New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-18
NUMBER lis.
The Assasslnations In Japan.

neht, Is one giving detahed account Of the late
assassination Of Prince Go-tairo, Prince Regent of
Japan: .-~N.7oa@
fNr. Aicocs Lord John Fussell-Received june st,l
JEpDo, April 2, 1s6o.--My Lord--on the morning
of the oath Of March, as the Gotairo, or Regent
was on his way to the Tycoon's castle, surrounded
by his retiDue, a band of seventeen men made
sudden attack upon the cOrt9ge intending to slay
him in his norrimon. They did not succeed, it
appears; but there il something SO Illustrative Of
the state of The country, the times and the people
ia the whole affair, that a sh9rt account Of the
details will not be without interest
None but the most determined men, willing to
sacrifice their lives chad the largest number given
been doubled) could have vent6red on such q des-
perate enterprise. They do not seem, however, to
have omitted anything calculated either to ensure
snccess in their object their own escape after
wards. As regards the llan of attack the choice
Of time. place etc, strategic skill was shown
The morning selected was wet and black alter
Hately showing and raining heavily, from which
they derived double advantage. Their adverse
ries were all hanpered by rain.coats and water
proofs, ilprepared to their arms, while they
themselves were enabled to conceal beneath the
same ample vcstments their equipments and coats
of mail, and approach close without giving rise to
suspicion. The distance to be trayersed was so
short, they were limited to choice of place, for
the Go-tai-ro's mansion stands gentle aecliv
ity, five hundred PAGES from the bridge and gate
leading to the Tycoon's palace: and a broad road
between the house and the bridge lies along the
edge of the great moat.
A
deboaches On the bridge coming from the city, at
the angie where the roads meet, and here they
made their attack, one Of their number pretending
to thrust himself between the advanced guards
and the norrimon which bore the Regent. Those
immediately about his person on each side rushed
to the front, when the rest of the conspirators,
proitng by the confusion. and throwing on their
| ran-cloaks, discovered themselves armed to the
| teeth in coats of mall and made a dash at the
norrimon, severing the hands of some of the
| bearers at a blow, and making desperate thrnsts
through the sides of the vehicle in which the Co.
| taro was seated. Several of the attendants were
cut down: two of the assailants killed the
| spot. While the melee continued some officers
| from the adjoining Damio's house, seeing. the
danger Of the Go taro, rushed out, and snatehing
/ the norman up in their arms bore it away, and
| thus rescued its occupant from His perous posi-
tion-net, however, before he had received several
| severe wounds.
The attacking party seeing all was lost and over
| powered by numbers, took to fight. One being
| too badly wounded to make good his escape, after
short effort, his companions instantly struck of
his head and one of them ran off with it, so that
living or dead, Its owner might tell no tales This
man was only arrested at some distance and after
| he had dashed through gateway across the road.
His flight cost the officer in charge of the gate his
life, he ordered the next day to perform the
/ harikri,n and dispatch himself, the penalty of
| his inefficient guard. The Damio, also, whose of
fee it is to guard the bridge and gate which lead to
the Tycoon's and whose house is situated just at
| the angle, has been imprisoned within his own
walls ana to-day, as FOue past, saw MS gateway
| boarded up. He is not even allowed to cook any
food but under cover of the night, his people are
said to be allowed to find means of saving him and
/ his family from dying of starvation.
From this rapid history of the affair in its leading
| circumstances, it will be seen that such event
is we'll calculated to give rise to serious reflections
as to the state of the country. So far as have the
means of Judging, it has created profound sensa
ton among the ruling powers. All the gates oil
the city closed last night; large increase to
the number of police and officers attached to each
| of the legations instantly made, with briei
| verbal ntimation that they were anxious for our
safety. / had only just arrived from Yokuhama
| the morning of the attack, having left both my
| colleagues there after our consultations on the
spot as to the distribution Of land. Since then
| gates fences, and guard houses have sprung up in
various directions about the legations and in the
i city.
/ On the third day after the event the Minister Of
4 Foreign Affairs sent two of the governors to give
me official information of the scantfest kind, and
| that in some degree extortea, to the purport thai
| an attack mad been made. Several of the assa
ants had been seized, and they were in hot pursuit
after the remainder, who certainly could not long
escape, since in their hands they held the means
(by torture was implied, but not eXpressed) o
gaining all needfu information. Two Of those wht
fled, it is reported, finding their pursuers gaining
upon them, deliberately stopped, and laying bart
the abdomen, performed the g hari-kri,n it bein.
a point of honor never to interrupt or interfere
even for the ends of justice with a man SO honor
| ably engaged.
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empire, aitef tie Mlkado ana Iyeooh, close X
ms M own fesldehce, on the great h1ghWay of tht
oilcal anu ihoated quarter, surrounded by hiS OWL
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Pa ay1d n is sold tbey arc n,au to nsn,ract;n,
among the followers The old Prince, soon afte
the death of the late tycoon was deposed for Mot
ting against the Young tycoon and his son a mai
i about forty was installed in his plaee-such beina
the usual practice when the head of a house fall.
into disgrace,
/ We appear in the Isles of Japan, then, to be
transported back to Europe in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, OF still earlier, when feuda
princes and mobiles lived surrounded by armed re
taiuers, raised their own levies and waged war or
each other or their suzerain as passion or interes
might suggest-chiefs who had settled their owl
feuds by qttetapels for the assassination by thei
followers Of an obnoxious riyal-the times of en-
own Richards and Henrys of Francis T.. iii,
Charles and Henrys OF France, or the Guelphs an,
Ghibelines of italy,
Tba nnaetion which 6rst s,,reests itsa,f q, i ,o
,,;n,g of tIa e. 40 L. o,,a f nra,.a ;,,nrtanno