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(t The snow i$ fast di6appearing.ffSomtfbody has mniled us Trom Wash ngton n pnmphlet entitled "A LeKer ta he Country od lh# Whig party, frkh re gard to the conduct of the American Whig Kftview. By C. W. Webber, f Kèntucky, Jale Editor," Jie urn of the story ia tniaf one 0 tí. Collón vihed ?o slart a riafionsrt Whig' Review., Ie applied lo the W hig Senator al Wasb ngton to rountenance the enterpriab!- Worehead, Marrgontr, and oiher sfarehol' ers agreed lo óo il if Webber, a Keúr uckian, might he Associaler Editor, to1 guard the rights of the Softíh í offiérwise not. Colton promised to adrrtit Webbor as equal Associate Editor, but did ftoi, a]liough he made an assistant of Mm ( vhereupon the said Webber pulled ffjtf aiJ Colton 's nose, according to the most pproveH manner of the Chivnlry," ánd efi him-for fear of the constable, f - 3ut !et the blackguard teil hisown story s " When all was rcady for leaving,. one fine evening I stept into the printing; office, which had been the scène of ourong and mutual labora. I found my .gentleman - i. e. G. H. Colton - writing ata. desk. I quietly talked with the printersome ten minutes, until our editor turnad! nnd saw me. I beckoned him out, wlioro not only the printer, Mr. Jenkins, could sce what I intended to do - but all the type setters, as well. I then deliberately and ejfectually pulled his nose, as the farewell of the gentleman to the sucking traitor ; as the answer the South will always giv to dirty trickery. He took it very humaly, and forgave me on the spot. I augheel at the pitiful as., and told hini that now he was disgraced, he might mnke the mo3t of it ! 1 leit immodiately for Washington for fear of arrest." Tho narrative abounds with the most contempluous expressions in regard to working men. For e.xample, in tha last sentenco, he pompous'y informs us ihat he "shall enter inlo no controversy xoith the shoc-black, the yankee, the tradestnan, or the printer 's deviV ! We wish the Whig parly mvicb joy of their brace of national Editora. If one be an imbecile fooi, as here representad, the other, by his own showing, is an arrogant bully and blackguard.