The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-16

by a vote of thrty-eight against two. Mr..
Collamer introduced a bill relative TO suits
for damages growing out Of arbitrary arrests. The
Civil Appropriation bill was taken up severa
amendments adopted. and the subject was then
postponed till to-day. The bill making appropria
tons for the support Of the Military Academy 81
West Point was next considered, aud, after some
debate, passed by vote Of twenty-aine against
ten. The Senate then adjourned.
In the House Of Representatives the credentials
of Mr. Jennings Piggot, of North Carolina, and the
protest of Charles Henry Foster against his admis-
sion 10 seat, were presented and referred to the
Committee on Elections. The remainder OF the
session was devoted to debate. in Committee OF
the Whole on the bill to provide ways and means
for the support of the government.
THE LEGISLATURE
In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday
but little business was transacted lew DIS
were introduced; among them one to regulate tine
sale Of hay and straw in this city and Brooklyn,
and one to increase the pay OF notafies puphc'
The bill to amend the Assessment laws was report
ed upon favorably from the committee having it in
charge In the Assembly resolution was adopted
in favor of the appointment of joint committee OF
the two houses to draft bill for the erection OF
hospita, for disabled soldiers. The Speakership
contest was resumed. Resolutions intended to cx-
press the views of each party were offered, and
gave rise to excited debate, which occupied con-
siderable time, when the balloting was proceeded
with, the result being the same as on every
previous day Of the session. tie on each ballot.
Only three ballotings were gone through with
making seventy in all since the House con-
vened-each candidate polling ffty-eight votes.
The bill before the Senate of this State to divide
| Steuben county proposes to make each Assembly
district separate county, giving to each popu-
aton of about twenty three thousand. The origi-
nal name is to be preserved by one district, and
the two others are to be called respectively Con-
hocton county and Canisteo county.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
| The steamship City Of Baltimore, from Queens
town on the LIST of January, arrived at this port
early yesterday morning. Our European files by
the ura reached this city from Portland yesterday
morning. Our telegraphc reports from Newtound-
land and Portland and the mails Of the China, had
fully anticipated the news.
The Madrid (Spain) Gazette publishes the de
cree which abolishes passports from the LIST Of
January. A foreigner may prove his identity by a
written declaration signed by two respectable
persons He must also make known whence he
came and the object Of his journey. The vises of
passports by the Spanish Consuls is suppressed, as
| well as the fees demanded for them.
| Advices from Constantinople of the 18th Of Do.
cember state that on the 18th of that moRth Mr..
Joy Norris the American Minister, read to Aali
Pachi despatch from his government at Wash.
ington, conveying the Presidents thanks for the
prompt and energetic manner in which the Porte
has followed up the pursuit and punishment Of the
murderers Of the late Rev. Messrs. Merriam and
Cofing.
A letter from Pekin (Chna), of the Esd Septem.
ber in the Paris Moniteur, announces that at the
request Of the principal inhabitants Of Tche Kiang
Lieutenant Lebrethon, ofthe French navy, has been
charged by Prince Kong TO form and discipline
| a corps Of 500 Chinese, to be employed in main
tanning tranquility in the province The corps
will be commanded exclusively by French officers
There is at present considerable excitement
| among the ice companies in the vicinity of New
York, caused by their inability thus far to gather
q crop. Usually by the middle of January the ice
men have secured one-half their supply; but this
season none has been cut. Unless cold weather
sits in and continues for FIVE or six weeks, the
panic among the ice dealers will become alarming
and the consumers, next summer will find that the
rise in cotton will bear no comparison to the rise
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in ice.
The st. Thomas T;dcride of December 20 con.
tans no news. The rebel schooner Retribution
had cleared for Turks Islands, probably to obtain
| . cargo Of salt. She sold her cargo of cotton at
45c. SOC. per pound.
Colonel James w. Wall who has Just been elect
ed to the United States Senate by the Legislature
of New Jersey, will hold his seat only until the
4th of March next. He was chosen to serve
out the term of Hon. John R. Thomson, deceased,
and will take the place now occupied by Hon. r.
| s. Field, who, after the death Of Mr. Thomson,
was APPOINTED 70 the vacancy BY Gov. 6lden.
William A. Richardson, elected to the United
States Senate by the Legislature Of Illinois, will
hold his seat until the ath of March, 1866. lie
was elected to serve out the term of Stephen A.
Douglas, deceased, and will take the place Of Hon
o. II. Browning, who occupies the seat by the
authority Of the Governor.
The following are the names of some OF the Off
GERS who have been commissioned in Washington
to command the loyal Indian regiments III Kansas
Lieutenant A. 4. 1homan, Captain Charles p.
Twiss, Surgeon B. Prentiss, Chaplain John Cling.
erick, Assistant Surgeon J. F. Hathaway, Captain
! A. G. Moore, Captain Levi Woodward, Quarter
master John G. Lambdin, Assistant Surgeon J. F.
newton, captain Jonn b. scout, captain John
| Gardner
There are six hundred rebel prisoners at Cairo
who are mostly from Forests guerilla gang.
A good old fashioned fog visited the city yester
day, and was accompanied by the usual amount of
inconvenience to pedcstrianism by land and navi.
cation by water. The vapors were exceedingly
dense in the morning, shutting off the sunshine
from terra TRINA until nearly nine o'clock and in.
terruntinU far while almost entrely tho cus.
tomary trips Of the ferryboats. There were quite
a number of collisions and accidents on the water,
which viii be found in detail in another column.
In the Court Of General Sessions yesterday, be.
fore City Judge McCunn, Sarah Murray was con.
victed of an assault with a dangerous weapon
upon Margaret Creegan, at No. IS Baxter street,
on the 9TH Of December last. Michael Smith, an
Irish laborer was convicted of assault and battery