Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-04-08

tcunk, and / win have your bag ;
gare searched and then sent % you.
Mrs EOngmoad Acknowledged that
sho waa caught and requested % ee
sent 70 the Burnett House, with her I
mother and sister, and thlther we dld
send her. 4
InOW telegraphed Stanton that the
birds had been Gagged, aud requested
thatthey be turned over 10 the COM
mander Of this department, which
was accordingly doae.
The General always took me along
whenhe visited them at the Rarnet
House. talked to Mcs. l, while the
General talked 70 the mother and
daughter Now il 20 happened that
In the Generals Younger days Mrs.
I. had been his sw eetheaFt, and never
did | see a woman so aFtfally wrap
q mar around her finger a. Mrs. Il
did General - Tho result was
that these three female spies went
scot free. 1t was during these con-
yersaiions that Mrs, l. confessed to
me the part she had taken.
When tho war began she went to
Canada, and there, by some means
obtained papers certifying that she
was a British subject, She then went
to Washington and obtained the sig-
nature of the British Minister, aud
then to Mr.. Stanton, aad, on the
strength other paper, obtained a pass
through the Union lines to Richmond
After trMsacting her business, she
came West, and approaching the IN
ion lines on the heed waters Of Big
Sandy, was halted aud conveyed to
the headquarters ola distinguished
t Indiana general. She rode in = car
| riage, and had quite a retinue Of SER
, wants, representing herself to be an
English won N suffering from rheum-
atism. Thu General Commanding,
hoping to bluff her, proposed to send
, her to the Surgeon General OF the
Department for examination. Moth
: inc dauntod, she thanked him and re-
uuested that abe should be sent imme-
4. diately. The Surgeon had her c&rri-
ed to his office, she eilecting much
pain. She removed her shoes and
/, stockings. Her feet and ankles were
much swollen mot from rheumatism,
but from walking). The learned Sur
: geon took up his stethescopc and plac-
t ed il to her heart. She was more
than a match for him here, for she was
the only person / had ever met with
. who could cause her own heart to
I palpitate when she chose. The doc
+, tor listened but a moment, threw
J. down the instrument and begged her
!, dardon for doubling her ~veracity.
!, She was carried back to her carriage,
g and given a pass and sent northward
: rejoicing.
n AT another time she lad some
dispatches to send ,outhward.
There was a regiment of soldiers
d going up the Kentucky Central
G railroad that day. Dressed as an
g Irish servant girl (and she could as
sumo the character to perfection), she
a succeeded in getting one of the sol
diers TO pass her on the train as hi;
c wife. After the train had started,
the authorities at Cincinnati learned
that she had gone, and suspecting hel
o errand, t~elegraphed to Lexington, Civ
ing a description of the woman, and
ordering her arrest, but by somt
7 means no action was taken until thu
II next morning. In the meantime tht
le train had ar lived at Lexington. Mrs
L. walked two miles in the country
8 borrowed a morse, rode twelves mile
lt further, and meeting a mau oil tn,
'e road whom she knew, gave him he
eT dispatches, and told him to delive'
I'd them a. certain rebel generals head
% quarters. She thel rode hack I,
where the horse had bern borrowed
and forward walked 70 Lexington
m and u~nmolesled, took the AFTERNOON
train for Covington. Tie authorI les
g. rrning that she had gone to %h,
a c, utry on her arrival at Lexington
Il wor. in hot pursuit. When they 90
lg into Lexington she was far on he
8 way A dispatch was forwarded t.
a promincnt CovingtOn detective Il
arrest her by means on her arrival il
L That city, Some friendly station oRe
p tor placed a copy of tbs dispalH
as IN her hands. She was. Wen if
greet strait. However, she did no
81 despNir. Seeing Leslie Combs, wifi
oe and daughter, sitting a few seat
by she.d OF her in. the coach, eli,
e, sat down near Ethem, and sool
a drew the ladies into "A CONVEX
sation. She told them her hus
er band was a colder, and that she hat
indu ed him to desert, and for thi
Oh often she was to be arrested on he.
eli arriy at Covington Her pitiful sto
r. ry, with many tears, enlisted the sym
pathy o. the ladies, and finally thl
venerable kentuckian himself. \
Se that time the rear door of the rear ca
IL of all Incoming train was always KEEP
locked, when arriving al the depot.
Arrangements were made that thi
y door should not be locked on this oc
e. cas.on. When the train arrived Mr.
Combs assisted Mrs. j.. OIL the rea
u platform of the car, while the detect
~ ives Watched tne platforms between
! The two cars, and Mrs. Combs and he
daughter came near being arrested