Vandalia Whig And Illinois Intelligencer

In our paper of the 13th, we took the liberty to correct a slight mistake into which the Advocate had fallen, in saying that the executive officers of the state government were all absent from their places. In the last number of that paper, the editor greets us with a flaming article of a column's length by way of reply, in which we are accused-gravely accused-of intimating that he had made a false statement, and of charging him with the enormous crime of being mistaken. We have no disposition to enter into a long and profitless discussion with our neighbor of the Advocate, in which, as we infer from his last article, "private griefs" are to form the principal topics; yet we must be allowed to say, that if anything appears in the statement we made in the Whig of the 13th, intimating that the Advocate's remarks were not conformable to fact, it must remain unchanged. The statement we then made is correct- perfectly so; and this we would proceed to show did not the plain admission of its correctness by the same gentleman who complains of us for making it, render such labor, and any further notice of this subject, wholly unnecessary.