The New York herald., 1868-04-22

count OF Minister Burlingames official devastating
previous to embarking for San Francisco on his I'M
peral mission. Considering the great honor done
| him by the Emperor viceroys, mandarins, anu
| all the other officials insisted on prostra''hs
| themselves on the earth In Mr. Burlingaines pre-
| sence. The sudden death OF Admira bcN' oii'-
| ted States Navy in the Japan waters was an
| nounced in the China seas, and his memory an,y
honored by the different nayias, 0nr correspondent
recapitulates the Number and names of the American
| naval officers who have died in service in ASIA and
| conveys pointed remonstrance against 'red tape
| ism'' in the department in washington.
| Our special correspondent in Yokohama Japan,
dating ON the 7th OF March, furnishes very mpor-
tant resume of events which preceded the present
| civil war; its progress and frightful eXcesses,
capitulating situation regards foreign Interests
| in the newly opened ports at date.
| The election in North Carolina commenced yester-
day, and that in Georgia Is fully under way. Every
thing is progressing quietly in the two States. Cor
don, the democratic candidate In Georgia, is report
ed ahead but the radicals far decidedly in the
ascendant In North Carolina. Negroes in some in
stances were voting the conservative ticket. ma
orty for the constitution Is indicated in South Caro-
lima. In Louisiana the two most popuous parishes,
Orleans and Baton Rouge give majorities against the
| constitution. In New Orleans city the democrats
| elect Mayor and probably Congressman.
In the COle-Hiscoock murder trial at Albany yes
| terday, the day was consumed In empanneling a
jury. The first panel only produced four, who were
sworn as jurors and twenty talesmen were sum-
moned. OF these twenty only one was sworn, and
| an additional one hundred ordered to be sum-
| moned from the body of the county. Counsel for
| the defence asked posponement on account OF the
detention of an important witness by illness, but the
court refused to grant 1t.
Lord Monck, the Governor General of Canada, in
recent correspondence laid before the Provincial
House of Commons in relation to the abduction Of
one Allan Mcdonald by United States officers, takes
occasion to rebuke the British Minister, Mr.. Thorn.
ton, for accepting Secretary Stewards explanation
without demanding the extraditon of Mcdonald
The coroners' juries in the late murder at
Troy have rendered verdcts of death at the hands Of
some persons unknown. The Common Council Of
the city has offered 1000 reward for the arrest and
conviction of assaiants of either of the deceased
parties. Two men, named Jones and McC0oy, are
| suspected OF being the murderers of Crandel, the
| policeman, and have been committed to await an
| examination.
The examination of witnesses in the contempt pro-
ceedings against number of directors of the Erie
Railway Company was resumed yesterday before
| Judge Barnard large amount Of testimony was
taken and great interest manifested in the proceed
! ings. The hearing will be resumed this morning.
The stock market was steady yesterday. Govern
ment securities were strong. Gold closed at 1875
| The Impeachment and the Republican Party
| johnson Wade.
| Within a week we may look for the opening
| of new chapter in the history of the govern
ment of the United States. On or before this
day week the eviction of Andrew Johnson from
the White House and the promotion of Mr.
Wade, President pro tenn. Of the Senate, to his
place, will be the opening of a new administra-
ton. The change from Van Buren, to Harrison,
the change from Fillmore to poor Pierce, the
change from Buchanan to Lincoln, and the
change from Lincoln to Johnson, were all re-
markable events; but this impending change
from Johnson to Wade will, perhaps, in
its consequences eclipse them all, except
that which in Lipcoln's election sounded the
toscin of the most momentous political revolu-
ton of the nineteenth century.
Who is Andrew Johnsonp A sefwilled
politician from the backwoods of Tennessee.
Who is Benjamin f. Wade? self-wiled
politician from the backwoods of Ohio. How
did Johnson become President? By the
chapter of accidents. How will Wade become
Presdents By the chapter of accidents. What,
then, is 1t that is to make this great change
between the administration under Johnson and
the administration under Wade? ''The al
mighty nigger :" that's it, ''the almighty
niger" Johnson, trained under the institution
of negro slavery as a poor white had for
forty five years of his life two antagonistic
forces to fght--the lordly stakeholder, who
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slave, who despised him as 'poor white
trash" Having vanquished the STAKEHOLDER
Johnson has no further quarrel with him as
white man; but the social, political and civil
nferiority of the negro and his subordination
to the white race are ideas which are fixed in
the marrow Of Johnsons bones, and fire can
not melt these notions out of him. Wade is a
radical horse of another color Trained in the
school 2f Northern roundhead abolitionism,
| human rights and negro equality, he looks
| upon all these Southern distinctions between
the white and black races as the abomina-
tions Of negro slavery, which must be extir-
pated. 1t is nothing to Wade that they are
the growth of two hundred years of political
cultivation under the constitution OF the United
| States. They are abominations and must be
cut ont by the roots.
Thus it is apparent that the almighty Mig
GER" in our transfer from Johnson to Wade,
expresses change from one policy to another
equal TO new departure in our political revo-
luton. The frat thing done in the way of
Southern reconstruction by johnson was to
proclaim the elevation of the poor whites, the
exclusion of the twenty thousand dollar whites
and the status Of the blacks as that of "free
nggers' under the old slave system, with some
ameliorations. The first thing that will be