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 Rh fashion. Mr. Fergusson is not sure as to the house in which the marriage was solemnized: he knows that he received some of the wedding cake. He thinks that Mr. Poe and his wife were for a while at the same place where he had been boarding and that was the three-story building, kept by the Yarringtons, at the corner of Twelfth and Bank streets, and in the rear of the present Richmond Dispatch. He used to carry matters for the Messenger to Mr. Poe at the Yarringtons'. Very singularly, years afterwards, when Macfarlane and Fergusson owned the Messenger they removed it to that very building and issued it thence until they sold it, when it was carried to Washington, near the close of the great war. The night of the evacuation, their printing office was fired, "lock, stock and barrel."

The May number opens with something about the Benjamin Franklin MS. from Alice Addertongue. Oliver Oldschool comes again and L. A. Wilmer has a poem "On the Death of Camilla." Mr. Poe has a sonnet and a poem, "Irene." Thereafter, he furnishes an editorial on the origin of Lynch's Law and fifteen pages of critical notices.

The first of these pitches into Lieut. Slidell's "Spain Revisited," though he had commended his other work; and he handles with undue slash and length the author's letter of dedication, as