KTOftNG BULLETIN. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1866. «VB VICE PBESIDESTS. The people of the United States have aot been particularly felicitous in their choice of Statesmen to fill the position of Vice President. The office has generally been deemed rather ornamental than nseful, and without thinking of possi ble, and of late years, probable contin gencies, all parties have been disposed to consider it rather as a make-weight to equalize the two sides of Mason and Dixon’s line, on the respective electoral tickets, without any special reference to the important part that the second man on the ticket might be called on to per form in the affairs of the nation. Aaron Durr, the third Vice President, not only proved a traitor to his immediate political friends, and thereby foreshadowed An drew Johnson, but he contemplated trea son against‘the country at and he therein showed himself a worthy pre decessor of the Great Apostate. John C. Calhoun, another of the earlier Vice Presidents, was the father of Secession, and but for the firmness of Andrew Jackson, he would have anticipated the rebellion by a third of a century. John Tyler, almost the meanest of the entire crew of treacherous Vice Presidents, obtained his nomination by shedding crocodile tears over the defeat of Henry Clay in the Harrisburg Con vention, and he had scarcely got warm in his accidental presidential seat before he commenced to persecute every Mend of his .great patron, just as Andrew Johnson now proscribes every lover of the great man through whose patriotic virtues he was elevated to place and power. Fillmore was another Vice President of the United •States who through an ac cident stepped into the shoes of his prin cipal. He signed the Fugitive Slave bill, while he was President, and when he ceased to be President he grovelled down into the profoundest depths of dough-faceism. His latest public per formance was figuring prominently in the reception of Andrew Johnson at Buf falo. If both he and his latest successor in the accidental presidency only felt as mutually ashamed of each other as the circumstances warranted, justice would have been measurably satisfied. George M. Dallas, one of our own townsmen, was another of the Vice Presidents of the United States. ; Mr. Dallas’s record as a Senator is not very clear upon the United States Bank question, and as Vice-President he gave his casting vote in the Senate in favor of the tariff of *1846 and against the! 1 - revenue laws of 1842, .thus running di rectly counter to his own declarations and to the pretended principles of the party that elected him during ithe exciting contest of 1844. Mr. Dallas was a very respectable man and he has gone to his final account. We make an unwilling allusion to his career; but'as he was a leading public man,his record cannot be ignored when writing of the Vice Presidents of the United States who have failed -to meet the expectations of the people who elected them to office. John G. Breckinridge was Vice President of the United States. To say he proved a traitor ia to use a very weak and feeble phrase to convey a very for midable fact. Petted and favored by the nation above any other man of his age, he turned traitor to it in its hour of sorest need, and he not only failed to defend it in its extremity, but he raised his treasonable and parri cidal hand against the people who had trusted and honored him. Like the blunt Englishman who refused to accept an introduction to Benedict Arnold, and who afterwards refused to cross swords with the arch-traitor in a duel, we leave JolinC. Breckinridge to v the hangman, whose proper guest he is, AnA Andrew Johnson i The last of the Vice Presidents who have brought -disgrace 'upon the country and sum moned the blush of shame to the cheek of every honest American! There is but one man in American history whose case even feebly resembles bis, and that one man is John Tyler. John Tyler was chosen as the candidate for Vice Presi dent because of his pretended devotion to Henry Clay, and the great name of the latter carried the false Virginian into office, just as the illustrious name of Abraham Lincoln brought Andrew Johnsonoutfrom comparative obscurity. John Tyler’s pigmy soul prompted him to make w;ar upon the political friends of Henry Clay, when he had the power to persecute them; just as the ma lignity and treachery of Andrew Johnson prompt him to war upon the friends of Abraham Lincoln, and upon the great principles of which they are the advocates and representa tives. John Tyler, after betraying his party, turned traitor to his country in the hour of its greatest extremity, and Johnson strikes hands with red-handed rebels while he persecutes loyal men. So far the account is pretty evenly balanced between the two apos tates. But there is a still different as pect of the case. John Tyler was a traitor to the glorious Henry Clay, and Henry Clay, at that time, meant politi cally, Fiscal agent and Protective tariff, and but very little more. Andrew John son has turned traitor to the memory and the principles of Abraham Lincoln; which in this connection, mean Union, Loyalty,* Humanity, Fdir Dealing, Love of Country, and the Perpetuity of the Hation itself. Just in the same degree that Abraham Lincoln and Union Loyalty, Humanity, Fair Dealing, Love of Country and the Perpetuity of the ‘ Hation itself, exceed Henry Clay, Fisca agent and- Protective'tariff in import- THE DAILY EVENING BULLETIN.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY.. OCTOBER 20.18G£.—TRIPLE SHEET. n ance, just- to that extent has Andrew Jobiison fallen below John Tyler: ; "Aefisr below ftte eternal centre hurled, j Ab fromthat centre to the etherial world." , The specimens of Vice Presidents whom we have named should prompt the people of the United States to be more considerate of contingencies in the election of persons to fill thiß important place. Let them bear in mind what some rhymster has pHt pithily and well into verse as follows: “The vices called Burr And Calhoun, though the first Of our plagues sent by Heaven.were far from the worst; Vice Tyler. Vice Fillmore, Vice Breckinridge—Bee, These vices like their vicious graces agree! To eclipse the bad past, the had pi esent suffices, ' Tor Johnson, I hough last, is the first of the vices.’! We are not unmindful of the fact that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Clinton, Elbridge Gerry, Daniel D. Tompkins, Martin Van Buren, Bichard M. Johnson, William R. King and Han nibal Hamlin have been Vice Presidents of the United States. We have endeav ored to point but only the black sheep in the Vice Presidential flock,and to urge upon all parties to renumber for the fu ture that when a wise and tried states man is taken from Massachusetts or In diana as a candidate for the Presidency, it will not be sagacious and prudent to balance the account by taking an unwise and a doubtful nobody from Illinois or Connecticut, for the purpose of being run hpon the Viee Presidential ticket With him. We have had lessons enough in that direction. Let us profit by them. THE VOTE OF PESSSJI.ViSIA. At the election held on the Bth of.this month the total vote of Pennsylvania was about 597,000, or, in round numbers, 600,000. This is the largest vote ever cast in the State. The increase is mainly in Philadelphia, Allegheny and other manufacturing counties, anff in those where coal, iron and oil are produced. The heaviest vote ever-polled before was in the Presidential election of 1864, the total then, including the army vote, being 572,707. If a President had been voted for at the recent election, the total would probably have reached 620,000. At the Presidential election of 1860, the total vote of Pennsylvania was 476,442. In sfaat year the United States census was tfijsen, and although we do - not believe that justice was done to Pennsylvania in that enumeration, the vote for President in 1860 and that for Governor in 1866 afford some data-by which to estimate the present popula tion of Pennsylvania. The reported pop ulation in 1860 was 2,906,370. A corres ponding ratio of the voters of this year to the inhabitants will make the present population about 3,647,000. If a Presi dent had been voted for, a similar ratio would have made it 3,700,000, and this we believe to be about the actual num ber of in Pennsylvania. This corroborates the other evidences that our State is advancing in population, and of "course in wealth, more rapidly than any of the old States, and at a rate hardly surpassed by any of the young States of the West. The population has grown in six years about 650,000. In four years, when the next census is taken, it will have grown about 500,000 more, amounting to about 4,200,000, closely pressing New York, and threatening, before another decade, to deprive her of the title of the Empire State. NEW YORK MORALS. A writer in the North American lie view has written a very full and free article upon the subject of the corrup tions and rascalities of the New York city government. The author of the article has gone very fully and thoroughly into his subject, and giving dates, names, localities and figures, he makes out a very bad ease for the officials • of the “Metropolis.” Scoundrelism is the rule, and honesty the rare exception; and villainy, that simple fair dealing citizens would stand aghast at if they could thoroughly understand it, is systematically practised. In the Board of Aldermen, and in the Common Council, there are a few honest men bers; but their voices are unheeded and their votes avail nothing. Vile scoundrels, who would not be trusted within reach of a private pocket-book, have the control of the revenues of a great city; and coarse, vnlgar,ignorant fellows from the lowest grades of society, whom. no man of ordinary business tact and prudence would trust with the simplest concern of trade, have the propertyand, incidentally, the very lives of the people of New York at their mercy. But the commercial metropolis gives thirty thousand majority for the Democratic ticket, and as a consequence, the Sixth Ward rules Wall street; Mackeralville takes Fifth avenue under its protecting wing; Broadway is given over to the tender mercies of Cow Bay, and the people of the first city in the Union en joy such protection in their most vital business interests as the bullies of Moz art, the buffers of Tammariy and the Dead Rabbits, of the slums and "stews will vouchsafe them. Let only such portibds 6f the people of New York as own real estate vote at elections for offieials.who have the inter ests of property umler their care; let only those vote for officers connected with the management of prisons, alms houses and reformatory establishments as have to pay the taxes ne cessary for the support of these institutions; limit the right of suffrage, in respect to the officials who contiol the expenditure of the public funds, to those only who contribute to the raising of these funds,and there would no longer be thirty thousand Democratic majority for city officials, with Dead Babbits where there should |be intelligent busi nessmen, and dishonest boors where there should be honorable men with some stake in what they are controlling. By way of cotemporary evidence upon this point,we clip the followiitg from an article in the New York Times upon the same subject: “We believe it to be universally conceded by .those who have given the subjeet.any at tention .(hat the'. Government of the Oity of ; New York is the most utterly corrupt, in efficient and disgraceful to be found in the world. It ia not simply that it costs the most, bnt the people receive the least in re turn. There is no branch of it which is not a disgrace to its rulers. The streets are filthy; the pavements are wretched; the public accommodations of all sorts utterly inadequate to the public wants; jobbery, favoritism, and open robbery characterize every department. No public enterprise can seoure attention or lavor but by the. most shameless bribery. Men seek office in-the City Government avowedly for the opportunities offered for i money-making; and as a matter of course the offices are filled by the moßt .reckless and irrespanai 'ble class of onr citizens. Everything that is done is done with a view to private profit; and scores and hundreds of office-holders, receiving nominally small salaries for .their services, grow rich on the plunder of the public.” ‘ We repeat that New York usually gives 30,000 Copperhead majority. Per haps this fact affords a clue to the con dition of things municipal, as described so mournfully by indignant Oothamite editors and disgusted writers for re views. GOVEBSOB SWANS. There are strong reasons for believing that Governor Swann, of Maryland, in tends to abolish the present Board of Police Commissioners,andthus throw the ballot-box’open to the crew of secession ists and traitors who butchered the men of the Sixth Massachusetts regiment in the Btreets of Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861, and who strove so hard to take Marylandont of the Union. The Baltimore American says that almost alljt the citizens of that city who have taken an active part in the effort to in duce Governor Swdnn to perpetrate this outrage, are notoriously rebels at heart, and many of | [them in action. The people of the loyal North and West have a deep interest in this question. The road to the National Capital lies through Baltimore, aud as they cannot, as Mr. Lincoln once said, go around it, or over it, or under it, they intend to go through it. They would prefer that the city should be in loyal hands; but they will not have their way to the capital barred now, anymore than they would jn 1861, even though official and unof ficial traitors attempt to block the path. THE LAST DIfCH. The local Copperhead organ, from giving utterance to an enthusiastic belief that the unquestionably loyal States of the Union would disgrace their glorious record of the last six years and vote for traitors, or the representatives of traitors, has been driven into looking for comfort in a more congenial locality. In its issue of to-day, instead of saying a word of consolation and encouragement to the “Dead Babbits” of New York, and spurring on Maeberalville to stand firm for Democracy, it says nothing to or for aw section North of Mason & Dixon’s Tine. It pats Governor Swann uj&n the back upon the expressed ground that he is a traitor to the party that elected him, and upon the implied one that he designs repeating New Orleans at the coming election in Mary land; and it appeals to the Democracy of Delaware to come to the scratch and offer a feeble bulwarkto the overwhelm ing tide of defeat that is rolling onward. Verily the Copperhead party of the North has about reached the last ditch. Tbe Bateman Concerts. On Monday evening next Mr. Bateman’s’ great concert tronpewill make their first appearance in Philadelphia, at the Musical Fund Hall, and the great number of seats already secured makes it certain that the audience will be very large and fashionable. Of course the “bright particular star” will beMme. Parepa; but the other artists are also.very fine, and the programme is of the most attractive and popular character. The lame of Parepa’s voice and style has long preceded her, and everyone is expecting, and justly, too, to hear a vocalist not sur passed since the visit of Jenny Lind. Japanese Pheasants in England.— Eleven pheasants from Japan, lately taken to England by the captain of a ship, have been sold for twelve hundred dollars; a good speculation. Jabs B. Sjen A Co., Auctioneers, No«- 533 and 834 Market street,'win hold daring next week the following Important sales, viz: On Monday, October 2i, at 10 o’clock, by catalogue, on four months’ eredit, BUO lota of French Goods; ln- Cluoing avtry large ad attractive offering of the celebrated importation of Messrs. H. Henneqnln & Co., including filled and open centres Cachemere Brocbe Long and fcquare Shawls, ol their own excln stye designs, embracing the most complete assort ment ol rich »nd high cost goods that are Imported. .Also, of ihe same make, Slack Thibet and Merino Long and Square Shawls, from fine to superb quali ties; iso pieces cosily Bilk Warp Poplins and Eoln glines; 200 pieces Colored Mous Delaines; fot pieces Meilnos.dc. Also Britten Lress Goods, Black Bilks 60 pieces Black, and Colored Bonnet Velvets. Also’ W hlte Gt ods, Balmoral and Hoop Skirts. Soarfd, Ties’ 5.100 dofen Jet and steel Oraaments, for ladies’ cloaks Also, Boltons, Braids, Trimmings Ac. Also, a large Invoice Cloake, Basques, Kacques, , under Jayne’s Hall, Have been enabled to so redace tbe prices of Clothing, that those of small as well as those of large may fniniih then selves with a NLW FALL OR WINTER SUIT. 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