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E. N. M. U. D. 2. II. IS.

~ AAs ~ We L LIE
w Il are retailing good Butter 20, 25 and %,
w cents, Sugar 10 cents, new Hams l3ct,
meal 81 w per bnshel, No. Lard Ia cts Plat
Beef l2H cts. Coffee IL cts. Patent Cut Suga,
IL cts. Patapsco Flour per BbI. or bag, ne,.
Buckwheat, No. Mackerel, Spot fish ves .
large atonly 8 cts per lb. at the cheapest CASH
Grocery ia the city. Goods sent to every var,
OF the city Tree OF cost. No. 8, S. Church st.
de ~ I REDMOND
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REMOVAL, REMOVAL.

ENnE Grocery of M. E. BELL, formerlv on
l. Main street, Is removed to Mo. SO Bnte
street, where will be kept on hand a well Sc
lected stock of Family Groceries at the ches,,.
est CITY rates. Families up town will do well
to call and examine the stock before purchss.
ing elsewhere. A general assortment OF Buck.
cts, brooms and Tubs. M. Il. BELL,
nov9 No. 80 Butte street.
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GUNS, GUNS. GUNS,
p ID. CIV Ev e,

O' VI w AAI N Il q CU,,
lave on hand large Stock of GUNS. Pr.
II tolls and SPORTING GOODS OF all lies
may want anything in their line to i've then,
call, as they are confident Of giving satisiactor
N. Especial attention given to Repairi,,
flre arms. Nos, Union street
oc ~ Sign of the Big Gun
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THE DAY BOOK.

BY,PRoF. H. HEWITT.
"Stand out of my light, said brilliant little
star,
To cloud that was bound on its way;
81 cannot be seen by the planet far,
II thus you obscure my pure ray"
'Pooh, pooh !" said the cloud. s'there are
thousands like you
Who imagine they stand all alone;
like to swell out in this ocean OF blue,
And not be conied to a zone"
..But you cast shade W" half vex'd, the star
aAnd dsrken the beautiful earth:
While gladness accompanies the rays that
And the sparkling waves dance in their
mirth."
Swain thing" spake the cloud, with a thun-
dering voice; -
"You are only twinkling spark;
My tears make the fields and the flowers re.
ioice,
"One flash of my fire will illumine the sea;
My thunde1s the firm mountain shake;
And thousands, like you, are now winking at
me,
And peeping at river and lake.''
This clarion speech made the little star pale.
And, trembling, she sunk into space
While the cloud melted fast on the wings of
the gale, ~
And the blue sky was left in its place.
The moral is this !; some folks make swell,
And put real merit aside;
Inflated with vapor, they toll their own
knell,
And burst from an DER charge of pride.
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AS. T.. BARRY,
81 WHOLESALE AND Retail
Dealer in China Glass

a N ID e a RE ID Il N w K L.
MOST respectfully inf.rms his friends
1x1 and the public, that he has in store 40
entire new Stock Of every thing in his line,
and is now prepared to furnish his frientf
and customers on the most accommo-
dating terms. He feels assured that 80
long experience in the Crockery bust S#
nesA will enable him to give satisfaction t.
the lublic, to whom he gives the assurance
als1 chat his stock will always be found to
contain every article which may De called
for.
Give him call-at his old stand cornp
Union street and Market square.
ESyA have three houses to rent for the en-
E&i5 suing year, in desirable locations at s3Uc
&HM per annum.
no 3-tf
DOWHATAN PlPES-Just received a
L large lot of genuine Powhatan Pipes, large
and medium sizes, for sale to the trade at fac
tory prices, by ! HAMBURGER r. 60.
10 < 80 Main street
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Mess MackereI at Retail.
T HAVE at retail some choice Mess Mack
l. erel. Call and buy some. For sale by the
barrel or retail.
ia l6 JAS JONES.
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TIN WARE.

M L would again remind oar friends and cus-
toners that we have on hand as good and
be bought in the city; our custom made lin
Ware is manufactured under our own eyes
and by as good Hands as can be PRODUCED il,
this or any other State; we are manufactulin.;
Wholesale customers at the shortest notice, W.
are also prepared to do at moments call, air,
kind OF repairing, Roofing, Cutters and pip.
to Buildings $c. Also, Pipes OF America
of Pipes for Steam Mills, Steam Boats, &c, ans
warrented i'll all cases. Workmen sent to ann
part OF Virginia, or North Carolina to execute
work and warranted.
A w. SMALL 4 co,
No. 5, Water street,
dee IL Door from Roanoke Square.
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WINTER ARRANGEMENT
ANLSEKIEs LIME OF PACK EGTs.
FOR PHILADELPHIA.

EVERY WEDNESDAY AT IL CLOCK,
.1SSA A !" go:
Fg1fE Union Steamship Co.'s Steamers City
l. of Richmond. Capt. MITCHELL; Penn
syivania. Capt. TEAL and Virginia., Capt.
KELLY.
One of these Steamships will leave Higgins
wharf Norfolk, for Philadelphia, every Wednes-
day at l2 O'Clock, A. M. until further notice.
Passage 81, berths and meals included
Fox freight or passage, apply to
z CR0WELL, Agent,
Higgins wharf, Norfolk,
N. Bone of these Steamers will leave Phil.
adelphia every Wednesday at 8 "A. M.
nos
OOM EFT II q Worthy OF Notice.-You
- can't make pure grain without good Seed.
We have few bags prime white Wheat put up
especially for seed, for sale by
seq DELK & LINDSEY.
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WHOLESALE
1859 FALL SUPPLY 1859
UST received very large stock of Hats,
u Caps and Furs. Dealers may rely upon
finding every thing new and desirable on the
most accommo dating terms.
R. H. STEW EMS,
Moddeler of Fashion,
Would respectfully announce to his tses,
friends and the Hat wearing community &#
generally, that he is now ready to fur -
nish all who may wish new style OF Hat with
the most beautiful model ever introduced In
this city entirely unique) made under my own
superintendance, OF the finest material. Low
ers of taste and durability are invited to make
me an early call. Il H STEVENS,
Temple OF Fashion, Practical Halter,
AL % No Market Square.
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UNDERTAKING
ssaa@Ra This branch of my business will
receive my special attention in every
case, being the only agent in the city and sur
rounding country for Fisk's Metallic Burial
Cases, which are now in such general USE
Also, Mahogany, Walnut and Poplar Collins al
ways on hand, and three of the best Hearses in
the city, and the finest Carriages, always ready
to attend at any moment.
LEWIS SALISBURY,
ap3U SO and 60 Main street,
EAMlLN BEEF-5o Bbls. Family Beef, ST
II Bbls. Mess do, SO Bbls No. do, in store
and for sale by w PARKS 4 co,
ma IS Roanoke Square.
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III Y A copy)
MAGNOLIA CIGARS

MAGNOLIA CIGARS
A LOT of the above celebrated brand inst to-
IA hand which we are retailing ior
the small sum of 3 cents each. We gaaTantee
them to be the Original Magnolia and no I'M
tation, Eagle Cigar Store, No. SO Main st.
de H.V. MOORE a ro
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BOYS SHOES MADE TO ORDER.

Encourage NOrlOik ManWfaCture.
Encourage Norfolk Manufacture.
Hoop Skirts from SO cts. to $500.
Hoop Skirts from SO cts. to $500.
EsHE Proprietor of the Bee Hive, having
L. purchased all the necessary machinery
for making Hoop Skirts, and employed compe-
tent persons to carry on the same, take pleas
ure in informing their Numerous patrons that
they shall, on and after MONDAY, January
10th, commence the mandatory OF their own
HOOP SKIRTS, and shall offer them at nor
thern prices, both at wholesale and retail.
Hoop Skirts OF any size made to Order at
short notice. JAMES SNII1 II,
ial Proprietor of the Bee Five.
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FIG PIPE STEM

A SMALL LOT of the above Stems lust rc
IA ceived, they are superior to any Steu nov
in use, on account of the high favour imua, +
ed; For sale only at the Eagle Cigar Store M
50 Main st.
de5 Fl. V. MOORE a. co.
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LOOK HEREI LOOK HEREI

LOOK HERE LOOK HERE!
sn&an AM selling Boots and Shoes as
y cheap as they can be purchased by re-
tail in any part of the Union. will
menton few o f the prices.
Ladies Goat, Morocco, and Lasting Boots, from
rs cts to 81 - cts
Gents French Boots, Spring Bottom Sewed,
Sc 90
Gents Opera Boots, Spring Bottom. Sewed 49,
Fine Calf Boots, Psgged, So 25
Fine Opera Tap soled do SO so
Long Grain Boots, SO IS
Heavy Tip Boys Boots, from 5 TO $I75
Do do Grain, from 81 25 to SO O0
All kinds of Children's Shoes
Balmoral of Fine thick soles
Also Fine Light Soles, price from SO 81 to SO rs
Persons who purchased this article . months
ago, say they are the best they ever wore.
VIM HORNER,
No l6 Union street,
a27 Next to Merchant'sHotel.
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E. G. DEMING'S

e. Q. UEMINGS
ISAMILY GROCERY AND PROVISION
T. Store, NO 60 Church street, having now in
store choice stock of Groceries and Provisions,
are prepared to furnish Families and others
upon most accommodating terms. We havejust
received, ..P
Welch's Premium Family Flour, Silver
Spring Extra Flour, New No. SmithAeld Lard,
Choice Butter, Pine Apple Cheese, Baltimore
Bacon Smoked Beef Hams and Tongues, N 0
Sugar, Old Gov Java and Lag Coffee, Green and
Black Teas, and general variety OF House
kesping articles. -
Il DEFINING,
II No. TO, Church street.
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No MISTAKE
nv Mlo ALL
fs p
l.. 8 A l. u s b u RH IS,
NORFOLK. Va.

NORFOLK, VA,
ESTIIE best place to buy your FURNITURE
l. and PIANOS, for he has the largest stock
and the best assortment to be found in the
South. My warehouse which is five stories
high and one hundred and five feet deep, is now
well lied with stock which cost over $20, 100
In addition to this have q large four story
Factory and Steam Engine, and the best Of
workmen,, which is constantly turning out the
very best furniture that can be made: some of
which has taken the premium at every Fair
And to meet the wants OF customers will sell
at the lowest figures for cash or good negotiable
paper on short time. Call and examine for
yourselves. L SALISBURY.
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e s II A b L L S III ED I76O.
PETER LORILLARD,
SIM T q N IL Toho n IN MT IN m -, r., oxu

PEIER LORlLLARD,
Snuffand Tobacco Manufa cturer
Ii y Is CHAMBERS ST.
(Formerly ~ Chatham Street, New York;
Would call the especial attention of Grocer.
and Druggists to his removal, and also the AR
ucles of his manufacture, viz
BROWN SNUFF.
Macaboy, Demigros,
FINE Kappee, Pure Virginia,
coarse happee, Nachitoches,
AmeTiGSn Gentleman, Copenhagen
Sc0tcn, Fresh Scotch,
aigh TOAST scotch, trish High Toast
Fresh Honey Dew Scotch, or IunIytoot
TOBACCO.
FINE CUT CHEWING.
p. A. L., or plain,
Cavendish, or sweet,
Sweet Scented Oronoce.
Tin Foil Cavendlsh
SMOKING.
No. !, ST. Japo.
NO Spanish,
Nos. & mix'd, CANISTER
. AiteIoot, Pure lurklSi.
ton
N. B.-Note the new article of Fresh scotcl.
snuff, which will be found superior artir,,.
IoI u.PPihb PURPOSES de % 3i.4
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SPLENDID
SPLENDID
Sugar Cured Rounds of Beef
Sugar Cured Rounds of Beef
Christmas Eve Al Dom,no,
ShriS'has Eve At Deming's
Splendid
Splendid
baltimore Corned, Plates of Beef.
Baltimore Corned, Plates OF Beef,
Christmas Eve At DeminG's
ohriS'mes Eve AT Demins's
no. 60, Church street.
No. Go, Church street.
de 22
III IL A convl
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TOBACCO.
6n BUTTS Peoples Favorite, light pressed,
w so do do Twist,
80 dwarf boxes Damask Roses do,
100 but is Star OF the West,
so do Moores Slabs;
SO do Royals lU's
so do Billiards. lbs,
20 cases Kilickinick smoking and other
brands OF Fine Chewing and Common Tobac-
co for sale at factory prices.
iaI8 LEIGH Il BRO.
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INVEST Extra No Ethereal Oil, just receiv
w ed and for sale by
te2 JORDAN r BRO, 70 Church street.
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BARGAINS, BARGAINS.

NERY rich cold Silk Robes,
1879 PISCES s s Hs3as7 Silks ~ of ali IL k ID
Rich Plain Poplins, Of all shades,
do Fig and plaid do do
Plain and Fig Delains,
do Black do
do Col Merinoes,
100 pieces Fig DeLaines, l2Xc.
100 do Col. do lsxc.
An Wool White Flannels,
Shaker Flannels, splendid Marseilles Quilts,
1874 Alendale Quilts, Piano and Centre Table
Ign Bleached Gotten Sheeting, lox Bleached
Damask, Napkins and Dayliss, English
| Also, small PLAID Cassimeres, very handsome
| coP Cloaks.
In our embroidery line, we would mention /:
| 100 very handsome Collars Csc Dimity Bands.
| Very rich Lace Sets,
do do Real French do
! do do do do small Collars, Lace, Ber-
thas and Llu jon do
| ed to reduce the same, we are now Offering
great Bargains. ssh
Those in want would do well to examine our
stock before purchasing elsewhere.
no % il BLOODGOOD.
FINE BRANDIEs, WINES, &c.
IN U. S. Bonded Ware House, Imported from
Il the best market, and for sale on accomodat.
ing terms
II Casks Madeira Wine.
Pipes Holland Gin,
l3 Q Casks Port Wine,
2Puncheons w. /. Rum,
10 Q Casks Harmony Sherry Wine,
II Octaves A Seignett Brandy,
Is Is eei ap,ss Jas Hea On % Brandy an
2aS do do do do
az do Vineyard Proprietors do
5Octaves do do do
ROGERS & LANGLEY,
nos No. 8. Newton's wharf.
Servant Girls for Hire.
= LIKELY GIRLS between IL and 1s years
- of age, accustomed to house work. Also one
Girl about IA years OF age. Apply to
ia l6 MELLEN 4 SANTOS.
OF OUR OWN IMPORTATION
TOnn Embroidered Collars,
1OOO 1000 Embroidered Collars,
1000 Embroidered Collars,
1000 Embroidered Collars,
1000 Embroidered Collars,
1000 embroidered Col lars,
At FOSTER & MooRE'S
25 Main street,
25 Main sire t,
At very Reduced Prices,
At very Reduced Prices. no %
OIL CLOTH,
VERY CHEAP.
MTE have on hand a few pieces which we
w offer at low price, ~ yards wide and
yards wide. You can buy it cheap at
MILLAR'S Cash Bargain Store,
ja23 IL Market Square
MTHIsEkEY-l0U cases Daly's Valley Whis-
sc bbls Palmetto Whiskey, in store and for
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las Il JONES has in store few Kits o.
81 large No Msckerel, which he offers at the
very low price of 81 5O per kilt, cheap.
te2 No Campbeil's wharf.
EXTRA QUALITY GLADLS BUTTER.
Oh Kegs superior fresh Glades Butter, for
~ sale Oh shippers account.
STEWART & STEEVER,
de % Roanoke Dock
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AN EXPERIENCED N U liz s Il AND
N Female Physician, presents to the atten-
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-STOVES-STOVES.
DOBERTS d co, have in store and are
Al receiving daily,
STOVES,
of all kinds and for all purposes, from the best
Foundries in the country.
All STOVES sold and put up by us are guar
anteed to give satisfaction.
Purchasers will find it to their advantage by
giving us call before purchasing no 30
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10 Northern ana EasserM Travellers
via Seab0ard and Roanoke Rail
Road and BAY Line

: ..sVEA. The new and splsr/: Stea mel.
h LOUISIANA, eDELAIDL.
with unsurpassed accomTiG .tcns OF Stat,
Norfolk and Portsmouth and Baltimore lea,
ing Hunters wharf, Norfolk, yery eycnln,.
Sunday excepted) at az O'Clock, +. M, ana
as follows:
The LOUISIANA, CaptaiaG w. Russell. OF,
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY ard FRIDAY
The ADELAIDE, Captain James Cannon, u,.
TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY.; arriving
IN baIimore In time for Passengers to take til,
early Trains North and West.
ny this arrangement, connection Will b,
made in New York with the Sound Boats TO-
Boston, and the Steamboats, and Railroads I,
Eastern cities
o. Through Tickets to be obtained on posr,.
Tor washington, Philadelphia and New Yorl
ap 10 W. A. LOWELL, AGENT.
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BALTIMORE FRESH BEEF.
WE are receiving from Baltimore every
w morning, the best article of fresh Beef,
which we are cutting up in Steaks, Roasting
and Baking pieces, at the lowest prices, for
sale in store by E BELL CO,
jalS No Campbelps whaIf.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-18

completion Of the contract It must be regard
ed a. invalid. He was, therefore, of opinion
that new contract can be ordered by the
Common Council.
Now, we trust that the Common Council will
not make any new contract to enlarge the Bat
terry. The whole affair, from the beginning, was
a corrupt and mischievous job-an expensive
job, and nuisance besides, for it did serious
damage to the harbor. When it was first
preached we denounced it as such, though some
of the penny newspapers were bribed to back
it up, and we presume that some members of
the Corporation at the time came In for
share of the spoils.
Mr.. Bronson is the first Corporation Counsel
who has pronounced this contract invalid, and
now that it has been so declared, we hope that
it will never be revived. The city, 1t is true,
has lost ffty-hve thousand dollars by the tink-
ering operation, which, it appears, have been
already expended upon it; but let that 90 with
the rest. tits but drop in the bucket Of Cor
poration plumber.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-18

THE BALANCE oFPowER PARTY CHIFFON
NrERs.-Attempts are being made to get up a
balance, ofpower party by few politicians
who are always in the field, on the look out for
something so sell. The object of this move
ment is to get up third party before the cleo
ton, which may be sold out to some advantage
at the proper time; but it is nothing more than
putting the debris of broken down faction
into the MARKHAM effort to gather up old
materials for new party, out of which some
profit may be made when things approach a
crisis. In the issue now before the country,
however, there are but two live parties-the
abolition republicans, who are plotting dis
union and revolution, and the democrats, who
are the more conservative Of the two; but there
can be no division of these parties ex-
cept to their own detriment The vital ques-
ton of the times must be fairly decided between
these, upon the broad issue Of Union and pros
perity, or revolution and ruin.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-18

ALBANY CoRRuPTIoN.-There has been great
deal said from time to time, about the corrup-
ton Of the Legislature and the lobby at Al
bany, and the newspapers have been indignant
ly charged with Misrepresentation in publish
ing statements upon that subject But now it
appears, frem the highest authority in the House,
that corruption is glaringly apparent there, for
we find the Speaker himself declaring that
sum of 100000 had been written for to Wall
street by member of the Legislature for the
purpose of defeating the Pro Rata bill and he
stated that the individual who had sent the let
ter was at that moment within hearing of his
voice. One would suppose that such a charge
made on the floor OF the House would have
aroused every member in that body, possess
ing any self-respect, to demand an inquiry into
the facts. But the announcement fell upon the
Albany legislators in silence-a different way.
1t gave rise to good deal of bluster, and the
subsequent appointment of committed against
stormy opposition up yesterday
with case of assault and battery on the floor.
Is it not apparent that the Legislature is afraid
to 60 into any investigation of such delicate
charges? We fear that there are too few clean
hands and pure conscieRces in that body to
venture upon an inquiry as to corruption.
The conclusion which is forced upon us by this
transaction is that no bill passes the Legisla-
ture without being paid for, and that all par
ties are implicated alike in adhering to that
practice. The Legislature seems to stand in
the same category as our immaculate Corpora
ton in this regard-a state of things which is la
mentable to think Of. We shall see, however,
whether the Investigating Committee will make
any important Developments in their scrutiny
into the. charges made by Speaker Littlejohn,
or whether they will smother up the whole
matter. There is fine chance for interesting
revelations here.
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gentlemen, well educated, highly polished and
humane. But there is q class ofpenniless poll
dcians In the South who have nothing to lose,
but who live by agitation and political rascali-
y, just In the same way - do the demagogues
In Congress from the North. These men do not
own any niggers, but are owned by the niggers,
and they have done and are now doing as much
to destroy the interests and overthrow the in
situations Of the South as the most rabid aboli-
ton demagogues of the North. They are of
the same class as the "border rufians'' of Mis-
souri,, who afforded pretext to the revolu-
tionists in Kansas to carry on their reasonable
designs. There are few statesmen now in Con-
gre@ from the South, but plenty of niger
drivers, who are "a dangerous to the peace of
the country and the existence of the Union as
the niger worshippers of the North. But this
journal is not to be deferred from doing its
duty or diverted from its Independent course
by the insolence and ingratitude of political
chibonniers, whether they cross our path in the
questionable shape of broken down editors hail
ing from Virginia, from Alabama, or from any
other Southern State.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-18

The CHEvAIIER WEBB IN GREAT TROUBLE
ABOUT SEwARD.-The Chevalier Webb is very
indignant at the Vaccinations by which Mr..
Seward, Of New York, is to be thrown over.
board, as the republican candidate for the
Presidency, aAA one Bates, of Missouri, raked
up from the depths Of obscurity, and placed in
the shoes Of the apostle Of the higher law
the chieftain Of the "irrepressible conflict"
The gallant Colonel pitches into "the hero of
Solferino" like thousand of brick for aiding
and abetting in this conspiracy to take the
back track" and "abandon the principles of
the republican party" The Chevalier's eyes
are full of tears, and we pity his sorrows. But
let him not trouble himself too much about
Mr. Seward, who stands just where he stood
before. The news on the subject, which ap-
peared in the columns of his little contempo-
rary, is of piece with the bogus treaty be-
tween Mexico and the United States, of which
he published a copy two or three days ago,
and the bogus treaties between England and
Nicaragua, and between this country and
Paraguay, Of which he published copies some
time ago. The treaties were patched up by
the lobby, Of which he was at that time the
organ, and the news about Seward comes from
the same veracious and authentic quarter-the
source whence he still derives his political in
spiration and his exclusive intelligence. The
star of Seward is still in the ascendant.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-18

The Battery ENLARGEMENT JOB DECLARED
I1LEGAI~-The Battery enlargement job was
before committee Of Aldermen on Thursday.
when the Corporation Counsel, Mr.. Bronson,
gave it as his opinion that the contract was in
valid, null and void, on three distinct grounds,
viz:-That the resolution ordering it was pass
ed by one branch of the Common Council and
only concurred in by the other the year follow.
ing, when new Common Council was in Office;
that no securities were given by TIE contractor
for the fulHlment of the work, and that the
term at which the work Was to have been COM
pleted having expired, and yet there Being no