Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-26
VINCENT NOLTE, THE GREAT COTTON
SPECULAT0R.

Vincent Nullc, the great Spectator, fnancier
and traveller, was born in Leghorn, November
2lSt, 1893, and II, consequently, now in his seven
ty-fifth year. His father, though n native of Ham
Gurg and educated in England, had followed the
mercantile business for thirty years in Italy, in
connection, us clerk or partner, with the firm Of
Otto Franck & Co., Of Leghorn. After enjoying
the private instruction Of Professor C.. T. llipp,
young Nolte entered, in 1875, the counting-room
eff his father, but in the latter part Of 1877 he re-
moved to Hamburg, soiourning there until his de-
parture for Paris in lSUi, when Napoleon was in
tie full flush Of his success. In the same year
Nolte became acquainted with the house of La
bouchere and Truteau, at Nantes, for the extension
of whose business lie subsequently proceeded to
the United States. About this time he also he
came interested in the projects Of the celebrated
French banker, e. J. Ouyrard, whose remarkable
financial adventures occupy a considerable portion
Of the work before US.
This production, entitled Fifty Years in Both
lIcmiSrhercS," finished NY the author at nanburg,
in his seventy fourth year, has been translated
from the German and just published for Rcdfeld,
of this city. 1t is a vivid chronicle Of varied and
remarkable experiences. and Will serve to rectify
the errors which too often pass among men as YER
table history. But perhaps the character of these
memoirs cannot he better described than in the
preface by the translator:
His book processes to give tho history Of fifty
years, but the reader will find that it embraces
seventy, and makes him acquainted with half the
people III the world. In Europe and America, let
him wander where he would, he never Of late years
failed to find an old acquaintance. Men recognis-
ed him through the dust clouds of Odessa, as in
the bar-rooms Of Natchez-undcr-the-llill. Napol-
con, at the age Of 81, examined him. Victoria
has given him private audiences. He watched the
rise and fall Of Louis Philippe, after witnessing
the accomplishment of the catastrophe of the Res
~toration. lie has dofted his hat to Ferdinand OF
Austria, in Trieste, and shaken hands with the
savage kings west of the Mississippi.
lie was a German citizen of TIE United States,
born in Italy, and lived all over. lie built fat
boats at Pittsburgh for the navigation Of the Ohio,
and shouted among the crowd who chcered Robert
Fulton'S steamboat as she first started from the
wharf ut New York. He has been wrecked off
the coast Of Florida, and imprisoned in the Queens
Bench, at London. lie was suspected of having
the plague at Malta, and had the yellow fever in
New Orleans. lie peeped into the crater Of Etna,
and was shaken by the earthquake at Louisville
Napoleon's whole career and Aaron BuIr's con-
spiracy are made a couple Of items in his eXtrdor-
binary existence.
This Yankee cotton Spectator arranged the con-
version Of Il loan for his holiness the Pope. This
confidential adviser of the Austrian premier Won
kucbeck was a soldier of General jackson ut the
battle Of New Orleans. This commissary Of Louis
Philippe and Duke Charles Of Brunswick was the
intimate friend Of the republican LAFAYETTE. This
y "a NV OppId Hiilo " u ililiAitu n NiN
plans Of Nicholas Biddlc. This handler and pos
SCISSOR Of untold thousands, Of millions of money,
led on bread and cheese in Venice; and to get
even that much, translated some English title,
deeds for the monks Of San Lorenzo,
The very names in this volume are wonderful
Kings, Emperors, Presidents and Popcs jostle
each other through its pages. Poets and painters
are criticised and gossipped about-Chantrey and
Nollekens, Delaroche and DelacroiX, Nerly and
Landseer. Now you have a story of Goethe, and
again an anecdote of ChateauLriand Byron and
Lamartine, kotzebue and Cooper come quite famil
iarly to the tip OF his pen. and when tired of tell
ing what he knows about these, lie writes verses
himself verses Of great mediocrity.
One of the richest Of moderlt merchants and
most daring of spectators, he yet never neglected
his love for art nor his talent with the crayon
When his commercial greatness had eliminated
and waned, he became everything by turns-cuIn
missary for arms and provisions; agent for Il ma
chine TO engrave circular lines; editor Of the littl,
free port newspaper of Hamburg; political squib
writer in the United States clerk in Il third-clas.
house Of business translator Of manuscript fol-
Italian friars.
!, Vain, amusing, garrulOus, scandulous old fellow
{ with the dryest common sense, that is not to BIT
tricked; with the keenest eye for Il defect, either il
, person or character, and a bitter or comic humot
to help him in describing it. Mr.. Vincent Nolt,
0 presents to our eye one Of the most curious life
4 panoramas that it is possible to sec.
s You must take his personalities, especially abou
: people here, come 9JdltO sails, lie seldom looks Il
. the bright side Of a character, and dearly loves
+ he coniesses it-a bit Of scandal. But he paint
e well, describes well, seizes characteristics whicl
d make clear to the reader the nature of the ma
al Union, fhau illnStratn " l. -