Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-23

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! Marshal General here, has been having
quite lively time in one way or an
other ever since he went out to .Rosecrans'
department at st. Louis. The Colonel
has fine field for the exercise of his
wide awake faculties and the peculiar
talents which we all know him to possess
in the management Of such cases as the
following:
81. Louis, Nov. II, 1854.
Not since the revelations of the o. A. KS
during the Provost, Marshal Generalship of
Colonel Sanderson, has anything 30 start.
ling in character and desperate IN details,
been developed by the United States de-
tectiVes, as the arrest and Incarceration o
few days ago, of rebel woman, who had
been carrying on q successtul smuggling
business for many months past, but who
had up to that time successfully eluded
the most excellently devised plans for her
detection. 1t is doubtful then if she had
been caught but for the very fool hardness
of Villany, which makes it's victim court
danger for the sake Of the excitement it
gives.
The facts in the case of this woman are
far more strange than fiction, and deserve
notice before the last act of the drama of
leE llI6 mere ID Qe6CTlO6us
Her name is Kate Beattie, wife Of the
notorious guerrilla chief, Buck Beattie,
famous in the South-west. She has been
coming apd going from and to the South
since the war commenced. and has convey
ed large sums of gold from the rebel lines
for the purpose of carrying on some OF the
rebel plans for liberating prisoners, burn-
| ing steamboats, or Government warehouses.
Mrs. Beattie is u highly Intelligent woman,
not twenty years old, with light blue eyes,
and light hair, cropped close to her head.
When arrested she wore wig with luxu.
rious black curls, which she shook over
her neck and shoulders with grace per-
fectly bewitching TO noodle-heads. She is
the authoress of book on slavery, called
Woman's Fate, and is we'll known to, and
highly esteemed by, all the rebel Generals
in the South. west. She is beautifully
formed, and has dash and abandon of
manner, we'll calculated to carry her
through. Attention was first called to her
by the receipt of an anonymous letter at
the Provost Marshal General's offices, stat
ing that she had returned to the city from
the South, ,.Apd had brought large sums of
gold. Detectives were put on her track
again, but they could find no trace of her.
They could hear faint echoes of her foot
steps, but that was all.
ID huUWuS uOuuIloaS1 IunS u4nJOA AuOSh
o. Wolf, Confederate States Army, was to
have been shot on Friday last, in retalia-
alton for the murder of Major Wilson,
United States Volunteers, but proceedings
were stayed by an order from the Presi-
dent, until he examined the case. On the
night preceding the execution however,
and before the order counterm0nding it
was published, Major General Roseerans
received message from "Mrs. Major Wolf"
requesting an interview. This message was
sent to General Rosecrans' room at the
Liudell Hotel, and he replied that he would
see the lady in the psrlor. The interview
took place, and the lady begged, with tears
aud supplications, for the life of her hus"
band-Major Wolf. General Rosecrans
was about to tell her that he had received
the Presidents respite, but his susPicions
were aroused by the appearance and con-
duct of the woman, so he requested her to
return to her room and he would attend to
the case. She returned, making the halls
echo with her wailings. 1u the mean time, |
Acting Provost Marshal General, Colonel
Joe Darr, was informed of the rebel Ma
jor's wife, aud he paid her avistt and took
her parole not to leave the room at the no.
tel until next morning, when he promised
her an interview with her husband. His
suspicious were aroused, too, but he could
not form any accurate idea of how the
case stood, and ordered her room to be
watched. On Friday morning last (the
day fixed for Major VOLTS eXecution) his
wife was sent to his cellin charge of Capt.
Peter Talon, Chief of the United States
Police The moment she saw her lhus-
band she threw her arms around his neck,
meIo dramatically, and exclaimed, "what
don't you know your own dear, darling
little wifey2" but the undutiful husband
"couldn't see it," and staring with sur
prise, exclaimed grufly, 'who the hell are
You. and what do you want here2" The
pseEio wife ''took on,'' and covered down
under the weight of her emotions. While
| in this attitude she made several mysteri-
Gus signs and blinks TO the Major, but the
LYNX eyes of Captain Talon did not lose
a trick, and, by wonderful coincidence,
he and the Major saw that the Major
should play husband. The Major, how.
| ever, saw that that game was blocked by
the shreWdness Of the officer; SO he ''drsp-
ped" Into q fit, aud caterwauled around
| little, and the afflicted wife was conveyed
out OF the cell for fear her presence would
cause the Major to burst blood vessel.
4 II was observed that Mrs. Wolf(7) speed.
ily recovered from her emotions when ts-
ken into the fresh air, but when conveyed
| TO the Office of the Provost Marshal Gen.
/ eral. and her luxurious Curls and guam
tity.ot mysterious swathings were reno
we'd from her head and face, she grew
frantic as a tigress, and spraug upon
| Colonel Darr with the sgility and ferocity
of that symmetrical but Ttreacherous
animal. She brandishd CLEAN.
ling blade, and laughed with the very costa.
cy of rage. Some one seized her from be.
| hind, and in moment the cold embrace of
| a pair of G'wristlets" held her pOWerless,
but still guashing her teeth with disap.
/ pointment. She was perfectly transported
with, fury, but woman like, when the
storm dissolved in o shower of tears, she
sat passive as Q statute. She was next
louestioned as to her real name, &c, when
she acknowledged that she was not Mrs
HTa;n. JVoIf hnts Mrsl Kate BeAttie She