The Evansville daily journal., 1861-04-08
An Dntep6rttd incident In the seees>
sion Programme

SION
A well known merchant in this city, who
was IN New Orleans on the day Louisiana
passed the Secession Ordinance, and who
witnessed the illumination ia honor Of that
reasonable act, has related to US, with a re-
quest that we would suppress names, the
following racy incident, which alike illus
trates the traditonary "when a woman
won't she won't" characteristic of her sex,
and the fact that the JHjOH people of the
South have, at this time, no voice in the
newspaper reports of the disunion section.
1t so happened that on the day of the illu-
minatiOn the captain of Mississippi steam
boat and his lady were stopping at the st.
Charles, and occupying front room, on the
third hOor-the first floor of chambers-ex-
actly in the center of the hotel. The captain
was Union man, and-as the sequel will
show-S0 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 a servant
knocked at the door of the captains room,
carrying all the necessary trapping for
lighting up the chamber windows. Mrs.
opened the door. when the following dia-
/ logue ensued
! Lady. What have you got there p
Servant. Candles Misses, to light your
windows for determination.
L. Well, you can return them to VIII ere
/ you brought them from, as / shall not al
low them in this room.
S. Not to be foiled so easily, resumed).
! Oh but massa told me to put up de lights,
and so Use got to put 'em up.
L. Can't help it this is my room, and
l shan't allow the windows to be illunlinat-
ed for what am opposed to; so that ends it.
This closed the first act. The servant re-
ported to the proprietors, who Immediately
proceeded to the lady's room with view
to convincing her of the importance of per-
mittng the servant to make ready for the
grand evening light up. Said they, "This
room is the most central in the entire front,
and not to illuminate it will be to mar scri-
ously the effect of the whole, to which the
lady replied:
g. am sorry, gentlemen, to cause you
any inconvenience, but believe this room,
for the time being, is ours, by right, and !
most positively decline, in any way to add
eelat to a great outrage, as | conceive the
whole disunion movement to be. My hus-
band (who was out at the time) is Union
man, and | am a Union woman, and this
room cannot be illuminated" A few more
words were exchanged, which ended by the
lady politely requesting the proprietors to
leave her room. Determined not to be out
done in matter of such grave importance,
the captain was next found and appealed
to. II heard their case said his wife had
reported him correctly on the Union ques~
tion, nevertheless, he would 90 with them
to the room, and see if the matter could not
be amicably arranged. Scene third en-
sued. The captains disposition to yield
was not to be seconded by his better half
They next proposed to vacate the best
chamber in her favor, in some other part of
the house, if that would be satisfactory, but
the lady's No was still as peremptory
rs ever. Her point was gained, and the
St. Charles was doomed to have q dark
front chamber.
Pleased with this triumph, Mrs.
devised the following manoeuvre to make
the most of her victory Summoning a SER
want she sent him out to procure for her an
American flag which at dusk, she suspend
ed from her window. This made the fourth
act in the play, and as the fifth is always
Indispensable, it had its place here When
evening came the streets, animated with a
merry throng, were illuminated, but, alas
the St Charles was disfgured by its sombre
chamber, when suddenly a succession OF
lamps, suspended on both sides of the flag,
revealing the stars and stripes, were lit up,
and the ensign of the Union waved from the
centre Of a hotel Illuminated in honor of its
overthrow The effect was to give the i'm
preston that the whole house was thus pay
ing homage to the American flag and what
is most significant, is the fact that the latter
was greeted by the passing crowd with vo-
ciferous applause. So much for the firm
ness of a true Union Philade{ {phia
Press.
Glzg~The Yincennes Gazette says it learns
hnarn nfEaraA Gnr