Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-15

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Ig The telegraph hes alreadE ~announced the
extensive fIsnda Of Mirea Ad french
banker, ard fho Paris correspondent o. tha
New York Times gives these interesting
particulars in his 1atisf dated February ~:
The final crash arrived on Sunday last
thanks 20 the honest NJ determined efforts
OF the Minister Of the Interior. So closely
were the people about the Emperors per.
son-for example, the Count de Monty,
Count Walewski and Cen Fieury-reported
70 be in league with M. Mifes, that Il seems
majority ofthe Cabinet were in favor Of COW
efing the affair up, Ia order 70 avoid the
scandal. Mires himself wrote a letter 10 the
Rmperor. threatening that III he were driven
TO the wall, he would make such exposure AZ
would shake His Msjesty's throne to It's
foundation. But N. de Fersign3y, with An
upriehtness which entities him TO the grati-
tnde of the nation, declared that scandal or
no scandal, Justice must be done; and the
Emperor coincidinR in this view Of the case,
il was decided that the course of NJ. Mires
should be cut short and his atiairs tnvesti-
gated. He was arrested on Sunday, and At
first carried tot the Prison Of the Conclergerie
but there being no secret chambers there, he
was transferred the same day TO the Prison
Mazas, where he Is closely guarded and from
whence ii will be difficult to attack the
throne for the present. r
In ls4s n. Mires lived Ia q garret-in other
words he was a pcoR man. bqt ne 10 Anew
and a shrewd man, and with the natural
money. making instincts Of his race, saw the
revolution was the favorable moment for q
man like himself to fan into the current Of
public affairs, and TO see whether fortune
was not in his favor. HIS first essay was In
the then deprecated Government stocksi
this succeeded, and he went on from one
successful com 10 ANOTHER, until IN 1880 NJ.
NiTes had arrived at the head'of 6O'OOo,9OO
francs. and had become q great rival, and we
may add torment;t to M. de Rothschild. He
was Director-General Of the combined treas
ury of the French Railway C~oHpanies apo
sition in which he YVES intrusted with hun
drsds of millions OF money belonging to
others; he was the founder and head OF the
great dock improvement at Mersefles,
known as La JoGstBS he owned and man
aged for himself and others an immenso
amount of the best pSJing property in Paris
and he lately made a grand coup In tae aifsLr
of the Ottoman Loan-a coup which viii
create CONSERVATION at ConstsntinOple when
the fact Of his arrest is known, and viii
nearer shaking the Ottoman Porte 70 Its
foundations than the thEone Of Louis Napo-
leon.
rested is not that Of forgery, 30 far as l can
learn his %ofense, to give it a mild name, Is
that of swindling the French term is eseyO-
queyie. As keeper Of the money OF all the
Fsiiresd companies of Frsnee, money on
which he was authorized to speculate I'M
order to increase the dividends Of the ON
panies, he had deposited in the Bank of.
France a sum Of 30, 900, 900 francs, and this
sum he has managed by some means to
cheat the Bank and his Railroad Treasury
out of. Various delays we're given him by
the Bank, and threats Of exposing his frauds
were made, but TO no effect; andft was the
Nn.zno.u- .A&.t,aa sc kIa napL rwkfrfY fnr~a1
the Governmental take steps in the matter.
This money belonged 70 the stockholders in
the various railroad companies, and will De
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 rail-
road treasury, NJ. Mires had joined to him
four couDselors as q Committee of Surveil-
ance. OF these the Baron de Richemonk
Receiver of the Taxes of Paris, was one.
M. Mires was arrested on Sunday, aud the
Baron de Richemont died suddenly, it was
said, of apoplexy, or Monday But the fact
is, he blew his brains out with q pistol-at
least, so it is said by every one. (pie papers
of Paris, ! should have mentioned, have not
published a word on the Mires affair, the
law here being very severe on any pUblica-
ton made before convietien.) The three
other counselors of M Mires, of whom NJ.
OZanam, charged with the La toilette speca-
latiop, was one, have taken to flight. They
are all supposed to be implicated in the
frauds. -.l
l need not tell you that in Catholic
countries a man who commits suicide Is
refused a Christian burial. 1t is, therefore,
the bustom among the rich, when such a
catastrophe falls upon O family, either to
tempt to deceive the world'andthe church
n the real cause of death, so as to gam
Omission to the church, or else to buy, with
large sum of money, from the church, the
ties of burial they could not otherwise
obtain. Within the year, q rich negocidRt in
the same house in which L 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 spoplexy,
and his widow gave $4,000 to the church 70
obtain a Christian burial.
Six months ago M. Mires married his only
daughter to the young Prince de PolignRc,
TO whom he gave, as a marriage portion,
$500, OOO-2, 000,0 900 francs. The Prince Il
the youngest of the sons of the Minister of
Charles X, all of whom were anthorized.by
that monarch to bear the title 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. Airport having
got into circulation, since the incarceration
of NJ. Mires, that he had made over to. his
son-in-law, in provision of what was going
to happen, q large proportion of his fortune,
the Prince has gone to the Count de Ger
mini, President of the Bank of France, and
charged Professionally with the direction of
the railroad treasury in place pm. Miree, and
offered TO give up to the railway companies
the marriage portion of his wife aud alliths
diamonds and other presents which accom-
panied it. The act is a noble one on the
are 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, as it