The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-12-03
Revelations of the Provost Marshal Gem
eraIss Office.

, RGVel&E1Ons OF the PROVOST MdkSnGl en-
eraI's Office.
The st. Louis correspondent of the Gin
cinnai Commercial, whose official position
gives him advantages for obtaining infor-
nation which is withheld from the report
ers of that city, gives the following occur
rences:
ST. LOUIS, November II, 1864.
! Not since the revelations of the o. A ks,
during the Provost Marshal Generalship of
Colonel Sanderson, has anything so start
| ling in character and desperate in details
been developed by the United States detec-
tiYes as the arrest and incarceration. a few
days ago, of rebel woman, who had been
carrying on a successful smuggling bust
ness for many months past, but up TO that
time successfully eluded the most excellently
devised plans for her detection. It is doubt
ful then if she had been caught but for the
very foolhardiness of villainy, which makes
its victim court danger for sake of the ex
element 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
of her life here is described.
. Her name is Kate Beattie, wife of the
notorious guerrilla chief, Buck Beattie, ia
nous in the Southwest. She has been
coming aud 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 highly intelligent roman,
not twenty years cid, with light blue eyes,
and light hair, cropped close to her head.
When arrested she wore a Mig with luxuFi-
Gus black curls, which she shook over her
neck and shoulders with grace perfectly
bewitching to noodle heads. She is the
authoress of q book on slavery. called Wo-
man,a Fate, and is yell known to, and
highly esteemed by 81 the rebel Generals
in the Southwest. Sho is beautifully form
ed, and has dash and abandon OF manner,
well calculated to carry her through. At
tsntion was first called to her by the receipt
of an anonymous letter at the Provost
Marshal Generals office, stating she had
returned to the city from the South, and
had brought large sums of gold. Detec
tives were put upon her track again, bu
they could find no trace of her. They
could bear faint echoes of her footsteps, bu
that was all.
1t is known doubtless, that Major Enool
o. Wolf, Confederate States army, was t.
have been shot on Friday last, in retalia
ton for the murder Of Major Wilson, Uni
> ted States volunteers, but proceedings were
: stayed by an order from the President un ii
he examined the case. On the night pre-
= ceeding the execution, however, and befor
! the order countermanding it was published
Major General Rosecrans received mess
age from sMrs. Major Wolfe," requesting
o an interview. This message was sent t
: General Rosecran's room at the Lindell Ho
IS tel, and he replied that he would see tn
% lady in the parlor. The interview too
place, and the lady begged, with tears an,
d applications, for the life of her husband
o Major Wolfe. General Rosecrans wa
, about to tell her that he had received th
Is Presidents respite, but his suspicious wer
l. aroused by the appearance and conduct {
'e the woman, so he requested her to return t
" her room and he would attend to the case
ie She returned making the halls echo wit
y her wailings. In the mean time, Actin
'e Provost Marshal General, Col. Joe Darl
II was informed of the rebel Majors wife, an
10 he paid her a visit and took her parole nC
Is to leave the room at the hotel until neg
u !. morning, when he promised her an inte
Oh view with her husband. His suspicion
10 were aroused, too, but he could not form
a. any accurate idea of how the case stood
!. and ordered her room to be watched. @
!. Friday morning last, 1.-THE day fixed for M
"a jor VOLTS execution his wife was sent
is his cell in charge of Captain Peter Tallol
ne Chief of the United States police. I'll
moment she saw her husband she thre
pc her arms around his neck, melo dramatiea
b. ~, and exclaimed, ''W hat don't you kno
it your own dear, darling little WHEY % B
lg the undutiful husband Couldn't see it,
.ir and staring with surprise, exclaimed grufh
m who the hell are you, and what do yc
th want here 20 The pseudo wife "took on,
lie and covered down under the weight of b.
ho emotions. While in this attitude she mao
DO several mysterious signs and blnks to til
IT Major, but the lynx-eyes of Captain Ia
1t, lon did not lose trick, and by wonde
to full coincidence, he and the Major saw til
Us the Major should play husband. The NJ
I? jor saw, however, that the game was bloc
be ed by the shire wedness of the officer, so
v ''drapped' into fit, and the afflicted wi
u vas conveyed out of the cell for fear b
Elf presence would cause the Major to burst
&c DIOOO VESSEL II WAS ODSSTF6Q LnaL A4l
elf Wolf (?) speedily recovered from her en-
n, tons when taken to the fresh air, but VIII
he conveyed to the Office Of the Provost Ma
it shall General, and her luxurious curls Al
all quantity of mysterious swathings we
ity removed from her head and face, she gr'
le- frantic as tigress. and sprang upon Col
all mel Darr with the agility and ferocity
'oy that symmetrical but treacherous amin
'ell She brandished a cleaning blade, a
lst laughed with the very ecstasy of "a!
.he Some one seized her from behind, and in