for this people is a scarcity of laborers. There are so many who must have work, or die, that every vacancy has a dozen ready applicants. Twenty-five cents a day, I am told, is all that some of these planters will give to man or woman; and they can get enough at that price. In such circumstances, you cannot expect people to haggle long about the price of labor. The cry is simply, “Give me my hire.” And then, if you remember that two hundred years of slavery in a man’s blood is not a very good preparation for independency, you may get a pretty good idea of the situation of the people. But my letter is too long. Tell the churches to pray for the freeman of the South. I do not say freedmen, because there are thousands here who were never slaves and are no better off. Ask the churches to help us to give them the only consolation they can at present have—a sure and intelligent hope of a better world than this on the other side—and not expect them, out of their deep poverty, to pay for their own schooling or preaching just yet. * * * * * GEORGIA. Report of the Committee of the Board of Commissioners to the Atlanta University, June, 1879. A large majority of the entire Board attended the examination of the colored University at Atlanta, which receives an annual donation of $8,000 from the State. The report of the special committee appointed to make a suitable minute of the exercises and the condition of the Institution was unanimously adopted. It is as follows: TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS: Gentlemen—The undersigned, your appointees, herewith submit the following report upon the final examinations of the Atlanta University, for the school year just closed. The Board attended these examinations in an almost entire body. They were promptly and courteously met by President Ware and his associates, and the examinations proceeded with systematic regularity. The exercises were designated by neatly printed programmes, with the time and place of recitation distinctly set forth. The examinations were fairly conducted and disclosed the fact that the most advanced methods of teaching were employed. These methods were mainly topical, supplemented by appropriate questions, which evinced that the students had an intelligent comprehension of the subjects under consideration. We were especially impressed by the evidences of patient, systematic, untiring training on the part of the teachers, so well adapted to the colored, or any race, and by the progressive manner in which a subject was developed. All branches taught, passed in review before us, and whether the immediate subject was reading, grammar, history, mathematics, the classics, or other branches, the means employed and the results attained were entirely satisfactory. The examinations were entirely oral and the decorum and order maintained were of a high character.