Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-01-25

SuaSe Vi Amsterdam. UP stepped
Schliemann, the under-clerk, with
all the assurance of a partner, and
said, al know what he wants; /
can get along with him" He did
get along with him. In fact he
got along great way, for Alexeieff
took a fancy to him-the fresh
faced, dark-haired, ingenious lad
and asked him to accompany him
self and family as a courier. Of
they traveled-all over Holland,
all over Austria, Switzerland and
France, all over everywhere else,
pulling up at length on the Dor.
ders of Russia with an invitation
from the "boss" TO go to Moscow.
A NOVA ZEMBLA wHALER.
Moscow is cold city-at least
Schliemann seemed to think 90.
For taking temporary leave of his
friends, he repaired to Amsterdam,
arranged with his old employer,
Schroeder, to act as agent for the
banking-house during his stay in
Russia, and bought a suit of clothes
adapted to the climate which he
was about TO try, Such clothesl a
whaler's costume for Nova Zembla!
one single, heayy.knitted garment
extending from head to foot. l
shall never forget as long as | live
how queer he looked and how much
we laughed. lie went to Moscow,
and in four years came back with
$4,000 in his pocket.
BANKING FOR THE MINERS.
California at that time was the
Ell Dorado of the world. Schlie-
mann determined to 90 to Califor-
MIA. On the voyage to New York
December, 1851 in the steamer
Atlantic, he came near going to the
bottom Of the ocean, but in six
weeks turned up all right in this
city with a draft from the Roths-
childs on Mr.. Belmont for the
money he had made in Moscow.
Mr.. Belmont in turn giving him a
draft on a sub agent in San Fran
cisco. The sub-agent, not caring
to have SO formidable a rival too
near, advised him to settle in Sac
ramento, because the advantages
for business in that city were
much superior" to those that
were available in San Francisco.
To Sacramento he went, erecting
the first and only fre-proof build.
ing there, and advertising himself
as drawing on the ROthschilds
through their agent in San Fran.
cisco. The miners brought him
their gold dust; they took to him
instinotiVely. In four years he
returned to New York, with. bro
ken constitution and 100000.
cALoMEL AND CALIFORNIA.
The atmosphere and his physi-
clans calomel had been too much
for him. He resolved to 90 to Ma
pies and try baths which his old
Russian friend had found helpful.
| suppose he went there; but about
a year after, he wrote me letter
from st, Petersburg, where he had
started in business, and gave me an
order to buy a cargo of cotton, and
to invest some funds in railroad
securities. This was in 1857; Erie
was not famous then. Next he re-
| tired from business and went
around the world, coming home
by the way of Japan and Califor-
MIA Che made the Pacific passage in
twenty-one days in q schooner) in
ordeF 10 visit the grave of a yoqn-
ger brother who had died in San
Francisco. During his trip he
wrote letters to a st, Petersburg
newspaper, which he gathered into
a book, I" La Chine ct LIE Japon."
From California he proceeded to
Panama and Cuba, made the ac-
quaintance cf Santa Ana and in
yeStigated for his old employer tthe
banker Schroeder) the Havana and
Matanzas railroad, lie reached
New York i'll with Panama fever,
and went to the not vet finished
Fifth Avenue h0tel,
HOMER AND ACUTE MANIA.
We had an awful time with him,
No one expected that he would live.
In his delirium he would repeat
constantly parts of the Odyssey in
the original Greek, the book lying
beside him unopened on the bed.
1t was the first that / knew of his
having studied the language. Even
then Greek was his ruling passion,
and Homer his feudql cher. Day
after day he repeated for hours at a
time the adventures Of the great
Ulysses with the persistence and the
rush Of . maniac. Well, he recoy-
cred; DR.. Teiikampf cured him.
ENEas CANNOT FIND HIS DIDO,
The banker ephreeder was trying