een in the South. They are building up a future
which if exceptional now I hope will become more general
hereafter. Every hand of his family is adding its quota
to the success of this experiment of a colored man both
trading and farming on an extensive scale. Last year his
wife took on her hands about 130 acres of land, and with
her force she raised about 107 bales of cotton. She has
a number of orphan children employed, and not only does
she supervise their labor, but she works herself. One
daughter, an intelligent young lady, is postmistress and
I believe assistant book-keeper. One son attends to the
planting interest, and another daughter attends to one
of the stores. The business of this firm of Montgomery &
Sons has amounted, I understand, to between three and
four hundred thousand dollars in a year. I stayed on the
place several days and was hospitably entertained and
kindly treated. When I come, if nothing prevents, I will
tell you more about them. Now for the next strange
truth. Enclosed I send you a notice from one of the
leading and representative papers of rebeldom. The
editor has been, or is considered, one of the
representative men of the South. I have given a lecture
since this notice, which brought out some of the most
noted rebels, among whom was Admiral Semmes. In my
speech I referred to the Alabama sweeping away our
commerce, and his son sat near him and seemed to receive
it with much good humor. I don't know what the papers
will say to-day; perhaps they will think that I dwelt
upon the past too much. Oh, if you had seen the rebs I
had out last night, perhaps you would have felt a little
nervous for me. However, I lived through it, and gave
them more gospel truth than perhaps some of them have
heard for some time.

A LECTURE.

We received a polite invitation from the trustees of the
State-street African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church to attend a
lecture in that edifice on Thursday evening. Being told that the
discourse would be delivered by a female colored lecturer from
Maryland, curiosity, as well as an interest to see how the
colored citizens were managing their own institutions, led us at
once to accep