Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-03-27

stantinople when the fact of his arrest is known,
and will come shaking the Ottoman Porte
to its foundations than the throne of Louis Ma
poleOn.
The charge upon which NJ Mires was arrested
is not that OF forgery, SO far as can learn; his
ofense, to give it mild name, is that of swind-
ling; the French term is eScrOquerie. As keeper
of He money of all the railroad companies
of France, money on which he was authorized
TO speculate in order to increase the dividends
of the companies, he had deposited in the bank
of France a sum of 80 900 900 francs, and this
sum he has managed by some means to cheat
thebank and the railroad treasury out of. Va
rious delays were given him by the bank, and
threats of exposing his frauds were made, but to
no effect; and it was the MANAGING attitude of
the bank which forced the Government to take
steps in the matter. This money belonged to
the stockholders in the various railroad COM
panies, and will be lost as well to them probably
as TO the bank of France; but these are not the
only losses the public will sustain in the frauds
and failure of NJ Mires. In all the industrial
enterprises in which he was engaged there will,
perhaps, be heavy losses.
In the management of the combined railroad
treasury, NJ. Mires had joined to him four cOun
seloF as a committee of surveillance. OF these
the Baron de Richemont, receiver of the taxes
of .fsaris, was one. NJ. Mres arrested
SuEday, and the Baron de RichmOp,. died sud
denly, it was said, of apoplexy, on Monday. But
the fact is he blew his brains out with pistOl-at
least, SO it is said by every one. (The papers of
Paris, should have mentioned, have not pub
lished word of the Mires affairs, the law here
being very severe on any publication made be-
fore cOnyction.) The three other cOunSeOrs of
NJ Mires, of whom NJ. Ozanam. charged with the
La toilette speculation, WAS one, have taken to
flight. They are all supposed to be implicated in
the frauds.
need not tell YOU that in Catholic countries a
man who commits suicide is refused a christian
burial 1t is therefore. the custom among the
rich, when such catastrophe falls upon family,
either to attempt to deceive the world and the
church in the real cause of death, so as to gain
admission to the church, or else to buy with
large sum of money, from the church, the rites of
burial they would not otherwise obtain. Within
year, Il rich negociant in the same house in which
| live, committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, an event which was perfectly
well known to all the people of the house The
papers published that he died of apopexy, and
his widow gave $4,000 to the church to obtain a
christian burial
Six months ago NJ Mires married his only
daughter to the young Prince de Polignac to
whom he gave as marriage portion 500 ,000-
1000 900 francs The Prince is the Youngest of
the sons of the Minister of Charlie; Y. all of
whom were authorized by that monarch to belr
the tile of Prince. He is the same that went
out to Nicaragua two years ago with NJ. Belly,
and was charged with the military department of
that celebrated expedition. A report having got
into circulation, since the incarceration of NJ.
Mires, that he had made over to his sOn-iE law,
in provision of what was going to happen, large
proportion of bis fortune the Prince has gone to
the Count de Germini, President of the Bank of
France, and charged Professionally with the direc-
ton of the railroad treasury in place of NJ Mres,
and offered to give up to the railway companies
the marriage portion of his wife and all the dia-
monds and other presents which accompanied 1t.
The act is a noble one on the part of the Prince
and his wife, but they in no way implicated
in the transactions of the father, and the marriage
gift was paid over at the time of the marriage. il
is to be supposed that the offer will be refused,
it ought to be.