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 Rh at Richmond. Mr. B. B. Minor furnishes copies of some interesting revolutionary MSS. found in an old iron chest in the basement of the Capitol and relating to the raising of money for the soldiers of the Revolution, by the ladies of Alexandria and Fredericksburg, including Washington's mother.

S. S. C., of Columbus, Ga., and S. A. L., of Washington, Pa., are frequent contributors. Poetry is freely interspersed. Mr. Jas. Barron Hope, as literary executor of the late Henry Ellen, distributes with a liberal hand Mr. Ellen's poetical estate. Besides other things, Mr. Ellen undertakes a long poem, in two cantos: "Leoni Di Monota, a Legend of Verona." Meek, Eames, Sigourney, Cist, Leigh, and other old friends appear; whilst there are a number of new Muse-courters, including the Rev. Win. Love, Marion Harland, etc. Two works, by Richmond ladies, are expected: one by Miss Susan Archer Talley and the other by Mrs. Anna Cora (Mowatt) Ritchie.

Besides his notices of new works, the editor closes the year with a brief address to his patrons, in which he says: "We are truly gratified to announce that the apprehensions which were so seriously felt and so frankly stated by the proprietors, two months ago, are so far allayed that arrangements have been entered into for the