The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-22
THE WIsE-DONNELLY LETTER.

The New York correspondent of the Richmond
Wing, says:
There is such person as s'B. Donnelly," unless
he travels under some other better recognized name
At any rate he must be very intimate with one or
two leading Regency men. 1t is a very singular
coincidence that on the eighth of July, 1859, when
Mr. B. Donelly wrote letter from Saratoga, that
John c. Mather should have been also at Saratoga
True, Dean Richmond, and Peter Cagger, were
there about the same time. Strange, however,
that "B. Donelly," (who wished Mr.. Wise to ad-
dress his reply to 'No. 3, William street'') is not
found on the books of any hotel. Strange, too,
that the letter should not have been addressed to
No. North or South William street, as the case
that John c. Mather exhibited the original Donelly
letter at Albany on the 4th. 1t is fact that John
Z. Mather sent copy to d. S. Dickinson, at Bing-
hampton.
1t is fact that Mr.. Mather received letter from
Mr.. Dickinson, in reply, castigating Wood and
Wise, and that Mr. Mather exhibited this letter to
at least twenty leading Hards, and finally gave it
to the Leader of this city to publish.
Finding that the so-caled Donnelly letter was
making great row, he induced the old gentleman,
Dickinson, to write to the Editor of the Leader,
begging him not to publish the letter. Here is what
the Leader said in its next issue:
Observation-Disclosures that certain
letter, which, in last weeks paper, we announced
our intention of publishing, was written wholly as
private one and not intended by the venerable au-
thor for publicity, we consider it duty to omit
its publication. Recent events have opened up a
somewhat new subject for ethical discussion to wit
the extent and amount of ownership which the
writer of letter retains in a correspondence sent
forth without any of privacy endorsed on its
face. Hon. John c. Mather, of Albany, will do
we'll to give this matter his attention"
If that is not clear and distinct what can be =?
Ras f the paa eadet @ TIE F5% In article
in the Albany atlas and Argus of yesterday, in
which the responsible editor of that able Demo-
cratic State organ very effectually disposes of all
the attempts recently made in certain interested
quarters to reflect him for the publication of the
Donnelly letter, written by Governor Wise. We
join Mr.. Cassidy in demanding that this investiga-
ton may be pushed to its just end, and have no
doubt that when this is done the responsibility of
the pubcation-such as it is-wl fall upon head
not yet suspected
has been known to the editor of the Wing week.
1t is John G. Mather. The Daily Neaes this morn
ing, speaking in behalf of Wood, says:
"He did not know that conspiracy was at word
to obtain letter from Governor Wise, intended
to crush him. He did not know that Donnellv Che
wrote Wise or that Wise wrote Donnelly, or that
Cassidy betrayed Donnelly, that such a move
ment on the tapis.
Of course, Mather, Cassidy, or Cagger were not
such fools as let Mr. Wood into the of the
bogus "Barney Donnelly letter, got UP at Sara
tsga" to kill Mr.. Wise Of course he did not know
'Donnelly," for there is no such man-no such adj
dress-and nobody knows him, except Cassidy,
Cagger and Matherl
Ths Herald has been awfully bamboozed. Do
you notiee the Atlas and Argus? That paper has
not the cheek to say "Donnely letter." 1t knows
better than to % So When all the facts are made
public, the "Donnclly hoax" will cast into the
shade the "moon hoax" and Mather will be more
famous, as its author, than ever was Richard
Adams Locke.