Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-03-18
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The Greatest swindler Of the Age--The Finan
cial Explosion In Parls--Arrest o. M: Mires--
His liabilities Estimatsd at $l20 ,oo0, 900!
IFrom lhe London P0st, Feb. IN.

The failure of the house of M. Mires & Co.,
anticipated in my letter Of yesterday, was form
aIly announced on the B0urse at an early hour
this morning, and created; considerable excite
ment. Count de Germiny, Governor of the
| Bank of France, has been named TO liquidate
the estate. The house of Mires & Co. Is one
of those large banking establishments which have
grown up suddenly in Paris, and become identi-
fed with extensive railway contracts, foreign
loans, and domestic enterprises, on a scale which
involves many millions OF francs. M. Mires g.
Co twill beremembered, lately contracted with
the Turks new loan, which, owing to the OPP
position of the French Government and the
house Of Rothschild, was not successful in Paris.
This blow appears to have condemned the house
of M. Mres TO ruin. Before entering into an
agreement to pay the Ottoman Government a
large sum monthly, M. Mires had heavy calls
on bis bank, originating in his engagements
with Spanish and Roman railways, public works
at Marseilles, and other smaller liabilies.
Under such weight of liabilities the house
has broken up, and caused much CONSERVATION to
hundreds Of shareholders. IL Ia whispered
about that M Mireswill make some remarka
BILE revelations corcerniDg the financial trans
actions of great personages. If 90, he will
prove himself good friend of the Emperor.
hear that not only has M. Mires been put un-
der arrest, but three other gentlemen, whose
names do not care to mention, are also under
the control of the authorities The liabilities
Of the house of Mires are estimated at from
900 to 800 millions of francs; the latter amount
is equal to about $l2O, ,0O0, ,0OO;l but the fact is
no one knows at the present moment the real
condition of the estate. give you the precise
words OF the notice which was stuck up at the
Bourse touching the Mires failure; "Par ordon
1 NJ N \ m
Seine, M. le Comte de Germiny, Gouverneur
de la Bapoue de France. eat pomme Admins
trateur Proyisoire de la Caisse Generate des
Chemins de Fer, avec les pouvoirs les plus eten
dus." Quoted property In our money market
was at first much affected by M. Mires' failure,
but later IN the day Q rally took place, and the
tnree per cents eioseo sSs with an an Improvement
os .oc., w ~ Uol. <,c lIe paclnc character
ol sne hins Vi i'aiy speecn sustained prices
'oTsy.
ne raris corresp1nuen' tslp oi sne Lonoon Times,
wr,ans oa .ae ION ui' , says; ~. wires was
slaesseu sn " Iine ocioch iass nIgnt' on various
charges. ne Is 10 CUSTODY a. mazas. ulsr ru'
mo.eo tnat several persons OF standing are more
or less lmphcated 10 .ne anair, ana tpat discio-
suses, as wei, as SERIOUS Jus consequences 70 mat.
iuuals, .N are nkeiy 70 lonow. TVS 'he general
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SKETCH OF M hiREs' THE cELFbRATED PARTISAN
90 " % igsi12f10o E1ANkEhJ ~ Eld t1atA 4
The news we published yesterday and the ad-
ditional particulars given to dey Of the com
motion in the financial world Of Europe caused
BY the specalations of M. Jules Mlres, have nat.
urally enough induced an inquiry into the ante
cedents Of this remarkable speculator and fnan.
clal operator. II all the fears of the Partisan
public are Justitiable and turn out correct, the
Mires frauds VIII totally oyershadow the gigan-
TIC operations Of hudson, Redpath and others.
M. Jules Mires is OF Jewish family, and
was born at Bordeaux, In France, about the year
1906. In the year lS4e he was only merchant
broker; but after the revolution of February he
became director OF the gas company of
Aries, and was associated with M. Mil
laud, another celebrated banker, in
number OF enterprises. One of these was
the establishment OF the Railway Bank, Of
which he was the sole director in 1858. Tbev
soon after began the critical examination of the
writings OF L. Lamartne, which was published in
the COnsettteT du Ptupte, and afterwards con-