The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-16
Interesting from AIhapy.
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Interesting from Albany.
oUk srhoIAL ALBANY o0KKEsPoNDsxcE.
ALBANY, Angus. II, 1859
fhe Wes-D"nnetiy Leter-Who Does il KLe--Wiod
WIS, Cassidy and 7nurlo,o Wesd all Dad Who
F'omptsd Wise to Write His Leaers-EescA Revelations
CdssdyS Fdlsehocds EnposeG-Beynar Donuelyy BY no
AeaSss an h.rUoes-Poor Fursy &C.
But for pess absence from the city, should have
sent you earlier explanations in relation to tho
Donpey letter, which, 10 the midst Of the angry
c'mnasons that have been elected by your very proper
publication Of that explosive document seem Absolutely
neeosd wild bull could not have produced more clster
ana crash In crockery shop than this little four sided
pen and Ink msaile Of destruction has done among poll
tcians has KILLED Wise in Virginia. and utterly ami
haed Wood In New York though while the former gives
up the ghost gracefully, Like lusty soldier. his Iago
whpes out the last moments Of existence bunderngiy
and boggogy bas pursued his schemes aggran
dizement during life. CAssidg, stuue ali with net
tie whip Of hts own making has done little else for ton
days. than scratch his until they bleed again. and
Old five thousand dollar free wool Tnurlow doctors MIN
up with Niger salva, sad vsanty shoulderng the bow
Spit OF black republican slave schooner, muck for
hin out love for devy and mischief In general Foney
profoundly verscd Jamison correspondence dscou,ses
with 'get him drunk" research, upon matter 90 akin
70 bis past experiences and Bernard Donnely-but
OF Mr. Bernard Donncly anon.
Who at the bottom Of the famous letter. Not who
wrote h-that point In settled; but who suggested
the policy II inculcatess Who, IN NcW York-for Henry
A Wee knows a. htsle personally, of the windngs and
in'rcaces OF New York diplomacy Of the snags the
Mssissppi river-whispered the "dvided delegation"
dodge, with subtle accents, into his carr Who was the
serpent In Governor wises Presidential pAradseS And
by what singular, most remarkable but not very feci
tous coincidence did happen that, simultaneously With
the Wise bulletin OF Instructions 70 Mr. Donne.iy, For
nar do Wood, who has been Mr. wse's confidential friend
and adviser for years, whose correspondence with Wise
would FIJI twenty volumes In folio, was laporing with
might ana MAN, upturning tho very foundations or
the New York democracy 10 elect very object which
Mr. Wire considered SO desrabies Will Mr. Wood reveal
whether the ''divded delegation" idea cid no. originate
with bDselS Or course he Will d. no such thing His
tsctdrnty, or whatever diplomatic exp anaon he may
voochsafe upon the subject, rs than neutrazed
however, by the abandonment OF his interests within
fortnight by hundreds, whose conviction is unaerabie
tina; II the "dst,ct' plot has proved deadly to Tise
ought in JUSTICE to prove douoly ais to the Mayor
The Daily Necs denies this denies that aay breach
OF the confidential relations between Mr. Wood aud the
friends Of Mr. Dickinson has taken places but as the ac
patent hat they have broken with hiu, scarcely
exception snd % they denounce him ut every street
corner no names need DO given IN support Of the
ton. The Duly Ne,os is equally "certain" that Mr.
Wood is comted 'nether Mr. Wise nor to any other
man." This ia direct contradiction With the spirit Of
the Wise iee ITSELF and the veracy she Governor Of
Virginia upon such subject must regarded as unir
peachape. From what can gather, tho general and
unsrerabe judgment Of tho democratic community
Is, that Governor Wise has been grossly msled in
relation 70 Now York matters and that though honor
may prevent disclosure bus part OF the means which
bave been used to bias his judgman. unduly; yet
could all the facts of the be en- no woad be
found to be more snned against than SHINING.
And now what be said of the miserable prevarcs.
OF Mr. Cassidy On the day after the publ cation in
the NEW York herald Of the despatch from Albany Goa
tsiniDg Gov. Wses letter, the albany Atlas and argus
cp,ed that entire despatch, emitting the Wise letter only
for the alleged that It's genuinenesa might be "ds
ella med" This reason was FALSE and the Auas editor
aware from the begiuning-ss he acknowledges he
in hts ssue of the 18th instau-that the letter was
original 1t is known 70 be false upon hts evidence
And Mr. Cassidy had tho Simon Pure Wise letter in ns
pocket at the very moment he questioning su,hen.
ITCHY, bis faseho0i objectionable. And as Mr. Cas-.
sdy bad shown the letter from Governor wise, pre-.
vious 10 the assembling Of the State Committee 10 many
persons the number of his fasehoois accommodates
srousy for he ia the article Of tho 18th August
"Nenher Mr. Richmond any member OF the State
Committee made of the contents of the letter
until copy Of was ascertained TO be in circulation on
the day the State Committee met"
know that at least two copies Of the Wise letter were
quasi conndentally-shown In Alb any on the day be.
fore the Committee met The genuinenees of the docu
ment war, however, doubted by outsiders Who IT, but
prominent friends Of Mr. Cassidy alleged the day
ohe ID instantly that .ney had seen tho orisi.
nal and they offered to dispel al msgivinss of
i!s being forgery by procuring sight of the same for
the benefit Of sundry individuals, TO whom Governor
Wne,s baud writing was familiar: Dean Redmond had
State Committee assembled and, not only did he and
others believe to be authentic, but the very envelope
it's unmsakGble originality ami Of the imposslbty Of
fraud having been practised have been told within
Az hour that Nj Cassidy gave these evidence to more
than gentle and the distinguished editor Of New
York CatnOlc weekly paper has informed me, that, ten
days before the State Committee met Mr. Bernard Donney
hpd deplofed 10 him the that Mr. Cassidy making
of the letter, which, in ILL., advised moment he had
entrusied 10 his hands. Is IL possible then, by any
nahenat cal process, to solve the arameti al problem
progressive ratio msslatemens in which the Argus and
atlas bave nduged, from the cay OF the letters pubca
top in the Herald, up to the present hour
Again Where did The copy OF the Wise letter como from
which was rent to Governor Dickinson, and which
shown by him to some OF his friendsS Where did the
Associated Press agent get bis knowledge Of it, on the 81
instant! how did Judge Alien, Winslow q. Watson,
Henry W. Rodgers and F. B. Cutting and others acquire
their information as to tie contents, at still earlier Pc
riodP Why was MIR. Wood denounced to Dickinson by
of tnese gentlemen, and by Others Influential
still, among the bards VINO went to Albany, in spite Of
urgent and important business else where only
To defeat bis projects, and tnwart bis intrigues,
and who would have staid away had sney
not heard OF the Wise letter. All this, and more,
eetokens no ordinary degree Of publicity previous TO tbs
meeting Of the State Committee And yet Mr. Bernard
Donneny declares that he never permitted copy OF the
letter 70 DO taken, and that could ony have been
transcribed while in Mr.. Casxidys hsnds Does Mr. Don.
nelly prevaricae2 Or is the fasnood exclusively tacs-
able 10 CASSIDY? Or DO both Cassidy aud Dounely deal
alike sham and dupcIty2 In all probability this last
hypothesis will prove, IN the end, TO be deraoos.rabe
Wnie Casidy has dsgraced hmselt by MOTT unnecessary
and waDton uuthessness, disgusting, where frankness
would have been ALIKE comfortable TO good TASTE, good
policy and the most ordinary rules Of integrity,
likely that Dir. Donoey ought not TO BIO permitted 10
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