Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1871-03-29

| cOhoOO pttS1IoSS seemed TO Su1ST OL
dlmlnution. AS loan contractors, deal
ers IN bullion, stock purchasers, and
sellers of securities, they did as much
during the panic-perhaps more-than
ever. They spread their sails to the
winds, and when even the Bank of Eng
land had to appeal to the Government
for help, they swept onward without
dismay.
They lost G8, 900, 900 by fall of secur-
tiles in 1848. They are supposed to
have lost no less during the present
Franco -Prussian war. But in neither
case did it affect their credit. If any-
thing on earth were exempt from disas-
trous mutilation, it would appear to be
the wealth of the Rothschilds.
In days anterior to electric telegraph
and rail- their couriers travled from
brother to brother. They conveyed the
earliest news, Mails were outstripped;
government expresses were left behind;
relays were ready at every post; COM
mercial dispatches, subvented by pub
lie companies, as well as private enter
prises, failed i'll successful competition
with the Hebrew firm. Nathan Roths-
child received in London news of the
result of Waterloo five hours hours be-
fore it was announced on Change and
made e200, 900 in consequence. Dur
ing the great revolt in India, Havelock' s
success, which changed consols from
"a to SO, was known at the counting
room in Lombard street full Gay be-
fore it reached the Bank of England.
Lord Palmerston regretted, In his
famous reply to Mr.. Disraeli, that gov
ernment had to depend for it's earliest
advices for the attacks upon Sebasto-
pol on the courtesy of the Isaelitish
| house."
It was the same during the Franco
Italian war It held good five years
ago, when Prussian legions thundered
their triumphant progress against the
strongholds of Austria; and it is only
yesterday that the Rothschilds dis
counted in the London market the fa-
tai surrender of Bazine full two hours
before it was recorded by the telegraph
ic wires that stretched to the Royal
Exchange.
All the sons of Meyer Anselm, the
originator of the family, are dead.
Nathan died at the age of GA, 1887; the
other four lived till 1856, during which
year all of them deceased, each having
passed the age of four-score, Nathan
left four sons, three of whom rank
among the most distinguished aristo-
cracy of the British capital, the fourth,
Nathan, residing in Paris.
The eldest, Lionel de Rothschild, a
member of Parliament from London, is
privileged, as British subject, to bear
the little of an Austrian baron-his
brothers being barons only by courtesy.
The second, Sir Anthony de Roths-
child, is an English baronet; the third,
Meyer, was high Sheriff of Bucking-
hamshire. In 1847, Baron Lionel de
Rothschild was invited by the Reform
Association TO stand as a candidate with
Lord John Russell for the representa-
ton of London in Parliament. He was
retuned by large vote, and from then
until now, having been slected nine
times, has been one of the favorite
members from the city.
The family abounds in charities.
There are six hospitals-one each in
London, Paris, Berlin, Vinna, Parague,
and ConstBntinople-of the amplest di-
mensions and completest arrangements,
which have been built and supported
by the Rothschilds.
Sir Moses Montefiore, now past Sc
years of age, whose mother and wife
were Rothschilds, is perhaps the most
philanthropic man in England. His
immense wealth has been devoted for
more than half century to the relief
of suffering Jews all over the world.
Five times he has been to the Holy
Land on errands of mercy, four times
to the Algerian and Tunisian states,
twice to Egypt, and I know not how
often to the Principalities, armed with
letters and quasi-dipomatic power,
to relieve his Israehtish brethren who
were suffering from oppression or pow
erty.
1t is fact illustrative of the slow
progress of reform in England, that,
though Baron Rothschild was elected
member of Parliament by the most i'm
portant constituency in the Kingdom,
in 1847, 40, so and '57, it was not
permitted that he should aake his seat
until the last named year.
The oath of allegiance ran, 8 Upon
the true faith of Christian. This,
as Jew, the Baron could not take.
Again and again he advanced to the
bar of the House, uncovered his head,
raised his hand, slowly repeated the
form after the speaker until the fatal
words were reached, when, becoming
silent, and still remaining silent during
three repetitions by the Speaker, he
took his seat outside of the bar
For ten years successfully an act,
changing the oath, was sent form the
Commons to the Lords, and was ten
times refused concurrence. That con-
servative body would not away with it.
At length, by a resolution of the Low
er House, the standing orders were sea
aside, and the Baron was permitted to
take his seat, and give his vote. Other
Jews have been elected since to the
Commons. But, not all of the British
people, has been able to open the way
to Hebrew within the House of
| Lords.
The mother of the Rothschilds, the
widow of old Anselm, lived to the age
of four-score and fifteen, the cheeriest
and brightest of old women.
In the year 1880 an American tray
eIer was exploring the antiquities OF
Frank-fort-o on-the- Main The Jews
quarter, then and now specimen of
the intclerable vexation to which the
hated race was subjected for many
hundred years. contained, within q mar
row, in-paved street, frame building
of singular neatness, upon which every
improvement it would admit seemed to
have been made.
Seated in large armchair, behind
the small, diamond-shaped panes o1
glass that filed the windows of the
structure, was a venerable lady engag
ed in knitting stocking. She had
outlived three generations, and vet hel
eye was not dim, nor her mind cloud
ed. 1t was the ancestress of the Roths
childs-the mother of Meyer Anseln
Rothschild, then eighteen years dead
the hneal head of the greatest CONNER
cial family known to the world.
The appearance of walnut may b,
given to white woods, by painting o.
sponging them with a concentrated
warm solution of permaganate of potas