The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-08-07

OF WINTER, tne OLD emperor, hardy, vete-
ran soldier, flushed with hopes Of victory,
pursued his march through Greece and
Asia Minor, until he reached the frontiers
of Rersia. He encamped his army on an
feminence which overlooked the broad and
fertile plains which sweep eastward be-
|yond the mountains of Kurdistan. The
Persian monarch, alarmed at the approach
of force SO formidable, sent an ambassa-
dor to the Roman camp to negotiate, if
possible, terms Of peace. The ENJOYS en-
tered the camp about sunset. The SOL
diers were seated upon the grass eating
their evening meal A soldier led them
TO the presence of the emperor. Accus-
toned as they were to the magnifcence Of
Oriental courts, they could not repress
their astonishment, when they found the
royalty of Rome represented by a bald
headed old man, seated on the ground,
dressed in coarse woollen garment of
purple dye, and eating his supper Of cold
bacon and peas.
The soul Of Carus was imperial, or rath-
er imperious, in the extreme. He de-
manded the immediate and unconditional
rendition of homage by Persia to Rome,
as the mistress Of the world. The direst
vengeance was threatened if the demand
were not complied with. The ambassa-
dors, trembling, retired to communicate
the message to their sovereign. Carus
was not a man to threaten and not per.
form. On the crested bilow of prosperi-
ty be movedsforward, sweeping all autago-
nism before him. He crossed the Tigris,
took city after city, and was in the full
career of the most exutant victory, when
death, that messenger whom all must obey,
summoned the war-worn captain to the
spirit land. .,st ale. ,ai 5u.
AS usual, death came to the emperor in
the form of assassination. 1t was the
night of Christmas, A. d. 2S3. "A. fear
full tempest arose. The mutineers, as the
was blazing along the sky, and
thunder peals shook the camp, rushed upon
Carus, sleeping in his tent, murdered him,
and set fire to theStent and all its contents
and burned his body to ashes. The fol
lowing is the account of the transaction
which the Emperor's private. secretary
sent to Carinus at Rome: Te 7"-t p
"Carus, 'our dearest emperor, was con-
fined by sickness to his bed, when fu-
rious tempest arose in the camp. The
darkness which oversprcad the sky was so
thick, that We could no longer distinguish
each other; and the incessant flashes of
lightning took from us the knowledge of
all that passed in the general confusion.
Immediately after the most violent clap of
thunder, we heard;a sudden cry that the
emperor was dead and it soon appeared
that his scEamberlains, in rage of grief,
had set fire to- the royal pavilion, a cir
cum Stance which gave rise to the report
that be was killed by lightning. But as
far as we have been able to- investigate
the truth, his death was the natural effect
Owls 'disorder2 ' II
TheRonian legions, who, in the gene
raj degeneracy Of the time, had begunlto
lose their warlike character, were alarmed
in view Of their great distance from home,
and were appalled, in view Of the still
greater perils which mehaeed them in the
unknown realms into which Carus was
about to lead them. These fears doubt
less led to his assassination. They now
demanded that N unerian, who succeeded
his father in the. army, should conduct
them back to italy; Numeriah was .