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The fifth volume, of 852 pages, commences with "renewed thanks to our subscribers, contributors, and the public generally, including the corps editorial, for their generous support and indulgence for the last four years." It says that "the Messenger ought to be considered as still an experiment" and appeals for more of "that powerful metallic spring, which puts all human machinery into motion." Then, as early as page two, is the advent of the renowned Matthew Fontaine Maury, a second lieutenant in the U. S. Navy and only 33 years of age; but he grew and attained until he became about the most complete and best rounded of our great men. A special map was engraved to make more effective his great "Scheme for Re-building Southern Commerce." Even then he foresaw what part steam was to play in navigation.

Among the other new contributors, many of them in both prose and verse, to this fine volume are Dr. Harvey Lindsly; Landon C. Garland; Wm. J. Duane; Jane Taylor Lomax; E. A. Stockton; C. F. Hoffman; Park Benjamin; Eugene