The University of Vermont is to receive the valuable library of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, of Italy, a gift purchased by the Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, an alumnus of the University. The late Edward Clark, of Cooperstown, N.Y., left $50,000 to Williams College, his alma mater. Howard University has received $5,000 from the estate of the late F. P. Schoals, Esq., of New York. Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Pa., has given $30,000 to the endowment fund of Dickinson College, as a memorial of his father. The Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will receive $125,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of Memphis, Tenn., of which it is the residuary legatee. McGill University is to receive $40,000 from the estate of Miss Barbara Scott. Mrs. William E. Dodge has given $2,000 to found scholarships for the daughters of clergymen in the Mills Seminary of California. _The emancipation proclamation was issued January, 1863—twenty years ago. Since then 800,000 colored children have been enrolled during a single year in the schools of the South. The demand for a higher education for some of these, in order that they may be competent teachers and leaders in society, is not only urgent but imperative. The institutions founded by the A. M. A. to promote Higher Education, however, are almost entirely without endowment._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —An official journal of Tripoli reports, from a letter received from Fezzan, a large repository of minerals of different sorts. Lead, tin, zinc, iron, copper, silver and gold have been discovered between Tripoli and Fezzan, and even diamonds. —The new steamer, Henry Wright, destined to the mission at Mombas, has been finished and will soon commence its trips between Mombas and Zanzibar. —Late letters from Freretown say that fear reigns in that station on account of the near approach of a rebel named Mbaruk, who has established his camp near Rabai. He declares that he is not hostile to the mission, but his friendship would be much more dangerous for it than his hostility, in exciting the suspicion of the people of Mombas. —The British Association has made a grant of 500 livres sterling to a naturalist, Mr. Atchinson, to take part in the expedition of Mr. J. Thomson, to the Victoria Nyanza by the country of the Masai. Mr. Atchinson will remain at Kilimandjaro to make botanical and zoological collections, while Mr. Thomson will proceed to Victoria Nyanza. —Mr. Farler, missionary at Magila, has sent to the London Geographical Society an original map made by him from data furnished by the natives, and indicating the routes as far as known from the Pangani to the southeast side of Victoria Nyanza, across the country of the Masai. —Dr. James Petrie, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, has been sent to Magila, as medical missionary for Eastern Equatorial Africa.