United States Supreme Court— pl4 for Vecoedom. Trcultingtois, Dec. 15.—The' Sts uremia Court was thronged this merit ing `•y an audience comprising many di-tinguished jurists and m•mbers of 114 ingress, to listen to the artument in I ttial of a suit for freedom. AU the Were present. The eat/. .;r : Dred Re . ott., Iciiiti'F'..Baudierd, came up for argu ment ori questions of law. The plain d man 01 color, brought suit to try Ho l t of freed. m. "He claims to l;:tve been emancipated by his master's laving taken him to reside in Illinois. 1$ 'licit act it is declared by' the Consti tution of that State operated to emau e-pate hire. The Circuit Court decid e i against the plaintiff, on the grouttd t by his return to Missouri his mas t- right, dormant whilst in Illinois, )% as revived--that the Constitution of lliit o ds was a penal law which the r wirt s of ot,ht4 States were not bound t enforce. The rase was argued at the last ses• ft'•.n, brit the decision was reserved, to tor cogitate it* on eertain points of 1- •t. Montgomery Blair appeared for t e plaintiff, and Reterdy Johnson and J-I S. Gayer for the compleitiant.. Mr. Blair openod the cue by stating I it nothing was said at the last sea. 'lrma met question on which the Court invited argument. viz : whether a plea .iliarement of the jurisdiction of the urt is raised by plead; ng the merits i the case. He , quoted the decision o Judge Daniel, to the effect that the of 1789 did not change the rule of .rnmon law requiring a plea in abate. m int. Unless the final judgrnoint made L... 'ii that plea is named, the Court 'mint take notice of the evidence when trying the case on that subject; Mr. Blair proceeded to discuss with . mach ability other questions connected with the case, and, without closing, gave way for an adjournment. Tea funeral ceremonies of the late 8 domon Juneau, at, Milwaukee, were solemn and imposing. The military a7ol &re companies, and an immense c nicourse of people, were out, , to pay fitting honors to the memory of the - Father of Milwaukee." He came th , %re when the territory Was untrod ten by the white. He left it, grown into one of the noblest States of the IT lion, standing proudly by the side of the elder' sisterhood of States. The wisting remnants of the forest tribes t. .ire. also lust a true friend in the Iv , iiie•haired trader. FAstme IN EancatA.—Rer. F. Burns writes under date of Oct. sth, 1856 : '• nem is now a strong probability that the ensuing twelve months will he rather a serious time throughout Li beria for breadstuff. Tnis has been a vory hard year, and produce of all kinds has•been high, when it could he Irol. The misfortune is that in many p:Jces, and for some weeks together, i could not he had at any price ; hun dreds among the natives .even have (I:ad or want. There is every reason t.. fear that the next year will be much worse than this one. POTATOES DISEASED.—The Journal of Commerce learns from a dealer in kVashington market that in nu previ ous year has the potato rot been so destructive as during the preseet sea gull. All varieties of the vegetable are infected, from whatever direction they come. Though they may appear fair and perfect on theil arrival, evidence of disease is soon apparent. Even a cargo fr.im Nova Scotia, which arrived a few days ago, bore the acne indica tion i. ,Ex-Govvaxon Retina has written a letter expressing his gratification at the Legislative appropriation for Kan sas which has been made by the State of Vermont, and hoping that the ex ample may be generally followed in other States. He says if Kansas is left to its natural course under the present rule of Missouri, it will cer tainly become a slave State, and heitce it is necessary fur the friends of free dom to bestir themselves in dispatch ing men and means to the Territory in order to secure their freedom. Rev. Mit. CormAy, who was dismiss ed from the pastorihip of a church in 'Washington, on account of his anti slavery principles, has received a call ft om the lst Unitarian church of Cin cinnati. THE JOURNAL. - Cow . oralsrowt; ?a. Thursday Morning Uric' lit, 18.5. ISO. S. • C-" V, g, I'ALKER,Atti American new pa per Akent,ls the °nig authorised Agent for this paper m the cities of Boston. new York and. PhiTade'his, and is ditty empowered to take advertisements and snbscripions at the rated re vice Ilia receips wiIT trirregarded as payments. His offices are—Bostos, Scot lav's Biti!dings; Netc York, Tribune .Buildings; Philadelp is, N,, NV, corner of rhird d•C hest nun streets. , NO PAPLR will be issued from this office next week, as we wish to give our hands the benefit of the holiday recreaiinns; and that . they neetlit, no one. acquainted with their arduous tail: will pretend to deny. . We :are also entitled to a short t, respite from our labors ourself—the rea.lers.of,our paper will derive benefit - from our play-day. . To the Patrons of the Journal. In view of the fact that the . People of this county are a reading comMuni ty, and in order to faCiliate that desire for informatiOn• which is peculiarly characteristic or our patrons,' we' have the pleasure to announce that We havit made arrangements with Messrs. Fow; ler & Wells, of New York, by which we-are enabled to offer to the patrons of the People's journal the following inducements to sub Scribe for it, ith any 'tif their three popular journals:— We will furnish the'People's Jeur nal and the 4nseriOan PlzrnalbEical Journal, for . 81,75 per year; or the People': Journal and the. Water Cure Journal at the same price—or we will furnish our owl. and ti ,th of those Journals -fur $2,25. TheSe are each large, illuArated !ttuttlily papers'oflO pages . each. Single Subscriptions SI each. We will furnish our paaer and Life Illustrated (an _excelleut family weekly paper, of eight pages, printed in handsome style fur binding in semi annual volumes,) fo. $2,25. The pro spectuses of those papers will be found in another column, ,by which our read-, era will be enabled to see the advanta ges we offer them by this arrangement. No subscriptions will be received un less accompanied by the cash as w e have to pay them in advance, Specimen numbers of, the papers may be seen at this office'. Those :de siOng to subscribe now Till be furnish ed with the back numbers to the com mencement of the present voitukies. I if the friends of the Journal will add 300 subscribers to.its present list, they may safely c 'tint on 1000 Repub lican majority in 1860. We china we ■r• fairly and honorably entitled to this addition to our list, and we ask as a personal favor, that Mi. Crtasc may be cheered with a general effort throughout the couuty to increase his patronage. J. S. M. I The Republican Meeting on Tuesday evening of court wsi well at tended, and will exert a good infltence. The people themselves took the Con trol of it, said therefore we have the more hone of its usefulness. Steps wore taken, as will be seen from the proceedings to organize the county, and we trust that this work will be so faithfully dune, that when the next County Convention for the Nomination of candidates is held, every township will send a full delegation. - A good working county committee was appointed, who will be glad ito correspond with the friends of the geed cause throughout the county. rip. Our hunker friends have much to say of what Governor Geary is do-. ing for Kansas, t they forget to m mention that he has not arrested, or attempted to arrest a tingle ono of th.: mob that sacked Lawrence on the 21st of May. Over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of property was destroy. ed and stolen from the citizens of Law rence on that day. Ex-Senator, Ex- Vice President Atchison was a promi nent leader of that mob, and was seen will a box of stolen cigars under his arm—he is rrow and has been for months in Kansas, but no attempt bas been made t. bring-him to justice. : Nearly every house and- store-:in Lawrence was entered by some of this mob. Trunks were broken .open, and such articles as were not wanted were scattered about the streets—family pictures and private letters wereste id..doatroyuckrAi!iil4itypt,yrerts, fired, and all manner of outrages ‘ corn .. - ; a 0) yet not one Ktite, villains !4rigateirl ittlthis outrage liaa'etier"been Jtyreited, while flee statia..taen, for lid lf . iffenFe witatertir, hare e been arrested bybilodr , as=this is dernocri;cy, and: such is the fairness of Governer_geary... V.9-4[9re, .• tridan , paprs in :this .state. that As -wire to look - up - another fusion, may as well abandOu the- effoil frlie for it can't :he 'done. hr the:late : 'Min - test whenever the WipuldietinS acted 'bold ly on their own platforrn they Sucaeed ed; bnt whed-they taled with Am-eri t.ans they viiire beaten: - I'm, masses understand this perfectly well; andjt ia nonsensseto talk ah,,ut their siiiling nesgtilf'orai another fuiion in this state. The truth is, it is only th.ise who think they are leaders that lavor'such a move ment- ' • Tue g reat body of the Republican voters say, we have tried to ftise with other. patties three times—and :each time have been beaten, •we will have nothing' nt , ,re to. de with such a System of action'. We do not know a single Republican voter, but what 'demands a • clean Republican State Ticket. Such i s clearly the part of wisdom. - So long as we 'attempt to fuse with' other parties there is a failure to present to the'peoplo the true isstio'f arid" Ther efore a failure in securing - the coo;iera- Lion of the voters.: If oni American friends. who agree with us on thealavery:question, prefer: defeat to uniting with ..he, great party of Freedeth which has earned eleven: of the most intelligent and must popu lar States, we can't help it, but for our selves we hive resolved to vote a clean Republican ticket hereafter or' none at Such a *ticket is the only one that can succeed against pro-slavery democ lacy, and it may as Well be brought out this year as to put it Co a more unpropitious time. THE SLAVE INSURRECTION lithe conditio of the slave is so comfortable and he is mn c,mtented, as the slaveholders and their allies go frequently assert. what . •the alarm now So prevalent through all the South. . We clip the following intere, 7 ting item in relation to the disturbance from the,Boston Plegrapk: • A. correspondent of the Ne - w York Courier des. Etats- azis, writi ng from Clarksville, Tenn., and giving. an ac cou.it of the slave instirrecti in excite ment in that region, -ays : " They [the slaves] ; imagine that Col. Fremont with a large artny, - is waiting at the mouth of the River Cumberland until - tile night of 2,3 d 'or 2 or December. Then all this army Will help. to deliverthe slave:..-They have been struck by the sudden swelling of the river, .and attribute this circum stance to the great assemblages of men and ships at its mouth. Certain slaves are so greatly imbibed with this Cable, that I have 30011 them smile whibs they are being whipped, and have heard them say that • Fremont and his men can hoar the; b10w.4 they receive.' "- This miter states that iroi works along thu Curnberlaud river have sus pended operation. in consequencit of the panic: These works were carried on chiefly by naves superintended by white n en; and some 801:1 slaves owned by one man. are employed in an iron mine in the neighbeithood. It is likely that the slaved took this strange notion of Onl. Frercroit from the talk about him among their' masters and others. The mad denunciations of the Repub lican party velich have been so preva- lent in the slave States - have furnished abundant material fur exciting the im agination of the ignorant Negroes to mtrahger dreams than this. It does not appear that they have harmed anybody. eanwhile it is evident that the slsve holders, frightened nearly out of their wits, have greatly exaggerated the matter. in mire ways thin one, "men are te.l by their imagination." This exciteMent fur iiiihes a very significant commentary on that Southern " Ogy" (so they call it) in behalf of which the Southern press is an constantly de noui•cing flee society. AT the .recent laying :of the corner stone .of Pilgrim Church in 'London, England, a note was read from Mrs. Abbot Lawrence, of Boston, enclosing £lOO, and promising another £lOO hereafter, towards the erection of the building: The church was established by the suggestion of her late husband while Minister to England. .: 75 -111 thelm cayiowerir*il %aye a brl ac# s itunt l ,ol some slave in litprectiotiOn Itiinttielty and Tenne4- ..•• • 'see. Ld or accounts confirni..; thes f e rsiet4enta: : and indicate - that ll snsl!.. tense excitement' exists throughout the entire S .uth in regrd, to Matter / Slaves are heing .... hting)n sc . ores,,arld, ,whipped by the bundred.i almost - 401y: Vigilance committees rtave been or ganized, having the most absolute poet ers, and a trial before s whom, is sure Meath to the white or black man, whrise fate it is to be charged wits abolition- ism. In weaker ;dace . will be found an extract showing the ,extreme. settsi• I ti ent4S of the F. : r.sgard .to 1 the Objects of the assemblages .of, their slaves. They live i s dread--theyfear the Shadow of their own works. • And. i now let us inquire w h at is the cause ell this insurrection 1 . Slaves have ears , and eyea—they can heat ,arid.reflect with, perhaps not the .same vigorous comprehension of their masters; but with that slow and .measnred awaken ing of the mind which is permanent. Southern politicians baie made their Characteristic speeclie4 during the late campaign—denouncing and scoffing at the measures of the Freemen of the ' North, and declaring, that ShOuld mont, with his abolition doctrines, be elected President, the Union,vvpulsi be dissolved. ,Tbeslaves.ilf course were often present during these hurangues —.and the more intelligent ones it once conceived the idea :hat upon:the re sult of the late election depended their Mei nal bondage or their early release. They were aroused to 1 : a sense of their degrAell poisition by the very, means adri;ited to secure them more safely in , the bonds of servitude—.and naturally resolved to make an effort to throw ~ff the yoke. Bat, like all other private organizatems their designs. were de feated by traitors—by those who de signedly become acquainted with them to defeat them,—hy the spies and, emis saries of their trembling masters. - We deprecate all such ,uprisings, and place upon them the seal of our most positive disapprobation.. We do not conceive how the cause of the.most ultra. aimlitionhim - can derive any, bene fit from it—while measures which are constantly alarming slaveholdors, can my make them the mars tenacious of their system, and .sensitive of encs oach- ments upon it. Toey themselves hate ! the very sisterr.vriiirli a false interest requires them to frstor arsrl practice ; and only can be'bronght to a•sonse of their duty to themselves and 'their, country by the g'entle but 'firm:princi ples, advocated .by the Republican Party. Vihlent measures are always morainjurioui to the party practicing them, then those against whom !they. are.arlopted —a Inc! eminently estabf fished by the Slaveholders themselves. But those who Ara indirectly CCUICOI . 3. el, but not active opera:fives in rocas ores. are. often the greater lovers by the violent actions of the contending parties. Thus, the l ouhlicao party of the North, being only a " looker on" in the contest between the ultratists of either section, suffers more by the re• action of the battle than by. the fronta -1 diate resu't of it. Black Band Iron Ore. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger describes recent discove.ties the above fantods me at Mcli...ean Co., Pa. "Black Band iron ere is found in Scotland, and I as obtained celebrity fur the peculiar quality of the metal it produces. It makes iron which is much more fluid when m olten than any other, and therefore it makes cas ings'much finer, and with less weight of metal. Toe closest search has been made for it in America—but up to the month of October of this year. it had not been. found of such eaten •and quality-as to be worthy of remark. But in October, 1856, Profs. Owen, of Indiana, and Newham, of Lacka wanna. while examining the new bitu'- mitious coal in-McKean county, Penn., discovered the regular seam of this most •v"uable mineral, forming the roof of a five foot vein of cannel coal, and giving undoubted evidence that it covers a great portion of that coal field.' They suspected that some of the slates •of the coat veins, might be saturated with iron, be cause in no other part of our State is limestone of other vitae ties so plentiful as in McKean county.' The vein is fiver feet' thick. and on. bench of it, eighteen inches ia ness, yields, by the analysis 43 1-2 per cent. of Sias ffic Ainericcm. • We are very glad to see the miner al resources of Northern Pennsylvania itird trie omu o s • re 'y4 is said stOut*so • ripd #l# ?tt bas bee mar to er Sun bit_olitl ant of out 4 de fut. we 146 from a e soifice, =that portimii of tbie Count7iire ri*4 in; mineral ~ieaTth . We hirpe -. -surrey will be made during t)ii, next 'season: ' 4 ' • VI It Gubernatorial Chair. The - Brie - *Ceitslitital - eikiair,. of the . diffiteut 'peesons names have beets 'placed by the 4Vub.iiultt. l -PrePs , ' lts suitable Candidat ea for Governor, has ,the ful -I,wing.langp;_gs:" . sia.mong other tialnes mentioned we notice, Goy...Pollock., David Wilmot JiAge Kelly, EL G. White.' and Wm. Millward,. all good and; worthy man. Whose ability, integrity, and popular ity. are unquestioned. There. are sccres of men in our rank. who 'pos. mess the propei qualifications - I'6r the office, any of whom we will take-pride in supporting in- tbe canvass. Perton.- ally we desired to have a good man from this sectilio of the State, but *e care nothing abOut the locality, so that a staunch, unflinching, tried and poi). ular friend Of human rights be chosen as our standard bearer." The Republican press of the State seem to be unit hnous in.their willing ness to Ihtow -aside all considerutiOna of locality;.and join heart end hand in r utting forth a tiaras which Will 'Con.. .contrate the entire:strengtha . the ty upon the By (1404 only eznA . they_secure.. a .victory.--'but-even then„there,is..a ; Fast -amount ;If :work to: - be perfrrmatil;: . whjcli,..gasi_..tot.- be done in couventions, or, by. the mere prestige of nominations. It is the duty of every. member •.I . the.party to com et :nail now. and .till :he end of the campaign; and that, too, without any . effott -to- form a fusion with any other set of men or - Tarty, whose principles in any •franner- con flict with the broad platform of the Republican Pai ty . : iio -. 'pan be done by their thinking and intelligent advo 7 cater in farm-houie.s' andYworksliops.. than in public . .asseintilagel and .co_4• venqonal. displays. Every voter shoold use his,. iiltence upon his neighbro, and spread wide the prin ciples and objects ()lour party. Thus only can oar, work be effected.. rar We chserve that the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee has published a call for . aDemOcratic State Conventi.m at' Ilirrisburg . on Monday the 2(1 day of March'..lBs7. to nominate candhlates ler Goveinor. Canal Commissioner. ete.—Erie . Ga zette. • . • .Why can't the chairmen of the TU. puhlican• -, State Com:nittee act "with e l ull promptnwii'l The allies" of Slavery . "hive . set their etiponents an example - in the - muter - of energy and promptnoas . which they vrmld do well to follow. • Let our State Convention he called without further delay., THE: NATION... these of our Republican friends who desire to take a paper published at the' Nation al Capital; we would . say that , there is but one published there whichreflects the sentiments of Republicans, and that one is the ,Natioettl Bra,' ft . is a large, handsome sheet. of thirty-twe columns, but three of which .are deru cod to advertisements, thus leaving twenty-nine coluilins of the Most ex cellent - reading matter, made up ofthe. hest materials in the literary and busi ness world. :As it is the only' organ our party has at the seat' of govern ment, it should losve , a liberal support throughout the north. The aubscrip , iien price is but $2, per year.. and as the volume commenees withcJanttary, now is an excellent time to send in your names. To the friends of Free dom iu Potter County, we would say', Subscribe at once for the' National Era. ''Our freshet last , week froze np suddenly.. Several rafts started but very few got through. Probably 'fif• teen or twenty million feet of boards are stuck between here awl Pittsburg. —Warren Mail. Our freshet froze up before it got here. and. instead of running rafts, we are running gond horses and sleighs ever a fine. white-carpeted "turf."—. Our lumbermen, Liu do all their run ning in the spring, are in good spirits in view of the fine prospect fur getting "atock" to their Sniffs. . • Ohm man in California plowed sir enty-five acres with a cow team, and at the same time milked them 'every day. .. I I o• don Times is 1 ad a f740,0 ' (. Its thief editor has a ni t 14'112 ' , 10 a year, and its Paris csr t respo rnt,llo,ooo. Tacna are 35 Presbpotian elinrch. - es in Virgini - ",„ l 7igmilt Paluill• It "a l s, l l l „tildi higliftc-4-Afx-Pre4ol - 'whore free pdec h "subjects fat,litolgsch 1aw..... s . '44 6170.)141J4 Ordicio tfofi.4.Le tc . isbrrg Chroxiele. -- Out Jail iiiiitAbli:iat;te condition aodi: what i. 4 betties; but cusi fferion .been lodgiid in it 'enema than one bight at a time during the 'lig 'five or six multtlii.;-.ll.eunn-..; , /hOisisstiisibe best , policy.,'.' and th, peoplaF,lf Potter:las e adopted it.. . • LETTcas received from London. bring discouraging account/ . of the -health of Dr. KANS. He is very pale. much reduced it/ flesh' ; euldrhas night sweats cough is r alytinjug.-: His Physician„has enjoined, him to leave for a warmer ilimate ail, 400/) sts.por foible, and he , was, cu sail, cos the 17ifi rienifier, „ fc!Fl ,• St ! :Thomas and . Havana: ' • •• TAs Albany - Joursat says'Mt. Dale. van who subscribed-.lag:_winter one thousand duilats for_tbe_rOief of ftsn• sni; hits iniestnii the donation in cloth. ing. Miss Pollan gone out to, sae to its distribution. The following are the articles sent : offs 10 . 4 .? c0 ats„.lso pairs pantaloons, 26t shirts-- ,:,,,; 'making in - `64)0 garments.' ' TELIMIRAPU To Cuist:—.. It is stated that parties have been for some tint* in e wrespomieuee with the Cu b an and Spanish authorities far the preeilese of laying a telegraph line betvyeen-Cu. Sttites. It, is pro. posed to') lay - ti• Cathe 'filshi the pOint of Cape Sable, the eilreme "southern p dot of Florit/a. to Havana. , the . 'dis tepee being a little over 7G miles— about the same-stretch seVihat across the • Gulf igif St. Lawrelnet—;4Neui York Tribune. Tttc Suosit'Tsx.--Gen.Hlnstal, of Texas, not lung since, gave notica in the Senate of a bill to suspend gar tax for two years. Mr. ColfaxMTutay, in . the Hanoi. introdudeiiii ' Pl' 'to"' waif "the tax, The' Pi;blie Ledier . f ' ''Sugar, which ha advanced.O' highly in price in coUsequence of it s scarcity, pays thir ty per Bent . ad .valatim 'duty o its Imports tionanto the United States. The'pnblie, who use it think, it, ix about time ,to make it duty free, for now, the Wither the price, ; the great er the duty. The 'duty operates as a tax upon the entire consumpttun - of the article, and therefore amounts to nearly twelve millions. Sugar, if duty free, would be about Si .cs nts where it is !tow . 14 or 6 where it is new 927 TIIP: ORIGIN' OF TUE This'worm; ff)r the 'fishing of which from the huoiap !it,rniCh we published an illustrated description in. yol. 10. Scientific Anteriaan. is described in the Paris Gazette tlledicale to have its: Or • igin as : "The .1-I.abievra• are never troubled with , it. and dogs that are fed on pork are universally so af flicted; in fact, it turns ortthat a small paiasite 'worm, eine& "crysteceias," (frona two words signifying a small sect and tail, which much.aftects pork,) no sooner reaches the stomach than, 'from the'change of diet and 'position, it is . metainorphosed , 4intn_ • the well known tapeworm ;. and askpetiments upon a condemned criminal, .have ea- . tablished the fact beyond contradic- tion. FILAR to Cautu..—Tiiirty or forty colored people, men and w.onon, as-, sembled last Saturday- night It the place of the late Dr. Aleiauder, near Four Mile Ann; not fir tram AlexanT dria, to eat a grand supper, and. have a good time generally. Despatches were exetanged at once between the Departmentiat . WashinitOni the May or of Alexandria, and the 'Governer of Virginia. Patrols started out,' 'aide a sudden descent, brAe 'the featly . ides, captured the company, ,aad car ried Alierit off to Alexandria, where they were whipped,and fined accord ing to law—and thus amost formida ble insurrection -was nipped in • the 'bud - , • , What next 1 Mercury, at the _Bal timore Sun, who relates these facts, states that all of the party torero young, and only one of them irnied-rand weapon was pistol. We'shall steep . in peace now, if.the Department* at . Washington, the Mayor of Alexandria, and the Governor of Virginia will eon • tinue to keep a-bright look oot.----Na fiend Bra. •