—The last report from the missionaries of Tabora marks great progress in the transportation of letters. The mails have become more regular, nothing is lost on the route, and the roads are safer. The Wanyamouesis mounted guides are very capable, and there is this advantage in employing them that on the return trip, going back to their homes, they delay less than the other natives. The station of Ouyoug has met with great misfortune in the loss of Dr. Southon, who, while filling the place of missionary, has rendered great service as a physician to the population. THE INDIANS. —Red Cloud has paid a visit to Hampton, where he has several children at school. —Sec. Teller has set apart a portion of the Turtle Mountain reservation for the Chippewa Indians. —It is reported that ex-Congressman Phillips, of Kansas, is paid $4,000 a year by the Cherokee Indians to look after their interests in Washington. —The Commissioner of Indian Affairs reports that, exclusive of the five civilized tribes, there are 101 day schools for Indians, five less than last year. —In the report of Dr. Means, at Portland, he asserts that, “In proportion to the aid and means employed, no missions to the heathen since the Apostolic age have been more successful than those to the American Aborigines.” —A Quaker and his wife who have labored for seven years among the Modoc Indians, are reported to have transformed them into well-mannered and well-dressed people. They own nice farms, and, for the most part, have connected themselves with the Society of Friends. THE CHINESE. —A Baptist preacher in Portland, Oregon, named Fung Chak, reports a church of 65 Chinese converts. —During the first three months after the anti-Chinese law went into operation, 3,849 Chinese departed from the Pacific coast, and only 169 arrived. —The Presbyterian Board has purchased a large and valuable building, in San Francisco, at a cost of $22,500, for a Chinese Mission. —Mr. Yung Wing, so well known for his efforts in establishing a school for the Chinese in Hartford, Conn., has been appointed chief magistrate of the city of Shanghai. —The British and Foreign Bible Society entered China in 1843, and has agents at Shanghai, operating chiefly through the missionaries of the different societies. —A Chinese Sunday-school was opened in Farwell Hall, Chicago, in 1878. The number of regular attendants at the present time is between fifty and sixty. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, secular instruction is given them. The school is under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. —Soon after the American Board, in response to the suggestion of the A. M. A., decided to open a mission at Hong Kong, a Thanksgiving offering, amounting to $114, was made by Miss Harriet Carter’s Chinese Sunday-school, Mount Vernon Church, Boston. The money was paid over to the treasury of the Am. Board. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS.