You would like to know what I think about colored missionaries doing good here. My firm belief is, that they can do more than any other missionaries under the sun. These people have always been used to colored people. Most of the white men whom they have seen were traders, seeking their own good. They robbed the people of their produce and children, and destroyed their confidence. A white missionary has to be more careful than a colored one. The natives look upon a white person as unnatural, and think he is above them in every way, and that God made him so. They also think it is of no use for them to try to do the things they see the white man do. But, on the other hand, when they see a colored man do anything, they think if he can do it they can do it themselves. They are a great people to imitate. For a proof of what I have said, look at the Shengay Mission. It is conducted altogether by colored missionaries, and stands ahead of others on the coast. Do not think I say this because I am a colored man. I say it because I know it is true. * * * * * THE INDIANS. * * * * * School Wants and Farm Work. W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS. The school opened very encouragingly this term, and before the close of the second week we had fifty-four different boarding scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission to others, on account of our limited accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever broke out, and before the close of the term twenty-three boarding scholars, and many of our day scholars, had been sent home on account of sickness. The boarding scholars seem, generally, to be happy and contented with us, and eager to return at the opening of each new term; and their progress in their studies, and general deportment, is much greater than with the day scholars. The general interest, also, of the tribe in the subject of education is greatly quickened. The boarding-school, with suitable accommodations, might be made a great blessing to the tribe. We feel sure we could readily obtain 100 scholars if we had the accommodations. The tribe has asked the Department to appropriate, from their funds in the United States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of a suitable building. We see the dreadful results, in other tribes around us, of allowing the youth to grow up, without education, in contact with the whites, learning their vices and not their virtues, and it makes us long to see something done to save this people from the blight which has fallen upon so many other tribes before them.