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

Their oouRtys glory deareF far than life,
have fallen beneath thy folds, their last lookH bsaming
WIN pride and triumph, through the deadly strife.
hoh victims they, TO grace war Sacrifcia knife
Float on forever banner Of the bIavel
Thy stars ahs light Us on to victory
through many future field and oceans wave
Shall witness, Too, how of and Flonousy.
Our gallant tarz viii fight OF fall for Thea
Sons Of the tempest children Of the foam
Oh how they long to prove their chiyaiy,
And sigh to think that they inactive roam
beneath thy gorgeous odsproud standard Of our homsl
1a"p'eo' REQ. = ISL. BID.
| The Death of ARrippina, the Mother Of Nero
"a specimen Of translation Of Tsetus (ARnas xiv go
hat Hours with the best Authou."
Nero now hsgRn to shun an private interviews
| with ms mother; whenever she Withdrew to her
gardens, or her villa at Tuscuun or to the neigh
| borhood OF Antium, he would commend her for
seeking retirement. AT last feeling her existence
heaYy burden to him WHEREVER she might be- he
resolved TO put her to DEATH the only maierof de-
liberation. with him being whether be Should get
rld OF her by poison, by the dagger, or BY some
other violent means. His first resolve was TO take
her OF by poison. But, if poison should be given
to her at the emperor's table il could not BE- i'm
pqted to accident, for Britannicus had already per-
lshed by the same means to tamper with the at
tendants Of Agrippina appeared hazardous for her
experience In crime had made her vigilant against
treacherY, and she had fortified herself against
b9A1o0 ~ tIC itdDtG VI AahiEB dHllQOtess II Inc
dagger was employed, nobody could suggest how
the murder should be concealed and Nero feared
that, whoever was selected TO commit so great a
crime, he might refuse to obey the emperor's com
mands.
Ancetus, freedman, offered the, resources of
his Invention. He was the commander of the feet
at Mlsenum, had been engaged in the education of
Nero, and he and Agrippina hated one another.
lie told Nero that vessel nigh be so constructed
that part Of it could be detached when the vessel
afIaof and AUrinpuo inc tt,,
before she was aware Of it; that nothing gave so
many chances of accident as the sea and if Agrip-
pima should perish in the wreck, who could be so
unreasonable as to impute TO crime what was the
fault OF the wind and waves that, when AgFip-
pima was dead, the emperor could build temple
end erect affairs to her memory, and make other
demonstrations of filial affection. The device was
approved, and it was favored by the time, for
Agrlpplna was In the habit Of attending the festi
val OF the Quinquatrns at Bate. To that place
Nero luTed his mother, often declaring that sons
ought to bear the angry passions Of their parents
| and try to pacify them,' in order that he might
give rise to reports of reconciliation, and that
AgTippina might believe it, for women are easily
disposed to credit anything that pleases them. On
| her arrival he went to meet her the shore, for
| she came from Antum he took her by the hand,
| embraced her, and conducted her to Bauli. That
| was the name of a villa, which was situated be-
| tween the promontory Misenum and the lake of
Baiae, and washed by the waves of the sea, which
there forms a kind of bay.
Among the rest of the vessels one more highly
ornamented than the others was lying there as If
this also were designed to do honor 70 his mother
| for she had been accustomed to sail in trireme
| and have body of rowsrs belonging to the fleet.
/ She was also invited to banquet. that advantage
might be taken of the night to conceal the crime,
Il is well ascertained that some one betrayed the
| treacheruus design Of Nero and Aglippina being
informed Of it, and doubtful whether to give credit
TO 1t or not, was carried to Bai@ in q litter. The
| Establishments of her son removed her fears. She
| was kindly received, and had place at table a.
| signed to her above Nero Sometimes adoptiDg
| the ordinary familiarity Of youth, and then as
Stunning more serious air, if his purpose was 10
mlngle business and pleasure, Nero prolonged the
| entertainment by varied conversation and, when
| Agrlpplna rose to 60 away, he accompanied her to
tile sea-shore keeping his eyes steadily fixed upon
her, and pressing TO her BOSOM either to ill up the
measure of his stimulation, or it may be that the
| last sight of a mother who was going to death abb
soroed all the thoughts of his mind brutal though
he was.
The gods had given a starlight night and a tran
gull sea, as if to furnish evidence of the crime
Tine ship had mot advanced far, with two of the
intimate friends of AgFippina who accompanied
her, CrepeTeius Galius, who was standing not far
from the helm, and Acerrona, who was living at
the tset of her mistress, and joyfully speaking of
the change in NerOs temper and his reconciliation
| WIN hls4nother, when, on signal being given,
the roof of the place, which was loaded with lead
tumbled down, and CrepeFeus was Immediately
| SluS4Ou " uCdtls ABfIpplDd ana AeerF0Dla were
protected by the sides Of the chamber which hap.
pened to be strong enough to resist the weight nor
did the vessel fall i'll pieces, for most of the men on
| board We're IN a state of alarm and those who
were unacqualnted with the design land they were
| the greater parD impeded the movements Of those
who We're privy to it. The rowers advised that the
vessel should be thrown on one side and thus sunk
| But neither could the rowers promptly come to an
| agreement about such q measure at the moment,
| and the rest by resisting it allowed Aerppina and
/ her attendant fall In II,
| While Acerronia, who lost her presence of mind,
| was calling out that she was Agrippina and i'm
ploring help for tine EmpeFors mother, she was dis
patched with boat-polss and oars, and other naval
| implements which CHANGED to be in the way.
Agrippina kept silent, and was consequently not so
| we'll recognized, but yet she received one wound
| on her shoulder. She swam till she fell in with
| some boats, by which she was conveyed into the
| Lucrlne Lake, and thence TO her own villa There
turning over i'll her mind The various circumstances
that It was expressly for this purpose that she had
been invited by the treacherOus letters and treated
| with particular distinction; that it was near the
shore, without being driven by the winds or dashed
against the rocks that the upper part of the vessel
had talenn just any construction on land might
nave done; considering TOO the death of Acerr0nia
| ana casting her eyes on her own wounds reflect
ing that the only protection against treachery was
TO affect not TO see itshe sent her freedman Ana
rinus, to tell her son that, by the blessing Of The
gods and her own good fortune, she had ESCAPED a
gTieVous accident she Rntrsated him. however
alarmed ne might be at his mothers danger to de-
ier Inc trouble OF paying her a visit. In the mean
time, assuming an appearance Of being perfectly AZ
ease, she dressed her wound, and used warm appli
cations TO her body She ordered the testament of
AceHonia to be sought for, and her goods to be
sealed; IN tins alone there was no stimulation
Nero, who was waiting foEthe news of tbe com.
pleton OF this crime, received intelligence that
AgriPPina has escaped with no further injury than
slight blow: she had just been in danger enough
to leave no doubt in her mind who had planned il
Haltdead with terror, and crying out that his
mother might be expected every moment, eager for
revenge: that she would either arm the slaves or
lntame the soldiers, or make her way to the senate
and people, and urge against him the wreck of the
vessel, her wound, and the death Of her friends
what protection had he against her, if Seneca and
| Burrus could not devise something and he inme-
diately sent for them Il is doubtful whether thew
were already acquainted with his designs Both