—Rev. C. R. Hager and Lee Sam, sent by the American Board to establish a mission in those districts of South China from which the Chinese in America have come, are already at work. A house has been rented and an evening school for the instruction of the Chinese in English provided for. The plan for instilling the truths of the Gospel into the minds of the scholars by using the Bible to some extent for a textbook, which has been so successful in California, will be adopted. THE INDIANS. —At the annual examination of the Carlisle Indian Training School, Secretary Teller, Commissioner Price and Albert K. Smiley of the Board of Indian Commissioners, were present. The school now contains 367 pupils, 240 boys and 127 girls. [Illustration: INDIAN ENCAMPMENT.] —The ambition of the Alaska Indian boys is seen in the response made by one Rudolph who was urged to marry a chief’s widow, “I would never marry dirty old Indian; for $1,000 I never marry her. When I am a man, I want to take a good, clean girl for wife. I want her to know books and to housekeep like Boston girl. I not like it my house all dirty, my children not washed.” —According to the latest statistical report of the Missionary Society of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, it had among the Indians thirteen ordained and licensed preachers, seven candidates, forty ruling elders, twenty-nine deacons, twenty-four organized congregations, and five hundred and twenty-seven communicants. —Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to the Indians of his diocese, administered the communion to 247 Chippewas. Fifteen years ago there was scarcely one communicant among them; now there are 8 churches in that mission, and they are building one to cost $10,000. * * * * * BENEFACTIONS. S. E. Lee, Esq., of Richmond, Va., has recently given $5,000 to Wake Forest College. The Earl of Zetland has given $25,000 to the Edinburgh Association for the university education of women. Mrs. Senator Grimes, of Burlington, has given $1,000 for Blair Hall, Iowa College. Smith College, Northampton, Mass., is to receive $500 worth of new and valuable books, the amount having been secured through the influence of Miss Sanborn. Mr. Moody’s Mt. Hermon school for boys has received a gift of $5,000 from England. Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., has received $40,000 from a friend who does not give the public his name, for instituting a professorship for elocution and boys’ culture. By the will of Robert Asa Packer, Lehigh University is to receive one half of his personal and real estate, which is believed to amount to several million dollars. A gift of $7,500 has been made to Rutgers College by Henry W. Bookstaver, Esq., of New York City, a member of the Board of Trustees, for purchasing chemical instruments and other apparatus for the class room.