The weekly Butte record., 1862-03-22
A Minister'S Daughter in the Cavalry
Service

: orth5 UaL on PICKET, Dat expected IN ever
2 moment, | made myself al home IN his com
Portable marquee. Presently little boy camt
/ IN. evidently the Captains servant, aDd sa
! down by the stove to warm his half frozer
; fingers and dry his feet After a few thought
: ful moments he pettishly said, in a fine musica
voice:
; " wish they'd fix it to have wood hauled il
: the camp Its too hard for me 10 pick it from
the roads" | agreed with him. He said be
canght cold by being so much exposed to the
wet and mud, and didn't feel we'll but fudipe
me talkaiiye and little disposed to be inquisi
tive, be suddenly made an excuse and left the
tent l thought the boy almost too delicate
for the hard service he had undertaken. and
was disposed to advise him to that effect. when
as be left the tent. and had an opportunity
TO observe his shape, new idea popped into
my head. Presently the Captain came, and |
forgot all about the boy, but | was not much
astonished when | heard. yesterday, that a
woman had been discovered in the Second
Kentucky Cavalry Regiment The woman
aud the boy are the same person. and the dis
covery was made the day after | had seen her.
How it was made 90 not know, but she
stoutly and Indignantly denied her sex, until
denial was no longer available. Finding her
self fully exposed she made full confession.
She gives the name of Mary Cook, and says
her home is in Breckenridge county, Ky. Her
father was a minister. and after his death she
became a school teacher. and taught in both
Breckenridge and Hardin counties. 1t was
/ while in Hardin county that she and three
other young ladies agreed to adopt male attire
and join the army. She insists that nothing
but mere desire to experience a soldiers life
induced them to commit the folly. They went
two together Her comrade backed out The
other two, with whom she has kept up a regu-
! lar correspondence, enlisted in a Kentucky
infantry regiment, and one was elected lieu
tenant on the organization of the company, and
still holds the position. The lieutenant takes
good care Of her companion, keeping her on
detailed duty at the officers quarters.
Mary applied to Captain Collins, to enlist in
his company. He told the then delecate little
boy that be would never stand the hardships
of the cavalry service. The little fellow, with
a good deal of spirit, insisted that he was as
good as man, and Captain compromised by
taking him as servant that he might get an
insight into soldiers duty. and when he be-
came stout enough he could enter the service.
Mary had no disposition after being first
employed to enlist as soldier, and has been
performing servants duty ever since The
Captains boy" was distinguished as a re-
markably good cook. One point of her expe-
rience she did not like Servants accommo-
dations being scarce, she had to sleep two or
three weeks in close quarters, with several
negroes.
After the discharge, Mary, of course. could
not stay any longer in camp. She was given
a pass to Elizabethtown, whittier she went,
and where she intended to change her clothing,
and try to be woman once more. She eX-
pressed herself entirely satisfied with male
clothing. She is said to be highly accom-
plished, and not only charming vocalist and
pianist, but good composer of music.
LATE FROM HoyoLuLU.-We find the annex
ed intelligence IN Honolulu papers to March
lst by the ship George Washington
Considerable excitement had been caused by
reported discoveries of gold in the hills of
kahaluu. Crowds flocked thither, rocks were
blasted and broken, but no gold was found.
kanakadour has suffered terribly from bad
weather The Polynesian says:
Thunder, lightning rain and hail, and even
snow, according to some, have prevailed in
quantities and duration beyond the memory of
the " oldest inhabitant." On Friday night
the l4th inst, hail fell in koolauloa on this
island, we are told, in quantities to be scooped
up by the hands, and the people crossing the
Walnae mountains that night report that snow
fell thick on the mountain peaks.
The Waikiki plains were at one time almost
literally sheet of water, and partial ireshets
occurred in several directions, though the main
river of the Nuuana Valley was not filed so as
to endanger the bridges leading over it, How
many inches, or rather feet of rain fell that
night, we have not learned, but the amount
must have been enormous.
On the 2Sth January last severe storm
visited Waialua and adjoining places, on MoIo
kai. The sea rose to an excessive hight. and
the FISH ponds on lis margin were all overlowed
and swept clear OF their contents. On the
night of the 29th, a shock Of an earthquake,
lasting five seconds and upwards, was felt
J The clipper ship Storm King had quick
run down OF only nine days and ten hours.
+ During the first three days out, she made eight
hundred and Seventy-ive miles, or two hundred
and ninety one miles a day on the third dav
/ the run was three hundred and seventeen miles
some of the fastest sailing that We have re-
corded lately The only passages shorter than
| this are those of the Black Hawk. in 1859,
nine days and nine hours; and the Fair Wind
IN 1881, eight days and seventeen and one
half hours.
The latest news from Washington brought
by the Stern King was only IS days old when
delivered in Honolulu
The schooner kalhiwa eleven tons bur
then, went ashore at kalihiwai. Kauai, Fri
day, February 18th, and became a total
wreck.
MURDER AT CAMP LArHAM.-A horrible
murder. says the Los Angeles News was re
Gently perpetrated just outside the lines of
Camp Latham, at liquor sbanty kept by a
Mexican. The murderer, George McDermott,
a soldier. went to the liquor stand in a partial
state of intoxication, obtained more liquor, got
into quarrel with one Guadalupe Moreno.
drew his knife and stabbed the latter. killing
HIM instantly. The murderer was sent to
town under guard Of soldiers, and placed in
Jail. He attempted to escape after commit
ting the deed. Pc is said to be only twenty
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