New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-24
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The absurd rumor disseminated by New York
paper to the effect that Albert W. Hicks, who WAS
I executed at Bedsoes Island ON the 18th OF July
| last had been revived and was now living ~
| Poughkeepsie, affords to the New YORK evening
Post opportunity to recall similar instances ui
| popular crednlity, some of which relate to ms
| torieal personages. .,,.;
| 1t is curious fact in modern history that hotor-
Gus or distinguished personages nay ~ "a
brought to lite in popular belief atter thes hau
died or been executed. Our readers VIII az once
recall the stories that are told by roman writers o.
| the resurrection of the tyrant Nero after ne had
been killed. Nero, in spite OF ms enormous wees
and tvrapaies was in great favor with the Roman
| rabhie He was also much liked in the provincial
and rural districts where his fierce wars upon the
! central aristocracy had rendered him taverite.
When the reports were spread of his horrible death
many refused to heliaye and it was not long sub
seauent TO the event that another Nero appeared
| in the East, and obtained great many followers.
| They who had seen the original Nero. il is said
were induced to believe in the identity OF the new
pretender.
In the same way JEANNE Dare, or Joan Of Arc,
AZ she Is commonly but enormously called, reap.
peared after her pathetic execution by the blgots
Of Rheims. Hundreds of persons-prleSts soldiers
and populaee--had witnessed that execution;
they had seen her tied to the stake they had seen
the wood kindled about her; they had seen the
soldier give her stick to form q cross; they had
heard her last prayers and they had seen her
body shriveled by the consuming heat, Yet she
was scarcely buried when smother JEANNE assert
ed her claims the genuine martyr, IN the east
eFH parts of France. III the excited state OF the
| popular Imagination the claims were believed by
many, and the spurious maiden received the hon
ors and attention that would have been given to
the real virgin, the savior of Orleans.
When the two princes were murdered in the
| Tower of London, by the order, it was supposed
| OF the Duke of Gloucester afterward Richard LII
Of England, there were numerous dynastic party in
terests which made il important to spread abroad
the report that one of these Edward, Duke OF or
tfsl +ta Gppt1 tKuas YtynT
/ out that he had been rescued and carried away
secretly into Scotland.
4 An individual named Perkn, or Peter Warbeck,
| was procured to personate the defunct. He came
| to England and laid claims to the crown. Mar
/ garet, Duchess of Burgundy the aunt of the
/ murdered princes who must have known them as
/ intimately as she knew her own children, main
I tanned the identity of Warbeck with the young
4 Duke of York. Hundreds of Others who knew
4 Edward familiarity, and who must have seen him a
thousand times at the Court Of his father, Edward
w., testified to the same effect; and large party
was formed to assert by his pretentions to the
4 throne Landing in Carnival, he was joined by
4 powerful body of insurgents. He besieged the
| town of Exeter, but when the army of Henry VII.
I came against him, his courage deserted him, and
he fled to the sanctuary of Beaulieu Abbey. False
promises of pardon however, induced him to leave
his retreat and he was then seized, carried to the
4 tower, and hanged, drawn and quartered. Henry
4 VII. published confession which this youth was
I said TO have made, in which he gave his name as
i Warbeck, or 0sbec and said he was the son of a
i converted jew OF Tourney; yet for a long time his
4 story was believed, and down to late period
| historians grayely argued its probability The
finding Of the bones OF the murdered Prince, buried
somewhere near the steps Of the tower, finally put
/ an end TO speculations on the subject.
Il Another instance quite as remarkable as this
came to light in Russia during the sixteenth cen
4 fury. young son OF Ivan, the Terrible, during
| the reign of his elder brother, Feder was put to
1 death in the town Of Ugtch. He was found in
his blood, ana the knife with which he had been
playing in his throat. His murderers were pointed
il out by his mother, and the populace of the town
i inflicted fierce revenge upon them; but ample
/ testimony was adduced by others to show that De-
4 metrius, for that was the Princes name, died by
i accident While the conflicting reports were yet
| circulating, person appeared in Luthianda who
asserted that he was the young Prince, that he had
escaped the hands of assassins and that he desired
the restoration Of his name and rights. Many of
the most distinguished Polish mobiles espoused his
cause, the Palatine Of SandOmir gave him his
daughter in marriage, an expedition against Mos
COW set foot by his followers, the strongest
cities voluntarily opened their gates to him. he
Ivanquished some of the leading Russian generals,
and he entered the city In triumph. He was finally
crowned, amid the accamations Of the people, as
4 the Gar of Russia.
\ The mother Of the murdered Prince &C.
4 knoWledged the identity of the new Gar and her
lost son; he reigned in peace for years, when
his Irregularities provoked the people. and he was
! butchered in moment of insurreetionary fury.
The origin OF this false Demetrus is still involved
4 in the greatest obscurity.
Our readers viii readily recall the numerous at
\ tempts that have been made to produce the young
4 Louis XVII. the Dauphin, who died of his suffer
i ings in the Temple All Paris The lannon's discus
sion, Have we Bourbon among US n in which
the claims Of an adopted st. Regis Indian, Eeazer
Williams whom many Of us have seen, were pre-
scented with remarkable snbtlety and force, has
made the story widely known in this country. But
4 long before Williams was brought forward as the
| Dauphin, others had laid claims to the honor. At
least three dauphins were proven by the most
i imposing array Of testimony. Books have been
/ filled with debates. Even to this day there are
4 hundreds Of Frenchmen, learned men, too who
firmly believe that Louis the Seventeenth is lurking
among men, ready at some opportune moment to
! upset Louis Napoleon, the Count of Paris, Henry
| ", and all the rest of the royal pretenders.
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