The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-03-09
NUMBER 9.

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vate the facts already painfully distressing,
and many of The reports are pure felton,
N. Y. Herald, Feb. 2S.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2s.--The dinner party
at which Mr.. Sickles received the anony-
nous note which informed him of his wifes
dishonor was representative dinner party,
representative of Washington society, of
which the strange contrasts and scandalous
features will be fully brought out upon the
trial, without doubt.
saw him (Sickles) in Jail yesterday
evening. Although specifically calm, for
the most part, and courteous as usual, and
even iocose, he appeared TO be laboring
under great excitement, which occasional
ly broke through the coverings of manner
lie seemed TO me TO feel the deed which
he had just done as the discharge of duty
which he owed 10 society, rather than the
outburst OF afIectionate Jealousy. 81 could
not live on the same globe with man who
had thus dishonored me-" he said, more
than once. He was still armed with a re-
volver, not having been searched by the
jaler.
And yet those who knew him and his
wife, as children, speak of their attachment
as dating from that period, and as having
been true and strong ever since, upon his
part, As boy and cir. they loved, and since
their marriage in 1852, not cloud has
darkened their happiness until this man
kaU lact coccion al
suspicious, and was forbidden his house,
although not till long after the intrigue had
become the talk of Washington, and the
woman had been warned by friends.
But Key did not desist from pursuing her,
whom he, an accomplished lberline, a
man of fine presence and captivating ex-
terror, had marked for his own. He was
seen with her on the avenue; at parties, IN
the dining room of her husbands house,
eating salad in the morning, Mr.. Sickles
being away.
AT Mrs. Douglas ball, three weeks ago,
he made love to her in distant corner of
the crowded rooms, while MIR. Sickles was
dancing with the widow, Mrs. Conard-
Previously 10 that time he had hired poor
negro hut in the fields some quarter of
mile from her house, towards the back part
OF the city, and there she met him be-
tween twelve and one nearly every day.
She would start out 10 do the family mark
eting--that was the pretence. The mulat-
toes in the neighborhood of this Dido's
Cave wondered 10 see Two wel-dressed
people meeting under these circumstances
and in this candestine way, and it may
have been through their agency that the un-
signed note which led to the homicide, was
sent to the injured husband
The murderer's friends say that he had
loved his wife for years; had lavshed upon
her, gratifying her least and her greatest
| desires as soon as they were known 10 him.
, On the other hand it is said that Sickles did
not love his wife in a way that entitled to
chastity on her part, or TO vengeance for its
violation.
Knowing, as you must know, how char
liable women are TO one another, you will
be surprised 10 learn that Mrs. Sickles
meets with condemnation from her own
sex. And, certainly, there are features in
her case from which one turns with disgust.
She was capable, after proving false 10 her
marriage vows, time and time again, of be-
traying her paramour into what she must
have known would be bloody hands.
But if it be true that Mr. Butterworth was in
| Blr. Sicklss' house few minutes before the
encounter, and purposely detained Mr.. Key
upon the corner until the injured husbands
arrival, he is most severely 10 be condemn
ed, for he had not Mr.. Sckles' provocation,
and had hitherto been the friend of all par
ties.-N. Y. Tribune, Feb %.