Knox College is to receive about $60,000 from the estate of the late H. H. Hitchcock, of Galesburg, Ill. Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, bequeathed $50,000 for a German teachers' seminary in Milwaukee. Hon. John R. Bodwell, of Hallowell, Me., gives $1,000 toward the new building for Industrial School for Girls in that city. _Persons desirous to help where help is most needed, to help where it will do most to promote national prosperity and true religion, may well consider the question of endowments for the educational institutions of the A. M. A._ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES AFRICA. --The two brothers Denhardt, already known by their previous explorations, are preparing an expedition to the Dana, which they will reascend to reach Kenia. --The Universities' Mission has constructed for the eastern side of Nyassa a steamer which will bear the name of _Charles Janson_, a missionary recently deceased. --Messrs. Taylor and Jacques, missionaries at Saint Louis, have made in the Oualo, inhabited by emigrants and the Wolofs mussulmen, a journey of exploration with a view to the extension of their field of activity. --The French Consul at Tangier has interdicted his French subjects, and the mussulmen placed under his protection, from buying, selling or possessing the slaves of the Maroe. His example has been followed by the representatives of other powers. --General Bacouch, a great proprietor in Tunis, encourages, in a domain of many thousands of acres, the cultivation of a plant imported from Java, which may replace the cotton of America. --Messrs. Lindner and Von der Broock, in the service of the International African Association, have set out from Zanzibar for the Congo, taking with them 200 negroes to replace those whose term of engagement has expired. --According to the Natal _Mercantile Advertiser_, the German Government has charged M. A. Schultz, of Durban, with making an exploration with a view to establishing a series of commercial stations as far as Zambeze and the Congo. He will be accompanied by a surveyor and a geologist. --M. Lagarde has been charged with proceeding to the limits of the Territory of Obock, in connection with M. Conneau, Commander of the _Infernet_. This same ship carries out the members of a scientific mission sent to the Choa. It bears presents to King Menelik. --James Roxburgh, the engineer appointed to accompany the sections of the steamer _Bonne Nouvelle_, has announced to the London Missionary Society his safe arrival at Liendwe upon the borders of Tanganyika, the place designed to launch the vessel. He met there Capt. Hore and Mr. Swan, who will immediately commence the reconstruction of the boat.