4 JANUARY 1873, Page 10

It is stated, apparently on good authority, that the dominant

influence-in the New York Tribune has been purchased by per- sons who intend to make of it an Administration paper. They are represented by a Mr. Orton, and he has secured Mr. Schuyler Colfax, who is now Vice-President of the United States, but will be superseded in March by Mr. Wilson, as editor, on a salary of 20,000 dollars a year. That is four-fifths of the salary of the President, but is not excessive, the office being consider- ably more important than a seat in the Cabinet, or two or three seats in the Senate, or twenty or thirty seats in the House of Representatives. America has many faults, but she does not refuse political journalists their place in the social system.