The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-24

a weekly mail, t required some time, with all the packing my ingenuity could invent, to lessen the quantity 10 any considerable extent. In strict justice, therefore. Mr. Woodruff had no right to expect his papers to be more kindly treated than others, al- though have generally made exertions to send of al the Little Rock papers by each mail. 5ais did iol the satisfaction of the subscribers, and not to gratify the publish CTS. To Mr. Woodruff have no ssercusen to make. make my sseneuse'' to higher tribunal, where am at all times confident there will be no injustice done me. There was a time when Mir. Woodruff was upon the most friendly terms with me, and he had access to my office, and assisted in opening the large mails. It was at time when party spirit ran high, and occasionally had broadside from the former Editor of the Advocate, and complaints were then made about papers not reaching their destination III due time, but 1 do not recollect that any charge was ever made directly affecting me. Be this as 1t may, Mir. Woodruff well knows that they were never suppressed or detained at nly ofice; and there was just as good grounds for MT. Bertrand to have made the charge then, as for Mr. Wood ruff to make 1t now. It is true, q am in- formed,) that in sending off the Southern mail of the 18th inst. one package of the Gazette, directed to Washington, contain ing some eight or ten papers, was uninten- tionally left behind; and it IS equally true, that Mir. Woodruff, instead of coming him. self to my office, to overhaul the balance of the mails left in the office, sent young gentleman of lis office, to do it. Although have DO fault to find with the young man, would advlse him ill future 10 let Mir. Woodruff come on such business himself. \ word to the wise is sufficient.
 The whole secret of the matter Is this.-- !sir. Woodruff either wants the office for himself, or for some ono more subscrvient to his notions than myself. can attribute his conduct to no other cause. gave him no reason to commence his warfare upon me. He commenced 1t last summer, with his own ever to be remembered scrip story, (a1ad scrip sto4y he made q a in the end and from that time to the present. he has pursued me with the most relentless ayiditv. l say to him, for once and for all. .'go ahead' --the office, in pecuniary point of view, is not very important; and if he has more need of 1t than myself, or he has poor relation or friend who is destitute of office, and CO., vets mine, in the name of common sense let him openly avow if, and submit his claims.
 MT. Woodruff, it would seem, is dispo- sed to make me responsible for the acci- dents or irregularities at every Post Office in the Territory. He says there are com plants that his paper does not reach Wash ington county III due time. H1onderfuL h. deedi Pray, let us see how many Post Offices there are from Little Rock to Fay ettevIlle, in Washington county? No less than FOURTEEN by way of the Western route, and by the Northern route, NINE. In the nature of things, then, canI see what becomes of his papers on these routes, af- ter they leave Little Rock2 Supremey IT. diculous the ideal
 The truth is, the mails have been loaded down with 'public documents from Wash ington City, equally as important as Mir. Woodruff's s tdte bearing gossip--and to no part of the Territory were more of them sent than to the counties of Lawrence, Washington, and Hampstead. They are, even now, arriving almost every Eastern mail
 have now submitted a plain statement of facts 10 the publIc--and to Mir. W ood- ruff l will in future pay my respects in some other way. 1 have no idea of contending in the public prints, with a man who pos sesses so malicious and perverse a soul.
 WM. FIELD, r. .M.
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