The association adjourned on Friday morning to meet in New Orleans, with Central Church, the first Wednesday in April, 1882. Dr. Alexander was appointed to represent the association at the autumn meeting of the Congregational Church in England. The religious interest awakened by our annual meeting deepened to the last, and at the urgent request of Brother Clay, several of the ministers remained after the adjournment. At the meeting on Saturday night, 35 were brought under conviction of sin, and asked for the prayers of the church. The good work still goes on. The churches of the association need to be encouraged, instructed and helped. I see to-day, as I have seen every year that I have been in the State, opportunities of investing one hundred dollars in a piece of ground for a church site, or to make the last payment upon a chapel, or to save a discouraged frontier preacher, which would pay a fabulous revenue. While our bankers and statesmen are devising means for funding the national debt, who in all this broad land, so rich in resources, will decide to fund something of his surplus revenue in the way I have indicated? * * * * * KANSAS. The Condition of the Blacks at Topeka, Kan., and Savannah, Ga., Contrasted. REV. R. F. MARKHAM. I spent five years in Savannah, devoting my whole time to the colored people. Savannah claims 30,000 inhabitants, of whom about 15,000 are colored. Topeka has 16,000 inhabitants, 5,000 of whom are colored. Physical wants can be more easily supplied in Savannah than in Topeka. In nearly all of the South the bare necessities of life are more easily secured than at the North. The colored people of Topeka have equally good schools with the whites, where separate schools for them are established. The State Superintendent has ruled that any district which does not supply equal advantages for both white and colored can have no State appropriation. Savannah has tolerably good public schools for a little over one half of the colored children, but the poorest teachers are employed especially outside of the city. Everywhere through Kansas the blacks are as well supplied as the whites. In Topeka a colored man can take jobs and superintend business when he is competent, and all are willing he should, but in Savannah I employed a very competent negro to superintend a job of mason work. I asked a white mason a few days afterward if it would do to put mortar on green lath. He replied, “I will not answer you. You have got a nigger to do your work.”