New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-31
The washington Female pr,sorer..

Washington Correspondence of the Philadelphia Ysszs
The first person incareerated at the prison was
Mrs Rose .. H. Greenhow, as she signs herself
Size was arrested on the lIth of August Of the last
! year, and has been confined in the prison ever
since. Her husband was formerly employed in the
State Department in this city. See ia woman OF
letters and was bornin the South, although brought
up in Washington. She is confined in her own
hoase, in one of the upper stories, and has the at
tendance of servant besides the company of her
own daughter, an interesting girl of some twelve
years Besides these confined here were Mrs.
Phillips her sister, Mrs. Levy, and her two daugh-
ters, Misses Fannie and Lena. @r
Next in turn comes Mrs. Betty A. Hassler, who
was born and reared in Washington. She pos
fined in tbs prison. Her husband is Southern
man. She was released on parole by order of the
Secretary of War.
Mrs. Jackson, the mother of the ASSASSIN of Ellis
worth, has also been confined at this point She
came here with nothing bat a flannel gown on and
! wearing slave shoes. She was incarcerated but
two days and nights. Miss Lilly MackIe, daugh-
ter Of Mr. Mackle, clerk in one of the depart
! ments and belonging TO one of the most respect
able families in Washington, was also confined
| here for two months. s
Mrs. M. 4. Onderdonk, who sometimes repre-.
sents herself to be widow, and sometimes 4 wife,
being confined here six weeks; was released on
parole. Forty dollars were given her to pay her
expenses back to Chicago, but instead of going
there s. she vent 10 New York. She was last heard
An English lady, Mrs Elena Lowe, who was ar
| rested in Boston, and whose son was with her,
| having come with a commission in the rebel army
has also been confined at this institution. The son
was afterwards sent to Fort Warren, and she re-
| turned to England.
Miss Ellie NJ. Poole, alias Stewart, was arrested
and brought to prison on the llth Of August 1861.
She came from Wheeling, where, after having been
confined for some time in TIE prison there, she
made her escape, by tying thessheets together and
letting herself down from the prison window. She
has been in Communication with the rebel leaders
in Kentucky, advising them TO make certain
changes in their plan of operations. When arrested
the second time, within ten miles of the ,enemys
lines in Kentucky, $500 efSunexpended money,
furnished by the rebels, was found upon her per.
son. She had been correspondent of the Rich
mond Enquirer and the Baltimore Exchange. Miss
Poole is yet in confinement at the Sixteenth street
Jail.
Among the number yet confined here is Mrs.
| Baxley, formerly a resident Of Baltimore. She
was arrested on the 23d of December. She had
just come. from Richmond, and had beeni in coRver
sation with JEFF. Davis, from whom she had OBJ
| tanned commission in the rebel army for her
lover, DR.. Brown She is, as she represents her
self, very :. explosive u woman. and it was from
this fact that her arrest took place on board the
l boat, while approaching Baltimore from Richmond
| This woman has refused to sleep under blanket
marked u. ST." ever since her confinement here