“Received of steamer Morning Star five hundred dollars.”
Directly upon learning of this outrage, Colonel Fouriner trained his against the Kentucky shore and called out all the companies at his command. A sufficient force could not be rallied during the night to cross the river with any pros of success against the very considerable guerilla band just then collected there, but the enemy was effectually routed at an early hour the next morning by some few well-aimed shots thrown through the streets of Hawesville from the ten-pound Dahlgren gun which General Love had brought to Cannelton in September, 1862.
This process so vividly recalled to all the citizens of Hancock County Captain Edmond Morgan’s brief bombardment only a few months earlier that even most ardent Confederate sympathrs’ cheerfully discontinued any nded hospitality toward guests whose presence entailed such calamity upon their entertainers, so the gueriIJas ate their Christmas dinners elsewhere than in Hawesville. Doubly joyous, however, through the restored sense of security, was Cannelton’s holiday merry-making, and a charity entertainment brought together in Mozart Hall a crowded assembly to witness one of the amateur theatrical entertainments always so popular with a generation who never dreamed that celluloid films would one day supersede the spoken drama in public favour.
Right generous, too, was the carnival programme offered charades, tableaux vivants, and drama, interspersed with music. Misses Isabelle Beacon (Mrs. Edmond Morgan) , Emeline McCollum (Mrs. Alfred Vaughan), and Indiana Vaughan (Mrs. Samuel King), were among the notable charade performers. French history was drawn upon for a tableau in three scenes, “The Divorce of Josephine,” rendered with sumptuous fidelity to detail. Mrs. Charles H. Mason (Rachel Huckeby) a woman of superb appearance, impersonated the unfortunate Empress with artistic accuracy of costume, attitude and expression, Miss Sallie Marshall supporting her in the role of the beautiful Hortense. Captain Edward N. Powers represented Napoleon, with Captain John P. Dunn as Marechal Ney.