The same colonel is now wielding a great influence in the South in favor of negro education, and recently, both in his paper and at a public meeting, has expressed thanks to the A. M. A. for work it has been doing in the South. The influences multiply and reach out in every direction, which are destined soon to bring a total and wholesome change of sentiment, North and South. * * * * * We have received the proceedings of the Colored Men’s State Immigration Convention, held in Dallas, Texas, the latter part of February. An association was formed whose object is to locate colonies of colored people on Government lands in that State. Mr. S. H. Smothers, editor of the _Baptist Journal_, of Dallas, said in his address, as explanatory of the Exodus movement among his people, what seems to have escaped the attention of the Senate Exodus Committee, that the negro may act from the same motives that influence white men. His address is full of good common sense, as the following may show: “Only a few weeks ago, in a conversation with a colored immigrant from Georgia, I asked him why he left that State and came to Texas. He replied that a great many of his white neighbors were moving to Texas, and he thought that whatever was good for them would be good for him. “Much has been said in regard to the wrongs and oppressions of which our people complain. While, doubtless, there is some ground for their complaint, their hardships, in my opinion, are more the result of their illiterate condition than all things else. If a class of white laborers were as illiterate as our people, they would be equally oppressed as are the Irish tenants to-day. Capitalists look out for their own interest, and will, if they can, oppress one man, be his color what it may, as soon as another. We should remember that knowledge is power and ignorance is weakness. The protection which we most need is the power which education and property give. For my own part, all I ask of any man is an equal chance, and then if he can outstrip me in the race of life, let him do it.” * * * * * _Lovedale Missionary Institute_, South Africa, is said to be the busiest industrial college in the world. During the session which closed with 1879, there were in all 393 pupils of both sexes, many of them boarders, who paid in fees £1,006, beside £510 still due. Livingstonia and Blantyre sent 6 pupils; 19 came from Natal; 11 from the country of the Barolongs. The carpenter had 30 apprentices and journeymen under him; the wagon-maker 8; the blacksmith 5; the printer 4; the bookbinder 2. On the farm were raised 1,054 bags of corn, beans, potatoes and wheat.