Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

By this Day's Mail.

NEW-YORK, September 11.

Lieut. Col. Wooley, immediately from Plattsburgh, in Clinton County; takes upon himself to contradict positively, the report which has appeared in some of the papers of the 5th inst. said to be extracted from the Lansingburgh paper. respecting the murder of Capt. Mallory's family, by the Indians. Circumstantially as that report is detailed, it is wholly without foundation. No hostile attempt had been made upon that frontier on the 29th ult. when Colonel Wooley left Plattsburgh, in company with the said Capt. Mallory, who was going a journey into Vermont.

Reports, of this nature, are injurious in a variety of respects— They cause great anxiety to the friends and relations of that part of the country, and tend to irritate the public mind unnecessarily. Persons who propagate them merely for the sake of telling news, or from sinister motives, which most probably is the case, ought, when detected, to be treated with deserved contempt; and in narrations of this kind, which should always be well authenticated, it would be proper for the Printers, who say, "that the respectability of the author entitles the report to full credence," to favour the public with his name.