The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-02
NEW SERIES~NO. 574

rebel MAJORS wife, and he paid her q visit
and took her parole not to leave the room
at the hotel until next morning, when he
promised her an interview with her hus-
band. His suspicious we're aroused. too.
but he could not form any accurate idea
Of bow the case stood, and ordered her
room to be watched. On Friday morning
last Che day fixed for Maj. VOLTS execu-
tion) his wife was sent to his cell in charge
of Capt. Peter Talon, chief of the United
States police. The moment she saw her
husband she threw her arms around his
neck, melo-dramatically, and exclaimed,
"What don't you know your own dear
darling little wifey?" but the undutyful
husband "couldn't see it," and, staring
with surprise, exclaimed grufily, "Who
the hell are you, and what do you want
here?" The pseudo wife .,"took on" and
covered down under the weight of her
emotions. While in this attitude she made
several mysterious signs and blinks to the
major, but the lynx-eyes of Capt. Talon
did not lose a trick, and, by wonderful
coincidence, he and the major saw that
the major should play husband The ma
jor saw, however, that that game was
blocked by the shrewdness of the officer,
so he 'drapped" into fit, and cater
wauled round little, and the afflicted
wife was conveyed out of the cell, for fear
her presence would cause the major to
burst blood vessel 1t was observed
| that Mrs. Wolf CD speedily recovered
from her emotins when taken into the
fresh air, but when conveyed to the Of
flee of the provost marshal general, and
her luxurious curls and a quantity of
mysterious swathings were removed from
her head and face, she grew frantic as a
tigress, and sprang upon Dol. Darr with
the agility and ferocity of that symmet-
rical but treacherous animal. She BRAN
dished cleaning blade, and laughed with
| the very ecstacy of rage Some one
seized her from behind, and in moment
the cold embrace of pair of "wristlets"
held her powerless, but still gnashing her
| teeth with disappointment.
She was perfectly transported with fury.
| but woman-like, when the storm dissolved
| in a shower of tears, she sat passive as q
statue. She was questioned as to her real
| name, &C., when she acknowledged that
she was not Mrs. Major Wolf, but Mrs.
AAoIO OCdCIic. Ouo oCtCtU Cu4G SIG Is the
| daughter of Mrs. Colonel Sharp, now in
Europe, operating for the confederacy,
that her name was Miss Kate Brown, that
she was educated in one of the first semi
naries in Massachusetts, but acquired a
love for the Catholic faith, and early be-
| came convert. She wears rich ebony
cross, which she presses to her lips with
tervor, and swears that she will die rather
than reveal her purposes here, or the name
of any of her accomplices. She has
treasury permit to purchase and send into
the south $4,000 worth Of goods, and has
purchased large quantities of military
goods, gold lace, gilt buttons, stars, SASH
es, DC. Although she had plenty ofmoney
when making the purchases, none, hardly,
was found among her effects, which in
clude disguises of different kinds. The
military goods were purchased at Ticknor
d Co.'s and Parson & 90. 8 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
living with family at Pilot Knob named
Foster, and that she received MESSAGE
from Gen. Sterling Price, at Marias des
Cygnas, saying that if Wolf was spared.
the murderer of Maj. Wilson would be
forthcoming.