The house is 18×36, containing two rooms 18×18, with two windows and a door in each room and a chimney in the middle. Each room is to contain three bedsteads, and from six to nine chairs. The house completed and furnished will cost $228.68, a little more than we calculated, but it is large, well built and well furnished. * * * * * TALLADEGA, ALA.—Both of the barns, one being new and very valuable, with most of their contents, including hay, grain, corn, and corn-fodder, 300 bushels of cotton-seed, with tools and farm-implements and three cows, were burnt Wednesday night, Jan. 7. Evidently it was the work of an incendiary, but not instigated at all by any prevailing ill-will toward the College. Subscriptions were at once circulated among citizens, both white and black, and while the amount raised is not large, the number and willingness of the contributions prove the interest felt by this community in the College. Efforts will be made to rebuild at once. The loss is estimated at $1,200. It falls heavily on the agricultural department, which is becoming an important factor in the college work. The farm does much toward feeding the large family, and gives opportunity of self-help to the young men. * * * * * NORTH CAROLINA.—While Islay Walden’s people in Randolph county were hauling in logs for the lumber of their new church, the mill was burned, and a part of their boards. The owner not being able to rebuild, and there being no other mill near, the people came together to help him, the young colored preacher putting down $25 from his scanty salary. They hope to have the mill under way again in three or four weeks. Meantime they will hurry in their logs, to be the first of the new sawing. * * * * * TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have a colored man visiting his daughter to-day; his first visit to Tougaloo. He says he is keeping his daughter in school with the money saved by himself and wife on snuff and tobacco since signing the pledge; the result of the work of one of our students who taught in his district. * * * * * NEW ORLEANS, LA.—The Central Church is having a wonderful revival. Mr. Alexander has preached every night since the beginning of the year. The interest is remarkable, crowding the room every evening with a quiet, orderly, and earnest audience; many have been converted. Twenty-eight united with the church Feb. 1st. * * * * * AFRICAN NOTES. —The long delayed tidings have been received by the London Missionary Society from Messrs. Hore and Hutley at Lake Tanganika. The particulars of Mr. Dodgshun’s death are given. Annoyances and delays interposed by the Arab slave-traders are rehearsed. We give a few extracts from letters:—