The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-08
COUNT RINsTEINR


disqualification. of the mAxims ebov
set fOrth.e -rw -
Surround your enemy's camp a
night and cut him to pieces before b
can rub his eyes open. Seduce III
soldier frOm his allegiance to the flag
Ruin your enemy's credit. Depreciat
his circulating medium, or crawl int
his camp and spy out his strength
and position, only don't get caught .
it-mind that. II "amid arms tn
law Is SILENT" most surely the ordi
nary rules of honor and honesty ar
totally abolished. All that is part o
the scheme Of war.
>. We ere led to these thoughts whill
thinking over an event that occurre(
during the war In the Crimea, ant
which was brought afresh to our re
collection by the arrival here Of tht
young Grand Duke.
Not many months ago We wert
sauntering along the Boulevard Ia
Paris in company with Polish friend
when q splend turnout Of four horses
dashed past us, with coachman aud
two footmen Ia shining livery, the
whole almost rivaling' the imperial
turnouts We were want to see flashing
along the streets in the best days O
the Empire.
"Who's that ?" inquired we Of oul
companion.
"fhat's Count Einsteine, the rich
Russian Jew. Have you never heard
of him and the important role he
PLAYED In the war between Russia and
the Allies ?"
EGHsving made due confession OF Oui
ignorance on that subject, We sug.
gested to the Polish friend Aforesaid
the propriety Of our taking seats and
. couple glasses Of red wine in quiet
corner Of that great American resort
II Paris, the court yard Of the Grand
Hotel. This being acceded to without
much ado, the following facts were
gathered from the broken English oi
our informant and now for the first
time appear in print.
q The individual whom he had just
seen flashing along in such royal state
was Edouard Einsteine, who ut the
commencement Of the war, was
neither more nor less than q poor
pedling Jew, making precariOus
livelihood by travelling from town to
town in the districts above Sebastopol, ,
retailing small wares and notions fron1
pack strapt upon his back.
Having followed the business for a
number Of years, and being, moreover,
native OF the country, he became
more or less know to the farmers and
producers in all that considerable re-
gion of country bordering upon the
sea. He possessed, too, rather more
than the ordinary aptness Of his race,
for turning an honest penny.
Such, then, was the man Einsteine
at the time the Allies commenced
knocking away at SebastopOl and the
Malakof. What, or who it was that
recommended him to the Comr ander
of the allied forces for the business
about to be undertaken, We shall 4,
doubtless, never know.
That business was neither more nor
less than a bold, gigantic effort to de-
preciate the Russian currency, and, as
for as possible, to ruin the credit nf
the Russian Government; and this
humble, almost penniless child OF
Israel was selected as the instrument
for effecting this stupenduous r,tse dc
guerre. To the English, we. believe,
belongs the credit, or otherwise, al
the conception and execution of this
plan.
In fact, that is an old dodge of our
British cousins, invented as long ago
Is Lord Chatham's time, and played of
by him and his SUCCESSORS in the office,
on the enemies Of England, from that
time to the present, with most re-
markabfe success.
Well, at tie proper moment, our
poor, plodding child OF Abraham was
duly and carefully interviewed by a
discreet emissary Of the British COM
mander, and, as expected, "Rarkis
was viii in." The cunning trader at
once saw his opportunity and readily
embraced it, having little to loose and
everything to gain. ..I
Being carefully guarded at . secure
point within the allied lines, furnished
with an English printing press, and
all the requisite materials, there were
soon ready for issue millions on mil
lions Of simulated Russian currency,
exact fac sinailes Of the genuine circu-
lating medium Of the country.
Having free access Within the dif-
ferent lines, and being well acqu ainted
terough all the lower provinces, il
was no difficult matter, by means oi
numerous and active agents, to flood
all that part Of Russia with the bogus
money. Beef, pork, flour and forage
of all kinds bought up all through the
country and resold TO both belligerents
for good money, of course.
Einstein, the Jew pedler, now bios.
somed out as commissary, in fact, the
great army contractor OF Southern
Russia. Unknow millions Of this spu.
rious stuff having been rapidly put into
circulation, for every dollar OF which
there is . good dollar or dollars worth
in the hands Of Einsteine or hii
agents. The "queer' became at last
almost a. common in and around Mos.
COW, and even In st. Petersburg, As il
was about the seat of war. Events were
fast eliminating. Though the billi
was wonderfully well executed, the
knowledge of the huge trick could moi
be longer kept from the officials oftht
Imperial Treasury. Now 1t was, in
deed, that it became necessary for oul
hero to take shelter and protection
within the strong lines of his friends
the British, for his life, If caught BY
the Russians wouldn't be worth one o.
his own bits Of paper.
OF course an immense uprOar al
throughout the Empire followed the
discovery Of this clever trick of the
enemy. An immediate session of the
Imperial Privy Council was convened
and when the facts were all laid before
it, and duly canvassed, his Majesty
the Cxar, was found fully equal to the
great emergency. As intended by the
originators of the scheme, it began tG
tell disastrously on the credit of the
country, the currency began to sink
rapidly, and had not the danger beer
grappfed with q firm, bold hand, the
paper money of Russia would in q
few weeks, have declined far below
our own, in the darkest days of the
rebellion. So deity laid and worked
WAS this plan Of the enemy, and 81
far seeing In its results, that nothins
short of desperate remedies would sui
fee to battle the evil, and avert th.
impending ruin.
Before the Council rose the Emperor
caused to be drawn up and immediately
published an imperial edict whereby
the entire issue Of spurious bills wa
legalised, and its redemption at par
like other money, promised by tn
Government. In fact he was com
PEELED to do this, or suffer worse. Tn,
Ehola fhinG Waa dnna In suol !.