THE ERIE OBSERVER. BE NJ F. SLOAN, EDITOR. SLOAN 4- MOORF, Pt7ELISHFRS ookTritnir Democratic State Convention for 1857 The tienvierat le State Convention. lot th• parrnar of Pl* ,, ne In nomin•tinn .11,1,440 , 4 for 14,,rn0r, ('anal eimmiaaviner, an 4 Jude. of •iire Qiinteen. , 1.• Tot.-d f. rto flointn.r nest. will be h. 44 at gARRINAtRa, on MONDAY, the iteeanti day of March, 1157, at 11 relnek, A NI J WVPIRNYT. rhaletnan n(qtat. r•ntral rommittPe. News of the Week. in - 7 - . —Vaeyrbere this; weeks paper the der will end all the pertieultsaia whieh have yet come to telt oe k a contain Plated Slave revlt at the South In laying these details borere our readers, we entinet expels*. our own lrieWO hotter than by echoing the !engage used by the Cleveland Mats dewier in commenting upX the Pam! faits. Na one tama ble of tracing clause and effect. Pape that paper, can doubt for one moment that the present alarming slave insurrec tion in the S,nsli are the legitimate fruits of the late muituusee .. e ,d are chargeable to sectioned agitatiogoirainvt the Routh by the Northern press and pulpit, as a race of rutßans, unfit to enjoy the equal blessings of Gov"rrintont, have reached the ears of of these. not intended by some, but Il•ndishly desired by others, and not only w hit es h u t Us...kg are reaping the bitter fruits of their pelitietl it eendiarisro c-Isyes 'n all the free horsier States well nn• derstood what was gain? on in the North, that a powerful party had been orgenited on entered principles Alone. led on 14 the entlaws of ahol,tienisrn, and was making flares. warfare *eosins: she Constitution and the Union, all for t h e ,1„,.. of Np v ,,,i,m and the pnr.P. of flevernment.— Theo heennie g.r.nunv impressed with the idea that if Premnn# wl.4.tiftvi. they were forthw sth to he free' This sill n es,,,, i.r the', pre.,l)i e'lnyr'ranio.• all eyes. the ctatet and thn r prenaratinn• (r general upriging which of late hare been dieenvered to an alarming extent and ',Mei, have been t•nt dnwn b♦ the halte , and the whir, Rad Fremont been elected, the bnwlintes of the abolition pref.. and the maniac ehout• of abolition orators won't have worked nn ft fearful state of thintt• in the South. and nut in iennardy the tires of white man. woolen and ehild in that dark and doomed teeion. Bat the Timm' re•utte of a eenernl Slave insurrection in the South would pervade alike the where country. Thousands. yea, millions of defended humeri heir,' of all ages and sey•.. who never hare had to prnatde the mean' of a livelihood f - ir them•e'ves. would he thrown suddenly upon the Free Cratpe for the neeeteerlem or life. and they world be tne;fl,,,i, i n the eh.ence emnioment. whieh they ;iould not rAti a in, in planderienr a eubsirtenre front those who. by The , r tanatical intermcd.linz, hare hrouzht this evvvt pvi; %pm" 01.11 Wl , ll trArnhl;ne int•rpot ohnn'd whir mon and qntrh worh thi• npw of din n.r tosen The w-rk %!mift•ht,. 1., nl *rid *S. hrnrk , I! u•n+l 'tr. the fire t, If tb.v 1-.5 n.O hanz t, the rear. , t ^ he 0" , nrle, of T 11.17.4. Lvneh the• ero put under re.trfOnt. h1th... , 1 unknown rre.r .11 of rPl.7;notitt•ana , 1 t7',lo.mrtk•.l 010 ‘,Aznr,T '1 pert ♦ and aT...•‘•.on. If th•v w I t* , t , th. •nh, , t no a groa, Innr , l l lettl , lZ ‘ll mer otArb, 1 , 11 , CrII! and th•ir Tiflß4 11,101611 t dennTIPIStjAIII, ILP II vs% in the earlier ,li k v. o f t h e R.n ti hlie., wh•n r'arer'' wa. tot er►t4.i in ern.T s'ete •Ir.' interest. wnnl4 }.4. her ter sn..rveil —From all aerount• Albetn•. V T is bleseed with more desperadoes—deril. in I unto," shape—than any r,tv of ir• site in the Unon. We puhliphed 1 ., w weoh•ago th. fact that a lady—% Mr. liulg.--was fonlly'mnrdered in the stre•t• and that no trace of th• nernetrotor of tha tragedy could he discovered Following in the woke of this. we find in the Ereninc ../Mira. , ( an account of an attempt in the came direction equally diabolicsl in design. hut happily frustrated by the pretence of mind of the party attatiked. Saturday evening last. is a daughter of Edmund fort. Esq . wat returning to her home, at lariat 9 o'elocis. she wa. 111.1 by a person. whose features were hid by a slouched het and turned up coat eollar. who, in the set of mooing, suddenly rtised his hand and attempt. ed to place it over the month of Mi•PD.IT The movement was nntieed. and rlni , dt as thought Miss D. turned her head ' , lightly, receiving on the cheek what was intended for tb, mouth. sereoming loudly. the ruffian fled, and in a abrotione several eitirens came to the resins of Miss It. She was taken into a dwelling near he, when it was found that the ruffian had Attached to her cheeks plaster of inch e,harlye propertie.. that its removal brought the skin prom the face with it' The evident intent of the assailant was to rover the mouth, and thus prevent an outcry. that he might accomplish his fiendish parpooso (whatever they might bei with ,omparatire Ln Virenla a fall rote was polled, and Boeh•nan's majority is more than thirty thouraild The State has never voted againit the Detnocratie ratolidate for President sinee the rice of parties She gave her electoral vote twice for Washington. three timer for Jefferson, twice for :Wadi eon and Monr-•, f r Crawford in I g. 14, twire for Jackson, twice for Vsn Buren, rnce for Polk, Casa, Pierre and Bo rhsvi•n. --We observe that the qnestion of Bissell's eligibility to the post of ri ivernAr of Illirols, to which he was recently elected. is again becoming a subject of diseussion Col. tell accepted a challenge from Col. Jibff. Davis. of Slit si•sipp,, in 1850. for words spoken in debate. The Con st,tatis of Minn,. declares that the otter or acceptance of to challenge sball he deemed a disqualification for the ogre f Governor Now the cl...it:inn it. whether the application of there words it limited to the State of Itlinni•, or intend- for all creation --Adviees f.om Labe Superior says that the statement s whir+ hire reeeotl♦ appeard in tho papery, to the effect that the inhabitants of that region were short of surPlim and likely to reel severely during the winter, are untrue. They have supplies enfficient to last antic the opening of navigation, and * gond etnek of powder for mining opera• OEM —A young lady at the F,mals Seminari, Elmiro, came near dying on Friday from the rffects of ehlnrof. - irm. She found a bottle of tt. and being pleased with the Earor, it- Wad too much. Prompt medical treatment restored her. —A Mall Robber was discovered at (jeer, a s h or t ti me sines In the following singular manner. The robbery was committed on the 17th of May last, and it appears that the keeper of the anion hotel in Owego, last week, in making some improvements, determined to change the location of some of the fizturee in one i.f his rooms, which would in cur a necessity for removing the door. A porter wbo bid been employed by Mr. 13 last summer, but who bud reeently been discharged, was present, and protested against the proposed change, and the design was abandoned. After. wards the children dropped some articles through a large knot bole in the door, and in attempting to book it up with a wire, a letter was drawn up. 'Another attempt drew up another letter, when the door was taketi up and the missing bag discovered, with a large number of letter partially barbed —A man named Charles Town has been arreeted for for ger; In Philadelphia. He appears to have been very bold Jo bit operation'', in one of which be forged a Dote and (leek, and drove to Bristol, and went with them to the Parser , II Bank. Bank hours were over—be visited the •Cashier's house and presented them, aad the Cashier, after some weeny, setually took the trouble to go to the Bank to get the money to pay the forged cheek. The midway of this move is hard to equal. —Two boys yet oat to throw a train off the Providence Railroad, last week. One was a great scamp. Ile said. when arrested, that his calculations were that qtrite a number would be killed, and in the excitement and con tagion he expected to reap a oosaiberoble sow, with which he preload to leave for the West. —lt is said Secretary Marcy is on the track of certain parties. engaged in forming an expedition, under General Pan, for a descent on Vont:alit. Rumor says that the Information in the State Department implicates • leading New Task steamboat man, and shit, that the balance of the Law muskets not sent to Central Amities were to be i•mployed in this new filinnstering expedition. The •teaser Daniel Webster is elosely watelnd. - -Lite advtom from KINIINIA say that Captain Walker's militia at Lawrence wen mastered oat of smoke on the •ame day that Tito,' militia were dismissed at Leaven. worth. Governor Geary bad the skins of the free State prisoner reserved from sale at Lesiveoworth until they could be released sad bld for them. —The Mayor of Chicago has provided for the porrhaso sad delivery of 3,000 cords of wood, at cost, for tits woo of the poor, the sorting winter. Tie diforsot Hass of railroads socroad this philaathiopie object. by Wigging the wood isto tie city. SIP It is stated by metre the Poetised, Yale, paper, that therstere about lye thinned believers to Spiritus/ion la that eity. Perhaps this fact—if .het it Is, auto we have ao emse to doubt it—ssay seecoaat, la past, for the mare esadsated pepalerity of Promethium to that legality.— Whirs as. fanaticism' rases, °then paw* fad a coop- DECEMBER Ds, 1 DS& What are they Doing in Coagread Nothing! Or, what is worse, perhaps, keeping up the eternal, never ending, di* about the negro . Every thing, or rather every question, now is. wolves around the Black Race. Although the descendents of Ham number only about three millions, to something over twenty :millions of whites, the legislation of the country—the talk of theeoloos of the oouutry, in Congress, in the press, in the pulpits, - even—ends where it com menced, with the sere Thus Congress ek.nsum ed a month or six weeks ins electing a speaker at the last session, and the whole diflicutly at the bottom was " Sambo :" After it hadosucceeded in this particular, and was ready to proceed to business, Rambo's" woolly head was thrust in, and then the balance of the session was spent in discussing the•relative merits of free wool, or slave wool At last Congress adjourned, but "Rambo" did Dot, for '•S'ambo" never adjourns;ex cept from the ails of Congress to the hustings; and from the hustings to the polls And hence the Presidential election was fought for " Sambo" as an issue. That over, we were in hopes to get rid of him; but it seems all such hopes arc fala cious—for no sooner, is the Speake rs s, rap heard, calling the re-assembled Congressto order, than in pops "Sambo" again, as lively as ever, and not a shade whi:er. And hence we say that Congress is doing nothing—it's only discussing -Satoh° " But patience, reader—the white man's day will ...time re long This ('ongrss is draw ing t , its close' On the Fourth of March next it will sink into oblivion, only to be remeinher , d as a warning to the people to beware. , of placing pow e r i t , th e h a nds of fanatics and knaves t'ery aprp.i to the above, i 4 the folingring from the N , w 1 ork THE IN:.3TITUTIoN OF THE. AFRICAN —T nogro tbo end, uud be Alpha:lnd Oin• the Bt.tis, Kappa, and Delf.t too, of our N.OOrN Engl.tud Yaukve r )untrytuon, and of our Statio , people divan S iu yot but tow of th w know ibe cupacitin then: are latent in the Afrieuu Congress, for example, has but thre • mouths to sit,—and has a world of legitimate work •., do The Secretary of the Treasury. in his it. • port, Las laid out ithough to occupy earnest tu• minds continually for thre.. month. O u .• w ,ek has gone,—an I from breakfast till diun.., and from diuiter t tea, and from tea to bed,—it " negro, - " or•gr..," -negr ~- - as if there was not a pure white man iu America Well,—why 31ainly crow', iitt" ii.. 1 , 1.4 dap of tit. 1 1,15T1 . 0,i THE 8601.100,0611 CoNGRE: , -; IlAc Tu nrsnutsx Wlict there is Ito discussion up .ti white Luau's appropriations, all other tin,- being .Ir v..tod to "the negro, - -of course, the iluiner for ft and plunder by th , lobby . i. great,— writ Loa-, if white man's public business-was pr.. periy attended to, the Lobby would be watched, and the Treusury guarded. Many South Western member, thus combine with some .4he pule Abolition pal rt9ts we send front the North, thu+ to absorb all time fir public business discus:do'', in discussion of " the negro Is there n.•l honesty enough in Congress,—if not sense eriou4ll, to stop this? It is in the storms of Pa.ssion and Fanartei-ni that great public robberies are perpetrated Throw du.t into the People's eye.. and they cannot ace who picks their pockets Hence, as we started with saying, the rapacity of the negro is infinitely greater than many people calculate upon Why So Silent about California ? The Fremont press is very silent about the result in ('alifornia; and well they may be—as he has only received about twenty thousand votes in the State, and is beaten by Mr Buchanan in the n. ighborhood of forty th )wand This r.•-u lt proves how utterly he wa , lacking the neet.s4r) characteristics for a popular candidate—how the people at home," on his own domain, where he should be best and most favorably known, do utterly repudiate and reject him California, it was supposed by many, would be the turning point in the Bresidentlal election The Black " Re, publicans' . hoped to take all the free States from us except, perhaps, Pennsylvania; and of this they were uot without strong hopes and expecta• tions In yielding to us Penn.)lvania, they knew we required one more State; and Calif iroia 3en'ol thus most likely become the real battle ground To make sure of this State, it was ui • cessary for our opponents to have a candidate who would carry it without peradventure This was a subject of much atiti earnest debate in Philadelphia by the wire pulleks during and be fore the sitting of their Convtixon Their de. vision is known Fremont sink/elected 3:1 their champion because California was his " home," and the scene of his ;prat exploits But his fame and his popularity it seems was distant from his home There, where he ought to have been best and most favorably known, where his popularity should have been greatest, and where his character and achievements should have been most respected and first acknowledged, he seems scarcely to have had friends enough to give him a decent interment, certainly not with 'military honors Ile averages about one vote in five: In Mariposa County, the very citadel of his puuer, nearly ill the voters knowing him personally, out of fifteen hundred and fifty five •otes, h e re. oeived just !' In what way will the Black "Republicans" accounts for this No one, nu• lees he had in some way shamefully forfeited the respect of a people among whom he had resided for years, could have been so utterly repudiated and rejected as be has been The damning prouf we bad in the Atlantic States of his entire un. worthiscsa for the place be was aspiring to, could hardly have reached California to have had any effect, but it is cies: the people there required Such documentary evidene.i SENATOR BIOLMC A BPM H h e Gq zett, publishers, on the authority Of the N Y riniei, that the admirable Speech of Senator BIGLER which we have promised to publish next week, "iskieking up quite a bobery among the supporters of Mr. Buchanan " flaw much truth there is in this can be interact from the remarks of the Washington Union, That piper says "it will be received by the whole country Inth the con sideration due his eminent position, his large ex perience in public life. his undoubted abilities, and his well known devotion to those principles under which the republic has become prosperous and powerful The debate it the Senate widens sod deepens is interest and importance as it progenies; and we fell quite sure that Gov. BioLta's con stituents will rejoice at an occasion which has placed their representative's love of country and the peculiar powers of his well-balanced mind in such a prominent and advantageous light before the nation." /fir The Christian latelligencer, organ of the Dumb Reformed Church, him a pointed rebuke of the Bombers. It alludes to the indepesdeet so-- "A hybrid concern published somewhere in &skim st. which advertises itself as religions, while it is more outrapously realms and un scrupulous in its fiery partizanship than even the adventurous Herald, with which it consorts in »!o PrriTT7•ll The late eleettotr has shed a doud of tight on Kansas affairs, and ruotires of conatalment ing been removed by the defeat of the Black Republican candidate, their organs and 'grata can afford to Rive na occasionally a glstamor of truth For instauce, in reference L then utrages cotunaitted in that territory. the Herrib( o,i Free riwn, au organ of the Emigrint Aid Society, pubiished at Lawrence, K T . says : Disguise the tact as inueli as we %lit, there 114 a sla.s it arespoustble peri.ius,esluog oeuosi.vesi Free State men, echo are es s foyal iM horss.steal iv, mid ~ther r rirne avaiast the stin,ry adders, sod excnsiug themselves uuder the plea that they have sustained injuries it the !limbs of the patty on which they commit their depre• data ois Wheth. r they have sus:awed injuries or uot, :he ) are ti it justitiahle in einituttting outrage up.ci tb person or property of others, and if c , .uttuucki 1);_! punished for it ' Whit' d'reioState w. u sanction these outrages upon the Pro Slavery party, we hope they Will n c•Juiplaiti if tio v, or their friends. suffer at Ir Every pr •p,: rte •r aul actual re•id , rit of Kat,sa• let him bol,,ng to what party ho ,lestr, 4 p hhould labor to secure it. Both liartieb al . ,' I , onpeilt , l to pin hands, Ili "1.1111:! tttr eLoAutry ~f tit, bl.telt,lep, hor• , . tlit,e, • awl lunrierer• with winch Kaa.3s is in• ft..•••. 1 It twenty or thirty of this ela,, of per • .n• on e,teh ar, re tlispo..• t of a 1,1 Viek• , hue ar e ,hout,l i, tee ttul r agliti A Vigilance (' e, wad,. up the ullwtlfrs of both par• is u. • , I, 1 t , bring to yu•ti , ... tho-e who are lah •ring lilght awl , lay, to oring aL qaT another r. I I•loti I,et wren •he conflicting, po',l p irt le- W.. :Sr. tui; many pr(frsoNi F ', .. Slate InAn WM f.r .ISiCrt trierniprrS , rsir °IC •fi party are rots , turf' in (APO' r,ntre79o but wt. 1. US( lee 3114 quirt 10 ti,e country na n r than their gool vrill N. , wrong doer, be, nig t what patty he tuay, nee,m czpeet figi.l an air, ,gint 1. r hl. rc rlu I ful L.q.• ul Om , 01,1 f , j Er , •.(,,,n It w.as pLautaai tobutp..wryt, tbe eau-e ‘.l Truth, and i; shall be fattlifu. wb , ,••• • h exeoenee Yle .able palwrboantiugly woo,rt, loaf K - .u+ . +s 0.411 ‘t p be,:ornA slavt• State, let Ill.! N. tuntal A wbat 0 will Ph prawip:4l3.q.,!. tin°, by whit:ll tne il.cpubilenun r• Right t i ILlflUellet• hu public win,' prior to the plemior. Pit tir4t, tiro 11111 tun nn u•-• nstubor f -outragp." had been commit. t upon HI- Free State men with ,ut provnelti .11 or r •tali won ; I n cond, [hut upon :he ,f tot cieetiou tile) future fate of wou;,l me !bun anthoritiveiy brit. LA by :h vt ry b•-st that , ,ui I he . 1 1 1 Binck Itepubiacan r, KAtI,A• •rrit.ir ) , *lmre all tuo , t, 110 r. tGI ~r f.tr tro.o deip Aiding, assure, its trieli.l- thatf..[if i .a l leirizms Arcim.ag Ira. r t4.1/1 To ttto , e tt. , te -t but tu,- ) . t utkb , l wet, ti ,1 .1 111 Ow statt.utvnt4 Itepub e.tn' pre‘ ,u , to the electin, the , - revelactous *tti ilid. , I NC. to stratity,uud, vr. iliojiC, 1.%111,1 tit w Vi.,.lt !oily tt 1, to pip their fatal to th.' sleet es ~r demagogue' —Pennsylvanian J Glancy Jones. Eaq.. ,1 t,4 't.. I En,, 4,rer Entrotts —lt ha, become so coin. m f.,r indiscreet persons or friends t.) bring forward the n.rue of some favorite for some re p , n,thle poet, and SJ to laud him that it i• really difficult to get the public to give due weight to an unvarnished statement of the truth when presented, touching a men of real merit, and one every way qualified to fill a post to whioh his fellow ctttzeua may, from a SeLvw of his entire tiros•*, r til him The national election so re , ceut4 Legs LAS resulted in the choice of the staudikt I le.arer, Alr Budianan, who sati,, if h livt s, be at the head of the nation f or the heat four years, front the 4th of March neat It will soon be necessary for him to ,00k around for a Cabluvt to atd him In the administration of this government, and doubtless, many friends, ar:it bring forward the name of some favorite fur a seat in the Cabinet Here, if iu an) p st in the Cabinet, a man is wanted einiticutiy national, and prudently sc.! quaiuted wilt all the duties and interests coming witutu the range of his responsible atatioc, a man t ,0 with a clear heal, of industrious habits, and t tiudoubt,d, well tested fidelity to whatever trusts may be cuutiled to.his management; these are facts w',..krh we presume none will question But where are we to get such a man for these pmts iu the Cabinet, may be a ques too' To this we answer, that we have one, just such a Luau, th , very man himself, in J. Clancy Jones, 1.1-q , the popular, able, and deserving reprcsen t4tive. trim Old 13erks, Pennsylvania. Mr Jones is a practical man—la every way familiar with every matter of this government however great, or however minute, connected with the iuterests and workings of this government; has indeed been connected with its affairs, for many years—has spent many years in the service of the nation, and therefore, from his long experi• once, from his well known energy and nriques. tionable tilelity, and, in a word, from every el. went going to make up his character, be is the very man whose elevation to the Cabinet will be hailed with delight by his may friends from one end of the Union to the other. Speech from the Vice President Elect. T electors of Kentucky, after getting through tbiir business, waited on Hon. John C I3reekin ridge, the Vice President elect, and after a speech ootiAratulation from one of their number, he replied as follows : GENTLEMEN • I am very much affected by the unes.p..eted call made upon me, and by the hon. or which has ben paid me, but I receive it with gratitude The eloquent gentleman speaks of toy having been one of the leaders of the party in this. struggle I have been, gentlemen, a ir, vier, without effort and without duties. It was my humble position to sit by sod see the hod, won by those standing around me am very h ippy, I assure you, to see these utlernen who have contributed so much tom olutionise Koitocky, and bring her back to her old principle- , 1 hope I may be pardoned on /to. oeeasi.in for making a single suggestion, as I have ,t had au opportnnity >f making a speech in Kentucky during the canvass. We have greatly the ascendancy, and it is necessary for us as a party to maintain the supremacy. In t hi s contest the viotory was not woo by the De: mocracy alone We would have perhaps been iu the minority, for we lost numbers of Demo crats last year, who went into Know Nothing lodges, but we have receiv-d aeoessions from the Whig party, and have carried the State by the u ttr,l efforts of the Old line Democrat and-the Whig parties I would, therefore, say to my Democratic friends that it &ceps t 4 me to be oar duty to wdeome and accept these choice eld line Whigs, the gems of their party, who ha've iortted ns in order to manifest their patriotism by uniting in supporting the Constitution and the Polon, and bi break down the worst organisation that ever had an existence Now, by maintaining this otwaniution, composed• of all the Democrats and Whir who love the light of the States, and who are opposed to the proscriptive tenets of the KnosiNothine order, by associating together on the principles of cordiality and friendship, will mo only maintain the position we have, bat tit •Qe Whig and Democrats who have for a time ken led astray, wilt again return and join our rank.. Again, I return my sincere and prof found thinks for this testimony of favor and re, gard le. A umw Waite' is • pod bap 1, pisty--h•see s Isablesable silltnor dues sante 111 oar chartists dam • dams aims Mow, or hoar hay. =DJ --~.--- 111•1111111111MIEW FBOY ' nrif GTON. Correspondent,* o f.raml franite. W.AsilumroN, Dec. 14,1856 I have carefully absOlined from entering iota sp!eulation on the !subjects of the Cabinet io my e. , rrespondence wi;lit the Pennry/oanion, but really if yea weal fr is Waalkingtou yourself, and / could see the arraugemeots g oin g o n among wine .f the ppliticison on this subject, you would b wile. _Alien are put up and pulled down for the Cabinet, just as if Mr. Buchanan had no hand to selecting his own oonstitutional advisers; and , what is more amusing than all, k the learned iu)stery which some assume who are anxious to. create the impression that they alone under stand what is going on. The real, strong common men of the [louse and Senate, have full eoutidence in the patriotism and ciperince of Mr. , Buchanan, and do not for a moment doubt his perfect ability to select his own Cabinet officers, It is stated that the Hon CalebCushtng intends remaining in Washington after the close of the preseut administration, to practic‘. at the profea of the law. The vote in the Savannah, or Southern Com mercial Convention, of throe B..ate+, in favor of reviving the slave trade. 14 much commented_ upon here, and I am within bonds when I say" th tt there is scarcely to be found in the City of washington, any man from the South or North', Who is not surprised and mortified that any Stan. .uld have thrown its vn:e in favor of the revi Va: of this scandalnik inhuman and harbarow, traffic There is n reao=on, Epn justice in the idea .t the slave trade, and theref ,re it is deeply, to I, • regretted that any individual, much le:ss a *ate of this Union, should commit the error ..f 'ording a vote in favor of it ks the Rich le mil Enquirer very ably and powerfully said, the judgment of Christen I ou; the whole moral tud religious sentiment of this country and the a' 'rid, it against a revival of the slave trade, and hw attempt to bring it about t< m teh more worthy s ome s avage reef m than ot I civiliz , l com munity The Cabinet. 'N. Washington correspondent of the Altai & Argus, sends the following to that paper concern Ing the Catnnot of Mr Buchanan : Of course, nothing positive can he known , t in reference to this 'natter, but the current h lief that prevails here is entitled to s.ime coo. sidoration. The opinion is very general that Gen. ciss will be Sec,retary of State. His appoint. 'neat would be very p puhr :Cow England will !ive a mat, and that msn will likely be Senator T Ineey, of Connecticut. J Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, it thought, will b.. appointed The remaining mail to be taken from the non states, will be either Bright, ur Wright, of Indiana, or Richardson, of Tuere will be fur members of the cabinet +', , m the North, and throe from the South. The ottheru States faun which the appointineute wi:l probably C.)Ult! are Virginia, Gre(.rgii, and la bauia The latter State, with perfect hoc nirnity, is presenting Una S. aim/lawn. as the cholar et boils her politicises and people. Cobb grill certainly be the matt from Georgia In Virginia, chalice, are best. JUDGE CAMPBELL—Of the report of the l'oNtmaster General. the Philadelphia Gacrtt, , opposition print, remarks —lt is due to Mr Campbell, who has made his last annual report to Congress, and is about to retire from his high office, t say, what inde , •,l we can say in str ,, ng and vordial terms, that hi. 1131 - performed the onerou4 but h..norahle of that office with a -Ingle , ye to the interests et( the public, with :ndu , try, and ability unsurpassed, that he ha, ful:y the and answered all just maims ~ f the eorninunit upon him, and will losay. the department :n a. , pr,s perou. a condition its was possil , l. , for the ail. Ei nnistrative skill of 3 sttlgi ,, man t ren ler -... Negro Plot in Virginia. We learn that a plot, firmed among diveoctent negroes, for a movement against their masters, was discovered during the first of this vritek, in the vicinity of Willtamburg, Va Five of the ring leaders have been arre,te.l, and an nd put to the attempt at revoit A similar ocearrenc ws hear took place in Nlniatogmery county R ishmond Despa trh, Dc,• 13/4 WASHINGTON, Sunday, D. e 11. ICA; —Ap prehenvons are entertained ~1 a negro in,urret lion at Alexandria, , I, miles di=tant The whites arc much alarmed One of the city authorities applied yesterday to the War Depart ment for a supplyt.of ammunit fer Ils e in th e event it should be necessary. I cannot I.arn th. ground on which thes,t fears arc base,' THE NEGRO RISI:40 IN FLORIDA --A'gcutle• writing from Quincy, over tno anonymous signa ture of Floridian, informs ui that bloody con spiracy is now ripening with a certain class of the population fif this State, against the lives of our citizens, and that the devOoptneut of the plot is to occur sometime i t tween the morning of the 25th lust , and thifirst day of January nest, ensuing We frankly confess that we place but little confidence in the statement, yet quel l a thing is possible, and sugge..ts 'very forcibly the propriety of organizing an active police force in every neighborhood to guarl apiust the impro bible contingency. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE —A heart-rending occurrence took place in Stockport, Cann:aim County, N. 1 . , in which a child was killed while in the arms of its mother, and by her sis• ter. Mre. Dickcrman was sitting in a room with her c t hild, a boy of about two yearn of age, upon her lap, engaged in dressing it, while at the same urn. , her sister, a Miss Platuer, was cutting the wick of a candle with a pair 01 scissors.— The sisters were engaged in an angry enniersai lOU when Miss Phones., in a tit of rage, threw the scissors at her sitter with guilt f,ree, the point sinking the child upon his breast, p.metrating to the heart The innocent little v ile excl a i me d, "Oh, mother: mother"' and immediately xpir• oil Mrs Dickerman did not see her sister throw the scissors, and was not conscious of what had been done until she saw the instrument of death p l ante d in his br eas t A coroner's jury was called, who, after a full investigat,ion of the affair, rendered a verdict in accordance with th e facts. Miss Plainer is now e^nfined in the Huth son jail to await the action of the grand jury TRUE AND JUST —Th.' `'NV Haven &jiver has these true and just remarks about the course of the Republicans in endeavoring ti prevent the admission of Whitfield, the L gable .-leeted deic gate from Kansas : " It will be seen by the proceedings in Con gress.on Tuesday that lion. Mr 'Whitfield, of Kansas, has been admitted to his seat by a ma• jority vote. Mr W. is as much entitled to his sett as any other member, and biz; only been kept oat of it by a violation of all the rules of law and propriety. It shows another gratifying point—the waining power of the anti.dernoerats in Congress. At the first session they had a ma jority of about fifty in the house; but it has been growing 'beautifully less' from that day to this, and in a few short weeks will be 'wiped out' en tirely " The troth of lie ruittlY Of judge i.eedmpte ., removal is now confirmed by the nomination by the President to the Senate of James 0. Harri• son, of Ky., as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas The removal of Judge Le , eompte, was contemplated at least forty days ago, and of whieb it is said he was aware, but up to this time nothing has been heard from him is defense of his official conduct. The recent pitofs and representations of Goy. Geary, determined the c3nr4e of the administra tion in the premises. Wm. Spencer has likewise been nominated as Marshall of Kansas, vies Donaldson ; and Thos. Cntinigham, of Pa.. Associate Justice of the Supreme Conn of Kansas, in place of Burrill id. WI sIIINCITON, Dec. 17 Testa TIIIIZATIIIM INSURXECTION IN LOVIII, 'UNA —lt is said that the blacks bad threatened to rise against the whites on the 14th of Oetober, in Louisiana, aid the Morehouse Arifeoar4s, published in Bastrop, gives the followingecoonst of its detection, and the punishment of two white men accused of being engaged in it : We Leant from the Oaliborne Advocate of the 21st ult. that an Abolitionist of the name of Hancock was 'masted in Union county, Arkan sas, a few weeks since, on suspicion of being en' gaged in an attempt to excite the slates in that ,vicinity to insurrection, and after making some confessions managed to escape; be has been cap tured, carried back to El Dorado, tried and shot. He was not found guilty ye his trial, says the Advocate, but said he knew all about the matter and whfi arre,engaged in it, but would not tell who they were. This so much excited and enraged the people that 3 mob of citizens, who were convinced of Lia guilt,-after be trial seized Ilan, earned him to the woods and shot him. Martin, another one of the villians engaged in the vile plot, way arre4ted last week, tried by a Court at El Dora.' r, found guilty and hung There a general concentration of about 300 ticgroci at a } riven poiut, led on by Hancock and ,everal other. The town of El Dorado wai to he attacked, 1", inhabitants murderod, and money and provi.iion4 obtained by force. Kan• say w cots ri have be, n their destination, where a pronii:e ot fri *Aim wa. held out. The plot was to hare ntatur-il ou the 1 1th of last month About a f“rtntght ago tiler,: wics considerable I• l , lfrtn - te , aus ,, ng the cittztto4 of our town, in c.in,queliee of a report put in circulation here, to the efr , et tb.o au icmurrectionary movement had it ,, n r.• / tho negroe4 in A.li• 1.. y vount). 1, k The To;.,t, was diciorted, an the tll , . be .1 w gr. , 1V"Illa I/ of that county tv her in:p-!er This (1116..10-ere led to tlie ezatnicsation of sea. era! other 4, which developed the foot that a con sider-adr number of negroes in' Arkansas, and the tipp•r p,rt of Mnrchnuse, were engaged in the plot. :04 ott h' white men. In consequence 01 t)i. runt ,r, a Meeting of the citizens of our town wits called, and twelve gentlemen were ap• Font .1 to Investigate whether or not any slaves of our towu w. re connected with or knowing to }h,. It: d Itr• enintnittee have examined several slay, tit tilts ry strictly, and report that airy have not neen able in elicit, by a thorough •••1 igle tact or any connection or knowledge nn the pat of the slaves iu this vi cinity with the enntemplated iotsurrectinn A number p:auter in this neighborhood have examined their uegroei, but they have not been ILL:e to detect anything of a auspicious character. WASHINOTI)N, KT. Ix thouNand copte4 of the Prog Nle,•ig-, and accAupauying (1w:1/newt., wero ..rtlered to I.w. priutf,l The c .usideratiou i.f the Pre,iiient . :. Mes.inge W 3 Own reQurneil Mr Q iittnati 1). , 1101,4 1 that every wor , i used Lj the Pre...dew ou the , :avery g ut!,.i l oi l w a r., well awed and true, And tue dvvelupments show that. the 'objects of tht‘ Republican party were such as Mae Ras:wive had attributed to them.— Speaking on the subject of Central America, Mr Quitman :aid Le W. 29 opposed as an Ameri eau, to bowing and y teldtug w England or France NVe want no irony wail any foreign nation rely tire to our duty oti this s.oo'inent, and Fikould uot therefore call on any European power to come aer , ),, the , eLati to help t, regulate Central aff.i,rqc 11• lithe; cd V nerd Walier .• the Lauds 6t Providence to it 10D, and that it Was duty o' rum. tit 1, thr .b-tas 1;I t • W -.Murata " V ii 1 r tlii !i: •„• t that the u' ..f auto advertised t "give a:j I 'h • p 'vier of fo4cuatvm t I wo. matt's eyes it 1- a p hsou and a p werful al terative fiat wt. ”f .I.l•%cuie -- V •t to Au-Ira it 13 us , ‘.l ititetti4l:y to gitc rut:- wou.in's LliPek, • I: quite competent to comp. It hPr v I•ario. to diet on l'ru—L: Acid, .k.r.euie— al,):hin, If . ‘ cl . • pr, •k ri( (ti taugi of rattle -11.0 produLti u of liie,istabtc sighs, 4 how • f rho,' en-ie thr , ughont N Am .1-.0. vb.., extitigui4i the spi i uu t 111 tirtli•:. , c. I If w • nitvit, tluI) • •iravr it inC..l," )t, MAIL R , )UI3EI,tI" r arrest tor wail rib ry I .. , k a' I'. irenoc, (luelda county, in this ,tat", on Saturday last The unfortunate victut in this inst.:two, Jhu C Stanford, man about sixty )cars of age, and for some tim e past, an acting magi•trate in that town The arrest is supposed to account f.r a goof deal of trout.lo :tn.l tx hull the people in that regi )u 1.-avo 1. n %tatjeotel in their counee. tiun with the Owing t. , do , agl' au l Standing of Mr Stan! ' Int 1111 1 1114111Cillt1 4 ?P't in hare attachel t.. hint, but it has again r.rote.l true, that "murder will out ;".and if reports are correct, justtee has at 1.1 , ,t drertaken an ffeuder who ought t.. hay , k u.law, and pr ibahly did k n tw ho:t. r Stanford, we are intormed, was exam iu...1 y. -terday „at rtien, and commuted f o r want "of I'3E, pr f being of the most pi isttivt. charattor. ferr , te•l out by Inge of the Te coal p.e.t officv J Holbrook, by schit'h b.t. kloue tL pub:ie irup..rtant snit yd- Thy N, w 1;•• , ifor,1 Expre,4 in 1 , , :tk ing of Geo Pierce's adruiniatratiiia . Since the it”s of J“ e i t son, ti.iu has ha i c.. vinient aD opposition to contend against ; lu I t- we hay. oft. n • iiii, like the ail lulti i st . ta l l u il of Jack-on, posterity wtil do it Jo tiee—histor, ail -et it right upon the record, nut t h e young Aini.rican of coming time will proudly point to the nameof Franklin Pieree as one of the patriotic Presidents of idden time, who wits alike proof against the whirlwinds ot fanati• ei.m. the storms of si et ionaltstu, the earthquakes „I,l l s u i li o n , a nd the thunders from the Protestant Vitiean of CI,. 'three thim3and -Vey Esjiond Irryy The correspondent of the Juurnal, writing from Campbellsville, Ky , on the 10th, says that a negro boy had ilisolosed a plot of the utgroes to rise about Christmas day Several arrests had been made, and an examivati .n was held oh the 9th before Justice ('loud., but nothing WAS elicited save athe statement of the boy that ho overheard the negrnes say that they intended t) make war upon the bites a b o ut (7h c i, tai , A , and that if he would o,n them they would make him rich The .grows are reported to possess guns, pistols, The correspondent adds that considerable dissa faction exists among the negroes, which if / ,nut p omptly suppressed, ma y lo a d to serious efouble The iateo tkivireA ftein Cuipb.•rland Tenuettee, state that twenty , five iron furii3U•es in that r•gion have stopped operation in con , ecittence of the negr.i_ troubles. LATER FROM SANTA FE.—The Louis Democrat of the inst has advisee from Santa Pe to the 22d ult. The news, however, is no important. The indian.eontioued their depreds tioa4. The gold deposites on the (Ala are said to exceed those in the richest portions of Califor tra A. large Lumber rf eitisens bad alrparly left ants Fe foe the mice.. WELCOME. TO WlNTER.—Tnosmog, tOO pot of nature, thus gives welcome to the icy Ring of the sea- WintPr rotors to 'ule the varied !PIO', Stollen and sed, with all bis rising train, VAPnrs, and amide, sad Morino De them my theme, To".. that .salt the .out to solemn thought, And heavenly musing, Woke*, kindred gIo nu' Congenial horror% Lail! with frequent toot, Pleamd have 1, In my cheerful morn of 16., When nulled by eareima Solitude I live, And ming of Nets» with utierawni Joy, Plemed have I wandered throtigh your rough domain • Trod the pun' vlngielmowa, myself as pun. Beard the wioda par, and the big torrent buret, Or man the d. termentiag tempest brewed in the grim evening .ley. Than passed the Till thmegh the Ladd ohs: Men of the South Looked out the joyeae diode& looked Dos mod moiled:" LovisviLLE, De , 17 CISCTNNATI, Dec 17 Erie Wholesale Prices Curtest CORANCTED WifilLY sr P. /illf/fINQ 4 8107W21, ink Ormerau sont Pronlisso, Maks Wed. near,t:,, a , 7%4 Irr 21 t Lark 13 Rtionwheat,• rot, 300 ' BOW, to Core Wool, 120 Champ, 740 Pratte, ate. gm* dm. 19 itriee. Krum, V bush. 192% , lllVrtorßoano. 100 110 126 dri...l. " 126 Hay. Ponebea, - • IR., 14 Timothy. • too, war RaMteal , 00%., l 00 CW11117, 'I ton, 9 00 Almo mil IMO IP a 14 1 4 • Lumber. bud " 1.0, Poplar,. IWO ft. BAIIO 00 Outlaws* ♦ bomb., 300 Hemlock, 6se• 00 Fit& hoe, clear NNW 4ISA % 00 i Dry Cod, V tto 0 '• commuu, 9idlo 00 India", r bum!, 0 60 Ash, 0 0)10 00 Wall.; , 400 36loglaa, I 7:o ... 1 tv) lisokersi, • 4ar No. 1, 24 on 4211 a. " No 2.14 00 Wint., et Sperm • gal 200 " . ~ .0 3, 11 00 summer .10 • 1 2../ Grata. Winter et Lard, I Iru Wheat, winter, • hos. 1 le, Tanserie Pare beaks el spring, " 1 Linseed, 1 20 Banksrlavat, 02%1 11 Mb. Inas. V bash. 1 12% .nra, 110 Tieseir, 203 00 Oats, P.: Clover, 7 60 Martel, 1 13 V• 10011•310100, Ike. Provisions. Potatoes, now, V ho 20012 Pork, r bar 812 01 20 00 Onions, Hogs, r rat. 7 22 To rut p., 20 Lived; • tar •... 14 00 ' Plaster, In Ara • tnn .'; 00 " Fresh • r• 1 len7 00 .. /earrels, 0 Of) liattfsn, • lb 4 ell 0 W•emie Hams, V , lb 1214, Iferd, • turd, 2 4044 .'. i tihnn.ldare, .lb Isis } soft, - zou New Pail POST OFFICE, EWE, Pa Aag 1, 2880 ) ( an I aft, this Aate, the Yalta •ill dose at this OnlC* u M 1 )• • • Buffalo, Albany, and New Tura, at 11 A IL wad 130 1' X lialtirnore, Washlagtos. Roston and Hartford at 4.301' M. Way Nall rupplrlor all "dines between Cate and anthilo at 10 A X • 1 . R H. Mall eapplying all OW,* between fLukirt ah.l Nrw York Cltr, at bap r. Cinetnustti; fadtaaapolta wt. Loofa, Louuerlllr, Wheeling and Pittatang, at 9 A. X. Chirac(' and Ilunugu..., 12 M and 7 30 I' la.troft, 12 X Clraelawl and Toledo, 9 A. X. .ad 7.30 P M. Wat Itnl rypplying all oar.. between Era. ..b.! CloseL•u.i•t V A 11 •, Und km•tvre•n Krt. and Plttaburx, 7 A II etaburg—luesday. Thursday t Saturday at e A X Mciienn, Etiltiburo a.nd /I•advalo., Y. or} tC f. 1144111--Frnro 7 A., 11 tali 4 P. M , ezorpt r-undayo. `Atnla, Irwin 7to v A II , and from 4 tr. P M. I! F F' 11 - _ Neebtes !Ake It. Nothuat Ilk. it. la the common re, wart of