Dailp Ceitgrao. HARRTSp„URG, PA. Saturday Afternoon, January 4,1881 APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR. James P. Sterrett, of Allegheny county, to be President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county,in room of Hon. Wm. B. brOhire r deceased. Judge Sterrett is in every way quailified to discharge the duties of his neerNattetr; if we dare h*eitemOve M a / 4 W NU* lawyer, a scholar and a gentlitirilut. Theft urilen•ot•every-,,Demoerittio. orgemen.the free states, anh those more particularly which sustained John 0. Breckinridge for the Freed dencsVhp,lls,- dal! after day, with solicitude, for thelftatiition ot slavery. From the /eter nal of Cbmineree and the Pittsburg Post, down to the Patriot and Vain," there seems to be a con cert of s ection, while Ahoy mingle- their prayers as harmoniously on thertubject as ever ' ctartrlts sued for mercy or Saints beseeched 'Natter; for blessings. All the allusion to the slavery question which the crisis has begat in , the north, was elicited by the solidnido which such journals are constantly expressing Air that institution, and we question very ,enuch if .. the men Ida; control their, colurks have. any other hope invested in the fearful contest now con vulsing the country, than the prvent hope that slavery may come out of thestitigliln unscath ed if not'Wnvigorateci and clittbsell with addi tional power. And yet these, journals and the class of men who endorse the. ,principles 'they advocate, claim a degree of loyalty far exceed ing the excellence of that which nerves - our brave soldieys to fade the enemies bt"the Union on the battle field. It is a loyalty, however, that ruse mad on opinions of its own, or be comes wonderons wise when' it svelte' the ex pounding of the Constitution in such Mains as will best approve its own excesses, deceits and common machinations against the public good. We are glad to see, however, that the 'really neutral and'independentjournalsof the oonntry, ot at least certain of , *mac cret enemies 03"tn...z4 and by fably quot— ing their own language, tors before the public in 61M light of their WE treacheri, by which it i s alone just to measure ' and estimate them. • The imams of t.',meddling with the institu tion of dietary," 'is no 10 " the wCrk 1s i 4 ' impulsive and '