land has been purchased, ample buildings have
been secured, and a Normal School has been in successful operation
during the last eighteen months. The U.S. authorities have repeatedly
expressed their confidence in and sympathy with this undertaking, by
liberal grants of money and buildings, and the agent for the
distribution of the Peabody Fund, has pledged pecuniary aid to the best
of the pupils in attendance, who may be in need of such assistance.

REV. J. CALDER, D.D., _Pres._,

Harrisburg, Penna.

Harper's Ferry, West Va., March 1, 1869.

REV. N.C. BRACKETT, _Act. Sec'y.,_

Harper's Ferry, West Va. ]

There is still need of efficient laborers in the Shenandoah Valley.
According to the testimony of Mr. Dungy, scores of places may still be
found where the children have no school privileges, and where many, both
old and young, have never had the opportunity of entering a
meeting-house or church since the war, as the spirit of the white
Christians in these regions is greatly embittered against the colored
people, owing to the abolition of Slavery; and they do not invite them
to either church or school. Indeed, the churches are closed against
them. At different times, Mr. Dungy has eloquently represented the
condition of the colored churches of the South, in the city of
Philadelphia. As a speaker, Mr. Dungy is able and interesting, of good
address, remarkably graceful in his manners, and possessing much general
information.

The subjoined letters received from him, while a fugitive in Canada, are
characteristic of the man, and will repay a perusal.

BRANTFORD, March 3d, 1860.

MR. WM. STILL, DEAR SIR:--I have seated myself this evening to
write you a few lines to inform you that I have got through my
journey, and landed safely in Brantford, where I found my
friend, Stepney Brown, and we expressed great joy at meeting
each other, and had a great shaking of hands, and have not got
done talking yet of the old times we had in Virginia.

I thank God I am enjoying vigorous health, and hope you all are
well, as it is written in the first Psalm, "Blessed is the man
that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."

I wish you may think of me often and pray for me that I may grow
a man, one of the followers of our meek and lowly Saviour. Give
my love to Mrs. Still, and family, and the