To the Editor of the Gazette:

In your issue of July 15 appears an article copied from the St. Louis Republican, giving what purports to be an interview with Col. Wm. Leffingwell, respecting the Solomon Spaulding romance, said to be the real origin of the Book of Mormon.

The majority of the readers of the Gazette may not know that the singular production of Mr. Spaulding, his "Manuscript Found," which so mysteriously disappeared about fifty years ago, has suddenly but unquestionably "turned up," and that, recently at Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, in the hand of L. L. Rice, formerly an anti-slavery editor in Ohio and for many years state printer at Columbus.

The January number of the Bibliotheca Sacra, "a long established orthodox theological magazine of repute," contained an account of its recent discovery, from the pen of Mr. J. H. Fairchild president of Oberlin college, Oberlin Ohio...