The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-12-01

others, one very notable meeting has almost esca-
ped public attention. A few days ago our Paris
correspondent told us that a Congress Of the mem.
bers of the ilustrious house of Rothschd has been
sitting at Paris The purport of the meeting was
nothing less than to rearrange the dominions of
the great banking dynasty. In one word, the
great object Of the great Rothschild Congress was
to reduce the five branches of the house who now
rule Europe to four, and, following the example
OF Garlbaldi to strike another sovereign of Naples
from the list of reigning monarchs Henceforth
there are to be but four kings of the house of
Kothschild, with secure thrones at London, Paris,
Vienna and Frankfort. 1t is now exactly a hun
ored years since poor Jew, called Mayer Anselm,
maze MS appearance at the city of Hanover, bare
footed, with "a sack on his shoulders and bundle.
OF rags on bis back Successful in trade like
most of his co-religionists, he returned to Frank
fort at the end of few years, and set I'm a small
shop in the "Jew Lane,'' over which hung the
sign-board of red shield, called in German roth
! schild AS dealer in old end rare coins he made
the acquaintance of the Serene Elector of Hesse
Cassel, who happened to be in want of confdeu-
tia agent for various open and secret purposes ap
pointed the shrewd-looking Mayer Anselm TO the
post. The Serene Eector, being compelled soon
after to fly his country, Mayer Anselm took charge
of his cash, amounting to several millions of FORMS
With the instinct of bis race, Anselm did not for
get to put the money out on good interest," so that,
before Napoleon was gone to Elba, and the Illus
trious Elector had returned to Cassel, the capital
had more than doubled The ruler of Hesse Cas-
sci thought it almost a marvel to get his money
safely returned from the Jew Lane of Frankfort
and at the Congress of Vienna was never tired Of
singing the praise of his Hebrew agent to all the
Princes of Europe. The dwellers under the sign
of the Red Shield laughed in their sleeves; keep
ing carefully to themselves the great fact that the
electoral two millions forms bad brought them
four millions of their own, Never was honesty a
better policy.
Mayer Anselm died in 1912, without 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 conscious Of their social
value, dropped the name of Anselm, and adopting
the higher sounding one of Rothschild, taken from
the sign-board of the paternal house. On his
death bed their father had taken solemn oath
from all of them to hold bis four millions well
gether, and they have faithfully kept the injunc-
tion. But the old city of Fran kfort clearly was
too narrow realm for the fruitful sowing Of four
millions; and, in consequence, the five were deter
mined after while to extend their sphere of ope-
rations by establishing branch banks at the chief
cities of Europe. The eldest son, Anselm, born
1873, remained at Frankfort; the second, Solomon,
born in l774, settled at Vienna; the third Ma
than, born in 1777, went to London; the fourth,
Charles the infant terrible of the family establish
ed himself in the soft climate of Naples; and the
fifth and youngest, James, born 1892, took up his
residence at Paris
Strictly united, the wealth and power of the
five Rothschilds was vested in the eldest born;
nevertheless, the shrewdest of the sons of Mayer
Auselm, and the heir of his genius, Nathan, the
third SOD, soon took the reigns Of government into
his own hands. By his faith in Wellington and
the flesh and muscle of British soldiers, he nearly
doubled the fortune of the family, gaining more
than million sterling by the sole battle Of Water
loo, the news of which he carried to England two
days earlier than the mail. The weight of the solid
millions gradually transferred the ascendancy 10
the family from Germany to England, making
London the metropolis Of the reigning dynasty of
Rothsehild. Like tho royal families of Europe,
the members of the house of Rotbschild only in-
termarry with each other. James Rothschild
married the daughter of his brother Solomon; bis
son Edmond, heir apparent of the French line,
united to his first cousin the daughter of Lilo
mel, and granddaughter of Nathan Rothschild;
and Lionel again-member of Parliament for Lon
don-gaye his haLd in 1886 to his first cousin
Charlotte, the daughter of Charles Rothschild, of
Naples.
1t is unnecessary to state that, though these
matrimonial alliances have kept the millions Won
derfuy 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 family. So at least hint the French pa
pers in their meagre notices about the Rothschild
Congress at Paris. From all that can be gathered
out OF tie wilderness of conards, thin faces and
thick fiction, it appears that the soveregnssof the
Stock Exchange met 10 conference for the double
purpose of eentralzing their money power and
widening their matrimonial realm In other words,
the FIVE reigning kings, descendants, according 70
the law Of primogeniture of the Eve of Mayer
Anselm, came to the decision reduce their num-
ber to four, by cutting off the Neapotau branch
of Charles Rothschild, while it was likewise de-
cided that permission should be given to the
youngest members of the family to marry, for the
benefit of the race, beyond the range of first cous-
inshp.- What has led to the exclusion Of the
Neapolitan line of Rothschid seems to have been
the constant exercise of a highly blameable hber-
ality, unheard of in the annals of the family
Charles, the prodisal son of Mayer Anselm, actu-.
ally presented, in the year 1916, ten thousand du
cats to the Orphan Asylum of St Carlo At Naples,
and the son and heir of Charles, Gustavus, has
given repeated signs of bis inclination to follow in
the footsteps of bis father Such conduct, utterly
unbecoming of the policy Of the house of Roths-
child, could not be allowed to pass unuoticed, and
accordingly-we quote the rumor of Paris journal
| ism-the dschehamce of the Neapolitan line has
been pronounced. However, Baron Gustavus de
Rothschild is not to retire into private life like
the famous Charles V, with only . cassock on his
shoulders and prayer book in his hand, but 10
allowed TO take with him small fortune Of 450,-