CHILDERSBURG, ALA.—Rev. Mr. Jones was ordained here in June. Between twenty and thirty have recently come out on the Lord’s side. ALABAMA FURNACE, ALA.—A protracted meeting is now in progress, with decided indications of good results; and also at the “Cove,” there have been several marked conversions. NEW ORLEANS, LA.—A gentleman of high standing, in New Orleans, writes to Mr. Alexander, the pastor of the Central Congregational Church, who is now in the North: “Notwithstanding the intense heat, and the excitement that prevails because of the yellow-fever here, the congregation at Central Church have not abated their interest, and, both on Thursday evenings and on Sundays, they manifest by their presence that they will ‘not forsake the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some is.’ The good Lord is present to bless at every service, and the faithful people are, as far as I know, conscientiously discharging every known duty. They display a zeal that is truly commendable, and must certainly meet your approbation and esteem.” * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. The Freedmen. —The Trustees of the Peabody Fund have just sent $1,200 to aid schools in North Carolina. One thousand dollars of this amount is to be used in Raleigh alone—$600 for a white graded school, and $400 for the two colored graded schools. Dr. Sears, agent of the fund, said that the Trustees would have sent more money, but that the income from it had recently fallen off 40 per cent. —The North Carolina Legislature of 1876–77 provided for two Normal schools—one for white persons and one for black persons. The latter offers continuous instruction throughout the year at Fayetteville. It is under the care of Mr. Harris, a colored man, who was prepared for the work, which he does well, in Ohio. —The Board of Education at San José, Cal., has abolished the colored school, and the former pupils have been permitted to enter the other schools. —At Memphis, a telegram says the colored population are acting well in the emergency, and heartily co-operating with the whites, and adds: “A meeting has been called by prominent colored men for the purpose of organization, to assist the whites in relieving distress and guarding the property, which the people, in the panic of last week, left unguarded. Their action in the present emergency speaks volumes, and has greatly increased the confidence reposed in them by those who were their masters. Among the most efficient on the police force now are the negroes.” —When the better people of the North come to be understood by the right-thinking people of the South, we shall have hearty co-operation in the education of the negro.—_Rev. Robert West._ —To “remove the colored man from politics”—in the sense of taking him out of such an absorption in politics, and such a misuse of them as does injury to himself and to others—it is only necessary to put him into education and industry.—_The Advance._