* * * * * GENERAL NOTES. The Freedmen. --The sum total of the money reported as sent for yellow fever relief to the South is as follows: Contributed by the North $1,069,000 Contributed by the South (including $85,000 by St. Louis) 251,000 Contributions from foreign lands 39,000 ---------- Total money contributions from all sources $1,359,000 The total value of contributions, including clothing and supplies, will aggregate about $2,000,000. --THE COLORED MAN DURING THE YELLOW FEVER.--It gives us genuine satisfaction to be able to publish the following impartial testimony to the courage and faithfulness of the colored people during the yellow fever. Says the Memphis _Avalanche_: "Men worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have left their property in charge of blacks, and never provided a dollar for their support. _They faithfully guarded the property of their employers._ And yet if the Citizens' Relief Committee cut off the supplies from the servants of these rich men, what in God's name will they do?" The Nashville _American_, speaking of their conduct during the prevalence of the yellow fever, remarks: "If the negro is found to be true and reliable when he is entrusted with the grave responsibilities of citizenship, if he discharges faithfully the duties devolved upon him, and shows, in such trying times, that he may be entrusted with the preservation of order and the guarding of homes from the criminal classes even of his own race, it will go far towards giving new views on this subject." Col. Keating, of the Memphis _Appeal_, indignantly repels a charge by Dr. Ramsay, seriously damaging to the character of the colored yellow fever nurses in Memphis, and warmly declares: "The statement is a libel upon the negroes of Memphis, who have stood by us nobly as policemen and soldiers." Chief Athey has resolved to recommend that the colored citizens be represented on the police force in proportion to population. Nor did they fail to furnish their quota of physicians, among whom were two former students of the Central Tennessee College, of this city, Drs. Key and Bass, who were acknowledged through the papers to have rendered efficient services, the former at Mason, and the latter at Chattanooga, Tenn. Nor were there wanting among them, ministers ready to lay down their lives, as the deaths of the following clergymen, Mr. Madison, of New Orleans, Mr. Green, of Vicksburg, Mr. Ventris, of Tuscumbia, Mr. Henderson, of Florence, and others, sufficiently testify.--_Fisk Expositor._