Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-11
more About Gov. Wise,
Especial Despatch to the New York Herald.l
ALBAEY,-August s. 1859.

ALBAEY,-August s, 1859.
have ascertaincd that the party to whom |
the letter of Governor Wise was addressed is |
Mr.. B. Donnelly, a resident of Richmond coun-
tY, doing business as m auctOneer and ccmsI
mission merchant in your city. 1t appears thatl
The letter was shown to several Of the soft Lead
ers, some of whom, in the temporary absence off
Mr.. Cassidy, of the ArguS, copied it. So it is
said, at least, and | have heard that Cassidy
expresses profound regret % at the publication
of the document. Dean Richmond pleads ig-
n0rance Of the whole affair. Who copied the
tletter?. That is the question Certain it is
thara copy of it was despatched from CasSidy's
roomto Mr.. Dickinson, Mt Binghamton, and by
him returned after careful! perusal to Albany
The original letter, I AIN informed, is still in
the hands.of Mr. Cassidy, -
GOVERNOR WISE AND TIE Albany REGENCY.
In our Geographic dispatches from Washing.
ton and Albany this morning, wc receive some
further enlightenment on the question CT Gov
ernor Wise's late letter, about which so much
excitement exists. Mr.. Wise, we are informed,
is now engaged on twenty or thirty column
manifesto, which will let the light in upon The
dark deeds OF the Albany politicians and trick
stcrs who compose the Regency, and who So
aagrantly violated the confidence reposed in
them by publishing private letter. This win
doubtless be an interesting document, regardless
of its length, and may have the effect of chang
! ing the whole state OF affairs at the Charleston
/ Convention.
lie WANTS TO BAG BOSTON.
We are indebted, says the Boston Courier, to
| Lieutenant John ii. Foster, Corresponding Sec
rotary Of the Boston Mercantile Library Associ-
alton, for a copy of Governor Wise'S letter in
answcr to an invitation to lecture before the
society next winter. 1t is in these words:-.
RlCuMoND VA.) July 81, 1859
To Jno. S. Foster, Esq, Chairman and Sec'y.,
&c:-
DEAR sIR-I hardly know how to decline your
invitation, but must do so.
Please present my acknowledgements to the
Lecture Committee, and say that am about &c
start for our mountains lor tour Of sixty days
examining routes and reservoirs for a canal
That from that tine to the LIST Of December,
shall be engaged in preparing materials for my
last message 10 the Va Genl. Assembly, upor
whom [ must wait constantly until the LIST o
January next And that thereafter | shall b'
busiy occupied in fixing house and home fol
my family, after four gears absence. Beside!
all this, extra labors of gricVOuS burthcn fal
heavily upon me. So cannot accept this call
[ have no time for literary or any other coinpo
stion. aui Il bad shot at the best, and au
not going to Boston to shoot at game tn
wing. would like to bag You, if | could-Oh
iii / could bag Boston : the whole nation
WOULD be sufc then. Yes! ALWAYS loved oil
BOSton-she was the Saloon OF the Tea Party.
And some of these days, God willing, will tr
to see what is the matter with her that she don
throw tea overheard like shc used 10 do Co
bless her still.
Very hastily but trniy yours,
fTrSHS WC-E