A female Spy of a poor Type.
--The Norfolk
Day Book has the following first rate notice of a lady who left that city a few days ago:
An ancient garrulous female left this city several days ago in the flag of truce boat for
Old Point, on her way
North.
She was crammed full of venom against the people of the
South, where she has lived for many years; owing, we understand, to the fact that she was interested in some property which had been destroyed at the burning of the
Navy-Yard by the
Northern vandals, for which she conceived the Southern Confederacy ought to have paid her. However, whether this is the cause of her hatred to everything Southern or not, we are unable to state positively; though she was so anxious to inflict what she conceived a deadly wound upon the cause of the
South, that she could scarcely contain herself long-enough to get on shore at
Old Point before she began her tirade of abuse against everything South and Southern.
She would doubtless have ‘"popped"’ if she had not got relief so early; but fortunately for her, she found a Federal officer at the wharf, where the boat landed, and to him she began to unburden herself of the various and important secrets she thought she possessed, in regard to our plans, fortifications, forces, and intentions, hereabouts.--It is said old
Wool thought he had drawn a tiptop prize when this crone was first brought in before him and began her ‘"talk;"’ but from her incessant jabber, she pretty soon undeceived him; and he made up his mind that no such leaky vessel as she proved herself, could carry a valuable freight; so he dismissed her from his presence as soon as possible.
It is thought the
General had a slight suspicion that the enemy had a design against him personally, and had sent this antiquated
Mrs. Caudie there to talk him to death.
