race. * * * * * ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS. TALLADEGA, ALA.—“There are five Sunday-school prayer-meetings every Sabbath afternoon, in which much feeling is manifested. In these meetings four have expressed the hope of a new life. Others are much interested.” TOUGALOO, MISS.—“There is considerable religious interest. Several are inquiring, and a few profess conversion. We are running over with students. We have put up a bed in the north recitation-room of the primary building, and shall probably have to arrange another bed in the same room before this week closes. We know of others that are coming next week, and so on, and what are we going to do with them? We have concluded to purchase lumber at once and put up _barracks_ for twenty students, for the prospect is that we shall have that many more young men. We can accommodate six or eight young women in the Peoria room. The erection of barracks will involve an outlay of some three hundred dollars; but the lumber will all come in play when we build the new chapel, which we shall be obliged to have before the sessions of the next year begin. If the school continues to prosper we shall probably commence another year with a hundred boarders.” NASHVILLE, TENN.—“We have a good school this year; about 270 in all. We hold a half-hour extra meeting in the boarding department. Some inquirers. About twenty conversions last term.”