The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-12-03
WHOLE No. 1854.

Miss Kate Brown that she was educated
in one of the first semiuaries in Massachu-
sets, but acquired a love for the Catholic
faith, and early became q convert. She
wears rich ebony cross, which she press
es to her lips with ferVoI, and sWsars that
she will die rather than reveal her purpose
here, or the name of any of her accomplices.
She has Treasury permit to purchase and
send into the South So, 600 worth of goods,
and has purchased large quantities Of mil
itary goods, gold lace, gilt buttons. stars,
sashes, etc. Although she had plenty OF
money when making the purchases, nonss
hardly, was found among her effects, which
included DISCUSSES of different kinds. The
military goods were purchased at Tioknor
& Co.'s. and Parsons & Co.'s, of this city,
but they have been sent off.
1t is proper here to state that Mrs. Beat
tie, when she first represented herself as the
wife of Major Wolf, said that she was liV-
ing with family at Pilot Knob, named
Foster, and that she received a message
from General Sterling Price, at Marias des
Cygnes, saying that if Wolf was spared, the
murderer of Major Wilson would be forth
coming.
1t has since been ascertained that Mrs.
Beattie has been operating here very extern
sively as a rebel agent and spy. She made
her headquarters at fashionable milliner's,
on fifth street, and, through her assistance.
supplied rebel ladies South with fnery.
The milliper is in one of the female military
prisons here, and is awaiting trial before 8
military commission. When the officers
went to her establishment to inquire for Mrs.
Beattie, she lied most f1agrantly but when
she discovered that they were already post
ed, she became furious, sWore like troop
er, and abused the officers like a fshwifs.
The developments in this case exhibit .
system of smuggling and spying, by rebel
women, in this city, which has been suc-
cessfully conducted for over two years, and
already involve the almost certain exscu.
ton of three women and FIVE men, if Mr.
Lincoln should not intefere.
Mrs. Beattie is one of the most, perhaps
the most clever, shrewed, successful and
daring female rebel agents discovered since
the breaking out of the war. She came up
the river about year ago, in company with
a long. haird Southern doctor, who pretend
ed to have just met her on the boat, and to
have been smitten with her charms. She
then told that she had married rather ro-
mantically captain in the Southern army,
but separated from him and was on her way
to Paris to acquire the French language
and all other polite accomplishments of the
gentler sex. She has undoubtly a numbeT
of accomplices and hackers in this city,
and her caee will prove at intense interest,
as much on account of the startling charac-
ter of the operations she has been engaged
in, as for the internal plots involved for the
destruction of Government property, and
the treachery and rotteuness of so-calleC
, respectable society in st. Louis.
Mrs. Beatte is very refractory, although
held in irons at the Gratiot street prison
aud defes the military authorities, hell anC
the devil to do, in her own language
!, ''their d-ndest % of which more anon.