The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-24


her teeth with disappointment She
was perfectly transported With fury, but
womanlike, when the storm dissolved
IN q shower Of tears, she sat passive as
a statute She was next questioned as
TO her real name, &c, when she ac-
knowledged that she was not Mrs. Ma
| jor Wolf, but Mrs Kate Beattie. She
stated that she is the daughter of Mrs.
Col sharp, now in Europe, operating
| for the Confederacy; that her real name
was Miss Kate Brown, that she was
educated in one Of the first seminaries
in Massachusetts, but acquired love
for the Catholic faith, and early became
a convert She wears a rich ebony
cross, which she presses TO her lips
with fervor, and swears that she will
die rather than reveal her purposes
here, or the name of any of her accom-
plices She has a Treasury permit TO
purchase and send into the South So
$50 worth Of goods, and has purchased
large quantities of military goods, gold
lace; gilt buttons, stars, sashes, DC. AL
though she had plenty of money when
making the purchases, none, hardly,
was found among her effects, which in
clude DISCUSSES of different kinds. The
military goods were purchased at Tick
nor * Co. s, and Parsons d Co. s, Of this
city, but they have been sent off
II is proper here to state that Mrs.
Beattie, when she first represented her
self as the wife Of Major Wolf, said that
she was living with family at Pilot
Knob named Foster, and that she re-
ceiyed message from General Sterling
Price, at Mariss Des Cygnas, saying that
if Wolf was spared, the murderer of
Major Wilson would be forthcoming.
1t should also be stated that few days
before the day fixed for execution, Col.
Darr received the following cowardly
| ANONYMOUS communication
81. Louis, Nov. 8.
Mr.. Da7T-I see by the papers that
you have issued an order to this effect
that Major Wolf is to be shot in retalia
tion for Major Wilson, whom you sup
pose to have been shot by the Confed-
crates, without any good cause. Now,
sir, you have no evidence that said
Wilson was killed by any Confederate
force, as the bodies were found separa.
ted Admit that he was shot by them,
it was done in a fair fight, if done at
all Now, sir, let me warn you that if
Wolf is shot, your life will pay for his,
as certain as there is God in Heaven,
and you viii die by my hands, by means
best known to myself-sO helm me God
ST. LOUISIAN.
Neither the promise nor the threat
were made good, for inquiry proved
that no such family as that described
by Mrs Wolf alias Beattie, ever lived
at Pilot Knob, and the dates proved
that Price and all attached to him were
driven far below Marias Des Cygnas
days before the message was said to
have been sent from that place
1t has since been ascertained that
Mrs Beattie has been operating here
very extensively as a rebel agent and
spy She made her headquarters at q
fashionable rebel milliner's, on Fifth
street, and through her assistance, supS
piled rebel ladies South fnery The
millineF is in one of the female military
prisons here, and is awaiting trial be-
fore military commission When the
officers went to. her establishment to
inquire for Mrs. Beattie, she lied most
hagrantly; but when she discovered
that they were already WE'LL posted,
she became furious, swore like a
trooper, and abused the officers hke a
fish wife. The developments in this
case exhibit a system of smuggling and
spying, by rebel women, in this city,
which has been successfully conducted
for over two years, and already involve
the almost certain execution Of three a0Omen
and fUe men. if Mr.. Lincoln should not
interfere
Mrs. Beattie is one of the most, per
haps the most, clever, shrewd, success
full and daring female rebel agents dis
covered since the breaking out of the
var. She came up the river about a
year ago, in company with a long-hair-
ed Southern doctor, who pretended to !
have just met her on the boat, and to |
have been smitten with her charms |
She then told that she had married |
rather Economically a Captain in the |
Southern army, but had separated from
him and was on her way to Paris, to &C
quire the French language, and all the
other polite accomplishments of the |
gentler sex She has undoubtedly a
number of accomplices and hackers in
this city, and her case will prove of in
tense interest, as much on account of |
the startling character of the opera
tons she has been engaged in, as for
the internal plots involved for the de
struction of Government property, and
the treachery and rottenness of So
called respectable society in St Louis
Mrs Beattie is very refractory, al
though held in irons at the Gratict
Street Prison, and defes the military
authorities, hell and the devil to do, in
her own language, "their d-ndest !"
of which more anon.
OCCASIONAL.