TO THE pIIRLIC
The unIustihable attack made upon me by Wm. l.. Woodruff, Editor of the Ar kansas Gazette, ill his paper of the 2lst ultlmo, in an article headed < The Stolen Letter. demands from me reply. But formy absence at BatesviIle, for some time past,l should have done so before. FeeI- Ing at all times an aversion to see my name In public newspaper, 1t is with peculiar reluctance that now am constrained to introduce 1t in controversy of this sort. Woodruff, not satisfied at offering an insult to my feelings, but in the article alluded to. he has added siander and abuse to it :; and charges me with having an agency in stealing his letter. Justice to myself, to my friends, and to my fellow-citizens ge- nerally, who feel any interest about this Cefebrafed Letter, requires that should make full development of the whole transaction. lf,in doing so, l am forced to introduce to view other names than my own, they must lay the blame to Woodruff, and not to me.

 very short time subsequent to our last August election, for a Delegate to Con- gress, and for Members to the Territorial Legislature. the Poll Rocks from all the townships in tue county Of Phillips, having been refurned to the tlerls's Office, | as Clerk of the Circuit Court. called upon John Sanford and Peter Edwards, two Jus ] tices of the Peacas to assist ne in nopening