The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1870, Page 8

YACHTING. \An American Yachtman’s Re- minder and Appeal. ‘The Thames Measurement Question—The vonvost | for the ‘‘America’s Cup’’—Apparent Lack of Interest by Yacht Owners. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— ‘The great day of onr National Jubilee ts at hand, and the Vice Commodore of the New York Yacht Club has; it is to be hoped, auspiciously selected it to inaugurate the ocean contest between his yacht, the Dauntless, and the Cambria, the champion Vessel} selected by the Royal Thames Yacnt Club as thelr representative. However much we may fee) interested mm the result ‘of the contest of these Uwo vessels in their ocean race from Kinsale, on the coast of Ireland, to the light- ship at Sandy Hook, an encounter of no less moment to the New York Yacht Club, and of at least an equal degree of absorbing and NATIONAL INTEREST, is the contest to ensue upon the arrival of these ocean racers in our waters, 1n less, perhaps, than five and twenty days the vessels belonging to the New York Yacht Squadron will ve called upon to don their nautical. armor and array themselves in defence of that trophy so gallantly won nineteen years ago by the yacht America. The latter vessel, through the highly appreciative spirit of our Navy Department is now being restored to her original rig and condition, to lend her aid and assistance m_ re- taining the cup she won in foreign waters against such apparently fearful odds. ‘The members of the New York Yacht Ciub, the naval architects of our country, whose fame and reputation “is bound up’? more especialiy in our pleasure navy, a3 well as the public at large, natur- ally ask the question whether the owners of the schooner yachts belonging to the club are duly im- pressed with the great respofsibility that attaches to them and to their vessels, both individually ana collectively? Are they prepared to face the storm of NATIONAL INDIGNATION that will hurtle through the alr from every point of the compass if they permit the Cambria to carry back the “Queen’s Cup,” and the Royal Thames Yacht Club become its future custodians, because one of its squadron has crowned herself with the badges of victory abroad. Have they won only the graceless privileze of ‘lying upon their oars” in list- Jess and fatuitous security—that security “which all do know is mortals’ chiefest enemy”; or do they con- sole themselves with the idea, or, indeed, e dream that they can ever win it back again, In the face of that unfair and NAUTICALLY INIQUITOUS RULE known as “the Royal Thames Yacht Club measure- ment,” and which is now—by the inverpretation the New York Club nave given to the “deed of trast” by which they hold the challenge cup—is multiplied tenfold against them’ And from this consideration alone it is now incumbent, especially upon the owners of the schooner yachts, that every effort and exertion should be made—not a “rope yarn” left unturned—if they wonld not have the ‘“poison’d .chalice commended to their own lips,” with the added venom of a “rule of measurement’ so hostile to their type of vessel, rendering successiul compe- tition to the future utterly hopeless? We hope that is may be otherwise; but from present appearances there 13a decided impression abroad that the owners of schooner yachts belonging to the squadron are not sufficiently impressed with the importance of the coming contest for the Queen's or Challenge Cup, nor how entirely responsible they are to the whole community for its undisturbed possession in the elob, . Considering the very brief time that must elapse before the contest for that possession must be inan- rated—for the Dauntless and Cambria will surely © make the passage in less than a month, and the committee have promised Mr. Ashbury, the owner of the latter vessel, to name the day for the race upon ‘bis arrival in our waters—we surely should begin to hear the busy note of preparation. To many the paucity of entries in the late annual regatta of the club evinced & listlessness, if not an ENTIRE ABSENCE OF A PROPER APPRECIATION of the importance of the coming encounter. The recent contest for the prizes offered by the club was an occasion when every schooner of the squadron should have been on trial; yet, out of thirty vessels, nly some eight or nine started for the purses offered by the club on that preparatory, or, aa it Were, trial race; and as to those that did enter, though their performance was highly creditable, yet it will scarcely be maintained that any were in that complete racing trim that a yacht should be in to fully develop all her best points of sailing on that occasion, Boom-foresatls seem to have been the Tale, the “Ing,” or racing satl, the exception, Our yachtmen should profit by the BXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION of thelr Vice and Rear Commodore, and all the experts and artisans who have been recently with them abroad, and who have witnessed the rig and handling of the Cambria and other of the fast English yachts, and not labor under the delusion that the pleasure navy of Eng- land is now what it was nineteen years ago, wher the advent of the America’ produced such an entire revolutiqn both in model and rig. in fact, in regard to the latter, it is the opinion of many who have recently visited Cowes that they are tully equal, ifnotreatly in advance of ourselves. One great featare and advantage in our centre board yachts ia, that it enables the vessel as a general rule to go into stays so much more raplily than a Keel boat, but our centre -board schooners should take note of their Rear Commodore’s experience, who found in his re- cent contests with the Carnbria that in turning to windward that vessel could ‘stay inhalf the time Mt took the Sappho to gojabout.” y1t 18 no doubt true that the Cambria 1s not the fastest yacht in the pleasure [navy of England, but in her last or tri- angniar race with the Sappho, the manner in which she acquitted herself in the smooth water of Sundown Bay, a course in many! respects analogous to that of our own (on and from the inner bay to the signal ship), ni over which course the Queen’s Cup will be contended for, shoutd WARN TRE YACHTMEN of the New York Yacht Club who have « custody of that trophy that the Cambria is nota vessel to be trifed with, but should make “assurance doubly sure” by the entry of every schooner yacht beionging tothe squadron. By 89 doing they will not only afford Mr. Ashbury and his Cambria the op- portunity of achieving even a greater triumph than that accomplished by the America under the auspices of Commodore Stevens in 1851, but at the same time “take all the chances” of not losing that “most c eted prize,” as most candidly as well as ingeniously owed by Mr. Ashbury himself, for we must remem- ber that “the race is not always to the swift no: hattle to the strong,” bat sometimes the revers Velocem tardus asseqnituy, Byven the tortoise b the laurels from THE TOO CONFIDE Such considerations, session of the “cap’ 4 moment be indulged In were it not that, if that cup is “lost | and won” tn the coming contest, yacht clubs, foreign tothe winner, one and all, will have to face the “provincial music” of a Noval Thames Yacut Oty rule of meastirement. Our schooner owners mos! therefore, “sce to it’ that it is neither ‘lost ¢ won,” either by accident or by their nautical “iaenes.” That cup, though inthe keeping of the ciub, 18 yet ' THR NATION'S TROPILY and, like the handkerchief of the Moor of Venice has &@ “charm about it.’ There was natitival skill and prescient daring ta the winning of it, for ine nautical instinct of Commodore Sievens told tin that le trod the deck of a “Flying Childers” of the wave, in comparison with the yachts he had to con- teud with, The sum fias wearly made Its seven clr. catia round the earth since that auspicious hour, wherefore, we say to the schooner yaciits of tie squadron, one aud all, Take heed of it, | Make it n darling Ike your precious eye: ‘To love it, or (virtually) give't away, were such perdition As nothing eise could match, We would most ardentiy desire, and the coumo* dre of the squadron should exercise his authority an the premises, and iinperatively command that every schooner of the olub shouid “report for auty “and enter an appearance” on that occasion, not merciy on the principle that “in a multitude of counsellors there is saiety” as well as wisdom, but beoause there 19 individual a8 well as national credit and renown and arich harvest of nautical laurels 40 be reaned therelrom. kyery individual schooner ted T HARY vining pos yaoht of and more especially those of «mailer tonnage, leads and “marshals the Oam- bria the wi he iain would wish “to go,” and Teaches or OR stake hoes ahead of Bat years. Tact, n by time allowance, may fuirly re- gard herself us 4 ‘THE VIRTUAL WINNER of the “Queen’s Cup,” and the decorative wreath that will encirele for all time her mode! that now adorns the walls of the club house will be a me- moriat “in perpetuam” of the nantical spirit of ner owner, the skill of the naval arc! who conceived and embodied her, and ‘the seamanship of uidance and handling her suecess 1s to be attributed. other or sinister motive for advocating a full and general opie of the schooner yachta on that oc- casion would find no approving res} among the boat owners and members of the New York Yacht club, | Ml ne’er play false nor yet would wrongly win.” And we assert without the fear of contradiction from the recounted experience of Commodore Stevens and his associates while abroad im 1861, of the high-minded, generous and just spirit of British F pppoe and froin the more recent ex- pertence of the executive oficers of the club, who are now the recipients of their hospitailty, that the preconceried aud unfair interference on the part of the spectating vessels, and even some of the eu- tered yachts, with the America in her contest for the cup in 1851, Was sternly Teprobated and condemned by the whole yachting of land, THE NECESSARY INTERFERENCB growing out of the “Sailing regulations” of the club must, of course, be submitted to, Dut In all other respects Mr, Ashbury may rest assured that our yachtmen and all who with them take an interest in the “sports of the wave”’ recognize in its fullest ex- tent the Hibernian maxim taat “Fair play ts a jewel al) che world rouad.” As faras the result of the contest rests upon acclaents or the contingencies of tides, winds or chance weather, it 16 true that every additional entry lessens the we of the Cambria’s winning the race; but ic must be remem- bered that the America had to face im all these re- specs muuch more formidable chances m the waters _of the Solent and around the Isle of Wight, encoun- tering currents and tide-rips and ‘‘cock-crowmg” breezes from the land as well as yachts of all sizes. and rigs. and some that could almost have carried heron their decks, although not, perhaps, at their “cranes or davits.’” Ps every poimt of view, therefore, it would seem al A PULL BNTRY 18 IMPERATIVELY DEMANDED of our schoouer yaciits, and as an additional incen- tive to the owners of ihe schooner yachts, tie club should make @ liberal appropriation in order to présent to each of the yachts beating the Cambria @ miniatare fac simile of the ‘Queen's Cup” of due value that should commemorate her triumph over the champion of the Koyal Thames Yacht Club, and at the same time vindicate the claim of our naval architects to the decided superi- ority so prominently illustrated by the yacht Ameri- ca in 1851. Our yachtmen, who, by the acceptance of Mr. Ashbury’s challenge, are now specially made the fiduc Mary custodians of the challenge cup (for by the usages, If not the expressed rules of the club, sloops or cutters are not permitted to enter for its posses- son on the coming occasion), should feel a personal anc INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY in the V pety oor nO matier what the comparative rank they fold in the squadron for speed, they should feel themselves bound to enter the ist and ‘«lo all that they ought to do’ in putting thelr re- spective vessels in the best possible racing trim, and “leave nothing undone that ihey ought to do’? to aid in defending the nautical trophy committed to their care. As before intimated, shonid that trophy be borne away by the Cambria we envy not the feelings of regret and remorse that needs must cling to the owner of a schooner yacht belongimg to the club who fails’ to respond to the demands of a plait duty he owes himself, his vessel and the as- sociation of which be is a member, It is, ludecd, impossible to over estimate the deep and conse- quential interests that centre around that embiem of our acknowledged pre-eminence in naval archi- tecture; and it is only now, afier nearly a score of years, seriousiy brought into question, tad we are called upon to SUSTAIN OUR CLAIM to such pre-eminence. Can it be possible that the pleasure navy of our country, or the yacnt club of the “Empire State,”’ holding @ comparative rank in this country analogous to that heid by the Royal Yacht squadron of England; can it be that the lapse of time has Juiled our yachtmen into a false and fatal security? or do they indulge an overweening idea that their progressive improvemeut In naval architecture bas kept that uccelerated pace, giving them the same Vantage ground over the practical skilland yearly improvement made by the yacht- men and naval architects of Great Britain that was so prominently exhibited in 1851, whea the America won her laurels? Such may have been the case some mouths ago. When Mr. Ashbury’s first com- munication, dated “super alum mare,” challeng- ing the New York Yacht Club for the possession of the Challenge Cup, reached us, bis proposition was then regarded by our yachtmen, individually and Collectively, a8 liite short of “presumptuous sin,”? but we are meiined to think and hope that that opinion is very considerably toned down at the present speaking. It is no doubt true that tae Sappho has shown her superior prowess over the Cambria, but it by no means follows, nor is at a logi- cal or nattical or even necessary conseqt , binat the other vesseis of the squadron are even appro: mately the peers of either the one or the otier, ex- cept perhaps over the course sailed by our yacits at their annual regatta, The Vice Commodore of the club, who certainly ought to know the capabilities of the Cambria, is very far from underrating her nautical capacities, and their thorouga and MOST PERFECT RACING CONDITION he hag put nis vessel in 1s of itself the clearest evi- dence that he regards the Cambria as @ Vv A by no means to be undervalued or lightly esteemed, but ou the contrary @ ‘nautical foe worthy of the Daunt- less’”’ wheel. And with all due deference we would suggest to the scuooner yacntmen of the club “to take a leaf from the log’ of the Dauntless, aud from that of the Sappho also, for tie Sappho in her en- counter with the Cambria found that that vessel could turn on her heel ainost as rapidly as our own centre board vessels, and at the same fitne bear im nund “that those who pnt on the hor may Ot feel ax sure as those who take it of For the last twenty years, while the SUPREMACY IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE of our pleasure navy remamed unquestioned as weil as uuchallenged, that artistic amd truly cuaste and classic vase, denominaied by Mr. Ash Queen’s Cup,”” rarety if ever the notice of the public er even of our however much the event 1t commemorat been the subject of comment and disc now the bare possibility, we wiil not say probability, that it nay be borne away irom our shores, and with it the prestige of our long enjoyed navat supremacy, and in future decorate, with added laurels, tne halls of the Royal Thames Yacht Ciub, while on the walls of the festive apartments of the New York Yacht Club will only be seen the handwriting on the wail of the Chaidean temple in letters of fame, “searlug the eyebail’? of the recreant yachtman, sMene mene (ekel upharsiv’—thow act Weighed th the balance and found wanting—and deeply graven on the porches and portals leading to your Cl retreat will be seen the mournful re THY GLORY HAS DEPAR The mere idea of such an event, so humbling to our national pride, makes us feeiingly realize the force as well as the trath of the poctic apothein, (hat blessings brighten as they take their fignt. We hope, however, for better things, and one spe- cial ground for tat,hope is the nautteal and execu tive talent Known to obiain in the committee, who have charge of ali matters connected with the Cam- a social se “a host fimsel and almost racing coudition tn which tie yach Haze, one of George Steers’ later speciniens of his gents and talent, was always to be 1oand, while the | private signal of the chairman floated at ‘her nast- head im tie most complete and artistic cdndivion, and the masterly manner in which she Was handled when he trod her quarter deck, 8 a guarantee that no yacitt of the squadron “pass muster? uniess she is in a condition in ail respects wor ne tin portance attaching to the occasion. ny A yachtman has only to cast is upon the Magic, or to have witnessed her trim wad lundlin at the late regatta, to feel assured that her owne though not, like the ehatrman, ranking among the | veterans of (he club, well Knows the NAUTICAL ESSENTIALS imperatively denuded in a yacht to secure Au any Weil contest-d nautc tl encommier. Phe meinber of the committee who now Ulis the y ocbastoned by the Mr. GL. j gave unmuisiakaile evidenc id while 6. on frst joing | owning and conimandiag 1 ad desided prociivity and app: rentiy an instinctive aptitude for realizing all the practical as well as theoretical requisites of an a complished yachuman. And M wile himsel! that in the socal ver of the commit guarantee that lus lines will pave fallen in sunt places. We cannot, however, ves ngs of deep rogret the resigdation and wilh drawal of THE FORME SOMMITTER. His continuan clited co-ope- apposite and appropriite on the 6 Mr. sehuyler is toe sole survivor of the owners of the yacht Amernca and the donors of the enp now to be a contended lor in our own Waters, chairman of the committee, has conducted with most wimirable Hct aud judgment. the prelvat very prolonged neg with Mr. Ashbury cup, to a co connected with tis chall tor tt tory li parties. ives in the and without pe yachts en- litled 10 enter for me race will as Keenly apprecnaie What his fecliugs woul be to see the trophy he and IMs agsogiates won borne away to “realms beyond the sea.” Mr, Schuyler may now, however, tn the jangaage of Junius, fairly say tothe TRINITY OF NAUTICAL AND BXBOUTIVE POW still abiding in ihe committee and to the yacht- men of the schoouer yachts, “Mine has been bat an inferior and ministerial once; your tive. have — bout brought hina to the | t The sacriti- al instruments are in the hands of the committee, thar, and if the schooner yachts, one and ali, enter an appearance on the day fixed for the race duly pano- plied in their racing armour and in all respects com plete trom “clue to earing,” we entertiin no ap yrehensions whatever of the result. And he Cam- bria Will have no just cause of complaint that she was not fairly a¥ well as thoroughly. beaten, or, on the other hand, compiain that sie was ouly “hawked at and Kuled by a flock or feet of mousing | deposit of $1,000 held by Mr. owls.”? Jt has been truly said, “There is a ide tn the NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. affairs of men,that, taken at the flood, leads on to for- tune and to fame,” On such a full s¢a the cluo have floated more once. While yet io her infancy her flag waved in triumph the Waters of the Solent and around the Isle of Wight. In the winter of 1867 she won golden opinions at home a8 weil as abroad, when the three ocean racers left our shores and reached their destined goal oo England's Sea-girt coast, and still more recently CHEBRING MUSIC of ‘“‘Saphic’ melody has been responded to in the festive hatis of her club house at Cilfton; and now another tidal wave ts flooding towards our coast, bearing on tts crest the undaunted, and, we nope to be, UnVanquished yacht of the squadron, luring and lending, it is also hoped, bis worthy ant it to renewed defeat fn our own waters, and at the sane time affording the yachtmen of America the long wished for opportunity of proving the prowess of their fleet, with a champion of such repute, as will fairly test the relative advancement made in the naval arenitecture of the contending nationalities, in conclusion we cannot too emphatically Impress upon the minds of bhe present owners of yachts the deep importance of the coming contest and the indl- vidual res ibUity that atiaches to them and to Qheir vessels, to say noting of the GLOBIOUS OPPORTUNITY afforded them of winning nautical laurels and “golden opinions trom all sorts of men,” and such that may be “worn in all their newest gloss.” It is no exaggeration to say that as the hour approaches that shall Maugurate the momentous contest for our supremacy in naval architecture the common pulse of the civilized world will be quickened and beat in sympathetic accord with the deep interests atstake, and wherever the electric chords of intellectual communication extend the common eat wiil be heid awake to catch the earliest tidings of the flual re- ‘sult; but. how enviable will be the triumph of the winning yachts of the squadron when, like the “Sappho on her return to the harbor of Cowes, they, too, shall be wel- comed on thelr return from the contest by the tair of their own land, with the wreathed offer- ings of Fiora to garland and mingle their cviors and incense with the Waving banners of adornment and decoration, an acknowledgment to the eye that they have won whe “mucn-coveted prize,’ and, through the eye, warming the hearts that beat in unison with their country’s fame. To have been the participators even in such C A MOMENTOUS CONTEST will be no smalt meed of prase. Iv was the Inspiring words of the first Emperor that won the battle of the Pyramids, “Soldiers of the republic,” exclaim- ed their chief, “from the snminits of those pyramids that pierce the clouds centuries are 10oking down upon you.” Amid the thriiling regions of thick ribbed ice and the deep piled snows of a Russian winter the same voice inspired the veterans of-the tirst emptre, by reminding them that hereafter they might say, “I was in that great battle under the walls of Moscow.’ la. the same spirit, though not precisely in the same language, we Would say to the schooner yachtmen:—Twenty years or thereabouts your club has heid the quiet aad undisturbed possession of that trophy won by the genius of a “sveers’? and the wautical skill of a Stevens and nis associates, Those years are not only iooking down upon you, but they will rise in judgment against you if you’ permit that cup to be lost. Retain it in the possession of your ciub, aud you may be proud to say with the imperial soldier or ‘iroy’s wandering hero, “1, too, participated m that well contesied aad momentous encounter for the “Queen's Cup,’ ua que ipse vedi et quorum pasa magna fii; Wo? which I saw and part of which I was. AMERIC C632 OF LABOR AND SUBSISYENCE IY THE UAITED STATES, WASHINGTON, July 3, 1570. Adocument on this subject of about seventy-five pages, prepurea by Mr. Edward Young, Chiefof the Bureau of Statistics, for the Special Commisstoner of the Revenue, is now m type and nearly ready for distribution. It contams— FACTORY LABOR. Giving tables of the average week!y wages paid in the various industrial establishments of the United States (from ‘Agricultural Implement Factories” to Woollen Mills”) in the respective years 1867 and 1869, The tables are the result of inquirics made of the proprictors of the respective establishments, This division embraces about thirty pages. MECHANICAL LABOR. Several pages are devoted to the wages paid in the leading mechanical employments (trom blacksmiths to whcelwrights) in every State and territory in the Union, giving the average daily rates with board and without board m the respeciive years 1867 and 1869, and a recapitulation by sections, FARM AND OTHER LABOR. About twelve pages are devoted to this branch, The average daily and montily wages of both experienced and ordinary hands, including farm and other common and domestic labor in summer and in winter, With and without board, in each State and territory of the Union, are given for the respective years 1861 and 1869, also arecapitulution by sections, EXPENSES OF LIVING, ETC. Tocomplete the preceding tables of wages, the average cost of provisions, gioceries, fuel and lead- ing articles ot dry goods as well a8 of house rent and board, are given in each State and Terri- tory for the years 1867 and 1869; also a piiulation by seetions—the list embracing fifty. nine distinct items; a statement showing the average weekly expenditures of workingmen’s families in the manufacturing towns of the United States, and another giving the average income and expenditure of similar families in Belgium. THE COST OF DWELLINGS, To ascertain whether the high rents paid by work- men were justified by the Increased cost of building, inquiries were addressed to leading builders in various cities and mannfacturing towns, asking the cost in 1861 and 1869, respectively, of the various inaterials, as Well as of labor, employed in the erec- tion of dweilings for workingmen, The result shows the increase in the cost of materials to have been 58 per cent; of labor, 105 per cent, and of building lots, 147 per cent. Most of the above information was obtained by Mr. Young through the assistant assessors, ‘The colla- tion and tabulation of a vast number of returns, in- volving great laoor, caused d and prevented their accompanying the last report of the Special Commissioner of the Revenue, to which they now Fr a3 8 Supplement. foliowing comparison of tie average weekly es paid to persons employed in woollen mits, in Engiana and the United States, in the years 1867 and 1869, respectively, Is taken from tae tabie on Wages mm Wootlea mills:— Fae work is comp: sive in scope and minute in detail, the object of Mr. Young having been to make as complete an exniblt as possible of the present condition of industry and the industrial classes. Both in collecting and collating the information it contams every precaution las been taken which could contribute to strict accuracy, ‘The report will, theretore, be of great value to the iegisiator and sta hi a vellabie work of reference, cover nowhere € to found, It be a most — use book — for circulation, and especially so among ses In furopean nations from which enn- gration to our country is chiefly drawn, since it would not only enable the intending emigrant to compure the generat advantages of the United With those of his own countr to lim the particalar State or Mition receives the mosi libera remunera- aration of this work Mr. Young has I facts and tigures, leaving it to the such inferences as the data before bo warriutt. vd that a lary dition will pe ordered by Congress THE PRIZE ING. ole nud Allen Fight—Deponiting o| Yoney—Almost a Disturbance. {From the St. Louis Republican, July 1.) The secoud deposit of $400 a side in the MeCooles Allen fight was Jnade at ten o'clock last night, at MeCoole’s saioon, McCoole put down $500, and Dick Roche, the backer of Allen, the same amount, Which wa in the bark ‘s hands, A dispute then arose as to who should be the proper eustodian the deposit, Rocne contendig that neither MeCoole nor his bartender was the proper person, final stukehoider, Mr. Scott, is abse It was proposed to hand the money ti wabroker on Fi ihis morning. ne Mr, Roche in shoud be pat for saie Keeping tn tu King, under the Planters’, or other. place Assurances were given that the money was safe. Mr. Roche offered to bet tweaty cours that he would have tis $500 or at snonld custody of the person whom he design hegan to grow rather squally, when Jack Looney vaulted over the counter, seized the siakes and placed them on it. There were no further demon- strations, and the resuit was that McCooie and Roche got possession of the money each had aeposited, they agreeing to deposit it with Mr. Murray to-day, befere three o'clock. Tt Was also stipwlated that the first yyne, should also 3e placed in Mr. Murray's possession to-day before ten ociock, There was @ goud deal of loud taking, and pistols were drawn, while Mr. Schneider, who eps the adjgining saioon, had to close lus cstab- Hsbtiet aurupily, jearing a disia bance: ake e of Mr. named, son THE COLORED VOTERS OF THE SOUTH. Pollard’s | Address to His Negro Fellow Citizens. c Reasons Why They Should Vote with the Conservatives. Conorep FeLtow CirizeNs—I am well aware thao some democrats in the North have been saying that not only will they not solicit, but they do not want the negro-vote. Now, candidly speaking, the demo- crats or conservatives of the South cannot afford to affect this mighty indifference, and, in point of fact, they do not affect it, Whnle the vote of the negro is comparatively insignificant in tho Northern States, and may, therefore, be despised there by the politi- cians, in the South it 1s important, vital, critical, an element not only of politics, but of the general wel- fare there; and wo, speaking for the democratic party, do want it, and have already shown such evi- dence of our desire for it, that it would be quite useless for us now to affect the contrary, to play at the game of the fox in the fable and declare the grapes sour because we have been unable to reach them. We, white conservatives of the South, want your votes, my colored fellow citizens; but our mistake, 80 far, hasbeen that we have wanted it without affording you a reason for our wanting or an inauce- ment for you giving it, That has been just our mistake. We, your “old masters,” wanted your vote, and, very foolishly, as we now see, we ex- pected to get it by the mere asking for it; and some are now disposed to be offended, and are sore with disappointment, because you did not give them your votes simply at their command, or on some trivial persuasion. For myself, 1 believe that the vote of the negro is to be obtained by addressing his inteili- gence and interest, just as much as those of any other voter; that we must be prepared to compete with the radicals in solid argument and in logical ad- dress, and that the first step towards securing your vote for the conservative party is to give you satis- factory reasons for bestowing it there, instead of supposing that a simple word of desire, or the small- est article of clap-trap, at most, are sufMfcient for the business, sufficient to outweigh the immense and elaborate organization, the imposing display of argument and device that the radical party has brought to bear upon you. 1 am not one of those Southern conservatives who, because you did not re- cently vote with us, after the slight and unworthy ef- forts which we made to obtain your ballots, would say, “Ephraim is joined to his idols, let him alone,” and point the finger to a nope expired and a task aban- doned, 1, for one, now and repeatedly, wish to speak to your intelligence and interest as 1 would Speak to those of any other political constituents. T want to have some plain counsel with you. There 1s no device in the language of the heart, I have lived many years in the South, and from my birth upwards I have been among your people wherever the sun shines from the Potomac to where the Rio Grande, the great river, sets up the boundary of the habitation of your race. Departing from my native Siate (Virginia), as I shall do soon, with the burden of many mixed recollections, I shall leave here, not among the least 1 shail regret, people of your race—black men and black women whom I have lover, and who to this poor life of mine have given of pleasure, and of affection’s experience, and of honor of God's creatures often more than those who have white faces and on their limbs the fine linen and purple and the garments that the black, weary hands of your slavery wove for them in the past. Some of these colored people are yet tarrying in the shade of the great trees of Oakridge where I played in youth, and where in lonely manhood I have stood 1m sight of the sweet graves; some in the Christian and kindly home of a beloved trother, some exiles, wanderers from the groves of oaks, and the warm shining fields which were once all that 500 negroes ever knew of any home on earth, ‘Thank God thagin the worst days of playery: Thad an affection for te oppressed, and that Lcould find it in my heart to say of your race that despite its bonds it was one of the most tender and interesting ones on the face of the earth. I never knew what was meant by the thing called “nigger,” except that it was some sort of thing between brute and human kind, the name for wyeh was invented by the passion of the slave diver. And here [ want you to understand that when I call you negroes I mean no disrespect, and there is no more reflection in this name than that of African or ne other pro- per name of nativity, unless you foolishly consider it your disgrace that you are a native of Atrica; that you came out of that ancient house of nations that age and mystery have made at least venerable and interesting. {[ have always had a strange interest In you; you are yet to become a curi- ous study to the whole world; unequal as you may be to the white man In intellect and cunning and appliance, yet a race of romance, a strange, poetic race, full of humor and tenderness and courage and pastoral simplicity. Be assured that you are golng to excite somehow or other a great curiosity in this living world? and if I have thought of you before as @ peculiar people, you can now understand how with even greater interest 1 regard you, since God has plainly called you from the house of bondage and put your feet on the weary and mysterious course of Ris Providence—the same that led out from the Red Sea and that shifts the sands of the desert and makes all the paths of the world’s em- pire. Now, will you listen to me? You have heard abun- dantly the radical side of the story of your freedom, It has sunk deep in your hearts; it has constituted the very strongest spre of that party to you, and in any ordinary confict of motives or doubts it has come as a& supreme guide, an irresistible inspiration, an unanswerable argument, that you should vote with that party which made you free, In this con- sideration ltes the main strength of the radical arty with you. The argument is plausibie, power- al, and, if the premises are allowed, really unan- swerable. But now let us see if there is not a cou- servative side to this story. Let us see if to this great and hitherto prevailing argument of the radical party we cannot produce an an- swer somewhat better than is afforded by that miracle of stupidity, the Southern press since inc war (for during the war tle press of the South was, indeed, a great estate, the power, briliiancy and tact of some of the Richmond journals being com- plimented even in the conris of Tp ae that wretched journalism which slavery has left asthe yilest of its dregs, to Call assassination chivalry; to abuse every memory of the South for-courage or for wisdom, and to display a daily sloughing of re- porters? wit about “niggers,” as the highest wisdom on those political and social questions which the mind of the world elsewhere meditates so pro- foundly. God Sorb rejoicing: are the give A that LT shonid deny or disparage your your freedom. But, while asking who ors Of this gift, has itnever occurrea to you to enquire from whose loss and suffering you have it, whether from the Northern people or ‘the white people of the Southy That is the question, From whose suffering has your freedom been pur- sed ; not who clitm to have given it to you, but who have snffered and are yet suffering that you might be free, who have paid the loss, and have not yet done paying tt; for [tell yon that under God itis this last peopre who are the donors of your lib- erty, and uot those who say, ** Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Thy nan Now, this is a new view of the subject, andl want you to tay hold of What did the North do for you, and how did it slavery else or it. draw the sword — agamst it did against anything the »perty and strength m the late wat Tt attacked slavery, not out of any benevolence to you, not for any s (ude for you, but that this act might help along the war, What 1 Abraham Lincola when some Northern clergy- en asked him for a proclamation of emancipation, and that after the war had gone on for nearly two Bi I quote for you from that great authority:— W ils muiter as a practical war measure, to nding to the advantages or disad- vantages i may offer for the suppression of the re- belliop.”” Again: —"Some uldicional strength would be added in that way to the war; and then unques- jy it would weaken the rebels by drawing off porers.”” And yet further, speaking to Mr, the Union by striking down 1 will do it; and if Lean save the Union with- riking down slavery 1 will do tt. ‘Chere Is the declaration, and no man can go be- hind it without a lie in his mouth. Now, sce tis. You were freed by the North as a Yr measure, and thus you were fre mm_ no better sense than General Sherman and General Sheridan wok away the cattle, the horses and the mules from the white people of the South. You were taken more than representing the South aw, from your termer condition to dis- possess tue South. [tw ere act of spoliation; a* much so as of the tle that the hern general drove away io his army. ‘The consequences have been God’s; give Him the glory, Phe depriva- tion and the loss have been those of ‘he white peo- ple of the South; and, therefore, at least, give ther im edit of suffering, and suffering cheerfully, that the good proviience of God might be accomplished in you, Tt ts the people of the Sonth who have pald the great price of your freedom. *I ask you, what sucrifice did the North ever make for it to the extent of one dollary And now, mark you this—If the North had ever been willing on her part to pay this same price that the South is now paying you would have been free long years ago. Here is the test of the aifection of the North for you, plain as the day:—You were worth some two thousand millions of dollars to your old masters; It matters not whether right or wrong, there is the fact; this is the price which the white people of the South are now paying for your freedom; it matters not whether willingly or unwil- Ungly, there Is the fact, And now take one more step in the argument, and aay if you think the North would ever, out of its own Penn have paid this price, or a tithe of it, for your lom? And has it not had the chance for nearly one hundred years a its affection for your question here of the rightfulness or Wrongfainess of slavery; iu is merely to test the true disposition of the North towards you, to take the measure of its love precisely in that measure in which the people of the South are now being made to pay in acquit- tance of your om. Emancipation the North might have had any time in # hundred years if it had been willing to testify ita desire for it in making terms of compensation for it—if it had been willing to make even a part of this very same sacrifice that it hag imposed upon the South. There is the fact, and no voice of man can override it. ‘There is no merit where there is. no spirit of sacrifice; and “though I speak with the tongues of men ant of angels, and have not charity, I am become 48 soUnU- wig brass or @ Unk! cymbal.” us look at this matter in another view. There 18 @ large pecuniary loss somewhere; it is two thou sand millions of dollars. In the change of your con- dition that amount of money has gone out suine- where. Now, suppose we represent it as the sub- porin on, list of your freedom. Who are the sub- seribers on that paper—who the contributors. who have set down thelr names to the prices of your freedom’? Understand, the man who owned you in the past has really set down on that subscription pena one thousand dollars or one thousand five junared dollars for your freedom. Well, now, what is the practical application of this view? You owe your freedom, under the providence of God, to the loss and peecyenen of the white people of the South and to the general willingness of your old masters to submit to the sacritice, What does this Joro neaPily rosogutzo whose ios It more whose set you free, and when you see how cheer- fully that loss is borne, even more so than other losses of the late war; When you see the white peo- ple of the South consenting to your freedom, even though it hag put the cluli cup of poverty to their lips and made inany of them as pour and hopeless ag the most unfortunate of yourselves, then, |. say, whatever there is of generosity, counting all under the ascription of glory to God; whatever there 13 of the returns of Christian love, whatever there Is of the true spirt of thankfulness, make to your vid masters, and not to those who have made (God's work in you their boast and their advantage. ‘This thought is of a piece with all I have to say to ba it will bear the seea of ak good reflections. ‘our hberty has come through the tnpoverishment of the white men of the South, and the thought should inspire at least a benevolent regard, a grateful reflection, accordin; to the great truth of Christian humanity, that he who sutfers 4s the true liberator, and not he who stands at the foot of the cross and says:—“I am the cruci- fier.. Lam the cruel executioner. My bloedy and strong hands have done this work, und on the re- mission of sins cast you me the honor and the giory and the profit.”” Now, yet another view. You have heara many times of the indisposition of the North to give you, as from itself, the freedom it claims tu have acquired for you; to give you equality among the wiilte people of the North, as tt claims and demauds and legisiates that it shall be given you among the white peopie of the South. Now, have you ever thought of the signiticance of this, ‘of the ‘evidence it gives of the want of true affection of the North for you, and of the way it goes to help the proof that your emancipation did not come from the benevolence of the North; that it was a trick and spoil of the war— a caleniation to-day of profits to the white people of the North, while 1t 1s # sentence of sacrifice and of poverty to the white people of the South? The whites of the North will not willingly give you suf- frage in their own States, ‘They wili not even give you work there. And while they would set you up as an idol in Virginia and North Carolina, they make you, in Indiana and Ohio, such & contamination and & plague that even the sweat of your labor stinks in thetr nos! Northern men come down here. They organize what they call Union Leagues, They =it with you there; they consult with you there; theyegive you their hands and strike vows of friendsitip and cou- Wonship on them, and you are mightily pleased. ut 1M the North there is another ‘ue thal you are not told of It is the Labor ; and in that league you are daily condemned. You are useful in that organization in the South, m which Northern men choose to sit and counsel with you; but te trades unions of the North won't admit a colored man of you; and, unough they allow the worst white men that Europe spews out in emigrant ships to come in competition with them in the forge and the field, they will not allow you to wage work with them, or éven to come in the presence of their or- anized societies. The contrast between ti 1on in the South and the Labor League in the North tells the whole story. ‘the Northern nan in the South will strike hands with you at the political council fire, will eat your meal and meat, will pig in your beds; but the Northern man in the North will disdain and scout you, and drive you even from tie lowest form of his socjety—ihat of the laboring Classes—will grudge you even a division on the wud: sill of the sweaty bread, that 1s of the very lowest white man among them. Even the very dregs of ther society rise-against you. Look at but two incidents in the experience of the black man in the North as laborer aud breadwinner, Ivhas not been long stnce two colored men were employed as brickmnakers in the navy yard at Wash- ington. The white brickmakers drove them out, and in the shadow of that government which has made so many professions for you a proiest was sent up to the Secretary of the Navy against the em- ployment of ni even to make # brick—a task which even the Hebrews were thought worthy to do for the Egyptians, Again, a negro skilled as a printer, the son of Fred Douglass, sought admis-ion into the Typographical Union. The application was, as in disdain, laid ou the table—not even treated with the respect of auy argument, considerauion or explanation. ‘ou know very little of the North but from hear- say. It 19 to you a tar and uotravelied land; anu re- member that you get moat of your information of it from men who come from there to deceive you and to profit on your, W, ignorant and romantic uffec- tion for a distant and unexplored country. You nave their interested word that the North wrestles in love for you and ail that talk; bat you have the fact that the North never gave you freedom except as @ Weapon and an advantage in its own hand, that the North does not willingly give you suffrage, that that the North does not give you equality, that the North does not even give you labor, the rightto make your bread with the white man and to go with him in the market for the price of your living. And now what is the North toyou? You are going to live in the South; you have got to make your protit there, you have got to make your friends there, and the great question is how to do to the best advan- tage—not in an impossible Utopta, not asin a coun- try and a tinie wherein yeu do not live, but m that land wherein God has let fall your lines and wherein you are to find your homes and your graves, IT know you have got some crosses to bear—that in some respects ptt are not now fairly getting your rights from the white peopie of the South. 1 am free and unreserved, and fearless to confess this. You often do not get justice, you oiten fail Lo see crimes ol jtved upon you avenged by the law. | noticed some time ago that @ negro was vilely mur- dered (for he was in fight at the time) within the shadow of one of your county courts in Virginia and the murderers are as yet unarrested, and {i do not believe that they were vigorously pursued or sought ‘afier with the desire of discovering them. 1t was an out » and the blood of that colored man cries from the ground. But remember that you are not alone in this disappointment of justice—that cven many a white man fas‘falled in rotten communities in the South, where white cowards aud white bawds make public sentiment, to get justice. Now, believe me, there are other rights which you want more than political rights. You want the right to nave justice done you in the courts; to live, in the severest eye of the law, as every inch free. You should have it. You waat something more than this—to be regarded practicaily not as “niggers,” with tickets of leave, not as freemen by courtesy « by any left-handed title, but as treemen in fee simpie and in full estate. There is one terrible outrage on your race, of which I must allow you have reason to complain even until your voices ‘surike the sky. I refer to a hideous war upon your race waged in the South under the forms of the law and executed by the instrument of the gallows. I cannot close my eyes to the fact that 10r years since the war the gal lows inthe South has reeked with black vi Within that time how many white criminals have suf fered the extreme penalty of the law even for crimes thet have made the world doubt whether the boasted courage of the white chivalry of the South, the polite bloodtiirstiness of former times has not degenerate 1 since the war into @ manta for assassinations. The Southern newspapers are full of accounts of Us hanging of negroes, hung by twos and threes at a time, hung on the sligiitest sion. The gallows for the biack man isa common incident of the county meeting. I lately read that in a singic county in Virginia there are shortly to be huag three negroes for participatti mn an alfray which Cost the life of one whi oy. In another county of this State a negro for stealing a few pieces of bacon was sent to the penitentiary for twenty years, and if the law could have been streiched fur- ther J suppose he, too, would have been hung. Let apy candid nan number ihe executions of negroe inthe South since the war compared with tho-e of ite criminais of equal grade and he will bi us fied that a bloodthirstiness bas skulked into the robes of justice and has fixed its withering eye upon the unhappy and helpless black man. Against this legal murdering of your race you need proiection, and, God knows, it is time that this sickeniug gal- lows show was removed from the stage, unle-s there were occasionally hung up the whito imur- dere) owardly assissins—the vile dilch water, in whose veins may plead the privilege ofa wiiute skin, though that skin was got In Darlotry and spewed out of the very sinkholes of iniquity. You want to be respected in your new condition. You should be so. I kuow very weil how you are daily wounded and insulted by caricatures, how roral-witted newspapers revenge themselves on the “colored cuss,” and how everything you say fn your conventions and pubite assemblies is set down in the wsual gibberish of the fnnny orthographerts of the ‘Mozis-Addums” school. Thus a member ot the Richmond press has fonnd no happler vocation since the war than going about to agricultural fairs and county meetings, giving burlesque recitations of negro “norations,” one apothegm of which en pas sant might be applied to himself, viz.:—''Tbat oys- ters have got more sense dan some pussons, ’kase dey know when to keep der mouth shet.”” These Tollies and frivolities of the Southern press afo to be deprecated; they exasperate the resentments of race wantonly, but after all what do the tin trumpets of Southern newspapers amount to whose olamors may be bought for a sixpence and never get beyond the circle of the mutual admiration society of fools. ‘The dog that barked at the moon may have deserved chastisement, but the course of nature was uninter- rupted, All the caricatures of this school, all the Inisepcilipg of pegro speeghes, all the ‘“pigeon-Eng- people of the Mah» of would-be humorists, and all thé, faces that the Richmond man can make to ine gi” gilng py and fashion” of his audience wi 2 e Limits cents a head, hi not avi to prevent the exhibition of Senator Revels: speating a purer and better Fughsp than nine- tenths of Soutneru editors; the triumph of the Jamented Bland, surpassing all the white orators of Virginia who spoke before the Reconstruction Com- mittee of Congress, or the romance which has ree cently figured in all the newspapers of 9 despised Virginia slave, escaping from the scourge to Ohio, educating himself in two colleges of the North, gomg thence to Europe, winning in the Crimean war promotion from the ranks to a colonelcy in the imperial army of France, and now representing the United States at the court of Haytl. ‘The future is thatnly with yourselves, But I would. not have you unduly elated, conceited of successes won by a few of your race. I want you to und stand the whole situation, You are but at the com- mencement of What you have to learn in your new condition—at the bottom of the ladder, Te civilly zation of the white Man is the work of: mauy cen- turies; it 1s the accuumlation of hundreds of years. of labor and sacrifice. The t storehouses of learning wherein the Anglo-Saxon race nas been garnering from a time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary have been ‘building while nations have passed away. This civilization 1s not so cheap that youcan be admitted into it in day. You can’t vote yourself into it, You can’ get it by putting wishing caps on your heads ox little pieces of paper in your hands, The ballot 18 no- talisman; it has no miraculous power; it is nothing: more than a human instrument. You have gol to work for your civilization as iruly as for your bread. For you, as for every nation and people, there 15 but one law of progress, one possible lessen— ‘Still achieving, still pursufi Learn to labor and 0 wai ‘The colored freeman is only commencing his edu- cation, and I have this to say, that to force him into prominence in the political administration of the country—and this is what I mean by negro rule ia its bad sense—is to destroy the negro as well as to injure the white man. The world 1s giving you a great notice; 16 19 well disposed towards every eto) you put forth to make true progress and to tak the reproacn of your race; let tnis cent regard encourage you to continue apilage, to Work steadily on, showing a solid foundauon of merit tor every mcrease. of that ree gard, and not to ruin your future and destroy the whole experiment of your race in this country by an eager, childish desire to appropriate auddealy a civil. lization and influence beyond your true and preseng There are just and intelligent white the South enougu, who will Keep equal pace in their acknowledgments with your achievements and who will be constantly interested and sympathetic observers of your rom. ‘Trust them; make them your triend’; make them your jn- structors, ‘They ave naturally both. The good relauion of the two races in the Soutn 1s important to the white man, but to the negro it is vital, The immigration of white laborers into Vir- gin, which the colored people themselves are direcily encouraging by their desertion oi their old masters, to give thelr votes and confidence to strapgers, and even by their diversions from the fel of ‘steady labor to political excttementa, 1s already threatening to take the bread from their mouths. [ would like to see every colored man un- aerstanding and rightly appreciating just one thing. It is that, humanly speaking, his labor is his all. You have no capital; man) of you have no homes, not even @ bit of xhelter, nothing more of wealth or of hope tn the future than waat is locked up in the horny flesh on your hands. Your labor, as your all, 1 just the most tmportaut of earthly considerations to you, and your whole policy in the Soujh should be to conserve and cherish wt, or In other words to cultivate the very best possible relations. wilh the white people, to Whom you must look for employment and wages. In this mat- ter you cannot serve two masters. Ido not say “Vole with us or starve.” That 18 a loolisn and cruel speech, and Ido not think anything was ever ‘eully gaineu, even on the lowest grounds of inte- t, by making & man vote against his couvictions; for you don’t purchase any umount of real opinion or of good will; you merely buy hypocrisy, which will in the end turu and sting with inereased aspe- rity. But Ido say that you cannot expect more than average human nature from the white peuple of the South, and that when you prefer the advice and tn- terest of the Northern carpet-bagger and agitator, when. you collect around sucd men aud jouw witht them in denunciation of the native whites of the South as robbers, outcasts, &c., you cannot with & firm and uhshamed face turn around and ask these same people you have been thus abusing to do deeds of kindness to you and to stand your friends in the day of adversity. The colored man must, once for all, come out of the delusion that he can sell himself to the League and Nor.iera agitators, and yet at the same time curry favor with the white people Lntred whom these are in daily and uuremitting enmity. He must make his choice, and he should under- stand what that choice is limited to. 1 is @ choice that does not properiy affect his rights (and here it is be so o.ten mistakes); It only ractically to the question wiom he will select for friends aud counsellora, as between self- seekhi and insidious men of the Norta and those Southern people, who have a common home, a common In:erest and—as far as laws can make it—a common future with him, I wish to be cicariy and mpletely understood when I say that I would not abate one jot tae rights of the colored man accrued under the act of emancipation; and I believe there ts a sufticient number of just and enlightened white men in the South agreeing with me in this disposi- tion to make perfectly safe to the freedmen, as long as they exist on the statute book, the guarantees he has obiained from Congress. I do not ask him to part from his riguts; 1 do not ask him to atminish them, In sum and in substance this is all that, is ked of the colored people of the South:—That they should set their faces as flint against Northern emls- saries, that ihey should be reconciled with the ni tive whites of the South and that they should take the position of learning trom them, following the lead of a superior civilization and @ friendly in- terest. This is all. And believe me, colored friends and fellow citizens, when you have done these things. ana have occasion thereafter to stand up for your rights, LO ask why justice has not been done you in any case, why & aie has been withheld or a wrong inflicted, there will be thonsands and tens of thou+ sands of white men in the South who will stand with you to confirm your voices, to emphasize your de- mands, to make your cause their cause and to say for you what you are now requested to say for. them—“Let justice be done.” EDWARD A. POLLARD. TRE NEW JUDICIARY. First Meeting of the New Conrt Appeals in Albany To-Day—The missioner of Appeals. (From the Albany Journal, July 2.) ‘The new Court of Appeais will meet in this city on Monday next. It 18 composed of the tollowing Judges'—Sanford E. Churcn, Chief Justice, demo- of Cone crat; Charles J, Folger, republican; Charles An- drews, republican; William F. ‘Alien, democrat; Rufus W. ; Martin Grover, demo- erat; Charles A. Rapail \ocrat. allo, ‘The term of office of these judges extends through fourteen years, This protractedtenure gives perma- hency to the court, and it 1s believed will add to its dij nity and give greater weight and authority toitsdect- | sions. Several of the judges elected have already served on the bench, and those who have not are eminent in their profession. Chief Justice Church assumes, Jor the first time, tne judicial ermine, But he has had large experience at the bar, and is nized as an able lawyer, possessing all the hig! qualities requisite for au intelligent discharge of the duties of the office, Charles J. Folger is one of the foremost lawyers of the State. He served as Judge of Ontario county for several years with distinguished ability; wa chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate through several terms, and has, in every department of his profession, demonstrated his fitness for a place on the bench of the Inghest Court of the State, Charles Andrews 14 a resident of Onondaga county, and.ranks among the most emincat mem- bers of the profession, He was a member of the late Constitutional Convention, where he was dis- tinguished for the thorough knowledge which he exhibited in vhe discussion of all Judicial questions; and at the bar he early became conspicuous for his clear logic, for his ready application of the general principles of law, and for his thorough ecquaint+ ance with atl the intricacies of his profession. He will honor the position which has been as=igned him by the people. Wiliam £. Allen has an established judicial repue tation, He served through several terms upon the bench of the Supreme Court with marked ability. jie is aman of pure cairacter, thoroughiy read in Fe law aud eutnusiastically devoted to nis profes- sion. Rutus W, Peckham steps from the Sq bench of tiis district to that of the C of be ere He stands deservediy high as a Judge, and will dis- pen every duty of hts office with conscientious ilelity. Martin Grover is a member of the present Court of Appeals, and ranks high as a Judge and as a lawyer. He is the equal of the most eminent of his associates. Charles A, Kapallo, of New York, has had no judl- cial experience, but he has had a large practice at. the bar, where he stands well as a clear-minded and thoroughly read lawyer. Those who know hin most intimately predict for him a brilliant future. We believe good will flow from this reorganization of our highest court; that the interests of suitors will be promoted, and the ends of justice more promptly attained, The character of the men who constitute the court will command the confidence of the peo- ‘pie, and the protracted tenure of the ofMfce will in- sure perfect impartiality in their decisions and more undivided attention to the high and responsible du- ties of the oitice which they Mave been called upon to Ml, THE COMMISSION OF APPEALS. With the expiration of the old Court of Appeals the major part of its unfinished business ts trans. ferred, ynder the new judictary article of the const tution, to the Cominission of Appeals, which is come posed of the following Judges:—Rovert Earl, Herkt- kuner; Ward Hunt, Oneida; John A, Lott, Kings; ‘Willtam H, Leouard, New York; Hiram Gray, One- mung. Juages Hunt, Lott and Earl, having been upon the benen of the Court of Appeals at its expiration, are made members of the Commission by the terms of the constitution. Judges Leonard and Gray were reme Court appointed by the Governor. All are demovrats ex- cept Judge Hunt, Jnder the provisions of the judi article the Commission of Appeais will hear and decide all causes pending in the Court of Ap on the Ist of duly, 1869, and its existence 1a limited to three years. The business which has been initiated during the past year will thus devolve upon we new corrt.