New-York tribune., 1872-09-26


The MIX Producers Convention failed to agree upon
nasis Of co;peration. == The architect and several
contractors gave testimony in regard to the harleu
Courthouse z== liberal mass meetings were heid lh
Newark Nyack, and in the lid, XXth and AAlst DIS
,rcts == Edwards PierrepOnt and Frederick Doug
las made addresses at the Administration rally -
The reduction in municipal expenses during the past
wear Is almost 100000. Gold, 1875. llSs, llSb
Thermometer 72', 74o, 7o'.
Is there to be a dummy candidate for Mayor
Of New York, behind whose respectable hgure
the Tom Murphy and Nelo- York Times Kepub-
Iicans are to run James OBnenf II So do
they expect the Committee of Seventy to CO.
operate with them to that endY
The N. Y. Times says that the substitution
of Gen. Dix for Jay Gould as President OF
the Erie Railroad was the Substitution OF
cone swindling Ring for another" We do
not propose to set up any swindling Ring at
Albany. No one calls Mr.. Herman swlndler
Gen. John A. Dix, while United States Min
lister to France, received in Paris $4,000 from
the Union Pacific Railroad Co. What was 1t
fort Had Gen. Dix threatened them, as
Union Pacific stOckholder, with suit to over
haul the Credit MObilier transactions, and was
this $4,000 in the nature of hush-moneyf
We have substantial reasons for the inquiry
VIII Gen. Dix explain
A correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, writing
from Western Pennsylvania, gives CHEEKY
view of the Liberal canvass in that region.
Allegheny County is reekoned one OF the
strongholds of Grantism, giving a majority of
10000, sometimes, for the ticket But mis-
management and corruption have so demoral-
lied the party that the prospect this year is
good for a great reduction of those figures.
Ex-President Mahan of 0berlin has written
another letter on the political situation, part
of which we print to-day. The arguments of
this eminent and thoughtful man are admirably
stated and his conclusions must carry con-
viction with them. Mr.. Mahan represents
LARGO and growing element in society which
sees with alarm the insOlent immortality of
the Grant combination. His views will COM
mand attention everywhere.
After his success in negotiating Georgia
railroad bonds, Mr.. Henry Clews was selected
by President Grant as a fit man to succeed
the Barings as financial agent of the United
States in London! Now Mr.. Henry Clews
tells Wall Street that the business interests of
the country would not be safe in Mr.. Greeley's
hands. What does Wall Srteet think Of their
safety in President Grants hands, with Mr..
Henry Clews as financial agentl
A self styled Council of Political Reform
processes a great anxiety about members of
the Legislature, and assures us that its sole
desire is reform. When it is remembered that
this Council is nothing but a Grant cam
paign organization in disguise, the sort of
reform they want will be easier understood |
What they are at is to secure members of the
Legislature pledged to the reelection of Roscoe |
Conkling. Anybody who wishes TO help to |
that end may as well do it with his eyes
open.
"Crawfish 0'Brien has again recOnsidered |
and "gone back on himself.D He declared for
Louisville and had to abandon that position.
lie was outspoken for Dix until he found he
could not drive his organization to oppose
Herman. Then he was temporarily for Grant;
now he announces that he will decide which
of the Presidential candidates to support when
the time comes. That is to say, when he can
not "strike" any longer, and has made all the
money possible out of the Grant managers, he
will make up his mind to follow his faction.
An imaginative speaker at the Milk Pro-
ducers' Convention, yesterday, said that the
noise of mixing milk and water at Jersey
City, in the early morning, sounds like Mag
ara. This is not encouraging; nor was any
comfort to be found in the remark of a rail-
way official, who happened to be present, to
the effect that cooperative union of farmers
was impossible, and that the proper way to
reform is through a combination of consumers
and respectable middlemen. There are con-
sumers enough; but are not the respectable
''middlemen" somewhat scarceP
A. ID. Barbour, the notorious Albany lobby
ist and half brother to Grants District Attor-
ney Noah Davis, has been intrusted with the