Smith of the St. Peter M. E. Church,
y Donaldsoiville. Mr. Wells is a graduate of
the New Orlean University and evidently
r a young gentlemnan of marked talent and
fine aeeomplishnaennts-just the stamp of
man needed in the pulpits of our colored
churches and in the public schools to in
struct the l*ople of his race and urge themr
forward in the quest of knowledge and in
the paths of morality and virtue. He re
ports great damage in the Grosse Tete I
b country by reason of the overflow, but is
A very hopeful of the future and speaks in I
Id highest terms of the people of that section. I
1 His church has made encouraging progress
ly notwithstanding the flood.
