The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-04-23

Inc Hne SlQeWHeel steamship HerUan Livingston,
Captain Eaton will leave pier 80 North river at three
p NJ. to-day for Savannah, Ga.
The Approaching Radical Presidential Car
nivaI. Under cold Ben Wade."
The handwriting is on the wall, and Andrew
Johnson, like Belshazzar, is to be displaced
and his kingdom given over to the Modes and
Persians. Radical astrologers at Washington
read it from the stars that on many of the
articles of Johnson's indictment the republican
Senator'S will vote solid that he is guilty, and
that ''the confidence in a verdict of conviction
is evidently increasing in quarters that have
heretofore considered it doubtful" So it ap-
pears that in the domestic circle of the White
House they care making their preliminary
preparations for an exodus" Chat is they are
packing up their movables), and that the men,
bers of the Cabinet, having warned their conf
dental subordinates Of the impending event,
are arranging their papers, in view of an i'm
mediate evacuation with the removal of their
chief Secretary Seward it is given out, will
return at once to the classic shades of ''sweet
Auburn;" Secretary McCulloch will pitch his
tent among the inanciers of Wall street the
Secretary of the Interior, Browning, will open
claim agency, and Grandfather Welles, like
an old ship withdrawn from active service, will
tie up near the Washington Navy Yard. Sec
rotary Stanton will doubtless send in his resig
nation to the incoming President on the plea
that he is sadly in want of rest and recreation,
and, with many thanks from "Old Ben " for
his great and patriotic services in holding the
War Office against the fearful conspiracy of
Johnson and Thomas, we predict that the ex-
hausted Stanton will be relieved.
From this commanding point Of obser-
walton what a glorious prospect opens before
President Wade 1t extends as far beyond
the reach of his radical telescope as did the
to his enraptured gaze. The Cabinet, the
foreign missions and consuates the Treasury,
with its custom houses, lighthouses, internal
revenue assessors, collectors and whiskey
rings; the army, the navy, the territorial
patronage, Indian agencies, commissions and
what not, and the Post Office Department,
with its twenty odd thousand postmasters all
placed at the disposal of President Wade, will
be tremendous power, backed by radical
Cabinet, a radical House of Representatives
and radical Senate. But all these things
will be the mere 1ncidentals to the great and
far reaching power of the incoming Executive
in the all important matter of reconstruction.
Here the length and breadth and height and
depth of the changes that may be made in
our political system, and before the 4th of
March next, are positively incalculable.
First of all, however, President Wade, after
the appointment of his Cabinet, will be required
to meet the general demand Of his friends for
new division of the spoils Like vultures
lowering over the camp of great army these
spoils patriots are already gathering in Wash
ington. A fortnight hence their assembled
forces will be as numberless as the pilgrims OF
the Eastern caravans en- route to the tomb o.
the Prophet. The expectants of this city, with
its rich placers of the Custom House and Posi-
Office, are among the ''wide awakes, and their
name is Legion. Our loyal league and repub-
| lican club rooms are in a state of active com
bustion even now in the work of parceline
| out the fat pickings held by Johnson's heretics
on this island and its surroundings. But
it is supposed that with the appointment Of
his Cabinet and reappointment of the Southern
military commanders removed by President
johnson, beginning with Sheridan, the work Of
a new division of the 'honors and emoluments'
| will be suspended by President Wade until after
the Chicago National Republican Convention
He is candidate for the Vice Presidential
nomination with General Grant. and as in
every appointment ne may make as President
nd interim he will make half dozen or more
disappontments his policy will naturally be to
make as few appointments before the Conyen.
ton as possible, in order to keep his friends all
hopefully about him at Chicago.
II is not by any means certain however
that Mr. Wade, even with the patronage of IN,
White House in his hands nd Interim will n,
able to secure the coveted place on the rich
hand OF General Grant for the succession
illmlin, of Maine; Wilson, of Massachusetts,
buckingham Of Connecticut FentDn, of New
] York Curtin. OF Pennsylvania Coltox, q