_Negro Teachers._—The author of “Other Fools, and Their Doings,” pays this somewhat rhetorical, but just tribute to the noble women who went forth to add value to the freedom, which, under stress of military necessity, the nation had given to the negro slave—a tribute which will appear more just as the history of our noble workers becomes better known: “While from thousands of homes brave men came with flaunting flags, and beating drums, and booming cannons, singing as they marched, ‘We are coming, Father Abraham, Three hundred thousand more,’ from out those same homes stole a procession of women, not clandestinely, not timidly, but brave of soul and strong of heart and inflexible of purpose, though without ostentation. The Bible and spelling-book were their only weapons, and their song was of ‘the mercies of the Lord forever,’ and their ‘trust under the feathers of his wings!’ ‘Neither the terror by night,’ ‘the arrow by day,’ ‘the pestilence in darkness,’ nor ‘destruction at noon,’ nor the ‘thousands falling on their right hand, and on their left,’ could make them afraid; ‘because they had made the Lord their strength, even the Most High their refuge.’ They went forth to ‘tread upon the lion and the adder, the young lion and the dragon.’ Scorn, insult, slander, poverty, loneliness, sickness and death, they trampled under their feet; for ‘through the work of the Lord were they made glad,’ and they ‘triumphed in the work of His hands.’ “Away on in the Elysian fields of Heaven, when the cycles of eternity shall have encircled the universe, and rolled back upon their track in such repeated and intricate mazes as only the Infinite mind can trace, they shall receive from the lips of the ransomed of all nations, ‘the blessing of those once ready to perish;’ and the blessed assurance that the torch they lit in the Freedman’s hut, lit a beacon that illumined the world. “If the South is saved to civilization, its chief human Saviour was ‘the nigger school-teacher.’” * * * * * _Capt. Payne_, who was ejected from the Indian Territory, which he invaded last spring in defiance of the President’s proclamation, again defies the Government and the Courts, and has gone to the Territory with a company of men. Parties in St. Louis have purchased machinery and various kinds of goods for his colony, and the issue is made most unequivocally with the Administration. We anxiously await the action of President Hayes. * * * * *