OIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE, TOWANDA : innroJinD fllorninn, (IDctobrr 23, 1853. Srltctcli THE INDIAN SUMMER. ktnmge season, evanescent V cliiM!io" would move us li_v its happy little tune. Hut we miss the merry singing Of the birds among the trees, AuJ the Bowers that late were flinging Their odors on the breeze. And ihe cattle that w ere feeding I'poo the mountain side. And the flocks their young ones leading U here the rivulets do glide. S'.uv. we only hear the rustle of the dry leaves as we tread, 1 Or the timid squirrel .startle (From the branches overhead. Or the sport-tuan's gun resounding Among tin* naked hills, or in- greyhound's fleet foot bounding Across the rocks and rills. \\V feel the sun of summer. 11 ,t it- verdure do uot sec, While tin-re comes a whispered murmur 1 r. in every leafless tree, H'h. -n check- the voice of gladness lii.it cl-c might ring again, tnd brings drowsy sadness fo fasten on the brain. }'tis the Indian summer, I r treacherous arc its lieam* ; \nd a- fading as the glimmer i if happiness in dreams. Tin ver\ mists of morning. T >'-ugh heralding fair days. An- -I o! my forms of warning, I\\. eh vani-h while wc gaze. - -uumicr's ghost keeps beckoning 0 ,r willing feet to roam. Wlnh' ae forget the reckoning, of w inter days to come : On! v ' s<> sadly pleasaut I- all we feel or see. Tit in the dreamy present Forever would we lie. 1 Glance at the History of Firearms. !: is not certainly kmwn when gunjiowder tveuted. The Chinese, and other nations East, among whom most of the arts were probably acquainted with its forties ioug before they were known in Eu liartlioldus Schwartz is generally thought aw ili-movered the secret of its inauufac " am! introduced it throughout Europe, iu •' te year 1 .'520. The honor of the in . i a I-a) attributed by some to a monk i Constantiuc Anelzen, and bv others to ] ilaeon. The explosive forces of this •"mhustion of nitre, sulphur and cliar ■' Being understood, it was soon ap tiie purposes of war, and we hear of -oing been used by the Moors as ear mi year 1842, at the siege of Algesiras, ■' tiy the English in 1346, at the battle r ] .w, which until then had an unquestionable sujwriority.— j w :t , at first short, thick, and very j f wyasg a four ounce ball, and fired by U in the hand. In the fifteenth centu- j I 'or dragon was attached to the right | f barre l, between the lips of which I U*' - ma' h wa< fixed, and by means of ■• '• i spring: pressed upon the priming. I —ition of loading and firing with so j 19' "tnime-nt was necessarily very slow, | M each arqucbuser attended by j " u: c behind whose shield he took I tU- , itter part of (he fifteenth cen- "r;iin were gradually provided with '' Irencli being among the first to "unti-tl marksuieu, armed with pie ■ a half feet long. Firearms had ' and much attention was dc j oiiijn-t 0 f iiuj,roving them. In 1 k was invented by a mechan- r - Tliis was a simple coutri \ - °t a small sharply notched projecting upwards through tlie •*•■! I.y ownns of a strong spring. I 'led with priming powder, and !,, i with a piece of brimstone, ■ , spoil the wheel, the pulling of 9 ' au*e the wheel to revolve ■ > t> , a ' t'Hes, producing sparks from ■ s., a ' ' (x !'l"liiig the weapon. — ie made use of these wheel || "hntry nf all the European armed with the matchdocks " of the seventeenth century. ' 1 eontury the bore of the ar- I. -nuiislifMl from that of a four H. . :it ''fa two ounce ball, and ■ ' into use the double nrcjue- I J . '.VJI; fmir feet long and car- I ' hall. This of course, was I 1 ii-re was also used by sol w'th a barrel one foot and il - a calibre of two inches, ;• twelve or fifteen small ■wting was generally prac THE BRADFORD REPORTER. ticed in this century. At about this time was also introduced the musket proper, whose bar rel was considerably longer than that of the arquebus, and threw a ball of four ounces.— This weapon was fired from a rest, and was first used, with deadly effect, in the armies of Charles the Fifth of Spain. At the commencement of the seventeenth century, the arquebus had entirely disappeared, and the troops of the various European com panies were divied into musketeers and pike men. Carbines, also, three and a half feet long, were introduced among the cavalry, ant 1 each rider provided with two pistols. The car bineer loaded his piece with prepared wooden eatridges. In the early part of the seventeenth centu ry, it was found that the calibre of the pieces might be reduced without diminishing their utility, and the French accordingly set the fashion of carrying mnskets carrying as many as fourteen bullets to the |>ound. This eentu rv was noted for many great improvements in fire-arms and other weapons of war. The most important of tlirse changes was the substitu tion of the Hint lock for the wheel and match locks. By the year ll>lo the match locks were entirely out of use. About this time, too, the bayonet was introduced, consisting of a two edged blade twelve inches long by one in width fitted like a plug iuto the barrel of the musk et, by means of a wooden handle. This meth od of fastening the bayonet to the gnu was very inconvenient, inasmuch as it was uecessa ry, to remove the blade at each discharge of the piece. The invention of the screw to the bayonet, however, in 1018, by which its ad vantages could be retained even while firing, decided all minds in its favor, but it was not generally adopted until a much later period of the century. It is said that the Swedes were the first who fired with bavonets fixed. 11l the commencement of the eighteenth century, Gottfried Hausch, of Nureinburg, in troduced the method of making the touch-holes funnel shaped, so that the powder ujioii being rammed into the barrel would itself prime the piece, and thus increase the speed of loading. At this jeriod also, the grovcd or rille barrel liegan to conic generally into use. In ISO7 two explosive mediums were dis covered, the one being chlorate of potadi, and the other detonating quicksilver. Forsyth took advantage of these discoveries, and ob tained in England a patent for jKreussion fire j locks, by which he produced the ignition of little detouating balls, composed of potash, brimstone and lycojiodium, by means of a smart stroke from a hammer. The percussion lock, however, owing to its somewhat compli cated structure and to the too great affinity of the chlorate to damp, proved incapable of ap pliance to the arms of war until the invention of the percussion cap, in I*lß by Debboubert. The cap, at first used, was a somewhat clumsy and awkward instrument. Many years elap sed before it acquired its present neat and con venient shape, and it was not until after 1840 that they were introduced generally among Eu ropean troops. Of late years much more attentiou has been devoted to the subject of fire-arms than ever before. The result is visible in the compact and elegant fowling pieces, rifles and revolving pieces which are displayed in onr shop windows, as well as in the many marvellous engines of destruction which have been brought into use since the commencement of the present Euro pean war. it is to be hoped that as man's knowledge and skill in the manufacture of deadly weapons becomes more jierfect, our ne cessity for their use as an offensive weapon will grow less and less.— Boston Journal. Sound Sentiments. 'Hie committee appointed for the purpose by the late New Jersey republican convention, have published an address to the voters of New jersey. The address concludes as fol lows :—" Consider, men of New Jersey, that if the present administration shall be sustained, or what is the same thing, if BIVHANAX shall be elected, slavery will become predominant in the country. Kansas will first be made ; but the movement will not stop there ; all the new territory once devoted to freedom, and destin ed for the oeenpatiou of freemen, will be seiz ed u|K)n. For it will matter but little how fa vorable soever to free institutions the people of these territories may be, the. same fraud and the same violence which have been witnessed in Kansas, w ill be resorted to again and again, until the whole of this great domain w ill lx coiue but one broad field for slavery, and for the merchandize in slaves. As a necessary con sequence. free labor will lie shut out from all this land, and an incalculable injury be thus done to the industry of the country, and to the interests of the toiling multitudes. Besides this, even if not more than this, is the change that must follow in our political condition.— Full supremacy will be given to the slave jo --wer in our social councils, and, as a natural re sult, the legislation of the country will lie shap ed in a manner to suit the interests and pur poses of the slaveholding class." VxsrccF.ssm. IiKTTKtt WRITKRS. —The great letter-writers of tlie Straight Whig school ap jiear to be |>cculiarly unsuccessful in their epistolary efforts to make converts to their own way of thinking. Mr. Chonte's letter to the Whigs of Maine was followed by the first great Republican victory since the campaign opened Then Ex Governor Hunt, and Hon. Daniel 1). Rarnard wrote tremendously long letters to James A. Hamilton, Esq., of Westchester county, urging upon him the necessity and pa triotic duty of voting for Mr. Fillmore. \N here upon Mr. Hamilton comes out with a long and sensible letter stating that a sense of duty to his country, and a conviction of the utter hope lessness of Fillmore's election, alike constrnin hiui to do all in his power to promote the Re publican cause. Wc fear that the ill-success that has attended the efforts of these distingu ished Straight Whig letter-writers will deter the rest of them from writing any. If Mr. Hunt would but write a good long letter to Hiram Ketclnim the chances arc that he, too, might be brought over to Fremont. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. '' REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM A'FIT Q'TL^RTER." (Krotu the Sua FrsrtcisCo Chroaiele.MSept. 10.J 1 The Foote and Fremont Difficulty—Card from Ex-wmrtdr Foote. My attention has been this moment called to the following article, which, it wouM seem made its first appearance in a Democratic new paper published in some one of the Atlantic States, and recently re-published in the San Jose Tribune and othef papers here; with com ments, as follows; " Now, we want the Black Republicans, who perform such a hideous wake Over the case of Mr. Senator Sumner, to be reasonable, just and consistent. Upon Brooks' achievement in t>eating down an antagonist piniOncd to his seat in the Senate Chamber, and unprepared, we are perfectly agreed ; but wherein does this act differ in principle from a similar as sault, made within a few feet of the same place, ujon ex-Gov. Foote—au aged and white haired man—by Col. Fremont, then a member of the Senate from California ? The Cleve land Plaindealer reproduces from its columns of 1850, the following account of an assault by the Black Republican candidate for the Presidency, which may justly stand side by side with the Brooks outrage upon Sumner.— Our readers will recollect that this record was made up long before Col. Fremont was even thought of for the high office to which he has been nominated. It therefore must be regard ed as a fair statement of facts. It is as fol lows : THE FOOTE AND FREMONT DIFFICULTY. —The difficulty between Senators Foote and Fremont grew out of the circumstance that Foote charg ed Fremont, in the Senate, with seeking legis lation in reference to the gold mines for the sake of his own private advantage, which Fre mont pronounced false. Afterwards they met in the ante-chamber, when Fremont struck Foote and brought blood. They were imme diately separated by Senator Clark. Subse quently, Fremont addressed a note to Foote, demanding a retraction of the language used by him in debate, to be signed in the presence ot wituesses, and a challenge was left if he refused. Mr. Foote declined to sign the paper, but addressed a note in reply to Fremont, disclaim ing any intention of giving any personal of fence in the language used by him in debate. The friends of both parties considered this satisfactory to Fremont, but, at his instance the note of Mr. Foote was submitted to Col. Benton, who consented to the arrangement.— The following card is the result : WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 1850. A CARD.—The undersigned arc authorized to state that the difficulty between Hon. H.S. Foote and Hon. J. C. Fremont, growing out of certain expressions used by the former in relation to the California bill in the Sonate last evening, has lieen adjusted satisfactorily and honorably to both these gentlemen. (Signed,) A. C. DODGE, Wm. M. GWIN, HENRY W. SIOI.EY, RODMAN M. PRICE. 1 have been requested by several gentlemen friendly to the election of Col. J C. Fremont to the Presidency of the Union, to state how far the account giveu in that article of the unfortunate difficulty between Col. Fremont and myself, is true. I do, therefore, declare that so far as the cause of our misunderstanding is concerned, the difficulty referred to is sufficiently accurate but it is not true that Col. Fremont pronoun ced on the floor of the Senate anything which had fallen from me in the course of the debate to be false. And, although it is true that he was dissatisfied with what I had said in oppo sition to his bill for the settlement of land ti tles in California, and requested a special per sonal interview with me on the subject, in the progress of which he used language which I deemed it my duty to resent, and did resent, yet, it is not true that Colonel Fremont inflict ed on that occasion the least [icrsonal indignity on mc. The only blow struck was one, for which I am aloue responsible ; for before he had time to return the blow received by him self, Senators Mangum aud Clarke intervened and separated us. Colonel Fremont's note to me afterwards, was of rather an equivocal character. His friend, the present Governor of New Jersey, who was the bearer of it, assured me that it .vas not designed as a challenge to the field of honor ; but, sup[>osi!ig that it was at least pos sible that Mr. Price was in error ou his part, 1 wrote to Col. Fremont, that if my note of explanation did not prove satisfactory, 1 should go without delay to the city of Baltimore, and send him my acceptance from thence. At this stage of the affair friends interposed, and the difficulty was settled, as 1 have always con sidered, in a manner creditable to both parties. I cannot close without the expression of my regret that any attempt should be made, in connection with this transaction, to hold Col. Fremont responsible for conduct calculated to infringe ujion the freedom of debate in the United States Senate. However opposed ns I yet am to the measure ndvocatcd by him for the settlement of the land titles in California, aud however much I atn opposed to his election to the Presidential office, 1 feel in justice bound to declare that I have never been disposed to complain seriously of his conduct in the affair referred to ; and thut there is nothing in it that should in the least degree lessen his claims to the respect and confidence of his political friends and his supporters. What is said in the article cited above about my age, my proy h-nirs, tie., is simply ridiculous, as I was, in 1850, only forty-six" years of age, and am yet sufficiently hale and vigorous to defend my person and maintain my rights and honor against any assailant. Tuesday, Sept. 0, 1856. 11. S. FOOTE. The Richmond Enquirer is abating somewhat the tone of fierceness it was wont to assume. It now concedes that there are Sou thern men irho trill take office under Fremont.— Is this not a most gracious concession ? Is it not wonderful that the first families would do any such thing ? A Wag in Office. From a letter of Governor Geary to 11. C. Pate, one of the instruments of the pro-slavery party at Leeompton, it appears that the Cov er is resolved that that there shall be no in terference with the freedom of elections in Kansas. On this point he is both " sensitive aud determined," as he tells Mr. Pate. Governor Geary is not only a politic man, as was manifested by his behavior to the peo ple of Lawrence, when he soothed them with fair words and then arrested and threw them into jail, but he is also a wag. He knows very well that there cfn be no popular elecfiou rn Kansas under the Stringfellow code. What he calls the laws, cut off the possibility of an election, disfranchising the free-state settlers by a test which they erinno't take; He thfusts his tongue in his cheek and talks pleasantly of " (he fight of suffrage" which he is to protect, when the fact is, that the laws which he is sent out to enforce annul the right of suffrage.— The pro-slavery men will meet no free-state voters at the polls, and will thus have every thing in their own way. Governor Geary's sensitiveness and determination are therefore a mere joke. There will be no occasion for these Missouri jeople tri come Ovef, and of course the Governor will have no trouble in keeping them away. A single pro-slavery vote at any oue of the polls will be enough to carry the elections in favor of that party. Meantime the jails at Leeompton are full of free-state prisoners, arrested by Governor Geary's order. We hear of no arrests of any other persons. The pro-slavery journals ore well satisfied with Governor Geary's behavior. The homicides and robberies committed by their party, appear, by the testimony of both sides, to have been passed over without no tice. The accusers of the free-state prisoners,have taken care that their charges shall be suffi ciently gruve to hang them out of the way.— The persons arrested ure charged with murder. There are one hundred and ten of them, Mr. I'ate savs, in his letter to the St. Louis lie publican. Their trial will probably be post poned till after the November election, when, if the Buchanan party shall have prevailed, the accused will be tried by a jury of border ruffians, inasmuch as under the Stringfellow code, no other is allowed, and will be executed byway of striking terror into the other free state settlers. WILL THEY? —The Richmond B"Aig con tains the following letter from Andrew Stewart a candidate on the Fillmore electoral ticket : UXIOXTOWN, Pa., Sept. 30, 1856. Dear Sir : I hasten to say that there is not one word of truth in the allegation that the Fillmore and Fremont parties have united.— Two of the electors appointed on the Fillmore electoral ticket were discovered to be favora ble to Fremont. They have therefore been stricken off, and true men substituted. Buchanan is losing ground daily, and at our October election it is natr my opinion his par ty will be beaten 50,000 votes. If so, he will be abandoned, and his party will go for Fillmore, to defeat Fremont. The Buchauan and Fremont men are bitterly hostile, and both courting the Americans. After the elec tion the defeated party will unite with us to de feat the other. You see, then, the importance of a decisive result in October. If it should appear that Buchanan can carry uo Northern State, will not the South give him up and go Fillmore, as the only means of defeating Fre mont. What are now our prospects in Vir ginia ? Yours respectfullv, ANDREW STEWART. We ask attention to the italicised portions of this letter. Mr. Stewart avers that there is no hope of the success of the Buchanan men at the election on Tuesday, that the Fill more and Fremont parties have not united and that the Buchanan men of this State will unite with the Fillmore men to defeat Fremont. Will they ? That is the question. We have been pointing out diligently the indications of such a fusion ; but here is proof incoutestible of such a purpose. Will the anti-kuow-noth ing democracy of Pennsylvania vote for Fill more ? We shall see. DISUNION- IN LOUISIANA.— So far as Louisiana is concerned, it seems that her disunion udvoca ting Senator has reckoned without his host.— The New Orleuus lite says : The Mobile Tribune states that, with two or three exceptions, it has not found a man that does not think that the calamity of Fre mont's election would be a sufficient reason for dissolving the Union, and it adds that this opinion is not confined to any party. We should be sorry to believe that the pub lic sentiment of Mobile is such as the Tribune represents it, and trust that that journal has drawn its conclusion from hasty or limited ob servation. But whether true or false in rela tion to Mobile, we have undoubted evidence that it is wholly inapplicable to New Orleans. There are no dimuion men here, save a scurvy knot of Locofoco agitators—and mark this, that the masses, whether, Democrats, Whigs or Americans, have no sympathy with the dis seminators of disunion tenets. Go where you will ; accost any crowd whatever ; talk of a dissolution of the Union in any event, and the response is invariably the same : " We will cling to tl>e Union through weal and woe."— Senator Slidell's letter has damaged the Bu chanan men seriously in this State, and they know it. The jieople of Louisiana arc devo tedly attached to the Union, aud will not tol erate nor sustain any public man who seeks to imbue theiu with disunion proclivities. SSSy-The know-nothing organs oppose Col. Fremont very bitterly on the ground, as they allege, that he is a Catholic. And the Catho prcss unanimously oppose him, at the same time, and help on the absurd stories that the former invent to prejudice Protestants against him. In this we can see nothing but blind purtizun zeal, which overlooks incongruities that are apparent to every one of candid mind and unbiased judgment. A Recent Prophesy. A coteuiporary has said we at the North are cold blooded and hard to move. Carried away with the excitements of business, and choked the cares and anxieties of the world, our braver and nobler impulses are apt to become sluggish and inactive. Were this not so, how corcld we forget socli stinging words as Mr. Stephens of Georgia, addressed two years ago, to the Northern members of the House of Representatives, who protested against the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Bill. Said Mr. Stephens : " Well, gentlemen, you make a great deal of clamor ou the Nebraska measure, but it don't alarm us at all. We have got used to that kind nf talk. You have threatened be fore but you have never performed. You have always caved in, and you will again. You are a mouthing white litcrcd set. Of course you will oppose - f we expect that ; but we dou't cafe for your railing. You will hiss, but so do adders. We ex|ect it of adders and expect it of you. You are like the devils that were pitched over the battlemeuts of lleavca iuto hell. They set up a howl of discomfiture, so will ytfu. T?ut their fate was sealed, and so is yours. You must submit to the yoke, but don't chafe, gentlemen, we have got you in our po wer. You tried to drive us to the wall in 18- 60, but times are changed. You have weut a wooling awd have come home fleeced. Dou't be so impudeut as to complain. You will on ly be stopped in the face. Don't resist. You will ouly be lashed iuto obedience." That is the true spirit of the Slave Power in its aggressions upon the rights of the men of the North, and we do not envy him who cau read it without feeling himself personally outraged. Talk about Sumner's insulting lan guage to the South ! If t/uit deserved rebuke, this ought to stir every Northern mau into de termined resistance, and at the ballot-box, our only legal weapon, deal out to the Oligarchy the chastisement it so richly merits. MR. BKF.CKIVRIDGE REBUKED. —Many of our readers will doubtless remember how great pa rade was made by the Buchanan paj>ers of the declaration of Mr. Breckinridge, Vice-Presi dential candidate, that the Democratic party is not in favor of the extentiou of Slavery.— lie undertook to prove that it is not in his speech here ; he openly declared it in Indiana ; it is the burden of the song of the Buchanan men in their Northern speeches ; it is played upon as a " harp of a thousand striugs" by all the newspapers in that interest throughout the North and by it the effort is constantly made to hoodwink the unwary. It appears that Gov. Wickliffe of Louisiana had express ed himself in somewhat similar terms to those used by Mr. Breckinridge, whereupon the New Orleans Bee, the Democratic Orgau thus dis courses : "Sow, we assert that the South does desire the extension of Slavery. There is not a Southern man—even among the warmest op ponents of fillibusterisiu—that does not desire the annexation of Cuba as a Slave State, and would not have it except as a Slave State.— Gov. W ickliffe indorses Breckinridge, and that " very young man " soothes Free-Soil Democ racy by assurances that the Democratic party does not desire the extension of Slavery.— There is no getting around the issue. If the Democratic Party of Louisiana is prepared to sanction Mr. Breckinridge and Gov. Wickliffe, let it proclaim its faith. Meanwhile we invite the slaveholders of our State, aud especially the Democratic slaveholders, to take due no tice that the Democratic nominee for Vice President denies that he is attached to any or ganization that desires the extension of Sla very, and that the Executive of Louisiana ful ly endorses the sentiment.'' W II.I. THE SOUTH SCRMIT F — The Richmond Enquirer, just received, is filled with articles discussing the question whether the South will submit to the government of President Fre mont. His election seems to be regarded by the Enquirer as a settled thing—a matter about which there can be no cavil ; and, speaking on this assumption, this ultra-Southern journal now boldly avows itself in favor of secession. " Shall we acquiesce in Mr. Fremont's election because the forms of the Constitution are ob served ?" asks tlie Enquirer. Decidedly not. The Enquirer is in favor of immediate seces sion ; it docs not even propose to wait the re sult of the November election. It counsels all the Southern officers in the Army and Navy never to submit to be commanded by JOUN CH.VKI.ES FREMONT. But the people of the South are probably too well accustomed to this sort of trumpery to give it any heed. It is bluster and nothing else ; and the fact that it should be indulged in by the leading Buchanan journal of the South proves that the party not only considers itself beaten, but is so mortified at the result which it did not anticipate that it flies to the threats of rebellion as a solace. But barking dogs never bite ; they seldom, in fact, come near enough to be punished by being knocked 011 the head.— Pittsburg Gazette. sta?" One of the prettiest items of the pro cession ut Sandusky, was over one hundred girls, in an immense carriage drawn by 40 horses. The girls were all in white dresses, with blue sashes, aud they carried a banner with the inscription, " Of the Tribe of Jessie." JSf" The Detroit Tribune publishes an ad dress from one hundred Democrats of Berrien County, repudiating Buchanan. They have all voted the democratic ticket until this elec tion. (den. Nye tells a good story of Col. Fremont and some South Carolina secessionists, The General, with the South Carolina friends were calling upon Col. Fremont, and the eon vcrsation ran upon tiie election, when one of the chivalry said : " Mr. Fremont, if you are elected, we will terrdr." Col Fremont instant ly repbed : '• I hope you will make arrange ments to leave the state behind you." VOX,. XVII— NO. QO. Southern Opinions of the Result. The New Orleans Bet, in an article headed l " The Rebonnd," ejienks as follows : " Mr. BU CHANAN'S is very uearly hopeless, even in the opinion of his warmest advocates. We know of scores of letters from his own friends at the north, declaring, in the most emphatic manner that he is unlikely 10 receive a single northern electoral vote. Some of these we have pub lished ; others we have been allowed tu pe ruse, but uot to place before onr readers ; oth ers again, have been communicated to us by gentlemen of respectability. Moreover, the universal tone of the northern press indicator the fallen fortunes of the democratic nominee. Here, in the south, his backers have lost heart. They who, immediately subsequent to his nom ination, were ready to wager that he would carry twenty-five states, cannot now be induc ed to venture a bet on his election. They have been warned not to risk their money by their own political associates. To all intents and purposes, .Mr. BUCHANAN is U defeated can didate." JOHN M. BOTTS, of Virginia, who lias re cently made a speech at Petersburg, in that state, takes a similar view of Mr. BUCHANAN'S chances. He says : "An extraordinary change has taken place within the last two weeks, and if anything in the world is a settled fact, I con sider it settled that Buchanan is entirely out of the question, lie will not be elected either by the House of Representatives or by the people.—- The battle ground is not in Pennsylvania, as is supposed; A few weeks ago it was. Ac cording in my calculation, the battle ground is in Auric York.''' If New York is the battle ground, the con test is already decided in favor of FREMONT. What was said of Buchanan. In 1851, the Cleveland Plaindcalcr, tho leading administration paper of the western re serve, published the following article in regard to James Buchanan : " The small and malignant clique who wear the name of James Buchanan on their collars, are endeavoring to sell the democracy of Penn sylvania into the hands of the South Carolina traitors. James Buchanan never was elected by the people to any office, except when he tfas a federalist. UK HAS NOT A THROB OF DEMOCRATIC FEELING ABOUT HIS COLD-BLOODED, BACHELOR HEART. He could uot receive the votes of one-third of the people for any office. Aud yet, by the force of management of the basest political machinery, he has been able fur years past to crugh the democratic party of his state, (Pennsylvania.) to hang about its neck like a mill-stone, to kill every progressional thought in its bosom. He and his tools virtually gave the state to Taylor in 1848, and if Iligler is is defeated^ —a good and noble man—you may charge it to James Buchanan, who, like the old man in the history of Sinbad the Sailor, now hangs on Bigler's neck. ******* " I hate this sham statesman, (James Bu chanan) who, like a colossal huckster, sits ou the top of the Alleghanies, offering to sell Pennsylvania— to sell her future and her past— to South Carolina or the Devil, for a chance in the presidential raffle." RATHER SIGNIFICANT. —Ex-Gov. Floyd, of Virginia, addressed the merchants of New- York ou Thursday, Oct. 2, in reply to Mr. Banks, and at the close of his address made this significant remark : " There is uot a man in the South will say that there is any ground of suspicion as to my fidelity to the Democratic party, and 1 tell you here that I am an elector in Virginia, am go ing to be chosen ; [cries of " good,"] if you can show me that the candidate of the Black Republican party can only be beaten by un vote for Mr. Fillmore, why then I will give my vote for him. if the ground should open and swallow me. [Applause] I will tell you something more : Virginia, Democratic Vir ginia, that never failed, never faltered, and ne ver tired, in the most critical times, will come out and stand at my back in that crisis." THE QUAKERS IS KANSAS—ANOTHER PRO SI.AVERY OUTRAGE. —We find the following edi torial statement in a late number of the Friend : Among the many accounts reaching us from Kansas, through the public papers, of the out rages committed by the pro-slavery party, was one respecting the breaking up ®f the Board ing School and farm establishment in that ter ritory, not far from Westport, Missouri, con ducted for raanv years by Friends, and under the charge of Indiana, Ohio, and Baltimore Yearly Meetings. It had long been contribu ting to the literary instruction and improve ment in the arts of civilized life of the Shaw uee tribe of Indians ; and we regret to learn by a letter received from a Friend in the West, that the report, the truth cf which we at first doubted, is correct. The writer says: "The Indian settlement was sacked a few* days ago, and the Friends having charge of it thought it best to return to their homes, leaving the es tablishment untenanted." If John C. Fremont is a Roman Cath olic, he must at some time have abjured his protestantism—(his confirmation in the Epis copal church is ou record,) and been admitted formally into some papal church. Why, is not the record, if any exists, produced? Until it is shown and published, let Col. Fremont, who openly declares that he is not a Romanist, bo regarded as a truthful man, and nl! his oppo nents who affirm the contrary, liars. The Newark Advertiser learns by its exchanges, from all parts of New Jeisey, that converts are being made there rapidly to tho republican cause, and in some localities FILL MORE is scarcely ~ard of The Buchanan party is beginning *o shake at the rapid pro gress of the cause of free 1018. .