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18 and the other Barbary States." Mr. Greenhow was of Richmond, but wrote from Washington, where he was connected with the State Department, as translator of foreign dispatches. Mr. Lucian Minor commences his discriminating and conservative Letters from New England, revised and greatly improved for the Messenger. Like Bayard Taylor in Europe, he made many of his explorations afoot. These letters have, in recent years, been collected and published in book form under the auspices of J. Russell Lowell. They were borrowed by the Messenger from the Fredericksburg Arena, to which they were sent, because that newspaper was edited by Wm. M. Blackford, a literary gentleman, and a friend and connection of Mr. Minor. Mr. Blackford was afterwards a contributor. P. A. Browne and Mrs. Sigourney continue their contributions. There is copied from The Norfolk Beacon a warm defence of N. P. Willis, by Hugh Blair Grigsby, the editor of that paper and a friend and fellow-student of Mr. Willis. Poems are contributed by R, H. Wilde, of Georgia, by Judge A. B. Meek and D. Martin, of Alabama. The Messenger takes from The Western Monthly Magazine, of Cincinnati, its notice of the first volume of the "Collections of The Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society," of which Rev. Jonathan P. Gushing, a Northern man, and its founder, was