Papists among the Freedmen.
We have occasionally referred to the efforts being made by the Roman Catholic Church to win the colored people to their communion. They are meeting with no little success. Dr. Fulton writes from the South of the progress of their work: "Black nuns are beginning to abound; schools for the education of Romish priests are beginning to appear. Churches decorated with the choicest products of art, and flaming with tinfelry and show, are seen in most of our large cities crowded with colored people. Black people are welcomed to the Romish churches, because Rome intends to increase her power by the colored vote, and appreciates the magnitude of her opportunity. In Baltimore there are fourteen colored schools. The Douglas Institute has a fine hall, a library and reading-room, owned by colored people."—Sel. It is believed that Fohi, the first King of China, is identical with Noah. The Chinese themselves claim that Fohi has no father; and Noah, although subsequent to the flood the great progenitor of the race, was himself at that time fatherless. The mother of Fohi is said to have borne him encompassed with a rainbow—an evident allusion to the bow of promise revealed to Noah as the sign of God's covenant. Fohi is represented to have reared seven kinds of creatures, which he sacrificed to the Great Supreme. Noah also took into the ark clean beasts and fowls by sevens, which he offered to the God of heaven as offerings; Fohi is represented as drawing off the waters which had deluged the earth, thus identifying him with the flood.—San Francisco Call, March 19, 1875.