--On August 22d, Archdeacon D. C. Crowther baptized 27 converts at Bonny, in the presence of a congregation numbering no less than 842 persons. One of the candidates was Orumbi, the rich woman who has been holding daily family worship for all her dependents. --Bishop Crowther was recently visited by a wealthy chief from Okrika, a town of 10,000 people, 40 miles from Bonny, who informed him that his people had built a church for Christian worship, to hold 500, which was filled every Sabbath to listen to the reading of the service by a school boy from the Brass Mission. --Mr. Felkin has fulfilled his commission in seeing the Waganda envoys safe to Zanzibar, and in paying a visit to Frere Town. At the latter place, the missionaries have been instructed with regard to runaway slaves, and the disturbances threatened recently are likely to be avoided. --There is said to be a marked difference between the tribes on the eastern and those on the western shore of the Tanganyika Lake. The former have neither images nor idols, while the latter have both, in great numbers. An image is found at the entrance of every village, and of nearly every hut. These are carved in the shape of human figures. The art of carving exists in great perfection among some of the tribes. --R. M. Wanzer, of Hamilton, Ontario, is running his immense sewing machine factory largely with gold received from Africa, from the sale of more than 100,000 of his machines in that country. It is not until we have seen orders from the agents of one great manufacturing establishment like this, that any adequate idea is formed of the extent to which our civilization is being introduced into that dark continent. We may well hope that when the native African is royally clad in long, flowing robes, made from American prints, on American sewing machines, that he will be ready to listen to the Gospel from the lips of him who represents these material blessings. * * * * * The Indians. --“If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them schools and churches.” If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them intelligence and morality. If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them civilization itself. The first remark above was made by a somewhat celebrated scientist at a great meeting of scientific people in Boston, last summer. The last two we simply intended to give emphasis to the first. We think the biggest argument that we can make against this scientific conclusion is to say nothing about it.--_Exchange._ --On the 6th of November, the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., welcomed fifteen new students: four boys and three girls from the Menomonees at Green Bay Agency, and four boys and four girls from the Sisseton Sioux Agency; an exceptionally bright and promising delegation. An Apache boy, captured by the 4th Cavalry in Arizona, six years ago, has also been admitted to the school, thus making the total number 212.