Mr. Spaulding failing in business, resolved to more to Pittsburgh [which] he did, in 1812, and after residing here two years, moved to Amity, Washington county, Pa., and died in 1816. He came to this city for the sole purpose of publishing this novel, that he might by the sale of it, retrieve in some measure his past losses. In 1818, and for some years afterwards, "Paterson & Lamdin" were the principal firm engaged in printing and publishing books. The widow of Mr. Spaulding states that it was taken to that printing office' and Mr. Patterson, and many others of this city, know that Mr. Rigdon and Mr. Lambdin, who superintended the printing office, were very intimate during Rigdon's residence here. Moreover, there are numerous acquaintances of Mr. Spaulding, to whom he read portions of his historic novel, who identify very man names, repetitions, and whole phrases in the Book of Mormon, with those in the manascript. Many of these testimonies have been collected by Mr. E. D. Howe, and may be seen in his history of Mormonism, page 278-90. Stronger proof could not be asked, than the corroborating expressed by Mr. Spaulding to his friends, of coming to this city to publish his novel, and of his taking it to Patterson's printing office, of the intimacy between Rigdon and Lambdin&c. But in addition to the circumstantial evidence, we have the positive proof, by a number of persons, that the historical parts of the Morman Bible and Mr. Spaulding's novel, are precisely the same.