IN §f le EittsinttO erraytts 110310/11.T. DY.C. SO. ISO?. AS TUE Republican National COUTSII - will be held in hlity, it is probable this Slate. Convention in Pennsylvania will be held ai early as March: TWENTY-VITT, of the Republican jour nals published in the northern andnorth westcpt perilous of Pennsylvanfa have expressed a preference fofXr. Galosh& A. Grow, u the candidate for Vice Eyes ident: experieeced, cleaz.sighted, true, he commands the popular "coon, -deuce. 'RAILROAD ttiltscinnAnoar Arrangements have boon made for the ens? , annoplldation of three r lvania Ituuroids,. 1. The OR Creek , ex tending from Corry 'to Petrol in Oem-_ ter, a distance of thirty-right smilax 2. The FarMercßoad, eXtending from Pe troleum Center to Oil City, a anises of eight miles. 3. keno, Oil (Reek and Plthola wad, extending (up Cherry Ran) nineteen miles. - • • . This coniolidated line will be laid throughout with both broad and narrow im p, so ea to afford connection with. all Ike reads pointing toivarde New tork.,,lt will connect with the Mile- della& and Erie road both it Warren' and Corry; with the Now York Central it Garry by Mll/1.111 of the Buffalo Cross Cot; which runs from Corry to Brockton on the Like Shore road, and so on to Bairsio; and with : the Atlantic and Groat Western road at both Oil Creek and Ohm, and by that road connecting with the Ens Railway at Salamanca. - Tho arrangement to that the consoll dited, road shall receive and deliver . freights from and to all other reads Atli __ out discriminations for or against any. The consolidated line have control of a very largo amount of oil, which is a fair basis fora profitable basilican , This Consolidated lbse also connects at Oil City with the Allegheny Valhi road, leading down to Pittsburgh. Of coarse, this opens all tlie connections be. yond Oil City for operations to and from Pittsburgh. PARTON'S PITTSBURGH We like Mr. PAISMOSeII biographic ind descriptions of cities. They are readable and Instructive. They are not 'always accurate. He, like other mem, has his likes and &liken -His prejadi ces affect his wrltingL He Watetialell diawson !di imagination to make art his Mori. , " Then much depuds on his smarm of information. Ho says what he was's - Ltd hears. What he does not know he cannot be expected'• to tell. Hence a description may be correct so far as it goes, but be imperfect. An ar. tint may paint perfectly the body of s `man, but t lf the head is omitted it will be - somewhat defective. And Mr . PARTON 11111 At " done'? Pittsburgh. We breathe mere freely. Pittsburgh is not extinguished; its fires stillborn. We have too much iron and coal to be pat out by a single breath. Neither are we highly indlinant as were our friends tallow cs lasi August. He . has wild much' that ii trio and said It well. What we most regret is that he could nothave seen 'more of our rar recrdings; our elegant =buena real. dances, and come In contact, with more of our Citizens, in different ,professions, some or our preachers and scholars, and .then'we might have had some slight si mnel= to the immaterial. We have some men of mark here, and give some attention to the culture of the mind and heart—have some educational Institu tions or the greater the shame. We are not, in this respect, by any means what we wish we were. But we rave la our Itconus and HOLISM men, as well known abroad at India Rev. Mr. Mato. It is a singular fact that comparatively few . of our citizen' know what Institutions we here in our cities.. For the bendt, therefore, of our people, as well as for the - *nfonnation of our friends abroad, we re gret the complete silence on this subject. From all Mr. Pawrox's writingi we are led to believe that the theatre, hOwever low, better VW° his 'taste than the sanctuary. Had he visited some of our houses of ' worship,'. he migathare seen many men who "ap- pear to take the slightest Interest in their \ clothes," dad "many pair of yellow kids whiciihave remained so more than ten udontels? The graphic description of the vise seen from Cliff street does not surprise no. Other 'men would have seen other things. Besides our beauti ful Cemetery, our Arsenal, our Prisoa, ear Copper and Steel Works., we keen on: three Theological Seadnames, ono of them' one of the largest hi our country; our telescope, the mime• in else in the famous one la the Dudley Observatory, and of the same m &kid; our School of Design, our University, and Our. Female College, large and fleurishint. • Strangers will smile at the "haelunan who doused the exact fair by law lista. llshed," and chinens, when told that the necessaries of life are "cheaper hart than in any other city east or west," will lay they "cannot see it.•' ' Entitti. EAMON did very well with the natetials he had. We wish he kid had mere and some of a dl nereat kind.' 4 : 5 SO,UELCHIPM OUT FEWILNUIN. Dtuteg the rebellion in. thellukted State, the charicter of the feeders time, • in, and the depth to which their-yas. , slims were. stirred, found accurate ad. measurement in the meant to which they resorted to gain their ends. Whiz . they atooped to inCendiariam, to sues. siltation; to the dhulemination of pesti lnttal diseases, to the massacre of foes engaged in legitimate warfare, and to the systematic starvation of disused and helpless prisoners; It was known and understood of all men that they. *ere thoroughly in carom, and that in• respect to Civil ration they nearly touched tlus verge of barbarism. _ In Great Britain the 'Fenian Brother hood are exhibiting similar character. lance. That they feel a profound con- AC101211111 , 1111 of wrongs endured and are reeolvtid, if not upon redress, then 'at least upeos revenge, and by any means; no matteilow atrocious,. are facts shit. gather undeniable. It does not follow because men feel that they are wronged, that they are an. Men, are notenieusly bad judges in all eases in which they are Interested., Passions, prejudices, ambi tions, rise up like clouds, obsequies the light of reason, whin men undertake to determine how far their rights are lm pigned and by what bistrumentallties they may vindicate these pretensions. The asjority of the men who consti tute the Fenian Brotherhood, whether in the. 'United States or in Europe, are addictectto crimes of violence. In this country, ae the records of the courts ev erywhere attest, they are guilty of full half of all the crimes of Chic description that are committed. No reasonable man eats or expects that they shall deport theruselies better than the average of the'reeple among whom they live; bat this comparative monopoly of offences • Which they assert, especially of violence towards persons and properties, neat sadly sebjecul them to harsh adlmadver . 'ions. It constitutes the 01C1110 er Judi- 'cation which the Englishhgovernment aid people constantlyplead for the sever- Wes smallest in their policy towards Deland. • Nor ought It to escape notite in this connection that thecrecutions which the English liwarnmeit has enforce d of convicted Pentane, 'have not disclosed \ the !cadency expected therefrom. It 'Wits supposed that when the rigor of the sithotitlet was aroused, sunhat the gallows had claimed and embraced its Tietiraff, terror would be struck ' into this' beasts of the disaffected Inbabi • tante se Would CAMP; them to next This inippoottlon has. been dbuippointedi was foremen. by thole : who had carefully analyzed the eEgct of fear upon - , hums , conduct. It maj, 'indeed, be possible to institute s system of govern. mental whet= that 'shall abso lately appall those smarm whom It is directed; but, it . possible, such a system most necessarily be so horrible as to affright everybody elle% This preyed:l the carrying of such a de sign into effect in modern days. Even in ancient times when brutality was the rule rather than the exception, conquer ors found it difficult to restrain subjected population, and often resorted to the plan of sweeping a whole nation into captivity, and plaiting the denuded ter ritory with new iihabitanti Napoleon rueote nations not only with the ter ror of his military genius, but with hor rible cruelties designed to crash all sense of Independence. What he did himself, 1 he commanded his lienteiants to do like wise. _llatthase britalitiu d id not pre. mat nations from striking him in turn. Russia has resorted to infamous barbari ties to crush the spirit of roland6put frequent intervals that heroic pee e make giant efforts to break Melt Mite . Robespierre and his associates did worst the. modern world has trim to silence &Merit and make people acq - esce but their enormities led them to therguilotine. • . Whether Great Britain will profit b them instances, or disregard them to .1 colt,. ii yet an unsolved problem. majority of her people seem to be w than her government, aid may • some portion of their-wisdom int•l rulers. MESSAGE OF GOV, MITCHELL 01 MOW MAXIM We have before tu, in a neat pain pblet,ininted at the *Mee of the Smits F. Wieldy Gazette; the first annual mes. gage of Goliernor Rebt. B. Mitchell, ide. livered before the legislative dumbly of the Territory of Raw 'Mexico. It is a well-written Ind lehuseting document, and giver a fell and comprehenlivo view of the various interests of that ire portant territory, with which; we h pe ere long to be brought into closer mini and commercial relations then we hive heretofore enjoyed. 1 ' ' Of the Union Facile Railway, Treat. em ; Division the Gamier speaks at length, tad in cheering and hopeful terms. "The building of this rdid Omani& the Territory (he says) will give it new life. We are now at least i, century bolded the greatening Age of the 'criuntry in which we time a pin, audit is high time we were making rep• id_striiies to Overtake those portions of our common country which have been men favored with the 2tellities of Pro gressioe." lie asks the Legislature to mealorlidite Congress at the Pnient le , " aloe give to th is company the same aid is has 'hue given to ether roads a the Continent ', 8 : of the route as just survey ed, he rays i - c i am 'The present surrey darts at Fort Wallace (on tie Slinky BIM and reaches Fort Lyon at the mouth of the Puree. ' Loire river, in, a distance of 114 miles-- Otesci it follows up the Purgateire until a pro pr point Es reached for leaving It, to turn the out= mint of the Raton Mountain; after which it crosses the head w: i. of the Dry ,Cimarrui, also Red Rive „Sexcielly so called, but really the C ) near the month of the Little ' n, and thence by way of the Wage*Mound to the town of Lea Vegas. Tiffrst ridges of the Rocky ; Mountains west arias Vegas are crossed at the Ys to by a gap so low that no change is made In the grade of the hue, which continues on,'crosaing the recoil riverabont il lt r imilesaboTe Anton Chico, and thence keg a nearly direct line towards the o Grande, which it mtis a few miles ow Albuiptereue.' ' , ' On the ect of agriculture he says . 1 "The &pi Mini results of the Terri torythi for the ear now about ending have beau es y ' astlifactary to the bus. headmen. The Ilan have Yielded abundant harvests; the gnutaries of our farmers are tiled to overflowing with all the necessaries for the support of them selves aid familia the modes Inc Throughout the entire Territory the i crops of wheat, corn, oats, beans, bar ley, and all the cereals and vegetables have yielded abundantly." The Governor earnestly recommends to the farmers of the Territory to • pro. cure noproved. l ,smicultural machinery and implements; and speaks of the mil. liens of mores .of land yet unoccupied, "equal in all respects nr,any lead In the . Territory or elsewhere for agricultural purposes or stock-gnawing." Re speaks of wool-growing: es one of the leading littered/1 'of New Mexico, "where the population have every natural funny for mishit immense, herds of sheep at a red. trifling esperma." He remarks: ("Tke flocks of Use Territory, from the best estimate I am able to make, yield at tent two sad a half millions of pounds Of wool the present year, the larger pro perties. of which . has been transported to the States for sale and insinfactme, end - what we require is reamed to es in its various forms of woolen fabrics for our own use, with transportation added both ways, which we are compelled to pay; together with large profits to the people who are prepared to manufaisture one of the staple articles of our Territe• ry. This shipplug process costs our people at least fife Mildred precast. en the original exist of the wool. This per Mintage should be retained In the coun try, Aid *WWI to the building of wool en funnies in oar own Turnery." Be mentions the erection CI one fine . woolen factory,..which is now in frill and successful operation. - - . We cleats - in fell what Governor Mrrmign aye I under thu had. It will be leen that he corroborates all wo said on that subject la the (Mawr= of • . the 16th Mat. • "AniengthesubJects of greatinteraotto the Territory, and to which I. desire to 1 call your meet earnest conaideration Sr. thy mineral resources as a sure means of increasing the Material wealth et the messes of the people, and adding to the general prosperity of all chasm. Them is probably no source of wealth within one reach so omissible as the develop =Mt of the,rith mineral region of that portion of the Rocky Mountains passing through the central pcation of our Torrb. toryi 'This continuous range of moun tains throughout the entire Territory, Is tilled with all the nredousmetals known to this Conthaentrind classy access. We have lonly the evidences of our pro sent po Matto; of the immense mineral wealth em—but leld tradition, history and ancient works, all attest that this was the chief warm of revenue to tho Spanish Government in past mu; and recent disonveried end exploration and the minim/operations now in progress, , indicate that In. the future also, it will prove to be most productive. In all parts of the Territory are found veins and deposits of the-yarrow useful and precious metals, uomeroue locali ties may now be men shafts and drifts, the work of a past people, the record of which is now entirely lost to our genera tion, and the only monuments left of their energy, activity and industry, ate the relics of their extensive using opera- Lion. scattered over the mineral portiorts of the Territory. " For centuries attention - ha; imen,M tracted towarcrithe graat.and rich min eral deposits contained In the boundaries of what I. now known as • the Territory of New lifealoo. ,The theoretical gook. gist end mineralogist' and the practical miner, have alike spokenta praise of the mineral wealth of this Portion of the public domain; everywhere from the Raton Mountable ;cif the North to the Mattis Valley in the South-‘from the mountains of the ,Post to our extreme western boundary, in every . locality is Muni metal° depoelts, and In most places, of paying richness. We have found gold in the "Placeres" and in the quartz, in Inexhaustible quantities ; our pismires are now being successfully werked at 1411011 Altos. At the "Phloe m" twenty.five miles south of this thy; at the Morena mines, near Maxwells, in the county of Mara, and other places. 1•In them localities are gathering huge numbers of practical miners, net only from our own territory, bat from ether territories and States. The constantly increasing pepulatliss of these localities, and the presence in our . midst of large quantities of tho preciouarattals, attest the wealth elf-this country. The gold bearing quarts, wherever frond, Is of great veins. Wherever Meted with qnart-V inn* - as at Pinta Altos and the Mamma" It • has • been found t o pay the - enterprising miner fab ulously. Our ore is a decomposed q aerie easily reduced with the simplest ma, .chinerv.•. The veins are wide and free from sialpteurets and water—those greet obataclaa to itrMeasfnl mlningelsewbere. "At 'Pines Altos a tunnel, seven hun dred feet In tenth, with proper thane, has been made; at the Placceres, one tunnel of the hundred feet, with shafts of one hundred and seventy-five feet in depth, has also been constructed. In each, the orels'free frompyrites or std. phrurots and the shafts free' from water. The character ad the ore end mines, the 1 cheapness of fuel and labor, the genial nature of the climate which permits un interrupted rniningduring all the months of the year, are already attracting the at tention of capitaibits, and the rapid de velopment of our mines is now a cer tainty.' "Second--SILVP.II. We leo everywhere surrounded with the evidences of this precious metal, and of the fact that for many years after the settlement of NOW Mexico, silver-mining was 'ex tensive and profitable. Too rovolution which took place over two hundred years ago, and which resulted in the driving of theearly settlers away from thin re gicei,-ended here for a limo, this branch of industry. The natives, jealous of the Spanish =se and opposed to the settle ment of their country, and recognizing the mines es Its principal attraction at that time, filled the ancient shafts with timber and covered them so as to obliter ate their locality. The action of the ele ments and the decay of time have reveal ed the location of hundreds of these old mines, and many oCthem have been found of great'value; These ancient sil ver mines haiqjbeen discovered in all parts of tbo territbry, and oonetantly new discoveries are being made. In addition to these, new mines in new localitias ore being...foul:4. Public attention having 'tiseu attreated toward thilm, we may I confidently predict then,- that ere long, their development will be energetically prosecuted. • "Third—Corea& Tile safe to say no where hus been discovered richer and larger deposits of this metal than In Now -Mexico. It la found In all parts of the Territory;-at Maxwell's; near More; at the Placeres; at 'Mersa, at -Honsana. in the Organ hfountains. and 'the' Nacem lento; at Jemmy In the vicinity of Pines Altos; and elsewhere. Some of these copper mines have been known and r worked for nearly a century. "The Santa Rita del Ochre and Hanover mines, from the immensity of tt.e de r posits and the richneinatheir ore, char ll the world. besufulwmple 1e tion - of a rail mad to thierterritory, will give the cheap transportation n forties largest results from cop7J ning. p "Iron and ccialitave been found in Mex. hatualble quantities of the best quality along the proposed railroad line. Cie nebar and zinc are also -found, buras yet no attention has been given to Mining the same. The developtitent °four min eral resources has been heretofore Slow. The hostility of the Indian tribes of the territory tcr encroachment on their an cient hunting grounds, and ether moors not now necessary to enumerate, have retarded development; but pow the rapid kin= of a mining population—numer ous, enterprising and courageous, Is overcoming these difficulties, and we are just beginning to. feel theadvantage which must result to no whoa the tievel opment assumes the proportions =rod Ina mineral country." -- An Aged Weskam •resets* es lb Mane AClnreer. , . . The Newark (N.J.) Centrick. of Monday eyening, says: - Sheriff Ward, of Sussex county, pro , ceeded to a point in the Sparta moan- I twin, near the village of Sparta, this fera -1 noon, and arrested and an:rayed to the Newton jail, en aged women named ,Loner, one charge of having murdered it girl twelve years of age, who bad been I in her employ as a servant. It ; appears that about two weeks sine* thngirl was missed by the immediate neighbors of Mrs. Loner, and they, knifing her violent temper, at once sus pected something wrong. On being guestSened as to the whereeboute of the &lobe gave conflicting atatements, tell ing some that "the Lord had taken her away,7 and ethers that "some rowdies had persuaded her off." Thee improb able stones served to augment the ens pidons, already entertained In regard to the matter, and yeatorday,it Is Said, such (seta were lorought to'light as warranted an Investigation of the premises occu pied by Mrs. Loner, and her arrest to day sped the serious charge of murder. It was nimored In Newton this morning. that the body of the girl had been found i burled I tho cellar of Mrs. Lorler's hense, where 3 is believed to have beensecreted by the urdreets. ?The w man, who is over sixty years of age,.fs dIS have shown but little emo tion, wh n taken into custody , and sc , compani Sheriff Ward without diffi culty. The Medi: will at once be thor oughly investigated, and welter* by to morrow to be able to give fell details of the result. The Great Pictorial Annual. h.:ileum's Vetted BUM AMtearc, for DO. wawa-Illation; gratis, Umegboat the United States sedan elettleed