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 To the Editor the .4dvocate. SiR-In the Gazette of this morning. charge is made against John Ring gold, Of Batesvlle. As he is absent from the Territory, and not expected to return for some time, friend asks the use of your columns for his de- fence.

 If the charge should meet thepyes of those only who know both the ac- cuser and accused, it would be harm less. The honorable department, ster- ling integrity, and chivalric bearing of Mir. Ringgold would be sufficient re- futation in itself, of all the islander such man as Woodruff could layisl, upon him. Woodruff, by his own aclnow- ledgement, is q liar-he has given t recantation in his own paper; and to cold blooded assassination, has added the crime of willul and premeditatcd pesiury.

 The charge Is "a want of veracity.' ; Woodruif's ins; guihcance is a sufficient shield; but if any man who has any claims 10 being a gentleman, will ell dorse his charge, l hereby declare him an iiyamous har. Why does not Se- vicr, over his own signature, deny that he ever threatened to remove Bates Does he deny not having CT. agency in his removal?

 Such has ever been the policy of Woodrutf's masters. They shove him forward, knowing no honorable man vii! notice him.

 The other gentlemen whom he has impngned, are in the Territory, and can defend themselves, if fneccssary.- They are all honorable, high-minded men. A word of advice to Billy, at parting. You, Buck, lecture about drinking. Perhaps it would be as well for you not to touch that subject.- Your idol, A. H. Sevier, sometimes takes little more than his constitution can well bear; and if you do not con- sider nc as intruding, l would like to know what was the Co.'s condition on last evening. Ifprovoked to it, could d tale unfold of a certain gentleman, high in office, who of'en labors under the "intfuence of nameless inspira- tions."

 4 Citizen of Batespille. Little Rock, Ang. 18th, 1882