Appended to Mrs. Gardner's report are long, tiresome lists of names of recipients, which, however necessary and business like in their time and place, we may well spare the reader in these belated years; but one little list appeals to me with such loving interest, that I am constrained to ask the privilege of inserting it. It is a partial roll of the presidents of the sewing societies, of whose tireless, faithful work no adequate description could be given. And when we read among them the name of Mrs. Admiral Beardslee, and that missionary of scholarship and teaching on St. Helena, Miss Ellen Murray, the lovable and accomplished late wife of Robert Small, and Mrs. John MacDonald, who humbly and magnanimously placed themselves side by side with poor, unlettered, but honest and faithful Patty Frazier, and her kind, the reader will feel with me that it is indeed a roll of honor: _Society._ _President._ Coosaw Works Mrs. Mary Chaplain Beaufort Mrs. General Small Hilton Head Mrs. John MacDonald Wadmalaw Mrs. Frank Whaley Ladies' Island Mrs. Sam Green St. Helena Miss Ellen Murray Coosaw Island Maria Rivers Bennet's Point C.C. Richardson Musselboro Mrs. Phillips Hutchinson, Bolders,} W. Rivers Beef, Warren } Rockville H.L. Bailey Edisto Amanda Brown Tommy Johns Mary Jenkins Johns Island Mrs. Chas. Wilson Big State Plantation Jackson Field Jericho, Rhetts F.C. Garrett Dixonville General Saunders Paris Island Mrs. Beardslee Tommy Rhodes Patty Frazier Christmas, which two months before had seemed but a veil of future blackness, opened bright and cheerful. Most of the churches had been in some way reopened, and Christmas Eve brought again its melody, its prayer and its praise. There was in all this a Christian spirit, so sweet, so much to be commended, that I could not refrain from passing in my little contribution of a Christmas carol, for which they at once found a tune and sang it with a will. Light-hearted, happy race. A CHRISTMAS CAROL. For my 30,000 Sea Island Friends. _A Loving Greeting and Merry Christmas._--CLARA BARTON. Lo! The Christmas morn is breaking, Bring the angels bright array, For the Christian world is waking, And the Lord is born to-day. Shout then, brothers; shout and pray, For the blessed Lord is born to-day.