East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-28

was gone TO Elba, and the illustrious
Elector had returned 10 Cassel, the
capital had more than doubled. The
ruler of IIesse Cassel thought it al
most a marvel 10 get his money safely
returned from the Jew lano of Frank
fort, and at the Congress Of Vienna
was never tired of singing the praise
of his Hebrew agent TO all the Prin-
ces of Europe. The dwellers under
the sign of tho red shield laughed in
their sleeves; keeping carefully. to
themselves the{grcat fact that tho cleo
toral two million forms had brought
them four millions of their own. New
er was honesty better policy.
Mayer Anslem died in 1872, with
out having the supreme satisfaction Of
hearing his honesty extolled by kings
and princes. He left five sons, who
succeeded him in the banking and
money lending business, and who, con-
scious Of their social value, dropped
the name of Anselm, and adopted the
higher sounding one of Rothschild,
taken from the sign board over the
paternal house. On his death bed
their father had taken solemn oath
from all of them to hold his four mill
ions well together, and they have faith
fully kept the injunction. But the old
city of Frankfort clearly was too mar
row a realm for the fruitful sowing of
four millions; and, in consequence,
the five were determined after while
to extend their sphere of operations by
establishing branch banks at the chief
cities of Europe. The eldest son, An
selm, born 17T3, remained at Frank
fort the second, Solomon, born in
IVA, settled at Viena the third, Ma
than, born in HI, went to London /;
the fourth, Charles, the infant terrible
of the family, established himself in
the soft climate of Naples, and the
fifth and youngest, James, bornin 1902
took up his residence in Paris. Strict
ly united, the wealth and power Of the
five Rothschilds was vested in the eld-
est born nevertheless, the shrewdest
of the sons of Mayer Anselm, and the
heir Of his genius, Nathan the third
son, soon took the reins Of government
into his own hands.
BY his faith in Wellington, and the
flesh and muscle in British soldiers, he
nearly doubled the fortune of the fam
lily, gaining more than million sterl-
ing by the sole battle of Waterloo,
the news Of which he carried to Eng
land two days earlier than the mail.
The weight of the solid millions grad
ually transferred the ascendancy in
the family from Germany TO England,
making London the metropolis of the
reigning dynasty of Rothichild. Like
the royal families of Europe, the mem
bers of the house Of Rothschild only
intermaTy with each other. James
Rothschild married the daughter of
his brother Solomon; his son Edmund,
heir apparent of the French line, was
united TO his first cousin, the daughter
of Lionel, and granddaughter of Ma
than Rothschild; and Lionel again
member Of Parliament for London
gave his hand in 1856 to his first cous-
in Charlotte, the daughter of Charles
Rothschild, of Naples.
1t is unnecessary 10 say that, though
these matrimonial alliances have kept
the millions wonderfully together, they
have not improved the race of old
Mayer Anselm of the Red Shield
Already signs of physical weakness
are becoming visible in the great fam
lily. So at least hint the French pa
pers in their meagre notices about the
Rothschild Congress ut Paris. From
all that can be gathered out Of will
dernoss of canardS, thin faces and thick
fiction, it appears that the sovereigns
of the Stock Exchange met in confer
ence for the double purpose of central
ing their money power and widening
their matrimonial realm. In other
words, the five reigning kings, descen-
dants according TO the law of primo
geniture, of the five sons of Mayer
Anselm, came to the decision to re-
duce the number to four, by cutting
of the Neapolitan branch of Charles
Rothschild, while it was likewise de-
cided that permission should be given
to the younger members Of the family
to marry, for the benefit of the race,
beyond the range of first cousin-ship.
What has led to the exclusion of the
Neapolitan line of Rothschild, seems
to have been tho constant exercise of
a highly blamoable liberality unheard
of in the annals of the family. Charles
the prodigal son of Mayer Anselm,
actually presented, in the year 1916,
ten thousand ducats to the orphan asy-
lum of st. Carlo, at Naples, and the
son and heir of Charles, Gustavus, has
given repeated signs of his inclination
to follow in the footsteps of his father.
Such conduct, utterly unbecoming of
the policy of the house of Rothschild,
could not be allowed to pass unnoticed,
and accordingly-we quote the rumor
of Paris iournalism-th dcchemce of
the Neapolitan line has been pronounc-
cd. However, Baron Gustavus de
Rothschild is not to retire into private
life, like famous Charles ", with only
cassock on his shoulders and pray
or book in his hand, but is allowed TO
take with him q small fortune of $780,
100000 francs, or about six millions
sterling--a mere crumb from the ta-
BILE Of the descendants OF poor Mayer
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