Republican Herald

FEDERAL WHIG PROX.

We notice that the whigs have inserted in their Prox, the names of three Physicians. This is quite apropos. The prox is quite a sickly concern, and as the whig family have been for some time in a "rapid decline," and though it is not believed that any effectual remedy exists to effect a cure, yet by skillful and prompt medical attendance, the old lady and her children might be made more comfortable, and go out of the world a little more easily. It is very doubtful though, if whig quackery will be productive of any beneficial results. We would recommend a medicine composed of political honesty and pure democracy, in equal parts. It will be a nauseous medicine for their patients to swallow, but would regenerate the whole system...

By the way—Where is Mordecai? could he not give his friends a lift, by exposing the "inside of the question?" We suspect he is better acquainted with the disease which afflicts the whig family, than the physicians are, whose names are announced in the prox.

Vermont and the Presidency.—The whigs set up a great shout of victory, because the Anti-masons of Vermont have nominated William H. Harrison for President. Do they recollect that, in doing this, they have gone against Webster as well as Van Buren? Do they also recollect that, should the antimasonic party be divided in about the same manner as their delegation was in the Convention, the State, aided by the administration party in it, would doubtless after all, go for Van Buren? But, finally—suppose that Harrison, Webster, or White, should carry Vermont, cannot the whigs cipher well enough to see that Van Buren will be elected, and have several such States to spare. They really seem to be as much elated by this nomination, as though it was really an election, and as though the vote of Vermont would decide the question in their favor.

The whig federal papers have recommenced, as usual, the game of "Brag." Great whig majorities, in embryo, are claimed, in Ohio, and Vermont; and fools enough will be found, with empty heads and full purses, ready to lay wagers to "back up their statements." Some estimate may be formed of the correctness of these pretensions, from the fact, that, at the Great-Great Whig Convention which recently nominated Harrison in Ohio, only Eight counties were represented out of about Seventy; and those,"by some fifteen hundred delegates! and all of them near the place of meeting ! No wonder Ohio is expected to carry the entire "South and West!"

Eight counties out of Seventy! "Think of that—Master Brook."

"Reis Effendi," the talented correspondent of the Boston Morning Post, in a letter from Washington to the Editor of that paper, speaks of our Representative, Dutee J. Pearce, in the following terms:

Mr. Pearce of R. I. finished his speech, commenced on a former day, on it. The bill has undergone an entire change in principle since it was first reported, inasmuch as interest is allowed on the Bonds deferred, thereby subjecting the Treasury to no loss, unless by the failures of the obligors and their sureties—an event not unlikely to happen in many cases, before the maturity of the Bonds. Prudent persons do not give four years credit. But as this is a matter rather of policy than principle, I shall not meddle with it now

Mr. Pearce went into an analysis of the Bill, showing how unequal and partial would be its operations—how unconstitutional and impossible for Congress effectually to grant relief in such cases. It would be vain for any one to undertake to refute his arguments; they were unanswerable.