New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-03-07


whom she was living, when atradella was in-
troduced to her acquaintance. shewasabesusi-
faI and Accomplished and notwithstanding her
unhappy fall from virtue, must have. possessed
estimable as well as amiable qualities. A mu-s
tual passion spFaagcup in the minds OF the in-
structor and his pupil and they agreed to ay
together from the house Of her seducer. Tie
outraged Italian, on, discovering their fights
determined that nothing but their deatfs
satisfy his vengeance; and hired two braves
nth instructions to follow them and execute his
Furpose, wherever they siould be found They
Eroceeded to Naples, the birth place of Strad-
fla, supposing he would most probably return
shither
I After d vain search, however, in that citr,
they learned that he and the lady were livfpr
| e Rome, where she was regarded'as his wife
fhey applted o'their employer for recommen-
tation to tRe Venetian Embassadoy at Rome, in
order that they might find an asyIum when the
iced was perpetrateds and thus provided they
lrrived in that city. They soon discovered the
residence OF Stradeila; bus hearing that an ora
torio Of his composition was to be performed in
one Of the churches, In which he was himself to
sing, they determined to wayiay and murder
him on his return htnae, in the darkness Of the
night They entered the church while, strad-
eIlaywas singings and SUCH wass the exquisite g
beauty and pathos Of his music c,Athat these
| sayages were melted BY it; and theF could not
| bear to take the Hfeo man who had procured
| them such sweet and nnwonted emotions They
| Taiteds for him in the street, but instead Of
| paauging their poignards in his heart. informed
MIN thai such had, indeed, been their. purpose,
which they now detested: and warned him to
ny with his mistress to some place of greater
4 safetys for that the revenge of their enemy
would SOON reach them there. The lovers inn
nedlately hassened from Rome, and took up
| their abode at Turin. The braves returning to
their employer, told him that they had traced
the fugitlves TO Turin; but that, as the laws
we're exceedingly severe in that, place, and Che
chance of escape after the commission Of such a
deed very difficult, they would have no further
concern in the matter. The Venetian however
was determined to persist in his bloody purpose,
and therefore engaged two other assassins on
I whom he could place more reliance, procuring
/ for them letters of Recommendation from the
French Embassadof at Venice to the Embassa-
dor Of the same country at Turin, in the charac-
ter Of two merchants who were led by their
commercial pursuits to that place. The mlr-
/ derers delivered their credentials, and remained
IN that city, waiting for a favorable opportu-s
nifty. s=.s
In the meantime the Duchess of Savoy, then
! regent Of the kingdom having been informed of
the story of the lovers, placed Hortensia in
! convent, and retained Stradells in her service,
giving him a residence In the palace After
some time Stradella's fears for his safety began
TO abate; and one evening, Having ventured to
walk on the ramparts Of the town, he was at
! tackled by two rufians, who each stabbed him
, with a dagger, and fed to the house Of the
I, French ambassador, as sanctuary The
news of this assault Immediately reached tie
Duchess, who ordered the gates to be shut, and
4 demanded the assassins of the French Embas-
sador, who refused to give them up. StFadel-
las wounds, however, proved NOT to be mortal;
and the murderers were allowed to escape, in
order to put an end to the discussion as to their
z delivery to Justice. The prosecutor of this
Il. -
yenge, and continued to have them constantly
? watched by spies whom he kept at Turin.
III A year elapsed after StradeIla's cure was
COMPLETED; and no. renewal Of any attempt hay-
: ing been made, he began to think himself in
safety. The Duchess of Savoy, deeply inter
ested in the fate of the lovers; had them mar
ried in her. palace, and the prospeetof happiness
d was now hgfore them. 1t was a, deceitful pros
= peet. Stradena, having to compose an opera
for Genoa, went to that city, carrying his wife
with him. The Yenitian, informed by his'spies
7 pf this movement, and fnding'that his victims
were no longer under the pretsetiop of the
L Duchess of Savoy, dispatched murderers, who,
u watching for an opportunity, rushed into their
| chamber early one morning, and stabbed them
y to the heart in each others arms. The mur
'e derers effected their escape, and were never
more heard off, ltf -, ~ 5s.g5. .tSs sas.
~ Of this strange and melancholy story, in all
Il its PARTICULARS there seems to be no doubt All
4 y
u details which have now been given liefS ~
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eI THE GENERALS OF THE. BRITrsH ARAY.-A
5, writer in late number of the London Times,
y gives some interesting facts respecting the sem
3 Tor officers of the British army He says that
O. nine-tenths of the major generals are upwards
e of sixty years of age. Of the two hundred and
= ffty-nine full colonels, one hundred aud fifty
y nine are upwards of ninety years OF age, q
Z period of life at which an officer in the French
!, army, unless specially exempted is placed on
= the retired list; and the remaining one hundred
. full eoonels are between forty -four and sixty
" The writer states that the Duke Of Wellington
" and Napoleon we're forty Ave years Of age when
y they finished their military in the field at
~ Waterloo. The youngest major-general in the
= British army at present Groyalty excepted is
!, long past that age, and there are only two full
= colones who have not attained it.
s. GAS ~ New YORK CRY The number OF
q public lamps in New York city is 9096, and the
amount of mains, two hundred and fifty six
z miles and half The appropriation for gas
ID made by the city for, 1853, was $500. 900, OF
= Companies which supply thecity' need of light
y Each lamp costs for setting it up and keeping it
y In order, independent Of the Light, Sss.
IA FANNY FeRREsroR. --rThe iiealth of Mrs Jud
= SON (Fanny Forrester1 is still deelining Tn,
MaulSon lN.<1-) county Joufnal says I'm
Il progress of her decline, though less rapid than
e 1t was during the month Of January, has moi
Il been stayed, and we have no assurance that it
~ Will'be." - "a - az#
g A. young lady in New, York, residing in a
le sspalatial mansion in fashionable avenue
r swindled clerk of a jewelry establishment out
So Of o lot Of diamonds worth $1,000, by represent
j ing herself to be the daughter of George Law
SO She returned the jewels and was let off.
a, Aman named MUann stabbed another NAMED
in MNally, causing his death, at Cincinnati 81
le the afternoon of the 23d.4 The former accused
the latter of striking his child which was denied
L.. and led to an alteration which resulted al
e stated.
60 60 Our South Carolina and. Georgia exchanges
y ~ are filled with accounts of the great freshe
~ which has recently occurred in the rivers il
q q those States Much properly has been destroy
,o ,o ed. We however hear of no lives being lost.
Ell The Thibodaux Minerva learns that Mr.. Pi-
ere Benoit, respectable citizen living at the
Ghoupec settlement in that parish, was drowned
q in the Grand Bayou, by the upsetting of his
canoe while fishing, on the 28th ult
1 $ "