New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-12
GA1xBLING-.Irs CoNsEoUENcEs.

But how can We help ourselves!
GAMBLING ms CoNSEQUENgEs.
Le Marquis angelo Foscarini was the last Of hi
nhme and title2-0ne Of the Oldest in Naples HI
had bean travelling for his health for the last thre
years. whsn his physicians recommended Diepp,
tohin, as al other places had failed In restoring
his sksengfh. This occurred in the month Of July
noy41 few years aince. ~
Bis daughter accompanied him: the most beau
afalei lkaly,s dsughters, where there are 30 many
competitors Tor the prize Of lDveliness
Olympia was an only child yet the MARQUIS haS
been married four times.
Deypured BY ambition and pride, he could no
even tom her conceal his annoyance about hel
sex for nov bis name, which had been handed
down Il the direct line for four centuries Eoulf
perish With hinlseK He would freely have giver
~ immense fortune twice over, bis life, his ckdt
s.os ell; g nave possessed son who would hand
dow nm nzme % posterity
A7saxfy pc was the widoWar Of two Roman la
ueHef high descent, and of d German princess
- HA three had died without his wish being ac.
complsnen. He Was old now, and worn ~ The
infrisues Of place and ambition. He felt himself
&olaEs death stood before him every moment more
vlsfbly, and TO try and conceal Che painful act
rom nls view, this last Of the Foscarni endeavored
M gs.sass and pleasures to crown himself with
rampant Of debaucheries, orgies and gambling be
4nMK nlllIuns aNay. and when, by accident, d
tnelkhf st bus child came across him, It was in Bit
A woman 4 Mpmani' III be exclaimed. .sThere
M! always remain sufficient fortune for her, a
enlid a. eizhteenl What wonld she do with ali INV
pa.seess slle would be afffighted by the heaps Of
gold which had accumulated for SON! on. on:
let ns amnse ourselves while we may shall. per.
hApss din Tomorrow 4, ~
Olympia knew why her father lived thus. He
Ma set sPare n. her TIE knowledge Of why he 50
reS<zeHa without pity towards her, not caring for
how mach be panied her heart, he was constantly
felEo6chIng her as the cause of all. Gursiisg her
eIds hef dead mother, he cared not how much she,
wno se tsnaerly loved him, beheld the unsightiy
wounds of his ambitious heart and when he saw
Der e te*rs, hls nnly resource was to leave her
apua u weep ii the bftferesf sorrow child might
krssxfs aTizing from Il fathers cruelty. Ana Vel
k9scaTfHJ loved his daughter, net as father sho,1Id
hAye done. but as something belonging to himself
as some thing beautiful the most exquisite of his
possessions, handsome piece of farnitura--his
o. Ihas Mas Ile reason why he always kept
and refused her hand in marriage To the realthiest
mobiles of Austria aud Italy.
ssy with me- he said Y I want 10 have you
near ne: You can marry whep I'm dead.,'
MAsn hss Iererish nights of excitement had PAS |
Sod broken down and trembling from iebauch
Of vine and gambling he was in the habit of GO |
ing NJ thE baths, Or seeking In the wave renewal
Of sgBr 70 pursue an existence capable Of killing
atre1g man Of twenty, and yet he was too unhappy |
10 ysllnaulah tho excitement.
One day he endeavored to battle alone without I
iii Aftendant, when the tide Mas coming in !; but
weaker then usual, he was carried away, and then
Aung in fainting state upon the beach. The next
WAvo VAS taking hira away to certain destruction
when young man, who was bathing SWAN to biz
senseless form, and bore him to land in safety.
When Foscarini opened his eyes, he turned to
thagk the one who had saved him, and, to his an
noyance, recognised an officer from Trabans, whom
he had met at the baths Of Fyrmont and at Vienna
and whose aasiduities towards Olympia had given
him much uneasiuess. lz5zsk
a few words of cold thanks and politeness were
exchanged, and the young German asked permits
sion 70 call sometimes at the marquis hotel.
He was fgigidly told that be might do So
At the end of month the Marquis and Stephen |
had become inseparable.
Silt niadig ID love with Olympia, tie latter was.
however, too clever this time to manifest it so
opsaly ~ be had done at Pyrmont. He allowed
BE spoke to Olympia without turning pale, and,
with perfect ease Of manner, addressed few COM
mDnplzce compliments to her to which she replied
IN the same Indifferent tone
&nte blinded the old man u1suspiciousfy Welded /
hizeseM into the Others hands Tie made him his I
companion and gcnfaant, and raised the curtain |
pSiore ham which had concealed all his past life |
and revealed the horrors which had been hidden |
beneath Inc Hpiendor and garlands of his fetes |
Stephens however, knew IT already; Olympia had
ccnceaied nothing from him. For two whole
years he hAd followed in the track Of Foscarni
and hiH daughter. Thus Stephen passed almost
every night at the Marquis; and to meet Iii
tastes, and, At the same time, If possible, keep
him from going among strangers, he became
seeming gambler, to restrain the real one.
During q month, he had played away all the
money BE possessed about him and ali he could
borrow, and he more he lost, the better Fosearini
loved him f0rgt the Marquis knew no happiness but
II dice go pleasure save in winning.
but luck changed.
The Margui had q passion for a sort Of loo called
bouillotta, which Stephen affected to like equally
well Il had already cost him ten thousand fouis
when one evening ha arrived at the Marquis half
an hor earlier than usual with the last fifty louis
hs6onh then command il the world, and firmly
reeolyed that If be lost them, he would no longer
caxFy on the fearful game he had been playing,
hut ~ once throw oH the mask Of Hypocrisy and,
demanding Olympia again in marriage from her
ftther, endeavor by other means to win him from
hls love Of gambling. If she were refused to him.
BIZ felt ell the desperation would ssize upon him
Elca was natural e young pan ike himself
Fosearini and Stephen we're seated opposite e
each other. AT their loo table there were Pari
sian banker, an English naval officer and two
planters from the Havana. Stakes were immense
Stephen commenced by ten louis, then ten more
again the same, and then same. All were lost II,
trembled. Foscarin laughed at the smallness O
the stakes. Mith s hand which appeared instinct
lively To draw back, Stephen placed his last tel
Ionis before him; he held three deuces in his hand
and gained hundred louis from the Parisial
banker.
At ave in the morning he had won two hnndrel
Thousand piastres, tho banker eighty-four tho,
sand, TIE naval officer twenty thousand, and til
other tH6 more than thirty Thousand.
III was F0scarini who had lost all that.
The gamblers drank glass Of punch, and am
exbiy gave each other rendezvous for the eys
ming
Evening came, and the play Of the one precedin
had bean that Of q child in comparison with i
4ng1l0, Marquis of Foscarini lost all that he pos
ssesed-all his palaces at Naples aud Florence d
bis villas ~ the foot Of MoHnt Yesuvius, and hi
properly IN the Campaigns at Rome; his gold, dia
mords, horses-all.
The day broke through the creyices Of the shut
urH
east y pale light which made that Of the expiring
Maxllsht of ta,e red glare which we fancy an eEna
nation of the Internal regions.
81 the six intrepid players, four Of them Iookes
" Ike statues. The immense losses Of their hoss
thc piles Of money and o us placed before theu
had petFihed them. Only two men there foun,
words af movement. These wAra Foscarini an
e,s s. aor something more whsrss to pa an +
aaa found ncthing Never before ma
fAls world saeh u I'M ~ N, man
a. iast he advanced two flaming ewes close 4, i,
noe and in low voice seemed to ran n i