When the college and the Congregational Church were planted here I joined the church, and have never been sorry for it. I love the missionary cause, and would rather give all I have than to see it go down. I love to think of my son down in Selma preaching. There was quite a scare there about the yellow fever, and my son wrote me to know what he should do; I wrote him back, “to look to the Lord, and stand to his post.” * * * * * A GRATEFUL WARD. A Letter from an Indian. I thank you, gentlemen, you kind and good. By and by I see you and tell you. You give money to Mrs. Caruthers to help me learn. I try to learn fast. Indian no talk much English. May be very soon I understand. Long ago I an Indian, now I don’t think so. I think gust the same white man. Now I want be same as good white man. Here this country good Tarrytown I like. Your a KIOWA FRENCH ZONE KE-UH. * * * * * AFRICA. * * * * * THE MENDI MISSION. REV. A. F. JACKSON, AVERY. When one enters upon this kind of work, he enters upon a tedious and arduous one--a work accompanied with many dark and gloomy days, as well as some bright ones. I suppose that you are aware that my work has been assigned me at Avery, or Mannah Bargroo Station, on the Little Sherbro river, about fifty-eight miles from Good Hope. At this station all of the agricultural work is carried on. We have here a mill, coffee-farm and ginger farm. I employ in the mill seven native men all the while; and on the farm two native men; besides a crew of boatmen, that row our boat from British Sherbro to the neighboring villages to sell the lumber that is sawed at our mill. We are enabled to keep one boat running all the while, and it is manned by natives entirely. They make first-rate crewmen, and have a decided advantage over a similar act of Englishmen or Americans, from the fact that they are always naked, and there is no impediment in case of an accident. All of them can swim in almost any kind of water. They do not stop to question whether there be alligators in the water or not, but go at the command. I can say that I have tried them sufficiently in all ways, and I have as yet found them all to be quite honest, with the exception of one man, who very politely went into my lot of goods on the way from Good Hope to my station, and took therefrom five or six yards of baft to trade for rice. This is the only dishonest act that I have known any one to commit since my arrival on the coast of Africa.