NEW ORLEANS, LA.—Rev. D. L. Mitchel, who is in charge of the Presbyterian Book Depository in this city, is supplying the Central Church (Rev. W. S. Alexander’s) during the summer vacation. He writes thus under a recent date: “The congregation is quite regular in attendance, about seventy, and the attention is excellent. The prayer meetings are also well attended, and the spiritual condition steadily improving. I think this one of the most important fields in the South, and one of the most hopeful. May the blessing of our heavenly Father abide with your corps of Christian workers and give them abundant success in their self-denying labors.” * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. The Freedmen. —Of 142 cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis during the week, August 18th to 24th, 79 were of colored people—about one-half. About three-eighths of the total population are colored. —Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church of 300 persons led by the pastor and deacons. They were from Delta, La. —Sojourner Truth, the famous colored woman, who is now 103 years old, is at Chicago, en route to Kansas, to make a study of the colored exodus. —Governor St. John, of Kansas, believes that the colored exodus has only begun; that it is not unlikely that it will soon re-open, and reach to hundreds of thousands in its numbers. —The current catalogue of Howard University reports a total of 236 students for the year. Of these, 21 are in the Theological department, 64 in the Medical, 10 in the Law, 17 in the College, 16 in the Preparatory, and 87 in the Normal. This Association for the third year sustains one-half the expense of the Theological department. Rev. Dr. Craighead of this city, many years connected with _The Evangelist_, has been appointed to the chair of Theology, made vacant by the death of Prof. Lorenzo Westcott. Dr. Craighead has accepted, and is to enter upon duty this fall. The Law and Medical departments are under the instruction of resident lawyers and doctors in Washington. Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., is President and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Evidences of Revealed Religion, also Instructor in Hebrew. An appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made by the last Congress exclusively for the benefit of the College; not a dollar is to go to sustain the professional courses. It is fitting that the Government, which, through the Freedmen’s Bureau, did so much to found the institution, should help it along in its straits.