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GSOHE time since, there was publica~ " tion, which made it's appearance in the .arkdnSts GdzeHe, Tn relation to an engages ment which was said to have taken place between the United States Dragons, and the Pawnee Indians. The rumor on which the publication was found -di, has provef, to be untrne. l regret exceedingly that the Editor of the Gazette has placed me in an attitude in which it becomes my duty to yindicate myself. My only wish is, that the public may kaow the part which have acted in giving publicity to thatsru- nor. I will, therefore, briefly state what heard and related on that subject. visited Fort Gibson some time last spring, and was an entire stranger at that place. left the Fort the same day, and stayed all night at a house five miles from the Fort. The next morning, from a conver- sation between several gentlemen, to me, strangers, learned that there had been an engagement between the United States Dragons and the Pawnee Indians l; that in the engagement the former lost s men. and the latter so; that the Dragons were bringing in l50 prisoners; and that had been brought in the day before While was at the Fort, saw two Indians at the residence of Governor Stokes, who from their appearance, I supposed might have been two of the prisoners, and so stated. On my return home, being asked the news at Fort Gibson, and what from the Dragoons, did state, and perhaps in the presence of AIr. Reeves, that the above statement was related in my hearing, and that presumed from the appearance of the two Indians, they were part of the prisoD- i CTS. lis vas .ssy statement, for the srnt!. or falsehood of which, l never vouched, but related the circumstances as I heard them. And l suppose it was upon hearing this, that the fruitful imagination of the Gazette Editor was called into action. 1 When the public detected and exposed his falsehood, he endeavors to sake shelter under cover of minister of the gospel, and make me the author of his fiction. I never did assert the statement as true, but merely gave 1t as ther rumor of the day. l have said this in justification to myself, and solely because Mir. Woodruff has en- deayored to give character by associaiing his name with Mr. Reeyes.-I could never consent to yindicate my character for i truth, against the attack of a puppy who 1 has more than once in the public prints been published as a perjured scoundrel, and challenged to the proof, and who dared not make an issue.

 WILLIAM WOLSEY. Fayetteville, Sept. Is, 1884.