The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-03-10
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON CRY.

WASHINGTON, March Ist 1859.
Won'tyou be surprised to hear from
me at this pointl Floating on the tide o.
fortune ! have drifted to the Capitol o.
oar country, and reached here Just in tim,
to be whirled around in mmlstrom Of
excitement, caused BY the Sickles and
Key affair. The feeling is deep and in.
tense. The particulars, so far as / have
been able to learn, are some DAYS since
Mr.. ,. received an anonymous note, sta.
ting with minute precision that could
not fail to arouse suspicion, that Mr.. X
had rented house in the upper part of
the city, and was in the habit of
meeting Mrs. S. there two or three times
a week. The person and address of Mrs.
.. were so accurately described, and the
time OF the interviews so distinctly speci-
fed, that Mr. s., accompanied by friend,
went to the house designated, and found
all the statements of his anonymous in
dormant corroborated. When first CON
fronted with her husbands suspicious.
MRS. >. strongly denied, but at length
admitted her guilt, and made full con
fesslon, in writing; stating that her in.
tImacy with *. had commenced last
Spring, and since that time they had con
stantly met. 1t is said she appeared to
be in the bitterest contrition and misery,
ana besought mercy and pardon in the
most affecting terms. Mr. S. asked for
Their wedding ring, and requested her to
write to her mother to come and take her
away from his house forever. Poor wo-
man, hers is miserable fate.
(Our correspondent here gives an ac
count of the killing. which is very much
the same as will be found in another col |
umn; fer this reason it is omitted-Eps( |
AS to the political doings here, it is
difficult to tell anything. | think a per-
SON can understand more about them
when at distance of thousand miles.
Than when right here among them. A
spicy colIoquy was gotten up yesterday
between two Texan representatives, but
I'D not proceed far enough to render an
8 amiaable adjustment" necessary to .he
preservation Of their bCnorGD A few
lays since the Senate passed a measure
'boIishing the franking privilege entire
y; refusing even to grant a supply of
postage stamps, to NJ. C's. This will
'reate revolution in portal and payty
affairs during political contests. Bv the
way the knowing ones predict a sad time
or the national Democracy in go. The
eaders are wire working against each
ther' fully exemplify.ng the game, dog
at dog. The safe points Of old Bucks
administration are disputed, and the sla-
cry distractions revived in such man
er as to promise nothing but the most
erilous sectional shaping of parties.-
very day grows bigger with chances of
revolutionary scrub race The antlered
of the White House still per- !
lists in the habit of incIining his head to
ne side, and squirting with his left eve
Ike duck listening for thunder. He !
vidently has gloomy forebodings of the
lture. In walking he pitches heavily /
the left. | wonder if he has an in
iinctive foreknowledge of his place of :
bode after shutting off the mortal ,
OIL" in this vale of tears, that he thus {
ariy manifests his willingness, and even
esire, to ego to the left nit de goats 2" |,
here is a stately and mouvnful resigna- >
onin the loneliness grand desolation in ,
he life of this old man. He looks like f
Patience on monument squirting at grief" $
| shall leave here in few days, and '
Westward. Hav mt vet de- |
lded on the exact part to which my wan /,
erlngs shall tend, but in the course of 5
me you may again hear from /
SVEN EIRARP.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN uE3FpvEyS