o Kee, $15; Ju Young Keau, $2; Wong
Chin Foo, $3; Wing Wah Chong, $15; Jow Shing Pong, $3; Ham Lum Chin, $3;
Mai Li Wa, $2; Kwong Yin Lung, $15; Quong Lung Yuen, $15 and Ung Wah,
$10.

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The _New York Tribune_ says: It appears from a report made to the
Presbyterian Assembly that the mountain districts of North Carolina,
Southwest Virginia, Southern and Eastern Kentucky and Eastern Tennessee
contain a population of about 2,000,000 white people, largely of Scotch
Irish descent, of whom 70 per cent, can neither read nor write. This
statement suggests the reflection that if there is one thing which is
more essential than the education of the Southern Negroes it is the
education of the Southern whites.

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The Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held
in Chicago, Ill., commencing October 29. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of
Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon.

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We would still call attention to our Leaflets for distribution in the
pews on the taking of collections for our Association. We shall be happy
to furnish them to those making application.

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The _New York Tribune_ says: "The Rev. Joseph Jordan, who was ordained
in Philadelphia on Sunday, is the first colored man to enter the
ministry of the Universalist Church. He is to engage in mission work in
the South."

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CASTE IN THE CHURCHES.

OPINIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PRESS.

_From The Congregationalist._

If report be true, the South Carolina Episcopalians have compromised
their difficulty in the matter of color in a manner which is not likely
to be permanently satisfactory. A portion of the diocesan convention had
seceded because the bishop declared that he could not exclude a
regularly ordained minister who was black. The canon law now has been
amended so as to exclude henceforth all other black men, and the
seceders have returned, consenting to make the best of the one obnoxious
colored man, but indignant because he has not been ejected. Whether the
General Convention will endorse or repudiate this compromise remains to
be seen. In either case the Episcopal branch of the church might as well
abandon its efforts to make headway among the colored race in that
State. So far as we can see, the bishop has made a manly stand, however,
and