“_Resolved_, That if the Chattanooga University fail to secure the resignation of Prof. Wilford Caulkins, to take effect at a date not later than the close of the present school term, and to so modify its action as not to exclude from instruction in that institution students on account of race or color; _i. e._, if the said university fail in either of these particulars, we hereby instruct our Executive Committee to secure, by agreement, if possible, with the Trustees of said University, the immediate termination of the contract between the Chattanooga University and the Freedmen’s Aid Society; and, in case a termination of said contract be not secured by mutual agreement, in either of the contingencies named above, to notify the Trustees of the Chattanooga University, within sixty days from this 24th day of February, 1887, of the termination of the contract as provided in the same.” This brings matters to an issue. We congratulate the Board of Managers of the Freedmen’s Aid Society upon the stand taken. * * * * * WRITES a teacher in Georgia: “With the close of 1886 many left our school, some to teach in the public schools and others to engage in any work that they could find. Over thirty schools have been supplied with acceptable teachers from our schools.” We have here an illustration of what is taking place more or less in connection with all our schools. We are supplying teachers for the public schools of the South. Reports that tell only of what our missionaries are doing among those whom they personally reach, fall far short of that larger work, which, through their scholars, they are doing all over the South. Think of the difference between a school taught by a Christian teacher and one under the care of a godless teacher. The A. M. A. is sending out Christian teachers. * * * * * The Charleston _News and Courier_ is authority for the statement that one thousand and fifty-seven colored people of that city have deposits in the local savings banks amounting to $124,936. The person who has the largest deposit, $6,747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded African, but a born financier. He has recently bought a valuable plantation for $10,000, and has paid $7,000 of the purchase-money. The _News and Courier_ adds: “There are thousands of active and thrifty colored men in the State who have bought land since the war, and who are steadily collecting about them the comforts and many of the luxuries of life. Comparatively few of the colored people entertain decided notions of economy or have any faith in Government savings banks, but the wealth they have hidden away in old stockings and the money they are investing from year to year in lands and houses, if it could be rightly estimated, would prove a pleasing revelation.” * * * * * THE END OF A DISTINGUISHED LIFE.