The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-17

aeronaut may occasionally be called iat0 requid-
ton for military observations, as during the 70
cent italian campaign; but for purposes OF cem-
municaticn or locomotion they will never prove
of any value Balloon navigation, like the
Northwest Passage, may serve as problem 10
occupy scientific minds; but we are persuaded
that for these purposes it must ever remain "a
unrealizable theory.
CONFIDENCE CASSIDY IN FEAR OF HANGING
Poor Cassidy is In dreadful state of mind; be
fears we are going to hang him; he sees visions
OF rope dangling from the gsllows, like the
bloody dagger which Macbeth saw In the cir
when he planned the murder of his guest Dunosa.
Cassidy having plotted and attempted the political
murder of his friend Wise, guilty conscience a.
cuses him, and he sees halter suspended over
his head, Like the sword Of Damocles- the fatal
moose ready to encircle his neck and chuck him
up as high as Haman.
He is terribly alarmed, but he need not be
afraid. If be will only turn to some honest cau-
ing, like that of butchers boy, which he for
merly pursued, cutting up beef steaks, mutton
chops and veal outlets, and carrying then
around to the customers, we will let him of
without strapgulation or breaking his neck after
the scientific fashion of Calcraft. We are hanging
him every day in moral and political sense.
and from fear of more of the rope, it is possible
that, like Judas, who sold his master, he may 60
and literally hang himself But let him be re-
assured. We will spare him if he only repeuts
and reforms. Instead Of acting the dirty
part Of an overgrown butchers boy to
| the political butchers of New York, let him re-
turn to the more honorable and respectable vo-
| cation which he exercised in bis youth, and we
liDgly than upon him.
AS to his completely in the publication Of
Wises letter, Cassidy fairly gives the matter up.
Instead Of replying to the evidence we produced,
he merely says there is no use in talking to an
editor who is so unreasonable that he would hang
all the politicians. But he makes two state
nents which nobody denies. First, he says he
cid not publish Wise's letter or send it to the
newspapers to be published. Nobody ever &C
cused him of this. What we asserted, and still
persist in asserting u.s. that be gave copies of the
| letter to those who he well knew would give
them to the agents of the newspapers for publ
| cation. Let him deny this, which will be some
thing to the point. Secondly, he says that the
HERALD alone first published the letter." We
never denied this. The public knew it from the
| morning it appeared in our columns. But what
has this to do with CasGdy's first sending out
copies of it and circulating it privately? He did
not publish it in print, but be published it in
manuscript, because that kind of publication best
suited his purpose. To publish it in print best
suited our purpose and the public interests.
Our detective reporter obtained one of the copies
which were circulating through Albany, and we
gave 1t in full. II. is the habit of the HERALD
to give news without garbling it. On the same
morning mutilated copy of the letter appeared
in the columns of our New York contemporaries
Where did they get it? Manifestly from the
same source whence our agent procured COM
plete copy for us. 1t is quite true, therefore,
that the HERALD was the first to publish the let
ter in full, and we published it from COPY
which came from the original deposited by Dom
| nelly in the hands Of Confidence Cassidy.
Thurlow Weed Gays we did what we unjustly
| accuse Cassidy Of doing Now our publication Of
the letter was meritorious act-it involved no
treachery, no breach of confidence, no injury to
friend Qor Mr.. Wise was not our fiend), no
detriment to our party (for we do not belong to
any. 1t was matter of business with u.s. and
at the same time benefit to the public; and be-
sides we only published it when it was already
virtually published. What was the fact in Cas-
sidy's case The letter, he admits was entrusted
to him by brother democrat under the seal of
confidence; it was evidently written in conf
dence by leading democrat of Virginia. Cas-
sdy pretends to be delighted at its contents, and
promises to show it in confidence to other demo-
Gratis to remove false report as regards Wise,
whose friend" he claimed to be. Meantime
Cassidy, innocent as dove, gets copies
written, and sets them afloat in such way that
he knew they would reach the newspapers; and
when the letter appears in the HERALD be sheds
crocodile tears over the injury his friend Mr..
Wise had done himself and the democratic party
by writing such letter. There is honor even
among thieves; but what honor is there among
the politicians of the Albany Regency?
One of our detectives is now at work on this
cage, and we expect before long to be able to lay
the whole history of the treachery before the
public. Meantime, if Cassidy wants to escape
gibbettiug at our hands, let him OF once make a
clean breast of this dirty business, and let him
cease to be the journeyman butcher of the
Albany Regency, and go back to the honest
calling of cutting the throats of sheep and
calves instead Of The throats of men, behind their
backs.
The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH-CU RIosrrrB OF
lTs WonKNe-The copies of the four hu ndred
messages sent through the Atlantic cable, which
we published yesterday, vvbahm, as the were
sent and received, produced, we learn, quite
sensation in this city. They set at rest for ever