The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-10-29
From the London Globe.
The House Of IsOthschiid.

Ine House OF IsOfkschiad.
Among all the Congresses held this sum
mer. of princes, lawyers, musicians, school.
masters, social science men, political econo.
mists, and hundred others, one very
notable meeting has almost escaped public
attention. A few days ago, our Paris cor.
respondent told US that congress of the
members Of the illustrious house Of Roths-
child has been sitting at Paris. The pur.
pose Of the meeting was nothing less than
to re-arrange the dominions Of the great
banking dynasty. In one word, the great
object of the Rothschild congress was to
reduce the five branches of the house who
now rule Europe. to four, and following the
example of Garibaldi, to strike another SOW
ereign Of Naples from the list of reignine
monarchs. Henccforth there are to be but
four Kings Of the house of Rothschild, with
secure thrones at London, Paris, Vienna,
and Frankfort. 1t is now exactly q hun
dred years since a poor Jew, called Mayer
Anselem. made his appearance at the city
of Hanover, barefooted, with a sack on his
shoulder, and a bundle of rags on his back.
Successful in trade, like many Of his core.
ligionists, he returned to Frankfort at the
end of few years, and set up small shop
in the !" jew lane," over which hung the
sign board Of a red shield, called the Ger.
man rothschild. ii k
As dealer in the old and rare coins, he
made the acquaintance of the serene Elector
of Hesse Castle. who, happening to be in
want of a confidential agent for various
open and secret purposes, appointed the
slirewd-looking Mayer Anselem to the post
The serene Elector, being compelled soon
after to fly his country, Mayer Ansclem
took charge of his cash, amounting to sew
eral millions of forms. With the instinct
of his race, Anselem did not forget to put
the money out on good interest, SO that
before Napoleon was gone to EIba, and the
illustrious Eleetor had returned to the castle,
ruler of Hesse Castle thought it almost a
marvel toget 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, keeping carefully to them
selves the great fact that the electoral two
million forms had brought them four mil
lions of their own. Never was honesty a
better policy.
Mayer Anselem died in 1912, without
having the supreme satisfaction of hearing
his honesty extolled Ivy kings and princes.
He left five sons, who succeede him i'm the
banking and money lending business, aud
who, conscious of their social value, drop
ped the name of Anselem, and adopted the
her-sounding one of Rothschild, taken
from sign board over the paternal house
On his death-bed their father had taken
solemn oath from all of them to hold his
four millions wel-together, and they have
faithfully kept the injunction. Bat the old
city of Frankfort clearly was too narrow
realm for the fruitful sowing of four millions
and, in consequence, the five were deter
mined, after while, to extend the sphere
Of operations by establishing branch banks
at the chief cities Of Europe. The eldest
son, Anseem, born 1878, remained at
Frankfort; the second, Solomon, born in
1774, settled at Vienna; the third, Nathan.
born in 1777, went to London the fourth,
Charles, the infant terrible cf the family.
established himself in the soft climate of
Naples, and the fifth and youngest. James,
born in 1892, took Ills residence at Paris.
Strictly united, the wealth and power Of the
Eve Rothschlds VAS vested in the eldest
born; nevertheless, the shrewdness of the
sons Of Mayer Anselem, and the heir Of his
genius, Nathan, the third son. soon took the
rels Of government into his own hands.
BY hls faith in Wellington, and the flesh
e
and muscle of British soldiers. he nearly
doubled the fortune Of the family, gaining
more than million sterling, by the sole
battle of Waterloo, the news of which he
carried to England two days earlier than
the mail. The weight Of the solid millions
soon transferred the ascendency in the fam
lily from Germany to England, making Lon,
don the metropolis of the reigning dynasty
Of Rothschild. Like the royal families Of
Europe, the house eff Rothschild only inter
marry with each other. James Rothschild
married the daughter Of his brother Salo-
mon; his son Edmond, heir apparent Of the
French line, was married to his first cousin,
the daughter of Lionel, and grand daughter.
Of Nathan Rothschild; aud Lionel again
NJ. P. Of Landon, gave his hand in 1886, to
his first cousin Charlotte, the daughter OF
Charles Rothschild, of Naples.
tits unnecessary to say that. though these
national allies have kept the millions won-
derfully together, they have not improved
the race of old Mayer Anselem, of the Red
Shield. Already signs of physical weak
ness are becoming visible in the great fam
lily. So at least hint the French papers in
their meagre notices about the Rothschild
congress at Paris. From all that can be
gathered outof . wilderness of canards, thin
faces and fiction. il appears that the SOW
ereigns Of the Stock Exchange met in con.
ference for the double purpose Of central