New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-12

IA near it, end. Tho conference which
took place in this city yesterday
was between prominent and properly accredited
officers of either Company. and tho result
"a reported was an agreement upon
basis for settlement OF tho pending
troubles. The details are not known,
but of course tho agreement. whatever
It may be, cannot 60 into effect until
r,ti6ed by tho Directors Of each
Company. However the contest may have bene-
flied individuals, the public is to be congratu'
lated if q struggle fraught with consequences
disastrous to the railroad enterprises OF the
country is really to be brought to close.
The platform of the California Republicans
is one of the oldtime sort, extending through
many resolutions, rich in promises, severe in
denunciation, and burdened with resounding
words. As the Convention was presided over
by Senator Sargent, the mOuthpiece of the
President on the Pacific coast, the first resOlu-
ton is of course eulOgy of Gen. Grant and
a condemnation of "the rancOrous spirit" of
his enemies. The President appeased, haste is
made to declare that his letter to the Chairman
of the Pennsylvania Republican State COnven-
ton ais full REPUTATION of the ISLANDERS
"Of those who have charged him with
"intrig,ling for q reelection" and that this
letter is accepted as a final settlement of the
Third Term agitation. The South is then de-
clared in a state bordering on war, and the
people are mystcriously cautioned against
a conspiracy to prevent the constitutional
election Of the President in 1876. The re-
manning resolutions refer mainly to questions
of local interest, but are notable chiefly for
vigorous language in condemnation of the
Central Pacific Railroad. The candidates for
State officers seem to have been nominated
with remarkable unanimity.
Mr. F. 3. Carpenter, not having been called
to the witness stand by either party to expose
the hight and depth of lis ignorant mcddlins
in the Becchcr business, has called himself, and
we surrender good deal of space this morning
to the testimony he presents. IL makes slight
positive additions to the known facts, bnt 1t
does what Mr. Carpenter has never done be-
fore--it paints n thoroughly good portrait.
If he could ever have made as good
q picture of anybody in oil as he has here
made of him self in lampblack, he would not
have been vainly struggling for now nearly
quarter of century to get admission
to the National Academy. restless
little busybody, with an unnatural ard
prurient lust of gossip, perpetually itching
to connect himself with prominent OF notori-
Gus people, babbling to one of the stories OF
the other, and rushing about with
sort of feeling that the responsibility
for the conduct of Is large part
of the universe was resting upon Ills
grotesquc figure as can well be I'M
agined He is so loose talkcr with so little
conception of the value of words. such
evident lack of common sense. and sucll an
overwhelming idea of his own Importance
in the transactions he narrates, that even if
his honest purpose be admitted, very little
weight can be given to what he tells. Doubt
less score of other statements" mostly full
of as idle gossip, are in store for us. 1t
promises to be an extraordinary Summer