Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-12-12

Deacon Belt to steaE all the pleasantly out
of an evening party yin FIVE minutes after he
had entered a room AYE! and steal every
particle of love to God, and love to man.
from whole prayer meeting and leave in
their place only an unholly desire to pitch
Deacon Belt out of doors.
">Tell, Kesiah, after all he gives more
to the church than any other man.
"What if he does he taxes more from
it. Do you suppose that lasthundred dol
lars he put in will pay for az the heart
agony he gave poor widow Blale, by turn
ing her and her daughter out of1his pew SO
gruGiy no. Ezekiel, there are SOME people
so bluntly honest that they are nevr just
or merciful, and the thief that picks your
pockets is more true in the sight of Gods
perhaps: than they. He only takes your
cash, while the other takes the light of your
life, and the health of your spirit
''You are queer woman to talk, Kissy,"
said uncle Zcke, as he walked out under
the sugar maple before the door; maybe
you are right, but folks don't measure hon
esty just that way, nowadays"
pity they don't" muttefed the good
woman to herself, as her hand few back and
forth. There is many an honest man and
woman | know would be prosecuted for
stealing more real good from the communi-
ty than all the counterfeiters and pickpock-
cts put together Just as if nothing was
worth having but money"
Snap went aunt Keziah's thread, and with
it her chain Of thought was broken also.
RCTHsCHILD.
When George LII, came to the throne
there was little boy at Frankfort who did
not dream of ever having anything to do,
personally, with the sovereigns of Europe.
He was in the first stages Of training for the
Jewish priesthood His name was Meyer
Anselm Rothschild For some reason or
other he was placed in counting-room at
Hanover, and he soon discovered what he
was fit for. He began humbly as an ex-
change broker, and went on to be the bank
cr of the Lanagrave of Hesse, whose pri-
vate fortune he saved by his shrewdness,
when Napoleon overran Germany. How
he left large fortune and a commercial
character of the highest order, and how his
five sons settled in FIVE of the great cities of
Europe, and have had more authority over
war and peace, and the destinies of nations
than the savnreigns themselves. the world
pretty well knows.
Despotic monarchs must be dependent on
money lenders, unless they are free from
debt and can command unlimited revenues
for untold purpuses-which is never true
Of despotic sovereigns. Constitutional ru-
lers are free from the responsibility and DIFF
ficulty, and British sovereigns are supplied
by parliam entary vote, and need not stop to
borrow. Yet there is room for Rothschild
in London f; where loans are negotiated for
all countries. and which is a kind of CEN
tral Office for the financial news Of all the
world. In London, then, one Of the sons
-Nathan-settled, Anselm remained at
Frankfort, Solomon went to Vienna, Charles
to Naples, and James to Paris. Nathan
was the leader, to whom the others looked
up with reverence and confidence. He had
assisted his father by his admirable ways of
investing the monies lodged in his father's
hands and he enriched his brothers by his
wise guidance, and his generous extension
to them of his knowledge and opportunities.
He paid and provisioned the soldiers in the
peninsular war, and reaped the largo profits
which we're his due for such service and
from that time his fortune became colossal
He will be remembered in the financial his
tory of the empire by his having introduced
foreign loans into this country as Gnan-
cial feature, as Gresham opened to our SOW
sereigns the resources of domestic loans. =
Before the days of the Rothschilds, an Eng
lishman here and there had invested his
money abroad; but the difficulty of receiv-
ing the dividends, and the uncertainties
caused by fluctuations in tue exchange had
confined the speculation to very small
number.
Nathan Rothschild made the arran gnents
perfectly easy and regular, to the convent
ence Of borrowers and lenders alils1 Sow
reigns and emperors had compsted for his
countenance. as his opinion decided their
credit; and Spain has not yetsgot over the
effects of his quiet, steady rHusal to enter
into any money contracts nth her OR her
dependencies. He was s6nobled in Aus
tria; but he preferred perspnal consideration
to any adventurous rank, and never used
his title of Baron. Ehe Member of Lon
don is his eldest sol. Everywhere in Eu-
rope the Rothschilds are regarded as ex-
emplars of the cd qmmercial character in
its loftiest phase, Is an advanced state OF
civilization. Tfeir honor is proverbial,
like the woglse king, Or the gage of a
soldier ia4hcir Intellectual range is wide
their &culties are keen and sound; and their
chaslties are equal their wealth Such are
thE results of German boy having left the
Epriestly calling to be engaged in trade
Cross ExAMINATIoN.- .-''Mr. Parks. said
a lawyer to a witness, Il understand you
to say that the defendant is professor of