—Some have made a considerable ado about “Yankee school-teachers” in the negro schools in the South, and in some cases our heathen have acted much as the heathen of Canterbury Green (Ct.) acted in 1831. Perhaps some of them have not been altogether to our taste; perhaps some of them have mixed in with the “three R’s” some things not to our edification. But what else could be done? Would qualified Southern men and women have taken these places when the Northern teachers came? Would they do it now? Not generally, though some of the best would, as a very few of the best have begun to do. Suppose these Northern teachers had not come—that nobody had taught the negroes, set free and citizens! The South would have been uninhabitable by this time. Some may resent this. Be it so; they resent the truth.—_From “Our Brother in Black” by Atticus G. Haygood, D. D., Pres. of Emory College, Oxford, Ga._ * * * * * CHILDREN’S PAGE. * * * * * A MISSIONARY POTATO. The missionary concert at the Congregational church, last Sunday night, was interesting, and in some respects novel. There is a bit of history connected with it. Two little girls belonging to the Sunday-school some time ago became so inspired with missionary zeal that, after casting about for ways to get money for the purpose, they devised a doll show, and carried it through here last winter with considerable success, netting five dollars. That money they sent to Fisk University, with request for report concerning its use. A letter came back, enclosing a letter from a Fisk student, written from Mississippi, where the young man was teaching to earn money to continue his studies at the University. That letter told of a colored boy, one of the pupils in the student’s school, and made an appeal for him. The boy was the son of his mother’s former master, and since she was emancipated the mother had married. The step-father hired the boy to horse-racers and saloon-keepers, and in various ways kept him under bad influences and away from school. The boy and his mother were ambitious that he should be educated; and when, a short time previous, the step-father had sickened and died, one obstacle seemed removed. Another obstacle was lack of means, and for that the student appealed, in a letter written in answer to one from our people here, and it was for that purpose that the concert of last Sunday night was given by the Young People’s Missionary Circle of the Congregational Sabbath-school, organized since the little girls’ doll show enterprise. But now the enterprise is shared with them by the other churches, for they all suspended their services on this occasion, and Messrs. Sanders, Walter and Monroe participated in the devotional exercises, and their people swelled the congregation. The exercises, recitations, essays and Jubilee Songs were creditable and entertaining.