The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-10-22
Baron RO,hsclriId OutwItted.


When The Hebrew tnancier lived on STAN
ford Kill, there resided opposite to him an
other very wealthy dealer in stock exchange
named Lucas. The latter return1 one
night very Jatc, from a conviVial prrty; he
observed ri ge and four standing be.
fore Rothschild's gate, upon which lie or
dered his own carTiuge to go out Of the way,
and commanded the coaChman to await his
return. Luc1s went steadily, aud watched
unobservcd the movements at RothschiId's
gate. He did not lie long in ambush before
he heard party leaving the HEIR million.
lire'd mansion ,pnd going toward the car
riage, He saw Rothschild, accompanied by
two muffled figures, step into the carriage,
nnI heard the word Of command. "to the
city," ,..A
He followed RothschiId's carriage very
closely. But when he reached the top Of
the street in which Ro hSchiId's office wac
situated, Lucas ord, red his crriage to stop,
from which be, stepped .out,, and proceeded,
reelng to and fro, through the streets, feign.
ing to be mortulIy drunk. He made his
way IN the same mode as far as Roths.
child's Ctfice, and, sans ceremonie, opened
the door. to the great CONSERVATION and ter.
ror OF the housekerpcr, uttering sundry
d culutions. in the broken accents Of one
Of .Bucchus' votaries. Needless of the
frightened housekeeper's s rem stranccs, he
opened Roth:child's private Office, in the
snme staggering attitude, and fell down flat
on the floor. Rothschild and his friend be-.
cume greatly alarmed. Efforts were made
to restore and remove the would. be drunk,
ard, bpt Lucas was too good on actor and
to be removed hither or thither. "Should q
physician be sent for!" asked r Jthschild. -
But the housekeeper threw some cold water
ihtI Lucas face and the patient began to
breathe little more na 'urally, and he fell
into n sound, snoring sleep. He was GOV.
cred oyer, and Rothschild ard the strangers
proceeded unsuspectingy to business.
Tqis strangers brought tire good intelli
sence that the affairs in Spain were all righl
respecting which the members of the Ex.
change were, for few days previous, very
apprehensive, and the funds were, therefore
in q rapidly sinking condition. The good
news, however, could not, in the common
course of dispatch, be publicly known for
another day. Rothscbild, therefore, plan
ned to order his brokers TO buy up cautious
ly all The stock that should be in the mar
ket, by. twelve O'Clock the following day.
uc sen. for his principal broker early, in
order to trust him with the important, in
struction. The broker was rather tardier
than RslIischills patience could brook; he,
therefore, determined to 60 himself. -,
AS soon as Ro,hschid was gone, Luces
begun to re over, and by degrees was able
to get up, being distracted, he said, with .
| yiolent headache, and insisted-in spite, 0
the housekeeper's xpostuIatons-upon 20
ing home. But Lucas went to bis broker
and instructed him to buy up all the stool
he could get by ten O'Clock the following
morning. About eleven o'cloc Lucas me
Ruthschild, and inquired satjricaJly how he
RothschildnwGs off for stock Luccs Two
the duy, and Rothschid is sOid never
hive 10 given "the base, dishonest, and ne
furious st atagem." ~