The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-24
Letter from 81. Louis.

DttlEI HUH Dls LUulss
ICorrespondence Cincinnati Commercial
arrest Of a Fsnaalc Smgqgler-SKe Pre-
tends 10 be the WE Of de Rebel Major
Wolf and Uisits him before his Execution
he "doa't sec Il and taks IN Fit
Tie Pseudo Wife attempts 70 assassinate
an officer, and finds herself IN a Dungeon
Desperate Character Of Rebel Women
RsgeLai9ns Of the Provost Marshal Gen
erals Office.
ST. LOUIS, Nov l7-Not since the
revelations of the o A. KS, during the
Provost Marshal Generalship of Colonel
Sanderson, has any thing so startling
in character and desperate in details,
been developed by the United States
detectives, as the arrest and incarcera-
ton few days ago, of rebel woman,
who had been carrying on a successful
smuggling business for many months
past, but who had up to that time sue
cessfully eluded the most excellently
devised plans for her detection. 1t is
doubtful then if she had been caught
but for the very foolhardiness of vii
lainy, which makes its victim court
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 her life here is described
her name is Kate Beattie, wife of the
notorious guerrilla chief, Buck Beattie,
famous in the Southwest She has
been coming and going from and to the
South since the war commenced, and
has conveyed large sums of gold from
the rebel lines for the purpose of carry
ing on some of the rebel plans for lib
Grating prisoners, burning steamboats,
or Government warehouses. Mrs. Beat
tie is a highly intelligent woman, not
twenty years old, with light blue eyes
and light hair, cropped close to- her
head. When arrested she wore a wig
with luxurious black curls, which she
shook over her neck and shoulders with
a grace perfectly bewitchieg to noodle
heads. She Is the authoress of book
on slavery, called Woman's Fate, and
is well known to, and highly esteemed
by all the rebel Generals in the South
west She is beautifully formed, and
has a dash and abandon of manner,
wellcalculated to carry her through
Attention was first called TO her by the
receipt of an anonymous letter at the
Provost Marshal General office, stating
that she had returned to the city from
the South, and 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 footsteps bat that was all.
II is known doubtless, that Major
Enoch O. Wolf, Confederate States
Army, was to have been shot on Friday
last, in retaliation for the murder of
Major Wilson, United States Volun-
teers, but proceedings were stayed by
an order from the President until he
examined the case. On the night pre-
ceding the execution, however, and
before the order countermanding il
was published, Major General Rosecrans
received a message from Mrs. Major
Vol" requesting an interview This
message was sent TO General Rosecrans'
room at the Lindell Hotel, and he re-
piled that he would see the lady in the
psrlor The interview took place, and
the lady begged, with tears and suppli-
cations, for the life Of her husband
Major Wolf General Rosecrans was
about 10 tell her that he had received
the Presidents respite, but, his sus-
picions were aroused by the appearance
and conduct Of the woman, so he re-
quested her 10 return to her room and
he would attend TO the case. She re-
turned, making the halls echo with her
wailings. In the meantime, Acting Pros
vost Marshal General Colonel Joe Darr,
was informed of the rebel Majors wife,
and he paid her visit and took her
parole not TO leave the room at the
hotel 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 10 be watched On Friday
morning last the day fixed for Major |
VOLTS execuuon) his wife was sent to |
his cell in charge of Captain Peter |
Talon, Chief OF the United States |
Police The moment she saw her hus-
band she threw her arms around his |
neck, melo-dramatically, and ex
claimed, what dom you know your |
own dear, darling little wiley p but |
the undutiul husband couldn't see |
it," and starting with surprise, ex
claimed gruiily, who the hell are you,
and what do you want hereY The |
pseudo wife took on, and covered |
down under the weight Of her emotion
While IN this attitude she made several |
mysterious signs ard blinks to the
Major, but the lynx eyes Of Captain
Talon did not lose a trick, and by 3
wonderful coincidence, he and sthe |
Major saw that the Major should play |
husband The Major saw, however,
that the game Was blocked by the |
shrewdness Of the officer, so he "drapS /
ped into a lit. and caterHanled little, |
and the afflicted wife was conveyed out |
Of the cell for fear her presence would |
cause the Major TO burst a blood vessel !
Ii was observed that Mrs Wolf CD |
speedily recovered from her emotions /
when taken into the fresh air, bat !
when conveyed 10 the Office of the |
Provost Marshal General, and her lux
urious curls and a quantity OF mysteri-
Qua eNathings were remoyed from her |
head and face, she grew frantic As
. tigress, and spfang upon COLI
onel DArr with the agility and |
ssrocity Of that symmetrical tut treaeh- |
er6us animal She brandished gleani- |
ing bowie. and laughed with the !
very ecstacy Of rage SONS enc seized /
her from behind, and IN a moment the
cold embrace Of a pair Of 'wristiets'