Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-04-12
A RESOLUTE WOMAN.


was in New Orleans ON the day Louisiana
passed the secession Ordinance, and who
witnessed the illumination in honor of
that reasonable act, has related to us,
with request that we would suppress
names, the following racy incident, which
alike illustrates the traditionary 'when-a-
woman won t-she-won't' characteristic Of
the sex, and the fact that the Union peo-
pie of the South have at this time, no
voice in the newspaper reports of the dis
union section. 1t SO happened that on
the day of the illumination the captain of
Mississippi steamboat and his lady were
stopping at the st. Charles, and occupied
front room on the third foor-the first
floor of chambers-exactly in the center
of the hotel. The captain was Union
man, and-as the sequel will show--so
was his wife. All the city was agitated
during the afternoon, in prospect of the
grand gala night. The st. Charles was
to be Illuminated of course Accordingly
some time during the afternoon servant
knocked at the door of the captains room,
carrying all the necessary trappings for
lighting up the chamber windows. Mrs.
- opened the door, when the following
dialogue ensued:
Lady. What have you got there?
Servant. Candles, missis, to light
your windows for de Elimination.
L. Well, you can return them to
where you brought them from, as shall
not allow them in this room.
S. (Not to be foiled so easily, re-
sumedD. Oh but massa told me to put up
de lights, and so Use got to put 'em up.
L. Can't help that; this is my room,
and I shan't allow the windows to be illu.
minated for what am opposed to 50 that
ends it.
This closed the first act. The servant
reported to the proprietors, who imme
diately proceeded to the lady's room with
view of convincing her of the impor.
tancc of permitting the servant to make
ready for the grand evening light-up
Said they: This room is the most cen.
tral in the entire front, and not to illu.
inmate it will be to mar seriously the
effect of the whole - to which the lady
replied:
81 am sorry, gentleman, to cause yor
any inconvenience put believe this
room, for the time being, is ours, and
must positively decline, in any way, tc
add eclat to great outrage, as conceive
the whole disunion movement to be. My
husband (who was out at the time) is ;
Union man. and l am a Union woman
and this room cannot be illuminated.
A few more words were exchanged whlcl
ended by the lady politely requesting tn
proprietors to leave her room. Determined
not to bo outdone in matter of sucl
grave Importance, the captain was mex
found and appealed to. He heard thei
case; said his wife had reported him cor
rectly on the Union question; nevcrthc
less he would 90 with them to the room
and see if the matter could be amicabl,
arranged.
Scene third ensued. The captain
disposition to yield was not to be second
ed by his better half. They next pre-
, posed to vacate the best chamber in be
favor in some other part of the house,
that would be satisfactory; but the lady
' "No" was still as peremptory as eve
! Her point was gained, and the st. Charlie
was doomed to have a front dark chan
| Der.
0 Pleased with this triumph, Mrs. NJ
. devised the following maneuvre to max
G the most of her victory: Summoning
0 servant, she sent him out to procure fl
= her an American flag, which, at dusk 81
n suspended from her window. This mao
! the fourth act in the play and as IL
J, fifth is always indispensable, it had i
IS place.
n When evening came, the Streets anim'
o ted by merry throng, were illuminate'
a but, alas the st. Charles was disfgure
n by its somber chamber, when suddenly
4 succession of lamps, suspended on bot