TALLADEGA, ALA.—The following indicates the vacation work of some of the students for the next three months: J. D. Smith goes to preach at Savannah, Ga.; H. S. Williams to Montgomery; Andrew Headen to Selma, to begin work at once; J. B. Sims to Marietta, Ga., to begin the last Sunday in June. P. W. Young has charge of the church at Kingston; John Strong, of the Lawson Church, organized last summer; Barbour Grant of the Cove Church; Thornton Benson of the church at Alabama Furnace. They receive from $20 to $25 a month. Peter J. McIntosh was ordained pastor of the church at Anniston, and Alfred Jones at Childersburg, and are referred to in Rev. Mr. Hill’s letter. MOBILE, ALA.—Emerson Institute finds its new building admirably adapted to its uses; has received evidences of increasing favor with the white citizens of Mobile; is under great obligations to Dr. Morrell for placing his professional skill as a physician at the disposal of the teachers, and refusing all compensation. Its teachers are doing good service in the various Sunday-schools of the city. MEMPHIS, TENN.—A permanent library, to which the colored people may have free access, has been begun by the faculty of Le Moyne Normal School. Some hundreds of books have been secured, and during the coming summer vacation a commodious reading-room is to be fitted up. More volumes will be added from time to time, as means are secured, and it is confidently expected that the near future will see this excellent project firmly established, and doing the work for which it is designed. During the closing week at the school the junior-class gave an exhibition, the proceeds of which are to be used for the library. Donations of books are solicited. * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. The Freedmen. —The _Congregationalist_ says, in its report of the examination of the students of Andover Theological Seminary: “One of the best recitations made in Greek was by a young man from Atlanta University, a suggestive item for the churches interested in that institution.” —The Presbyterian General Assembly has transferred its eighty colored churches from the Board of Home Missions back to the Committee on Freedmen. The committee, having somewhat enlarged its educational work, appeals to the Presbyterian churches for more liberal and more general contributions. —The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly reported as contributed for the evangelization of the colored people, during the last year, $416.75, to which the Reformed (Dutch) Church added $359.25. —The _Christian at Work_ describes a colored church, south, of which it says: “It was an aristocratic institution, as it seemed, and a failure. The preacher read his sermon, the singing was operatic, and the whole thing a ludicrous burlesque. White people go to an unhealthy extreme, often, in suppressing emotion, but for the colored folks to imitate this folly is death outright.”