, i ,i finalist gitmotrat. A. J. GERIMON, - TUESDAY, JULY la, 1806. FOR GOVERNOR HTESTER CLYMER, OF BERKS COUNTY OUR CHOICE FOE. CONGRESS: , Hon. Charles Denison, UMW:et to his approval, and the concurrence of the Democratic Conventions.] 'The majority of the Committee raised in Congress to inquire into the Rousseau-Grinnell caning affair report a resolution to expel the soldier for thrashing tho slanderer, and to only "dis approve" the villainous falsehood and blackguardism of the Rev. rascal, indulged in upon the tleor of the House. The minority report that the General should be reprimanded for using the rat tan, and concur with the majority on the ether point. making the Issue. The Republican State Conventions in Maine, Vermont, and other States, de clare most emphatically that the party is for full - political equality without respect to race or color. So they make the issue for themselves ; and the man who votes for any candidate named by a Republican Convention, en dorses negro equality. Clymer the best Speaker. At the recent session of the Supreme Court at Wilkesbarre, the Bar gave a supper, at which a large number of the ablest men in the State were present and responded to calls for speeches. The Re cord, a Republican organ, in reporting the festival, says : Mr. Justice Thompson followed, and was succeeded by Mr. Hiester Clymer, who made the most eloquent speech of the evening. The Record editor judged correctly for once ; for in all this broad Common wealth, which boasts many able and elo quent men, few if any are found who can justly be deemed his superior in those qualities which combine to form the gift ed orator. With superior talent, liberal education, ample experience in State affairs, his speeches are marked by correct views, clear, logical arguments which are ren dered pleasing and acceptable by a fin ished oratory which would do honor to the older statesmen of by-gone days. His opinions upon matters of State and National questions are such as tend to the unity, harmony and prosperity of the government and the welfare of the peo ple. And last., not least, it is admitted, as his record proves,ihat he is AN HONEST MAN—just the one for Governor. Forney's love Letter to Johnson. The following letter, which has just found it way into print, shows, as con trasted with the recent " Occasional let ters" by the same writer, a very sudden and remarkable change of views : New York, January 2, 1866. MT -DEAR Ms. ntEsn:yalrr I have been in this city for two days, and now write under an impulse which !cannot restrain, because I feel it to be for your own good' and that of the country. I take it for granted you are resolved not to be un mindful of your own fame, and that yon will not allow your friends, wbo heartily sustain your policy, to feel that they are without your aid and encouragement. Whether you are a candidate for Presi dent or not, and if you are not, I shall be greatly surprised with the wonderful fa vor that has crowned your restoration policy, you should not allow the great of fice to go to indifferent men, or those clearly in the interests of your-foes. I need not repeat to you that I am now as ever, for twenty years shown in my wri tings, and since your great act of patriot ism in 1860 especially, your open and avowed friend. Where I am to day , my two newspapers both daily show to the world. Hence,. in what I now say, I speak no idle wordti, but mean all I say. The Collector's Office at New York City is a post that you shOuld. dispose of out side of all the politicians; not,, I mean, to defy them, but to select your own man, who should be free only to help you and serve the government—one they . could neither attack nor use. Such a man. ii, * * of this city. * * an organizing mind; would make you a party or fight your battles single banded. He is an Andrew Johnson Deinocrat;itt short. I write in the knowledge that he would accept, and , that bia appointment would be.receiyed with joy by the whole comm unity. Yours truly, To the President. This letter fully proves that Forney— now a rabid anti Johnsonite, was 'six months since a friend 'of the Presidents restoration policy; and that like ithir:dis 7 unionists, he has since come vitt against it. Radical journals usually endorse all the proposed acts of the disunion majority in Congress ; - but occasionally their proposi tions are too outrageous for approval by their organs. As a specimen we copy from the Philadelphia Inquirer, its re marks about the difficulty between Grin nell (radical) and General Rousseau (Johnson Rep.) as follows : M. Grinnell, of lowa, in the course of a debate in the House of Representatives called Mr. Rousseau, of Kentucky, a cow ard, and made merry over the assumed military incapacity of the latter. Mr. Rousseau, who has "done the State some service, and they know it," was naturally indignant at an attack which was wanton, malicious, and unqualifiedly false. He waited for Mr. Grinnell to apologize, but the latter did not offer to express any re• gret at the circumstance. What followed? Exactly that which might be expected from the character of the men. Mr. Rous seau armed himself with a cane and gave Mr. Grinnell a switching. Mr. Grinnell submitted. A committee of the House was raised, and it came to the conclusion that Mr. Rousseau had no right to beat Mr. Grin nell, and that Mr. Grinnell had no right to slander Mr. Rousseau. So far so good. What is proposed to be done about it ? Justice would seem to say,punish each ac- cording to the measure of his offense, but be most severe with the original aggres sor. It stands to reason that if Mr. Grin nell had not called Mr. Rosseau a coward, the, latter would not have considered it necessary to prove by the argumentum ad hominena that he was not. Bat the ma jority of the committee in the House pro pose to settle affairs in a different fashion. They recommend that Rousseau shall be expelled, but they have nothing to offer in relation to the conduct of Grinnell, ex cept that the committee disapprove of his conduct. They do not even ask the House to censure it by any formal ex pression be yond this : that it, was in violation of the rules. - Editor. Now, without desiring to defend by the slightest implication the conduct of Mr. Rousseau, which we think foolish, undignified, unnecessary, and demonstra ting nothing whatever except that he has a touch of the bully in his composition, we cannot refrain from expressing a be lief that the conduct of Mr. Grinnell de serves every censure and punishment that can be visited upon his adversary. Is it nothing to call a gallant soldier a coward ; to insinuate that lie was an oh jest of contempt to his men—that he was in fact a pretender and a sneak—is not the violation of truth in a matter affecting a man's character of quite as much gravi ty, and equally censurable, with an assault which is caused by stinging words? We think so, and our plan would have been to either expel both, or to censure both, or to resolve that. no notice should be ta ken of the conduct of either. A terrible conflagration occurred at Portland, Maine, on the sth, which de stroyed a large part of the city. The por tion destroyed is one and a half miles in length, by a quarter of a mile in breadth. Half of the city is gone, and that half in cluded nearly all the heavy business hous es, the banks, the newspaper offices, the leading churches, the telegraph offices,the Academy of Natural HistoE,y, and many other edifices of taste, beauty and useful ness. The loss cannot well be computed, but it may be counted by tens of millions in present value, and the stoppage of bus iness, which will multiply it to a much higher figure. Of course thousands of people, men, women and children, have been rendered homeless by this terrible conflagration. The churches and public buildings which escaped the confiagra-. tion have been opened for their tempora ry accommodation, and tents have been erected in the snberbs to shelter the nee dy and destitute. . fgr'The Philadelphia Bulletin seems to regret that Payne's dagger or bludg eon did not do its work more thoroughly, for, speaking of Secretary Seward in con nection with, the Garrison testimonial, it says: "Mr. Garrison has a noble list of in dorses. Senators, governors, judges, soldiers, civilians, poets, cabinet minis ters, the leading men ofletters, commerce and the Arts, combine to do him honor.— Strange to say, thename of William H. Seward is missing•from . this brilliant cat alogue of 'America's brightest names.— There are men who seem, in human eyes, to die too soon. There are others who seem to live too long." Really, when one contrasts such feroci ty as this with the " loyalty" of three years ago, when fair criticism on Mr. Seward was resented as a public wrong, it is difficult to believe we are walking the same streets or breathing the same air. General Geary visited York on last Thursday evening, and being serenaded, made a low, vulgar speech, denouncing .the Democratic and Vonseriative soldiers who refuse' to vote for him and the Dis union partrhe represents, as Hessians.— Frew his speech we should take him to be,without ability, and ,worse still, void of the, cultivation ofa gentleman and soldier: Be Wai very abusive against his political opponents generally.—York Gaz, T. W. FORNEY. —" The Seidh will not' merely become the home of the negtO; but it will be rul ed by the black' .man:". So, prints the, Harrisburg Telegraph : ' ls `there a white man 'in Pennsylvania so low `and debased as to desire toPlaCe 4 State' b'eneatli the ignorant tyranny of negrOes? Grinnell and Rousseau. Great Fire at Portland. Geary in York. Address of Democratic - gL.Consernative Members of Congress. To the People of the United. States : Dangers threaten. The Constitution, • the citadel of our liberties, is directly as sailed. The future is dark unless the peo ple will come to the rescue. In this hour of peril, National Union should be the watchword of every true man. As essen tial to National Union, we must maintain unimpaired the rights, the dignity, and equality of the States, including the right of representation in Congress; and the ex- • elusive right, of each -State-to control its own domestic, concerns, subject only to the Constitution of the United State's. After a uniform construction of the Con stitution for more than half a century, the assumption of new and arbitrary powers in the Federal Government is subversive of our system, and destructive of liberty. A free interchange of opinion and kind feeling between the citizens of all the States is necessary to the prosperity of the Union. At present eleven States are ex cluded from the National council. For seven long months the present Con gress has persistently denied any right of representation to 'the people of those States. Laws affecting their highest and dearest interests have been passed-with out their consent and in defiance of the fundamental principle of free government. This denial of representation has been made to all the members from a State, al though the State, in the language of the President, " presents itself not only in an attitude of loyalty and harmony, but in the persons of representative whose loyal ty cannot be queStioned under any consti tutional or legal test." The representa tives of nearly one third of the States arc denied participation in the great questions of the day. There has been no nationali ty surronnding.the present Congress.— There has been no intercourse between the representatives of the two sections, producing mutual confidence and respect. In the language of the distinguished Lieutenant-General, " it is to be regreted that at this time there cannot be a great er commingling between the citizens of the two sections, particularly Of those en trusted with the law-making power."— This state of things should be removed at once and forever. Therefore, to preserve the National Un ion, to vindicate the sufficiency of our ad mirable Constitution, to guard the States from covert attempts to deprive' thetn of their true position in the Union, and to bring together those who are unnaturally severed, and for these great national pur poses only, we cordially approve the call tor a National Union Convention, to be held at the city of Philadelphia, on the second Tuesday (the 14th) of August next, and indorse the principles therein set forth. We therefore respectfully but earnestly urge•upon our fellow-citizens in each State and Territory and Congres sional District in the United States in the interest of the Union, and in a spirit ofl harmony, and with direct reference tO tfie principles contained in said call, to'aiet promptly in the selection of wise, moder ate and conservative men to represent them in said Convention, to the end that . all the States shall at once be restored to theirpractiml relations to the Union, the Constitution maintained, and peace bless the whole country. W. E. Niblack, Reverdy Johnson, Anthony Thornton, Thos. A. Hendricks, Michael C. Kerr, Wallin Wright, G. S. Shanklin, James Guthrie, Garrett Davis, J. A. McDougall, IL Grider, William Radford, Thoinas E. Noel, S. S. Marshall, , Satnuel J. Randall, Myer Stroese, Lewis W. Ross, Charles 'Si tgreav es, Stephen Taber, S. E. Ancona, , - .I. M. Humphrey, E. N. Hubbell, John Hogan, B. C. Ritter, B. M. Boyer, A. Harding , Tennis G. Bergen, A. J. Glosshrenner, • Charles Goodyear, E. R. V. Wright, • Chas. H. Winfield, A. J. Rogers, A. H. Coffroth, H. McCullough, Lovell 11. Ronsseau,F. Leßlond, Philip Johnson,W. E. Finck, Chas. Eldri dge, •I. S. Trimble. John L. Dawson, Washington, July 4, 1866. Important Railroad Decision. It will be remembered that in Februa ry last, a snit, was brought before Justice Read, of the Supreme Court, to test the legality of the lease of the Catawissa Rail road to. the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company, At that time Judge Read decided that the lease was invalid. and v,oid;, The case was re-argued, be fore a full •bench, at Wilkesbarre, last week, when the Court reversed the decis ion of Justice Read—the Judges standing four in favor of reversion to one against. OrThe Bar of Luterne' county gave an entertainment to the Supreme Bench .of Pennsylvania-ut Wilkesbarre t on the evening of •Wednesday, 27th ult. John W. Forney was. one of the invited guests. He did not go, but sent a letter and the following sentiment : • The Elective Judiciary of Pennsylvania : One of the best proofs that'the American people are fit for self-government, and that the voice of the majority is a better guide .than a tyrant's will. • "go The voice of the majority" of the Su preme Court having pronounced the "De serter Law" a nullity, we trust the malig nant Radicals whO were SO' anxious to .condemn ,thousands of their fellow citi zens through the exercise of a " tyrant's will accept that voice as.a " better guide" than the markzof a petty provost marshal. , —The names of one hundred and forty sir honorablrdiseharoed soldiers of Lan caster are appended to'a call for a raeeti: ingt,o establish a Clymer club: Forney, the Negro Champion. The voters of Pennsylvania will bear in mind that J. W. Forney has announced himself a (Andidate for U. S. Senator, to take Senator Cowan's place, whose term will expire in:1867. In announcing himself Forney declares his purpose, if elected, " tp confer impar tial suffrage upon American citizens of whatever creed, color or nativity." The people must see to it, therefore, that no State Senator or even Assemblyman is elected favorable to Forney or the party with which he affiliates. For' the same reason John W. Geary, who was Forney'fl Urdeut,ehoice for Gov ernor, must be defeated. lt is important, also, that no member of Congress should be elected who is tinctured with the ne gro mania. Negro suffrage is clearly the issue now before the country, and unless the people repudiate it through the can didates, they will never have an opportu nity to vote upon the question at all. The leaders of the so called Republican party do not intend to allow a popular vote ev er to be taken upon the question of negro suffrage. Their design is to secure it thro' the,legerdernain of Federal and State leg islation and clinch it by means of a sub sidized court, presided over by a judge who is a candidate for the Presidency, and consequently vitally interested in the addition of so vast a number of black vo ters to that party. Voters of Pennsylva nia, there is danger ahead ! Look well to your interests and rights ! The European War. The war in Europe, which has long been expected, has at length broken out. Prussia, which seems to have been look ing for a pretext to begin hostilities, and hoping that Austria would take the initia tive, has grown tired of waiting. The de cision of the Diet, that the Federal ar mies should be mobilized, and that execu tion should be awarded against Prussia to compel her to keep the peace of Ger many, has been resented by the with drawal of Prussia from the Confedera tion, and by a declaration ou her part that the union is at an end. She followed up that act promptly by moving her armies into Hanover and Saxony, members of the Confederation. On the 17th her troops entered Dres den. The King of Saxony withdrew to Bohemia with his treasures, and the Sax on army marched to concentrate with the Prussians. Most of these movements preceded the formal declaration of war, which was made by Prussia on the 18th ult. On the same day the Italian Gov ernment declared war against Austria, a coincidence which shows how closely Prussia and Italy are working together. These very prompt movements give Prus sia certain - strategic ad vantages, and place her hi situations of importance in the cam paign. She has undertaken a bold game. She is now endervoving to Sght nearly the whole of Germany, for Austria has the advantage of having eight important powers which voted with her in the Diet, on her - side. The Prussians had but five votes beside their Own, and they are com posed' mostly of inferior States, which can add very !lure to her strength. The Federal army was concentrating near Frankfurt, and at that place it was thought an important battle would be fought. This war commences under portentious circumstances. The great number of troops, the high state of military science on both sides; and the resolution of the combatants, combine to render the phis pect of the conflict most exciting. Whilst behind the Prusians and Italians stands France, ready to intervene at the oppor tune moment, , it is now believed that be hind Austria stands'Russia ; and it is said that Gortshakoff has given notice that if France intervenes, Russia will take apart in the contest on the side of Austria. Suicide of Senator Lane of Kansas LEAVENIV . O4TII, July 2.—Senator Lane, of this state, shot himself last. evening, in flicting a wound which resulted fatally at nine o'clock to day.,He has been acting• strangely for severa days, and a careful watch was kept over him; but while ri didg last evening -with his brother in law, Mr. McCall, and Captain Adams, brother ,of bis son in. law, he got. oat of the wagon which stopped at the gate of the Govern.. ment farm, the residence of McCall, and stepping to the rear, drew a pistol and shot. himself in the ruouth,the ball passing Out through the top of his skull. The act 'was undoubtedly the result of temporary 'mental derangement. He is the third member of the family . who has commit ted suicide. Later dispatches contradict the death report, and another says : Leavenworth,, Kansas, July s.—Hopes are entertained that,Senator, Lane will re cover. He seems much better to night, being in a conscious state and able to speak. Dinoterofßarnwell Rhett CnTumbia'; S. C., July 4.- I :The Hon. Barnwell Ringt; a distinguished citizen of this State, was shot yesterday afternoon, while going. to his plantation, near the ; city of Charleston:. He received two loads fronfa double barreled shot gun, .one load breakinghis arm, the other pen ,. etrating hii.side and entering his lungi. About twenty minutes after receiving the wounds he fell:from his horse, and diedi It is notlnown definitelpwbo the mur derer was, but it is' , supposed, •CO be •ri ne gro who.bad 'expressed ° strong animosity against the family. —The,ststetneet telegraphed from, the Smith that ex. Senator Robert. Barnwell ; Rhett, of South . Carolina, had ,been sassinated, was eriOnsons., The; •, person murdered was, Rep.', S. Rhett,.a cotton merchant of Charleston,' 'Who .hos never; be t o,lll,..poltpcSl He Was a young .brothefort4p S:cilitit