EDITORIAL ITEMS.

BISHOP A.W. WAYMAN of the A.M.E. Church, has a son studying at Ashmun Institute. He is a young man of about twenty years of age, and has served three years in the army. He favors his father in personal appearance, and is said to possess ability of a high order.
AT Bethel Church, Baltimore, not long since Frederic Douglass, Esq., delivered a lecture, the proceeds of which were applied for the support of the delegates at Washington, representing the colored people of that State. The names of the delegates are William E. Matthews and Lewis Douglass, the latter was once Sergeant Major of the 54th Mass., Regiment.
ROBERT PURVIS, ESQ., of Pennsylvania, recently addressed an audience at the 15th St. Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.
DOUGLASS INSTITUTE- A hall purchased and handsomely fitted up by several enterprising colored men in Baltimore, has been a decided success, financially. Who says our people will not support enterprises of a high order? Manage them rightly, and they are bound to do it.
REV. JAMES A. HANDY, who has charge of the missionary work in the State of North Carolina, is on a visit to Baltimore, and will return to his southern field in two weeks' time.
REV. JOHN M. BROWN:- We learn that in consequence of the election of Rev. John M. Brown to the office of Corresponding Secretary of the Parent, Home, and Foreign Missionary Society, that he will be left without appointment next Conference year, in order to attend the duties of that office. He will open an office in the city of Baltimore, Md.
BISHOP A.W. WAYMAN, intends to visit the Ohio Annual Conference, over which our venerable Bishop Wm. Paul Quinn presides, and he expects to return in time to meet the Baltimore Annual Conference.
REV. W.H. HUNTER is still on duty as chaplain of the 4th U.S.C.T.; his quarters are with the regiment in one of the forts surrounding Washington. The chaplain and his wife have recovered entirely from their severe illness, during which time they were carefully nursed and cared for by sister Catherine Hawkins, of Georgetown, D.C. Chaplain Hunter, with his characteristic energy, and prompted by his love for the connection, got up an entertainment, in Georgetown for the benefit of the Wilberforce College, which we learn was quite a success.
REV. EDWARD HAMMOND, a licentiate of the A.M.E. church, is studying for the ministry at Ashmun Institute, Oxford, Penna. He is the son of Rev. S.L. Hammond, pastor of the Bethel Church Baltimore, and is said to be a young man of vigorous intellect, and assiduous application, as well as piety.
A SKILFUL PHONOGRAPHER:- Rev. Leonard Patterson, pastor of the A.M.E. Churches, Coxsackie Circuit, N.Y., is a skilful phonographer, and can report a speech of sermon with perfect accuracy, no matter how rapidly delivered.
MRS. JAMES FLEET the widow of the lamented Professor James Fleet, who was one of the most useful and respected citizens of the District of Columbia, has a son studying at Ashmun Institute, and a daughter studying at Oberlin College. The latter very recently experienced religion.
MISS << CHARLOTTE L. FORTEN>> is one of the Secretaries of the New England Freedmen's Society. This lady taught school for some time on the Sea Islands of S.C.
THE colored children in all of the New England States except Connecticut, attend the same schools that the whites do, and recite in the same classes. These schools are the best in the world.
A NORMAL SCHOOL for the education of colored young ladies, for teachers, has been opened in Baltimore city, Md.
THE Boston Post says, “Rev. J. Sella Martin addressed a large audience at Music Hall, setting forth his ideas of the opinion of President Johnson, as intimated in his recent interview with the colored delegation at Washington.”
The Post has a lengthy report of the very able address.
(The following shows how little caste prevails in France.- EDITOR.)
“Le Temps,” one of the leading journals of Paris, is as liberal in its tone as it is able in its publication. The following brief account of a ball given by the sable Minister of the Republic of Hayti, translated from a late number of Le Temps for our columns, will be read with interest:
“We took part on Friday evening in a soiree (une soiree) of unusual interest, given by M. Elie Dubois, Resident Minister of the Republic of Hayti, upon the occasion of the pacification of the Cape. All the Haytian notables resident at Paris assisted at this entertainment, (fete) where were assembled also Mr. Bigelow, Minister of the United States, the Nuncio of the Pope, the members of nearly all the Legations, and a great number of persons belonging to the best Parisian society. The Haytian Minister occupies, in the old street- the Champs-Elysees- the fine hotel which was, under the first empire, the resident of the Duke de Abrantes, the vast rooms on the ground floor, ornamented with perfect taste, and garnished with a profusion of flowers, presented a charming view, (coup d'oeil,) graced more especially by the union of females representing types of beauty the most varied that the mingling of the two races, white and black, could offer. The soiree commenced by a fine concert led by Bazzoni. We then listened to a damsel, endowed with a magnificent voice, and of remarkable talent,- Mrs. Silvie, who sung with another damsel of color, - Mrs. Debrosses,- the duet of Zelmira, and which created very great enthusiasm. They also sung the grand air of Mancanilla de l'Africaine, in a manner to create jealousy to the heart of even Mrs. Saxe herself. A charming young lady, Miss Emilia Verna, belonging to one of the best families of Port au Prince, executed a grand fantaisie upon the piano, as Robert le Diable, which showed her an artist of the first order. Finally, Mr. White, the young, but now celebrated violinist, ravished his listeners by his marvellous performance. The concert was followed by a ball of great interest, which continued till an advanced hour. The honors of the entertainment were done with the most exquisite courtesy by the Minister, Mr. Dubois, who seconded the perfect grace of Mrs. Debrosses.”
MR. OATES, the delegate to Washington to represent the colored people of the State of Florida, was robbed of all his money and clothing in Charleston, S.C., while en route for the capital.
A COLORED BOY, living in Georgetown, D.C., was sent to an institution of learning in Rhode Island, not long since, by some of his friends. His mother is an inmate of the alms house. He is a boy of great promise.
DON'T USE A HYMN BOOK.- In Bethel Church, Baltimore, out of an assembled congregation of near two thousand, over a third of which can read, you will see them all standing up singing and not six persons in the vast congregation, except the choir, have a hymn book in their hands. Whose fault is it? Ought it to be so?
JOHN S. ROCK, ESQ., the able colored lawyer of Boston, the first and only one ever admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the U.S., is lying hopelessly ill in that city.
THERE IS ONE COLORED LAWYER in New Bedford, Mass. His name is ---- Johnson. He has a lucrative practice.
WE learn from the “Elevator,” published at San Francisco, Cal., that Dr. Ezra R. Johnson, of New Bedford, Mass., has arrived safely in California, much to the delight of his numerous friends.
DR. WM. ARMSTRONG proposes, and backs his proposition by a subscription of five dollars, to purchase a handsome silk flag, to be presented at the next annual conference, by the Philadelphia district of the A.M.E. Church, to the Sabbath School that will present to the Conference the largest collection for Missionary purposes- the flag to be awarded according to numbers.