Winchester Republican

OFFICIAL CHUCKLING.

The Constitution, the government organ at Washington, is delighted at the predicament in which it thinks Gov. Wise has been caught by the treacherous exposure of a private letter, and it is not content with giving its own views, but is gathering up, from every quarter of the country, extracts from Democratic papers to show the "virtuous indignation" felt by them at the Governor's proposition to "divide and conquer." It will at once be seen how much more tender the Opposition presses have been than those of his own fraternity.

The Enquirer of Monday is silent on the subject, but we are looking out for such a dressing of the official organ as the newspaper public have not read since the days of John Randolph. The following extract will show what Mr. Buchanan's mouth-piece says of the friend who was the chief instrument in placing him in the Presidency:

"We have carefully considered the explanation which Governor Wise has published over his signature, and we have been unable to find anything to relieve him from the grave charge of having attempted to demoralize and disorganize the Democratic party in New York, with a view to promote his own ambitious ends in the Charleston Convention. It matters not that his letter to his friend, Mr. Bernard Donnelly, of William Street, New York, was a treacherous violation of confidence and good faith. It matters not whether Mr. Donnelly betrayed Mr. Wise, or whether Mr. Donnelly's three or four distinguished friends to whom he showed the letter, in order to disabuse their minds of the impression that Mr. Wise was 'completely in the hands of Fernando Wood & Co.,' betrayed Mr. Donnelly. That is a matter which does not in the least affect the character of the letter itself. It does not change the fact that Gov. Wise, apprehensive that the Democratic party would send a united delegation to Charleston which would not be favorable to his aspirations for the Presidency, advised his friend that his only 'chance of averting that calamity would be to organize by districts, and either whip the enemy or send two delegations;' which means to introduce discord and disunion among the Democracy of the Empire State, so as to prevent the united vote of the State being cast for a rival candidate, and thus fraudulently prevent the independent expression of the popular will."

The Richmond Examiner (Hunter paper) is also out in condemnation of the suggestion of Gov. Wise as to a division of the New York Democracy; and it goes a step further and charges him with previous attempts to distract the "harmonious" Democracy, in reference to Lecompton, and more recently in regard to the protection of slavery in the Territories. We shall doubtless have some farther interesting quarrels among the faithful before the campaign is over.