In the February number of the MISSIONARY, mention is made of a beautiful box, the workmanship of a friend of the Association, fourscore and two years old.  It was the wish of this venerable brother that the box should be sold and the proceeds devoted to our work.  A gentleman in Boston offered twelve dollars for the box.  We have since received an offer of twenty dollars from a friend, with permission, however, to hold the matter open a little longer for a still higher bid.  Who speaks next?

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“You will be interested to learn that E.A.  Johnson, of Raleigh, N.C., has just been admitted to the bar here.  He passed a very good examination, the only colored man among twenty-four whites.  It made some of them quite vexed to have him promptly answer questions on which they failed, but when he received his license, the Judge commended him, and the young men all congratulated him.”

It is said that the colored pupils fail when they reach mathematics.  A scholar in one of our Southern institutions made an original demonstration of an intricate problem in geometry, in a method different from any known previously by his teacher, an accomplished scholar, and it was correct.

From Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tennessee:  Not a week passes that we do not have to turn away earnest applicants from the school for want of room.  Fully two hundred such applicants have gone sadly away from our door during the past months.

A colored minister in the South applying for a position as a preacher, says, “I feel to say woe be under me if I preach not.”

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Rev. A.W.  Curtis writes from Raleigh, N.C.:  “It is estimated that thirty thousand Negroes have gone South and West from North Carolina since the exodus from this State began.  Most of them are crowded out because of repeated crop failures in the eastern counties.  Many of them have joined in the movement, with the hope of doing better, who were doing passably well at home.  Many have been discouraged by the attitude of the State toward the colored people.”

Rev. J.W.  Freeman, of Dudley, N.C., writes:  “The emigration casts a great depression on all our spiritual work among the colored people now In this locality.”

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AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN.

A letter from Louisiana says, “I visited a Negro family the other day in a settlement where there is no school, and found the following condition of things:  A white lady was boarding with them and giving instruction for her board.  She is teaching them how to live.  Eight months ago no one in this family could read.  The father only could speak English.  Now all speak some English.  All except the youngest can read a little in the Bible.  They sang a gospel hymn for me and repeated quite a number of Bible verses and the Lord’s prayer.  The colored mother