A GENTLEMAN, who for a dozen years has been a member of the Senate of Maryland, drops in at our rooms occasionally from interest in our work. The last time he was in he spoke of a colored young Catholic, who was among the number of those who were taken over to London to be educated for the priesthood and to be returned to labor among the freedmen in that office. The Doctor said that the young man had returned with a fine education, but had abandoned the idea of taking orders. He was now teaching school, but his highest ambition was to become a porter in a large library. As this is the first and only one of those young men, of whom so much was said at one time, to be identified by us, we are glad to hear from him. Of course, this one case does not carry the whole, but surely it does not augur much for a Romish propagandism among our colored fellow citizens. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. John Francis Clapp of the firm of Simpson, Clapp & Co., of New York, remembered his native town, Belchertown, Mass., in his will by the gift of $40,000 for a public library and a building for the same. Mr. George I. Seney has presented $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female College, to finish the college buildings. Mrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz, supports 33 kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense of $25,000 per annum. President Peter McVicar has lately received a gift of $10,000 for Washburn College from a friend in Massachusetts. Not only has Rev. H. O. Ladd’s University of New Mexico at Santa Fe received $5,000 from the estate of the late Deacon J. C. Whitin, but other gifts are promised for the building now going up. Bowdoin College has received $1,000 from Dr. Goodwin to found a commencement prize, $4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Noah Woods, of Bangor, to establish the Blake Scholarship, $1,000 from John C. Dodge, of Cambridge, for library purposes. $3,500 was pledged towards a new gymnasium and $1,000 for a new laboratory. _The man who gave the $20,000 named at this place in our last issue, calls it “stewardship.” The man who gave the $10,000 there indicated calls it not a donation, but an “investment.” We have some such investments to offer, with this indorsement, “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord”—an investment of $1,000 for a scholarship, $10,000 for a library, or $25,000 for a professorship in any of our chartered institutions._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. —The Italian government will shortly send a messenger to the king of Abyssinia, charged with giving him presents from King Humbert, and renewing at the same time friendly relations between the two countries. —M. Antoine, who has been some time in Abyssinia, reports that the natives endure with impunity the malaria of the lower regions, pernicious to Europeans, and attributes their freedom from sickness to the daily use of fumigations of sulphur.