Connecticut western news., 1874-01-16
The English House of Rothsehilds.

cf his bfot theys in conmegeiaG genius. His attention was early called to En- gland as an arena for actiop~(he had not then become ] $parfnerl and thither he lonnneged Eso6n hfBer Teaching his majority. He cofnmenced his career in Manch hestersas a money lender, with9less ithah $5gDE theS cotton interest being then in it's infancy there. As they say in Britain, he got on. At the end of fyeyeaTs he had $l, ,O0O, ,O00--a rate of Interest pn his original capital which ought to satisfy the arehfend of pawn brokers-and with this sum he went to LondQn.v So large were his transac- tions in tho metropolis that one of the grandees of the city, Levi Cohen, se- leeted- him as an elisible eandidatei for the vacancy of son-in-law. Cohen be- came alarmed after the union on ac- count of Nathan's apparently desperate speculatlons, believing the young man must soon be ruined. The latter calmed the paternal apprehensions, saying, q 1" You have given meEbut one of your daughters, when it would have been an excellent stroke of business if you had given me all your daughters. Then they, would have died a great deal richer than they will now"
 <, Nathan speedily won his place in the worlds capital. His ventures in the pnblic funds always turned out luckily. He was as bold as astute, entering into competition with the then immensely powerful banking house of Goldsnid, and undertaking what the Earrings, Couttses, and Hopes lacked the nerve to engage in. While ancient firms were timid or tottering, he had his first
 transactions with the government. Wellington, while actively engaged on the Peninsula, in 1910, had made some drafts which the Treasury could not meet, and which the banker, anticipa- ting the result of the struggle on the Continent, purchased at liberal dis count, renewed them to the govern ment, and finally redeemed them at par. It was capital operation in every sense, bringing him into close and con- fidentiaI relations with the ministry, and vastly enlarging both his opporfu- mites and connections. The govern ment employed him to transmit subsi- dies to the Continental powers, and he faithfully performed the task. He had the advantage of the earliest and most trustworthy intelligence from Frank fort, and was in position to return it in kind.
 O. Before long all ordinary means of communication were insufficient for his rapidly growing enterprise, and he de- termined to use carrier pigeons and boats of his own for the transmission of news. Reports in cipher of all important events were tied under the wings of the birds, which were con- .stantly arriving at the London offices, while his agents were crossing the Channel in the stormiest weather under a perilous pressure of canvas. To this day the mail-boats between Boulogne and Folkestone follow the course mark ed out by the London operator for his own craft.
 'e2 When the wonderful Corsican return ed from Elba, and all the armies out side of France marched with secret dread against the one indomitable foe who had beaten them on every field, Rothsehild once more travefsed the Channel. He went to Belgium, and even followed in the wake of Yelling tons forces, that he might be among the very first to know the result of the coming collision. His intense eager ness induced him to expose himself to the dangers of battle. He felt that the fate of Napoleon and the foriMs Of the Rothschilds depended upon Waterloo i; but to him the cause of universal hu- manity and freedom would not have borne the weight of 8 feather against thb golden gains of his fortune-bloated house. He kept so close to the British cornmander-in,chief on the memorable 18th of June that the Iron Duke, who did not know him, fancied him: to be 8 spy or an assassin, and swore, with one of his superabundant oaths, that he would hang that skulking fellow if he didsnot clear out. S-s.<
 All day long Nathan Rothschild sat on his horse on the hill of Hougoun1ont, aud with his glass to his eye .anxiously watched the deadly struggle of the na- tions. Until the sun was low in the west the plain was buried in powder smoke. When the cloud had lifted the French army was seen in full retreat. The greatest soldier of all time, hag- gard, defeated, desperate, having failed with a single regiment of the Old Guard and few pieces of broken can non to make a rallying point for the de- moralized fugitives, was borne away by Soult from the disastrous field where he had wished his life to end with his history,
 Rothschild took in the situation at once. True to his instincts, he saw in the awful carnage only the sh1mmer of his gold. Chance had overcome the most heroic valor, the most stubborn resistance, the best-laid plans, ,1ii and ence, more declared in the Hebrews s favor.i He dashed into Brussels, whence a carriage in waiting whirled him to Ostend. At dawn he stood on the Belgian coast, against which the sea was nnadly breaking. He offered five. six, eight, ten hundred francs to be carried over to England. The mariners feared the storm but bolder fisher nan, upon promise of twenty five hun dred francs, undertook the hazardous voyage. Before sunset Rothschild landed at Dover, and engaging the swiftest horses, rode with the wind to London. What superb special corre- spondent he would make.
 The merchants and bankers were de- ejected; the funds were depressed a dense fog hung over the city; English soAls had sunk into their pockets. On the morning of the 10th the cunning and grasping Nathan appeared at the Stock Exchanges, an embodiment of gloom. He mentioned, confdentially of course, to his familiars that Butcher at the head of his vast army of veterans had been defeated by Napoleon at Ligny on the 18th and 17th, and there could beno hope for Wellington with his comparatively small and undis- ciplined force. This was half true, and, like all half truth, was particularly cal culated to deceive. Rothschild was a leader among trading remarks. His doleful whisper spread as the plague. poisoning faith everywhere. The funds tumbled like an aerolite. Public and private credit wilted before the simoom of calamiteus report. It was Black Friday anticipated in Lombard street.