The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-03
VOLUME H......NUMBER 1872.

said, should perform his promise Without any
| hesitation, Anicetus asked to be allowed 10 com
plete his crime. Upon hearing these words, Nero
declared that on that day the Empire was really
conferred on him, and TO n freedman he owed the
gin: he babe him go quick, and take with him the
readiest men to execute his commands Nero him
sell, hearing that Agerinus had come 10 him with
a message from Agrppina, adopted a theatrical
cOntnvance 10 make him look like a criminal.
while Agerinus delivering his message. he
threw down dagger at his feet. He then COM
manded MIN to be put in chains, as if he had been
detected IN an attempted at assassination, in order
that he might invent false story Of his mother
having plotted the destruction Of the Emperor and
then, through shame at her crime being detected
having committed suicide.
In the meantime the danger Of ARrippina VIVA
noised abroad, but only an accident; and the
people, az they heard Of it, hurried to the shore
some got upon the mole, others into the nearest
| boats; some waded into the sea as far "a they
could, and sons stretched out their hands the
/ whole coast was filed with the cries. the PRAYERS
| the shouts Of people asking various questions or
! giving uncertain answers. A great multitude
crowded thilher with lights and when it was Qe-
| Morally known that AgTippim was safe, thew we're
preparing to give her their congratulations when
| they were dispersed by the threats of body Of
| armed men.
| Anicetus pasted men about Agrippina's villa.
and, bursting open the door, he seized the slaves,
whom he met before he reached the door Of the
chamber. A few slaves were standing thers-the
rest had been frightened away by the soldiers
a
light and single female slave. Agdppina was
growing more and more uneasy that no messenger
came from her son; that even gerinus aid not ne
turn. The face of the shore was now changed
there were solitude and sudden noises and the in
| dications Of some extreme calamity. As her slave
was going away, AgHppna cried out, Do you
| too leave me " and seeing Auicetus ACCOMPANIED
by Herculeus, captain of trireme, and Oloaritus
centurion in the fleet, she said 81 If be had coma
| to see her, he must tell Nero that she was rsco-
/ vered II he had come to commit a crime she
would not believe that her son was ptivy to IL he
| would not command the murder of his mother'1
The assassns surrounded the bed, and the com.
mander Of the trlFeme was the first strike her on
| the head with Club As the centurion was draw
| ing his sword to kill her. she presented her womb
| and said, " Strike here and she was despatched
with many wounds. So far all agree. As to Nero
coming to see the body Of his mother and praising
the beauty of her person. there are some authorities
| that have so stated and there are some that deny
| 1t. She was burnt the same night, on banqueting
| couch, and with the meanest ceremonial. Nor, so
| long as Nero was in possession of power was the
earth piled up, or covered over.
By the care Of her domssties a slight tumuus
was afterwards raised on the place, near the road
TO MiSenum and the villa Of the Dictator Cesar,
which stands on the highest spot of ground and
commands prospect Of the bay below. When the
funeral pile was lighted, q freedman Of Agrippina
named Mnester, stabbed himself; it is doubtful
whether through affection to his mistress, or through
fear Of being put TO death. Many years before
Aguppina had believed that this would be her end,
and she had braved il. For, when she was con-
/ sulting the Chaldeans about Nero, they told her
| that Nero would be Emperor, and would kill his
mother; she replied, " Let him be my murderer,
| only let him reign"
LIBEL CASE. - The soi-disant Major George
g. Byron, who says he Is a son of the Poet, has
sued Mr.. Fuller, Of the New York Mirror for libel,
and laid his damages at 5000. Fuller had pub
lished an article, derived principally from British
, In ei7ada
upon the pretensiOns Of Mr.. Geo. Gordon Byron HIM
self, as well upon the letters and "Reminiscences
Of Lord Byron. that he is about to publish in New
York. Whether or not the gentleman has anv inst
claim to the equivocal honor of being the ilegiti-
mate son of Lord Byron, he is determined, it seems
to make himself conspicuous; and the agitation of
the matter by libel suits, newspaper controversies,
ETC., will have the desired effect of making his
book SELL 1t is pretty good way of getting him
self and his book advertised gratuitously.
The SANDWICH IsLANDs.-A correspondent of
the New York Journal of Commerce, writing from
Honolulu, draws a sad picture OF the condition
and prospects of his Kanaka Majesty, Kamae-
hamha III. So rapidly is the native population
diminishing, that according to this writer, tbe
probability is that by the end Of the next ten or
fifteen years scarcely native will be found on tha
islands Indeed, one of the oldest resident physi-
clans there has expressed the opinion that this re-
suit will be realized within the next five years.
Four-hfths of the population have disappeared
since the first visit of Capt Cook, a period of
seventy years, and about one-sixth of the remnant
have died within tie last year. The missionaries
estimate the number of deaths during the past year
| at about ten thousand, or more than one-tenth of
the whole population. A majority of the infants
born were among the victims. The present popu-
latiOn Of the Islands is about eighty thousand.
BANK EXPLOSION GAMBLING AT CALCUTTA,
The Calcutta correspondent of the London Morn
ing Chronicle gives this following account of the
explosion of Bank there, and also alIudes to tho
gambling transactions of certain officers in the
English army -" There have been some disclos-
ures III reference to the Benaras Bank of tba
same complexion as those which startled the world
a snort time sincs IN regard 10 the Union Bank OF
| Calcutta. The Directors lent money TO themss YES
on insufficient security and disposed of other DOR
lions OF the funds in propping up an unsuccessful
| concern called the Ganges Steam Navigation Com
Pany, Ia which some Of them were interested very
deeply. The result was that the whole capital
OF the Bank became ingulphed in ruin and tho
shareholders thought themselves fortunate that the
loss stopped here, END did not extend TO their pr-
vate property. One Of the Directors, Col. Pew,
has just hied his schedule in the InsolVsnt Court
his debts amounting in all 10 $3.50 600. The affair
Is very scandalOus - hardly so much so, however,
as gambling transaction, which has just come to
lght, between TWO officers Of the Bengal army, viz
Major Cooke, of the 18th, and Capt Da Costa of
the 26th N. l. The Major lost 26 900 rupees to the
Captain at a single sitting, aud then refused topay,
on the score that his adversary had, once on time
been turned out Of gambling house at Baden Ba-
den lis said Sir c. Napier has determined to put
down gambling in the amy; if so, here is a case
that Will abundantly justify interference. In Cal
cutta, recently, several gentlemen--One a Madras
officer, another member OF the Bengal Civic Ser
| vice were found in common gambling house
| and taken BY the superintendent Of polies bsfors
the magistrate, Mr.. Hume, thimself a great sport
ing man. The case was not proved; so Mr. Hume
contenied himself with administering a Ttarn -.
proof 70 the parties for having beeu found gambling
! IN a Dlacn of si1cit lotay n