Union Grove. Dr. A.                                        1.00
    Waukesha. Cong. Ch. $24; V. Tichenor $5.                  29.00

  IOWA, $67.81.

    Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall                            5.00
    Carroll. Rev. G. W. P.                                     0.50
    Chester. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., bbl of C.
      and $2, _for freight_                                    2.00
    Clay. Cong. Ch.                                            5.50
    Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                          6.40
    Eldora. “Busy Bees” Cong. Sab. Sch. $10;
      Woman’s Cent. Soc. $4.85                                14.85
    Kellogg. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00
    Lyons. “E. L. H.”                                          2.00
    Muscatine. E. W.                                           0.50
    Monroe. Cong. Ch.                                          3.56
    Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield and wife.                      7.00
    Sherrills’ Mount. Rev. J. R.                               0.50
    Sioux City. Wm. K. Smith.                                  3.00
    Waltham. Wm. Mason                                        10.00

  KANSAS, $47.38.

    Albany. C. B. S.                                           0.50
    Atchison. Cong. Ch.                                       18.00
    Burlingame. M. S. L.                                       0.25
    Manhattan. Cong. Ch. $16.43; Cong. Sab. Sch.
      (Missionary Gardens) $7.88; Rev. Roswell
      Parker $2.00                                            26.31
    Reno Centre. Cong. Ch.                                     2.32

  MINNESOTA, $113.46.

    Austin. Cong. Ch. $16.08.—Cong. Sab. Sch.
      $8.55, _for a Student_                                  24.63
    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      19.60
    Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00
    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 28.33
    Northfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, _for Student
      Aid, Talladega C._—First Cong. Ch. $8.90                18.90
    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch.                                  12.00

  NEBRASKA, $8.50.

    Fontanelle. By Rev. R. Gaylord                             5.00
    Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke                                  3.50

  CALIFORNIA, $25.

    San Francisco. Mrs. N. Gray                               25.00

  OREGON, $17.10.

    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch.                                    7.50
    The Dalles. Cong. Ch.                                      9.60

  MARYLAND, $20.50.

    Baltimore. W. K. Karson $10; R. K. H. 50c.                10.50
    Federalsburgh. Sarah A. Beals                             10.00

  TENNESSEE, $412.50.

    Chattanooga. Rent $112; Cong. Ch. $29                    141.00
    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                   101.85
    Nashville. Fisk University                               169.65

  NORTH CAROLINA, $212.14.

    Raleigh. Public Fund $76.18; Washington Sch.
      $20.38; Cong. Ch. $2.50                                 99.06
    Wilmington. Normal Sch. $106.75; Cong. Ch.
      $6.33                                                  113.08

  SOUTH CAROLINA, $186.50.

    Charleston. Avery Inst.                                  186.50

  ALABAMA, $305.05.

    Athens. Trinity Sch.                                      68.50
    Huntsville. Mr. J. H. C.                                   0.50
    Mobile. Emerson Inst.                                    155.50
    Selma. Cong. Ch. $7.75; First Cong. Ch. $6                13.75
    Talladega. Talladega College                              66.80

  GEORGIA, $107.37.

    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                    23.50
    Savannah. Beach Inst.                                     83.87

  LOUISIANA, $107.25.

    New Orleans. Straight University                         107.25

  MISSISSIPPI, $1,067.00.

    Tougaloo. Public Fund                                    988.00
    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                             79.00

  MISSOURI, $5.00.

    Saint Louis. Mrs. P. Chapman                               5.00

  INCOME FUND, $197.32.

    Graves Library, Atlanta University                       150.00
    Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_                           47.32

  SCOTLAND, $100.00.

    Kilmarnock. John Stewart, _for a Teacher_                100.00

  CANADA, $4.04.

    Paris. Mrs. N. Hamilton                                    4.04
                                                         ——————————
        Total                                            $16,751.93

    Total to Dec. 31st, 1877                   $42,305.54
    Of which for Debt                            1,693.02
                                               ——————————

    Total, excluding amount for Debt                      40,612.52
                                                         ——————————
    Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st.                    $57,364.45

                                          H. W. HUBBARD,
                                                    _Ass’t Treas._

  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.

    Wentworth, N. H. Ephraim Cook                              5.00
    Andover, Mass. John Smith                                500.00
    Springfield, Mass. “H. M.”                               500.00
    —— Mass. “A Worshipper at Indian Orchard”                500.00
    Oxford, Mass. “S. C. P.”                                 100.00
    Newburyport, Mass. “A Friend”                              5.00
    Hartford, Conn. Erastus Collins                          200.00
    Stanwich, Conn. Wm. Brush                                100.00
    Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Mary G. Chittenden                   20.00
    Chattanooga, Tenn. Band of Hope, No. 1.                   30.00
    Nashville, Tenn. Teachers, Workers and
      Students of Fisk University (ad’l)                       8.00
    Charleston, S. C. Avery Inst., Proceeds of
      Concert                                                 38.60
    Orangeburg S. C. Ladies’ Miss. Assn’n of Cong.
      Ch.                                                      1.00
    Florence, Ala. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00
    Savannah, Ga. First Cong. Ch.                             10.31
    Louisville, Ga. First Cong. Ch.                            0.40
                                                         ——————————
                                                          $2,023.31
    Previously acknowledged, Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st         1,693.02
                                                         ——————————
        Total to Jan’y 31st                               $3,716.33

  FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.

    Exeter, N. H. Mrs. F. F. Olden                          $100.00
    East Hampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston              100.00
    Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Anna H. Phillips.                  22.00
                                                         ——————————
        Total                                               $222.00

  BUILDING FUND.

    Kewanee, Ill. “A Friend,” _for Emerson Inst.,
      Mobile, Ala._                                          108.00
    Talladega, Ala. Rev. E. P. Lord                           10.00
                                                         ——————————
        Total                                               $118.00

  GREAT BRITAIN.

    London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc. £290        $1,422.45

_The American Missionary Association._

AIM AND WORK.

To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy
with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has
devoted its main efforts to preparing the =FREEDMEN= for their
duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries
in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
caste-persecuted =CHINESE= in America, and to co-operate with
the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the
=INDIANS=. It has also a mission in =AFRICA=.

STATISTICS.

=CHURCHES=: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11;
Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4.
_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.

=INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.=
_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,
Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and
Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;
Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; _Other
Schools_, 7. Total, 26.

=TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS=—Among the Freedmen, 209;
among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10.
Total, 252. =STUDENTS=—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course,
79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by
former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. =INDIANS= under
the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady =INCREASE= of regular income to keep pace with the
growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by
_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble
as well as the strong.

2. =ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS= for our higher educational institutions,
to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; =MEETING HOUSES=,
for the new churches we are organizing; =MORE MINISTERS=, cultured
and pious, for these churches.

3. =HELP FOR YOUNG MEN=, to be educated as ministers here and
missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.

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  _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO.
  265 BROADWAY, N. Y.
  627 CHESTNUT ST. PHILA._]

                    THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF

                                THE

                       American Missionary,

                      ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.

                     SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.

Besides giving news from the Institutions and Churches aided by the
Association among the Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the
Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa,
it will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting
the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of
current events relating to their welfare and progress.

We publish =25,000= copies per month, and shall be glad to increase
the number indefinitely, knowing from experience that to be
informed of our work is to sympathize with, and desire to aid it.

The Subscription Price will be, as formerly, =Fifty Cents a Year,
in Advance=. We also offer to send =One Hundred copies to one
address=, for distribution in Churches or to clubs of subscribers,
for $30., with the added privilege of a Life Membership to
such person as shall be designated. The Magazine will be sent
gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on Page 92.
Donations and subscriptions should be sent to

                   H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t. Treas.,
                                          56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.

                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

A limited space in our Magazine will henceforth be devoted to
the interests of Advertisers, to whom our low rates and large
circulation give its pages special value. Our readers are of the
best and most enterprising in the country, having an established
character for integrity and thrift that constitute them valued
customers in all departments of business.

To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed
to the “RULES” of the best Newspapers, requiring “DOUBLE RATES”
for these “LUXURIES,” our wide pages, fine paper, and superior
printing, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily
appreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of
business announcements.

We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department,
and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to
advertise.

Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
relation to advertising should be addressed to

                                  J. H. DENISON, 56 Reade St., N. Y.

                            LESTER SAW.

  The New Lester Saw is Made of Iron, with all the working parts
    of Steel, and Contains all known Improvements to this Date.

It is handsomely painted red and green, with red stripes, and
presents a beautiful appearance. Those parts which are not painted
are either polished or japanned. We warrant the Saw to be just as
herein stated, and we know it will give entire satisfaction, being
a more expensive machine than those which we formerly sold for $25.

It consists of—

FIRST.—A =SCROLL-SAW=, with Tilting-Table for inlaid work; arms 18
inches in the clear; clamps which will hold saws of any length or
width, and face them in four different directions; cutting lumber
from one-sixteenth to one inch in thickness; speed, 1,000 strokes
per minute.

SECOND.—A =CIRCULAR-SAW=, two and one-half inches in diameter,
which will cut lumber one-half inch and less; with an iron table,
four by five inches.

THIRD.—A =DRILLING ATTACHMENT=, with six Stubbs’s Steel Drills, of
various sizes, for wood or iron work.

FOURTH.—An =EMERY WHEEL=, with wide and narrow rim.

FIFTH.—A =TURNING-LATHE=, with iron ways and rest, steel centres,
and three best steel turning tools; length of ways, 15 inches;
distance between centres, 9 inches; swing, 3 inches; length of
slide-rest, 4½ inches; number of revolutions per minute, 7,000.

Also, with each machine, six Saw-Blades, a Wrench, Screw-Driver,
extra Belt, and two sheets of Designs, with a nice box for the
small tools, and a box for the whole machine. It is taken apart
when shipped, and packed in a box, but the working parts are all
left in place, and the frame is put together again by a single bolt.

              PRICE FOR EVERYTHING ABOVE NAMED $8.00.

       The Same, without the Lathe and Circular-Saw, $6.00.

When desired, we furnish with the Lathe a very nice Drill-Chuck,
for working metal, and a Tail-Stock, with a screw centre, for $2
extra.

No Saw will be sent C. O. D. The machine alone weighs 47 lbs., and,
with the box, 70 lbs. The express charges on one machine are about
$2 for 1,000 miles, and about half as much by fast freight. Two
machines by freight go at about the same price as one. Money may be
sent by mail, by Post-Office Order, registered letter, or draft on
New York. For sale by dealers at same price, with the addition of a
reasonable amount for freight.

_We also keep a full stock of Tools and Supplies in the
Bracket-Sawing line._

          MILLER’S FALLS CO., 74 Chambers St., New York.

Transcriber’s Notes:

“breath” changed to “breadth” on page 70. (its length and breadth)

“puting” changed to “putting” on page 87. (before putting their
hands under)

Missing zeros added to the amount column in the Sidney Plains entry
on page 89.

“Taladega” changed to “Talladega” in the Pittsburgh entry on page
90.

“freinds” changed to “friends” on page 94. (the attention of their
friends)