NEW ORLEANS, LA.—“The year has been in every way delightful and profitable. God has blessed us in every department of our work. Every month, and indeed every week, has brought some new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue, soon to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they represent as good a class of students as were ever gathered in the University. So much for numerical success. What is better, there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in the Faculty.” MOBILE, ALA., EMERSON INSTITUTE.—The new two-story brick building, 34×64, with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with exercises of great interest. A full account was received just too late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for the July MISSIONARY. * * * * * 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._