r, in spite
of circumstances, how some of these people are getting along.
Here is a woman who, with her husband, at the surrender, had a
single dollar; and now they have a home of their own, and
several acres attached--five altogether; but, as that was rather
small, her husband has contracted for two hundred and forty
acres more, and has now gone out and commenced operations."

From Columbiana, February 20th, she wrote concerning her work, and
presented the "lights and shades" of affairs as they came under her
notice.

"I am almost constantly either traveling or speaking. I do not
think that I have missed more than one Sunday that I have not
addressed some Sunday-school, and I have not missed many
day-schools either. And as I am giving all my lectures free the
proceeds of the collections are not often very large; still as
ignorant as part of the people are perhaps a number of them
would not hear at all, and may be prejudice others if I charged
even ten cents, and so perhaps in the long run, even if my work
is wearing, I may be of some real benefit to my race. * * I
don't know but that you would laugh if you were to hear some of
the remarks which my lectures call forth: 'She is a man,' again
'She is not colored, she is painted.' Both white and colored
come out to hear me, and I have very fine meetings; and then
part of the time I am talking in between times, and how tired I
am some of the time. Still I am standing with my race on the
threshold of a new era, and though some be far past me in the
learning of the schools, yet to-day, with my limited and
fragmentary knowledge, I may help the race forward a little.
Some of our people remind me of sheep without a shepherd."

* * * * *

PRIVATE LECTURES TO FREEDWOMEN.

Desiring to speak to women who have been the objects of so much wrong
and abuse under Slavery, and even since Emancipation, in a state of
ignorance, not accessible always to those who would or could urge the
proper kind of education respecting their morals and general
improvement, Mrs. Harper has made it her business not to overlook this
all important duty to her poor sisters.

The following extract taken from a letter dated "Greenville, Georgia,
March 29th," will show what she was doing in this direction:

"But really my hands are almost constantly f