OIE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE,
TOWANDA :
innroJinD fllorninn, (IDctobrr 23, 1853.
Srltctcli
THE INDIAN SUMMER.
ktnmge season, evanescent
V cliiM!io"<fs sunny thuxlit—
How sii<l and vet how pleasant
Are tlie feelings thou hast brought ;
The skv is bright above us,
The air is bland as June,
And the brook to jo> 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 ] .<v.
I "tr-t experiment in the manufacture of
I naturally resulted iu the production of
Iml and unwieldly instruments. They
I' a enormous size, often, throwing balls of
' red pounds weight, and could only be
■T fore the walls of a besieged town
7 .Teat expense of money and labor.
I iv !e -mne fertile imagination conceiv
- iea of lessening the bulk of this wond-
I .'iii'' o as to apply it as a weapon for
i; ami iu 1364 live hundred small faar
- a-pan only iu length, were inannfatur
-1 Italian town. These were found iu-j
-eat, however, and soon the barrels were I
r • and the old fashioned arquebus I
■to he used throughout Europe, and sub
v r the erossle>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. .