The New York herald., 1863-01-11

operatives on public pensions, until they "woaid
be absorbed in other trades" than vary one point
in her present policy.
Ten thousand additional French troops
declared ito be indispensable" in Mexico.
THE LEGISLATUR
The State Senate not in session yesterday,
having adjourned over from Friday till Monday
evening. The Assembly met and continued its
balloting for Speaker, which occupied the entire
days session. Eleven ballots were had. with pre-.
cisely the same result has followed the voting
on each day of the session. tie every time; but.
in consequence of several members having paired
Off the vote was considerably reduced. 1t stood
Al for Mr.. Dean and Al for Mr.. Sherwood. There
have now been forty-eight ballotings altogether.
The House adjourned till eleven o'clock on Monday.
MIscELLANEous NEWS.
The steamship Jura, from Londonderry on the
I'd of January, passed Cape Race yesterday (Sa.
turday) at noon on her voyage to Portland, Me.
Her is five days later than the advces of the
Africa, telegraphed from Halifax, published in the
HERALD yesterday morning.
Consols were quoted in London, on the I'd of
January, at s21s s2sI for money. The Liverpool
cotton market experienced an advance ranging
from one-half of . penny to one penny per pound
up to Wednesday, the 3lst of December. On that
day the market closed with downward tendency,
at nominal prices, owing to the stock being largely
in excess of the estimates The sales of Friday,
the I'd of January. were made at decline Of from
one-fourth to onehalf of o penny. The corn
rax A. n5 noho 80 <bo 1oo
port. Provisions were very dull.
Advices from the Cape Of Good Hope, dated on
the 14th of November, have been received. The
papers are filed with accounts of the civil war in
the United States, which now attracts the atten.
tion Of the civilized world. The republic of Trans
Vaa, established beyond the English colony of the
Cape of Good Hope, was in rebellion, the Presi-
dent Of last year refusing to give up the power to
the President elect Blood had been shed and one
town stormsd. The hold-over President sent word
to the President elect, who had joined the
"rebels," that If he is caught he will be treated
as q conspirator against the republic.
Governor Richard Yates, Of Illinois, delivered
his message to the Legislature of that State on the
9th instant. 1t is q lengthy document, and would
make about sixteen columns of the HERALD. The
Governor closes his formidable paper with
stump speech, in which he says that he is for the
constitution, and wishesi to it sustained in its
true spirit but he nevertheless insists that slavery
must be abolished before the two sections Of our
country can live peacefully together. He is will
ling to stake his reputation upon tho prediction
and he records it, to meet the verdict Of posteri
ty-that the change brought about by the policy
of emancipation will pass of In Q way SO quietly
and SO easily that the world will stand amazed
that we should have entertained such fears Of its
evils. He thinks the slaves will undergo some
temporary suffering, and that they will seek re-
fuge in the Northern States, but that in the end
they will return to the South, and carry with them
all Of our present colored population. He pitches
into the South generally, and deals few blows at
the democratic party for attempting to deprive
the republicans Of some of their fat offices. He
extols New England, is opposed TO dividing the
West from the East, and demands Of the conserva-
tive Legislature he is addressing 0 prompt and
energetic support Of all the measures Of the ma
tional administration.
The Governor OF New Hampshire has postponed
the draft in that State sine die. 1t was to have
taken place on the 9Th inst.
The State Fund Commissioners Of Ohio left Co.
lumbus on Monday for New York, with four hun
dred thousand dollars in gold to pay OF the interest
on the State bonds.
Edison B. Olds was escorted to his scat in the
Ohio Legislature, at Columbus, by procession
two miles long.
B. Gratz Brown, OF st. Louis 10 the negro wor-
shipping candidate for the United States Ssnste in
Missouri. It is said that there is a movement
among one stripe of the emancipation members Of
the Legislature to defeat him.
Governor Curtin, in his annual message to the
Legislature Of Pennsylvania, gives the Presidents
emancipation proclamation wide berth. He re-
fuses to touch it.
If the abolition emissaries who have gone from
Massachusetts, to the seat of war as teachers and
nurses for slaves, Bible distributors and Tract
Society agents, were counted in the quota under
the last two calls Of the President for troops,
Governor Andrew would not be required to resort
to draft.
Tho Louisville and Nashville Railroad will be
repaired 50. that trains can run between the two
cities by the lst of February.
Tho Washington Star says that among the four
hundred and fifty passengers who took their de-
psrturc for Richmond on the 7th inst. were seventy
females whose morality was not Of that quality to
command respect, and that they could be very
well spared from the national capital. 1t gives
the localities OF the various notorious houses in
the city whore they had resided.
Hon. John B. Henderson, conservative, was
elected to the United States Senate by the Legsla
ture of Missouri, On the 9Th inst, for the short
term, which expires on the Ath Of March next.
Mr.. Henderson now occupies the seat, by appoint
ment Of the Governor, made vacant by the expul-
sion Of Waldo II. johnson, whose term would not
have expired until 1857. For the long term the
conservatives nominated Hon. John 8. Phelps,
and the emancipationists nominated B. Gratz
Brown, 8. H. Glover, Samuel Brcckinridge and
John w. NseA. One ballot was taken, ON which
Phelps had 81; Brown, 81; Glover, -; Breckin-
ridge, IL, and Noell, s.
Charles Sanford President Of the late Cataract
Bank, Of Paterson, New Jersey, and Joshua N.
Beach, . New York broker. have been found guilty
10 the Passaic County Court on charge Of con
spiracy to defraud the public, by the establish