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.

--Major Machado, who has been at Pretoria with Portuguese engineers
to make the plan of the railroad upon the Territory of Transvaal, has
received orders from Lisbon to proceed to Lorenzo-Marquez to confer
with the engineers sent by the Portuguese Government, to the end that
they may commence the work from the Bay of Delogoa to the frontier of
Transvaal.

--The _Bulletin of Colonial Inquiry_ announces that ten army surgeons
from Africa have formed an association for the establishment of
French colonies in the district of Saida, 171 kilometers to the south
of Oran. Each shareholder will furnish a capital of 6,000 francs, and
the society will be conducted in an economical manner, but with the
best conditions for starting.

--According to the Arab journal _Noussret_, the Negous has ordered
the Governor of Axoum to hold ready provisions, and beasts of burden,
as also ammunition, so that they may have means of passage with the
army to the coast to take possession of the territories which Egypt
has laid open to them.

THE CHINESE.

--The Baptist Chinese Mission, Portland, Oregon, has over two hundred
Chinese connected with it, several of whom are women and children.

Seventy different Chinese have been connected with the school at
Santa Cruz, Cal. Five of the pupils have been baptized and