The New York herald., 1868-03-10

| Tne Louisiana convention yesterday elected
Board Of Managers and adjourned subject to the call
of quorum.
In the election In Memphis, Tenn, on Saturday
four coored persons were elected.
Mike McCoole has agreed to fight Allen two OF
three months after his great fight with Joe Coburn.
Heavy freshets are imminent throughout the West
The Missouri and Kaw rivers are rapidly rising.
The Hon. " Rem Wnde'' as President Pro Tenn.
of the United States.
Rumor has it that there is some trouble
among the republicans of Congress in regard
to "Old Ben Wade," and the important ques-
ton "What shall we do with hm?' AS Presi-
dent pro tenn. of the Senate, from the present
posture of things, he will become, with the
removal Of Andrew johnson, President pro
| tem., or ad interim, of the United States-that
is to say, for the remnant of Johnson's term,
which expires on the 4th of March, 1869. Mr..
Wade was put in his present position by the
radicals of the Senate as game of bluff, in
view of the contingency of Johnson's impeach-
ment and removal; but there is a little group
of republican Senators who do not like the
radical fanaticism and vagaries Of Mr.. Wade,
and who dread accordingly his promotion to
the White House. As President of the Senate
he is comparatively harmless, but as President
Of the United States they fear that he will be
that ugly customer, a bull in china shop
The Republican State Convention of Ohio
has proclaimed him the candidate of Ohio for
the Vice Presidency on the republican ticket
with General Grant. Indiana, in behalf of the
republicans, quite as emphatically has put for
ward her favorite leader, Speaker Colfax, as
the man Of all men for the Vice Presidency.
But if the heads of these two men are knocked
| together in the Chicago Convention they may
both be killed off, for experience has shown
that where, on nearly equal terms, there are
several candidates in one Of these party con-
ventions for the same place, the chances are
as uncertain as any one of so many tickets in
one of the Hon. Ben Woods lotteries,
or as the chances of Hon. John Morrissey 8
fascinating but delusive game of faro or keno.
Moreover, there are some republicans of con-
servative cast who think that Ben Wade "
as President now, and IA Vice President
under the succession, would be too much of
the old Ohio fanatic. 1t il hinted, therefore,
that some compromise will probably be at
tempted of this sort-viz., the declination OF
Mr. Wade in favor of Speaker Colfax as the
next man in the line of promotion to the White
House with the removal of Andrew Johnson,
and with the understanding that Colfax will
turn over to Wade all his right, title and inte
rest in the Chicago Convention as a candidate
for the Vice Presidency on the regular ticke
with Grant. Should this arrangement b
agreed upon between the high contracting
parties il is supposed that the Chicago Con
vention may be relied upon to lay ''Old Ben
up in lavender on the same shelf with Seward
Fillmore, "Old Buck" poor Pierce" ant
other fossils of the silurian epoch.
But the last October Ohio election, in cut
ting him out of a re election to the Senate
has made, no doubt profound impression
upon the mind Of Mr. Wade in favor of tina
wise old maxim that "a bird in the hand 1
worth two in the bush" Hence he may dcclin,
to enter into any compact involving the sur
| render Of the White House, as the successor
dd interim Of Andrew Johnson, for the uncer
tain chances Of the lottery wheel of th'
Chicago Convention. What then? The ques
tion then recurs, how will Mr.. Wade serve tn,
: purposes Of the republican party in the place o
: Andrew Johnson2 First Of all he is cheek-by
!, jowl with Wendell Phillips on negro suffrage an,
e Southern negro supremacy. Phillips therefore
4 may become the next Attorney General of th
I United States. Secondly, Mr.. Wade goes th
whole figure Of George Francis Train and hi
! colaborers, the strong minded and long g-winde
women, in behalf of woman suffrage am
: womens rights. Accordingly, the Senate vii
2 do well to prepare ITSELF with the installation
i of ''Old Ben" In the uncomfortable chair 9
IN candy Johnson, for the confirmation of Mis-
a Lucy Stone or Mrs. Susan d. Anthony as Sec
retary Of the Interior or Postmaster General
! ! and for Fred Douglass and Downing the oys
te terman, as ministers to Hayti and Liberia |
ID the next place, If we may credit the origina
al reports Of certain speech delivered by 'ol
Ben Wade some time ago in Kansas touchin
!, the money question and the rights of labor, b
+. ,,ay ha avneciod moi onlv In advooate the nm