Miss Wells, our missionary, is getting into the homes of the people, and we already see the good results of her work. She has organized a Sunday-school in the out-skirts of the city, at which she has secured many more promises than attendants. Still she is working on, and will eventually succeed in her enterprise. The readiness of the colored people to promise is wonderful, but the fulfilment is exceedingly doubtful. If you question their fulfilling their pledge, they reply, “Oh, yes, Missus, we coming shuah; you may look for we.” Sure enough we do look, but seldom find. Our home Sunday-school is increasing in efficiency and numbers, and we hope before long to report a prosperous condition. Avery Institute is one of the finest schools in the South; I don’t know as there is a superior to it anywhere. A gentleman in the city was speaking of the receptivity of the colored children in comparison with the whites, to the disparagement of the former, when another gentleman, prominent in democratic politics, said there was no disparagement on that side. “You just go over to that Avery school, and hear the examinations, and listen to their literary exercises; why, it is glorious, perfectly wonderful—_magnificent!_” This is not undeserved praise. Every visitor expresses himself highly pleased with the appearance of the school. Prof. Farnham deserves the praise which he receives for the high character of his school. After the anniversary exercises, just before Easter, the students and graduates of the school presented Avery with a beautiful flag of blue bunting with a palmetto in white worked in the centre, and Avery Institute in large letters above and below. It is the first time the flag of the State was ever presented to a school supported by Northern philanthropists for the benefit of the colored people.