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a collection taken up. She took a little over twenty four dollars which gladdened her heart and then she gained some more by selling her photograph and songs. She seems hale and hearty and likely to live, we hope some twenty years or more. Long enough to see every slave emancipated and the colored race being educated and prospered as is becoming to the people of a free republic. She is anxious to get to Washington and to see the man who proclaimed freedom to her people, and to say God bless you Abraham Lincoln. she may help many to give a strong vote in the coming election for Lincoln and Johnson. Sojourner wishes to know how