The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-03-23

tions OF the honorable character ofh his regard,
SO solemn and so strong that, coupled with
those of his wife, he could not, and did not
for moment after, cherish a susp cion.
Mr. Key went SO far as to seal his assevera-
tion by bringing his own pure sister TO call on
Mrs. Sickles, which Mr. Sickles had right 10
feel was complete guarantee of the purity
OF his own relations with her. Still desiring
his wife TO be not only safe from, but above
suspicion, he forbade her TO receive Mr.
Key except when invited, and on her regu.
lar reception day, in the presence of com.
pany, a restraint which they both submitted
10 and observed. 1t was probably this
which induced Mr.. Key TO lease house of
assignation. Nor in any instance, save one,
has Mrs Sickles been allowed either TO go
10 u dinner party or ball except in hi,
company. The one exception was the fam
cy ball of Mrs. Gwin, when, on her moth.
er's representation that her absence might
give color of reality TO what then but
wore the shape of fiction, he permitted her
TO attend that ball. Whatever interviews
have taken place between MIR. Key and
Mrs. Sickles since then, have been in his
absence at Congress or out of town, at the
house which Mr.. Key rented for the pur
pose. Had Mr.. Sickles imposed any Sc.
we're restraint, those who are now ready 10
accuse him of laxty of vigilance, would be
| the first TO brand him as domestic tyrani,
deserving and provoking by his harshness
the fate he met. The more the facts of this
sad story are known, the more it gathers of
interest. Last evening took tea with an
old Italian gentleman, whom met al Sick
les prison, who, though he has mingled
little in the world, possesses a most refined
and cultivated mind. He told me that for
! thirty years he had been the intimate friend
of both Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles; family and
his story of those years was at the present
| moment so interesting when so many fic-
| tions are floating about that thought would
give it 10 you in the simple, touching words
in which he told it.
Mrs Bagiol, he told me, the mother of
Mrs Sick!es, was born in the year 1919, at
the Croton Falls, Westchester county. Her
maiden name was Cooke. AT the age of
! fourteen she came with her family to New
York, and was shortly after adopted by the
well known Italian poet and author, Loren
20 da Ponte. She was bright and some
what beautiful girl, and very shortly after
! her adoption was married to Antonio Bago.
Ii, composer and professor of music who
was visitor at Da. Ponte's house. NJ. Ba-
gioli, is native of Italy, but has resided in
your city for thirty years, and by those who
know him, is said 10 be much respected and
esteemed. Mrs. BagioIi bore to her husband
an only child, Therese Bagioli, the unhap-
py wife of Daniel Z. Sickles, upon whom
was lavished her parents undivided love.
No expense was spared to afford her all
those accomplishments which form the best
accompaniment of beauty. She was edu-
Gated at the best schools of New York, and
finally sent to the Manhattanville Convent
OF the Sacred Heart. Da Ponies sou Loren
20 da Ponte, Jr., resided at this time with
his father, and was Professor of Bellies Let
tres, Philosophy and Literature in the Uni.
versity of New York. With him, as with
Dugald Stewart, in Scotland, were placed
several young men for education. OF this
number were Mr.. Eames, of this city, Mr..
Biselow, OF the Evening Post, and Mr.. Sick
les
The Baglolis also resided in the same
house, and continued to live there after the
death of Prof. Da Ponte. Living in the
same house in which his wife was born, MIR.
Sickles saw her grow up from infancy TO
womanhood. Their association gradually
ripened into love, He pressed his suit upon
her father, who at once made serious objec-
tions TO the match, rot from dislike 10 Mr..
Sickes, but from the belief that his daugh-
ter was too young for marriage, had seen
nothing of the world, and was of mind 100
uniformed 10 read correctly her own heart
Parental opposition 10 this, as in so many
other deporable cases, only ended in clan.
destine marriage, which was performed be-
fore Mayor Kingsland, the Mayor of the
City OF New York. The consequence of
this secret wedding soon made concealment
impossible, and the marriage after a full
confession, required by the Roman Catholic
Church, was solomnized again, and receiv-
ed the seal of religious ratification from the
hands of Dr. Hughes, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop, at his private residence.
The fruit of that wedding was one fair
child, with u face like her mothers, who
uncUnsciously, at this moment suffers, per-
haps the deepest injury from her mothers
surrender to sin. 1t is, to-day, precisely
twelve months since that father and mother,
now SO deeply stricken, were making with
afiectionate zeal gayest reparations for the
christening of this child, ior whom the Pres
ident, Mr.. Buchanan, and the charming Mrs.
Slidell had voluntarily sought the SPONSOR
ship.
1t is singular coincidence that this little
GIRL Mrs. Sckes, and Mr.. Sickles, himself,
were all three only children, over whose
miserable fate three living mothers now
hang broken hearted Mr.. Sickles' conduct
as husband can be best described, and the
charges against him best answered in the
! public words of the father of the unfortu-
/ nate wife since the frauedv iYon have