Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|^Hl^H i |H H H/ \?H ] HR ^BJ! Hfl Vi. s4^\w /AlH ? .> '.*' v'. < '" . "' * .- . ?J/T . VOLUME XIV. in -UJ . a. F. TOWN E8, . ... EDITOR. 9. e. lAnXVv UlRbXi u4 hMMitn. RMtXAL. i , r?um? aovrumw a*Tu?r*i?a. A Visit to Stratford-oa-ATon. ? July 14th.?Thia ha* been In M? 1 a MMMftbU I?J, ood on* of in?ff*bl? ta? 1 joym*nt. I hare been to Stratford, wh?r* ' tti* Immortal fltinbpmn wm born and ' btrW. 11m morning wm nlaj, Ut be- 1 son* eltv about 9, and continued fair 1 Ihrugh th* Mai of the day. I reached ' Stratford (vhMi la M mil** by railway from Birmingham) about 10 o'clock, and yroaaaded at oar* to tho old church. Barrio* had bogun; an, taking a wat I .wall* A akh what patiane* I oould cotoaaail. till it waa atrer. Th* pompon* ritual ' had a* ab*rm f-T ma; my rye# and thoaglita would waadar about. Quaint old carving*. In eurtoua mural tablato, w*rs la eight wharo I oat, a?d any mind refurnd to d w*ll *|ua anything that did not tall of Shaka pwra Th* chair (of boy*) ahantad; and ,th? baantiM organ, wklah, at anothar tim*. would bar* entranced ni with ita aolemn uounda, could not now flu my attention.? Th* alark, in a loud, alaar *?i<o, responded ia hla turn, and all tba many aaratnoniaa of tha Rngliah High Ohuroh aervlee, w?ra par formal. Tha aged raator (preaadad by an floor in n long whit* dr**a trimmed with rad, who nuuhtlltd hi* raverauc* to tha yufrit ataln) naoaadad, and preached a afhort diaaouraa, only tha frrratty of whioh waa by ma fully appreciated. Tha haua diatiaa pouaouneaJ, tha aoagragation ratirad. Having found tha olark I baggad e yrtnriaafon to look at Bhakvpaara'a tomb.? 8 II* off*r?d to guida m*; and, followiag him ' tat* th* ehaoaal, I waited arhHa ha raianl th* uakttlng from baferath* altar; aadh era, Slrtofly th front of th* communion rail, and 1 about nix f*?t from tha north wall, i* r Shnkapaara'* gram. I atood upon it and * almoat knelt to road tha followiag ioacrlp- " Wood frknd, for iesvs sake forbears TO DtOOK TIB DVST EXCL0A8ED me are; WUHT BE Yn MAE Yr SPARES TIIES STONES, AND CVRST BE BE Yt MOVES MY BOKKd. AMm|E Ik* efoae doM h*. bnr tW? mm* of SMViptirt there U abundant proof that H tovm Ma. aoneeerated duet A monu maaatal boat of the pool U on tha north vnll of the ehantel, about fire foot from (be irwad. It la planed nndor on arwh. ho thow too^adhu of blaeV marble, Yh the Corinthian otjle. The ontablaturo contain* Um arm of Sbekspeare, and aomo other devisee. Tha boat to lifa-aia?. formed of aoft daao, and ia painted over in Imitation of | aWatl. The ban do and fteo are Seafr-eoW, Sefrbnd tiefc^d eWAirYi, eyea light hazel, the donblet in acarlet, and ie covered with a loooo blank gown. The enahton la painted green above, and red bereatli; the taae#R gill The poet holda a pen In hie right Wad. and bio left reela on a aerolL On the 4 table* nndor the boat, ia the following Latin iaairipttoa: Jvdieio pylirm, genlo aocratem, arte maroneot, terra tegit, pnprloe nuorat, oYjrapoo ha bet, STAY PASSENGER, WHY GOBST TUOV BY SO FAST, BEAD, IFTBOY CANST, WHOM ENVIovq DEATH HATH PLAST WITHIN THIS MONVMBKT, SHAKS MtREwmiVrutoMb JWvTCSt NATVRE DIDE; WHOSE NAME BOTH DECK Ye TOMB jrAWL MOHK HIAN COST; SITU ALL YT BE BATH WBltTY LEAVES tlVlNO ART BVT PAGE TO SERVE HIS WITT. OBIIT ANNO DO I. 1AU jETATIS AS DIE SSAr. TVli beut, whteh U Mid to (m the only trustworthy ud original riprfwnutivi ? f (Im po*t, wm eewlptured by Omrd John Am, Tho tradition of Stnlferd It, thai i* wan nnpted (rota a tut after nature, and VMtrMttd witbin eeveo yeart afUr Shak peere*a death. It wu, at the reqoeet of Br. Maloao, la 17M, painted white ; Wot, In fM!? the whit# paint wa? removed, and the orifiaal eotoriog carefully rretored ? By the aide of Bhakepeare, and between hin and the north wall. Ilea hie wife, Anna Hatha way, who died in USA. Her tenthatone beam the following iaeeriptiwn s EBB LTETH INTERRED THE BODY or ahwb wipe or whjliam shaks * iwn ?pv imrAftiKii mis urn TUB DAY OP AVQV, IMS BRING OP TH ABB OP At YBARB*. BsMA Um sImu, thara la * Latin lewIpUw, whiah I ?mM not cWaHy daet Oft tba atbar aide, ia Wlrd M? Cavorfta imgMer, Saaanna 1UII, who .IUd 1?49, ag?4 W, Tba UssriptWa an har grava dial 1414 not aopy. Safer*J othaf n.an> baooof lhahapaara'a family lia awr him.? Mil Iks aoaaniM rail, la a baoatiful MMMNsl. though aaaeh dafaaad, whiah nvNi tba tomb of Thomas Balaall, dsns of Iralfofd, who kaflt lha ahaoaal wl>iah son. to>M than tombs Tba chaaatl ia tba moat1 Li .ft. i i . a mm.a. a^a t - " f * W? , V REB"LE L*1 v vr &?k$* . y-. <U, ' "' ? bountiful pari of the church. and ?m troeted about 1170. It la perpendieuler in form, haa one elegant window on tha eeet, and Rt? of laaeir site on each aida. Tha whola Interior of tha ehuroh la very handeome.? Fha aatranoa to it ia through a superb avenue of lima trees nverahndowmg a pore nent formed entirely of tomb atones tha (renter part of them worn no smooth as to render It Intpoeeiblo to decipher any pert oj As original inscription. Tha adjoining loriai ground ia full to repletion, bnt still ' lie dead are erowd-d into tha aatth| tlready fat with human ewrruplion. I anw 1 wo new graves opened, and among tha dirt hrown out. diseovsrad many fragments of luman bo nee. Ia it not Hamlet who aye, "To what hate usee w# may return 1 Vhy may not imagination trace the noble Inst of Alexander till it finds It atopting a bung hula t aa thus?Alexander lied, Alexander was buried, Alexander reurneth to duet; the dust ia earth ; of earth re make loam; and why of that loam, rhereto-he waa converted, might they not top a beer barrel I" An exterior view of ho church from the eastern bank of the Iron ia highly picturesque. The edifice la {nits large, with a square tower In the cnsr, which is ornamented with battlements ' nj pinnacle*. A graceful spire, ri?lng to ^ considerable height above ell, complete, l,e beauty of llie ancient ?tructure. While ' rendering around the churoh yard, 1 Toll la ' rith a malformed youth, who pro'essed to ( now all about Stratford, raring that he < ad been employed by Artemiia Ward, alien ' bat distinguished individual visile 1 the ioine of Shakapeare. I engaged him forth* est of the day. and entering the church ' nee more to teke a laet look at the poet'a ;rave and ite aurroundinga, I followed my ;nide to ike Falcon Tavern, where Shak?ware waa wont to refresh his mortal body, " Beginning to fvel, aa w*ll 1 might, The kceu demands of appetite." soon found myself la Shakapeare'* smoking , earn, (aoealleil) under the old rwftera of , rhieh, there en a be no doubt, lie haa " hob- < iol>bed " many a lime with Ida boon-com ^ anion a ThaSplrilualietsaay thatdeparted ( piriU continue to frequent their former . ailula, therefoie in order to bilng myself , a sympathetic rupport, { ordered two pota | >f ale, one of which I left on the table when , ailed to my dinner in an adjoining room. \ Fhen I returned, tlw ale had disappeared. . t Is }>ut poMtikU tli .t my guide iiii^ht hsvs \ Irunk it, ss I left lit* two together. My , doner wss bolted in soma lisata, thst I j night continue my pilgrimage. Newplace, where Shakapeare lived for \ neny years and died, became subsequently, r he property of Mrs. Hall, his favorite I laughter; the dying without ftiue, it waa * mlA ; and, clianging hands several times, ' inally became the property of Rev. Francis , laslrell. lie, fading annoyed I y v I si tort alio came to see the hour? end grounds ! vMcli pomeseed audi universal intarsat, ind thinking also that liia property waa aseased loo iilgh for poor-rate*, razed New>_ ik. 1 a?s? ' o.-.' ?w |ivuini, I1CCIUK iruin Oirnunpi it midnight, to ea<-ap? the vengeance of the nturiated citizens. TliU ctceurred in 173'J. rh? alto of lh? hoiiM ia \ml\cA>?l at prea >nt \>y k wire fence, And part of (tie garden a occupied l?y a tuiall tlieaire. Oppoaito to Newplaee, on the tooth, la Guild Chapel, a rory ancient edifice, fuanded by Robert da Stratford, in 1269. Tha Guild Halt uljolna tba Chapel on ita tooth tide. Tbo dradrbtar-t'ohoof Where fihakipeArereceived bit education, it in the upper ttovy of Guild ilali. Thla tehool waa fouudod in tha reign of Henry VL It ia atiil kept aa a grammar achooi and aoy boy a native of Stratford who baa attained the age of T yeara and ia able to road, ean gain adrtthaton and participate in all ita aivantagea. "bo yon care to go into the Grammar School T" inquired my guide. I gave him "met aeye,"andantweredbitn interrogatively, that i " Did Arteniae Ward go in theref" "Oht yet air; ho went everywhere.'' M Than, / with to go ereryir/trr-e, and through the tame doora." Ho inttantly ret off to ferret at the old }anltreaa, who oerapiea a twite of ancient monk a' cells, lu the lower part of Onild Chapel. She aoon crept from her mo. actio abode, and loot no time in leading the wey to the (irtniatr School above. Thinking It might gain for me better attention from my yoatbfal cicerone if I could conrinre him that I, too, wat " tome pumpkin#," 1 glowered at kiac again, and demanded, "Did Art cm us Ward ait down in thia room T" " Yea, air anawered be, he aat on that bench." I aat down in the plcoe indicated, and rejoined in a I ton* a I* 8l<ldons, " Wsll, should an/ on? in. gnlre, tail him that / sat hers, too." Silence swoeeedsd this impressive adjuration, which I improved by trying to turn baok the leaves of Time's stern reoord. I imagined the school hoy, Bbskspeare, with "satchel and shining mornlag faee, creeping like snail, nnwiillngly to seheol." " Take your seat, William," says the pedagogue. " Open ynnr hook, sir." Ah! little 414 that master think that the world's great genius sat In embryo before him ; one who would open a hook for all mankind to read In admiration, I gated np at the black old rafters, nod upright o*k beams, woadsrlng, while I looked, If school hoys had poeket-knives in Shekspere's time, and bother any had eut their names an tbaaa old walla, ta be read with satisfaction by coining generations. I pluck, ed seme leaves of ley while passing out of tha yard, to kosp an a mensorial of my risk f and then, by invitation of my galds, called to se, an aged sonple, (one, a centenarian,) la ike amsttiern extremity of Guild Hall, whiek is sampled ss an alms konte, and endowed for the (halted number of 3i persoas. This slee ii i* i n ?? * wi? :x of j? .v <x ^ ?c."*i * VV \?f ' * ' * ' 1 GREENVILLE, dOUTH moaynary pair, though still la aortal boa liTO bat tho "??rwth ago." '* Laat mm of all. That onds this at ran go, orontftll history, Fa Noond okUdishnoos and mors oblivion. Sans tooth, sans ayes, sans tut*, sans otrai thing." Tho sixponoe that I earn, oaa.v add to th< > in fort, bat I cannot think In what Way. Shottcry, where Ann* Hathaway lin hefora her marriage, li about one mile, (I foot-path, through the plea aunt field#,) fro Stratford. It ia a aereet little hamlet, at contains the aneient house where 8hak p -are " wooed and won " a wife to eha Ilia immortality. The cottage bears aa a tlquo and picturesque appearanee, baring Limber and piaster front, (like most of tl indent houeee a boat her*,) and is thatelie Anne Hatha way *e chamber contain# the ol< mriouely earred oak bed stead, on whic >epo#ed her rlrgin form, befur# bar lot lad bloomed, the whit# #h# roamed " I neiden meditation, fanay free.* Here ;ho little window, embowered with rose it which she may hare aat to work, i leaning out, hare plucked a roe* for hi who had her heart in keeping. I dren 'rum the we'l near the door, which, tlia o'd me, was old aa the eoltage, but m iranglit was not profound enough to she whether Truth ley at the Imttom, or not.)f eourae, I took a handful of flower which, though th?y wither, will refresh m nemory, In the future. The aun wee drat Ing long thadowa on the ground, whan aurried awny, to aae the houae on lhn'i Street, where Shykspeare wee born, living Sunday, I could not get admleeior to derived what ratiefec ion I might fro< feting at It, outside. Vieitora are ahow i room in which report aaya that Shak i-'arc first aaw ihe light; but llie tradltic i -ing somewhat apocryphal, my disappoin nant at not being admitted wae eonaideri ?1y neutralized Stratford ia a neat, qnl little town, with a poptilalioa of 4,0(1 nula. The riser Aeon rises at Naaehj, I JI rtliamptonehire, and flows ia a aouil westerly direction through Warwick an IVurcM'er ahirvs, till it joina the Severe, i rewkvehury, in the northern part of Glut iclorahira. It wa? late in the day when >*rted with my guide at the railway ati i->n. He toid me that Artemua rewardlim with a twoshitling^Uoe. I gaea hii i lifilf-crown, ami, of course, stand aixpeni ictter in liie eaiitnelion. He wrote b tame in my memorandum book, Qsorf Whitehead, and a'eo the following aera which lis tai l (and, I have no doubt, b itVfM) was Shakenenta'e Aral muiU.I .? lion. Ilia acoiint U, that Shakspear wrote It, wlilU a Itoy, attending the grair nar school, to allow hi* grief at partir rront a favorite ?lo , named Toby : " Poor old Toby, vnn're a faith'ill old cu Who always baikM if a mnuae did a ir. And ndw you're grown old and aeareety ei baA, Von're eondemn'd by tba paraon to 1 hung by the clerk." MORE ANOV A A&tch of BrtortOur eataamad contemporary, theCharli ton ftewe, wild ia genetally aa Accurate the statement of facta aa it ia Able and jib ciona in lie comments, haa inadvertent fallen into several errors, which wa are si i'fied, it will take In good part, that t should correct. These errors occur in editorial headed, "The raeant Rait llo Meeting, At AeheVllle, Pf. C." ihie first error which we mar not lee paitant is in styling the r<?ad from tl point to near Duektown, via Aahevil 'the North Carolina Central Railroad' thcro is not a railway in thla St.te Ar such a eognottten. Wa have a railway, I termini being Charldtte and Ooldtboro', ( passing aaiuoury, the edrporAts name which it " the {Jorth Carilins IU\l lit Company," *om-times bnt Improperly eel " the Central "?then we hare one e< mrncing at Salisbury, end running to point near Duektown, In Tennessee, {. wftteord/y from As'tevllle, the eorpor name of which is " I he I? estate N. C. R Road Company," almost universally eal lie "Western Extension." Title lad roatl is eompleted fr?m Ibis city to i p'eaaant village of Mnrganton, a distanet some eighty mil-a and no /WrlAsr. A?1 rille Is sixty miles weetwardly from M gnnlon, and almost due west from this el The late meeting at Aelterille was held ' promote I he eoeeeae of the two rail tr (substantially but one)?Ike one lead from Morrletown, Tenn., ria Paint K-wk Asherille, and the other from Asherille Greenville or Spartanburg. 8. C. Th two roads are generally spoken of as one. i are styled the - Creee Charter." Our eellent contemporary will oereetre br ra enea to lh? map, that thle eontempla " eroee railway " rttna aaarly du* North South from Morrbtown, Tana., lo Or* villa, 8 0., and tharafora tHa Imagin liaa >a at right angles with tha imagiq line of tha " Wntrrn Estaneian "?am built, eonneota Charleston with lforr.ato Tann., by rail* by a euuth-eaet dad not weat line. Our oontamparary baa fallen into agregfoOe miataka In aaaartlng that " Buta of Worth Carolina haa never par tad a a barter. to ba leaned la **y I rpad, aaaapt with tha IhniUiton that aompany ao chartered ah*11 conform to guaga of tba road fised by tha f lata, wl ? ?-? ?-H>?A?' " " ^ iCXPTJL,A-It tmmmmmmmmmm^mmmmmmSOtmmmkm CAROLINA. OCTOBER 33. lii i? four ImIwi Mrwt* tM* the trkiti of adjoining rooli (leading) out oV \fca State." 8? far from Ihi. awertion being correct, U?* ffM/lrf# r#ffnV/iAM allndaii In nnlw aff^afa l?n j. single rotdi leading out of the Statt, !?: th? Charlotte and Columbia Railroad and >'r tha contemplated Greenville and French Broad R. R. It ia true that tha charter granted to their contemplated " Groee-rall. 'f way," contained the reel fiction that the m gnegc ahonld eorreapond with that of the id H W?atern Extension," and thla' restriction ** killed the enterprise; but at the laat acaelon r* of our Legtalatnra, the eliarter of tha Wret ' ern N. 0. R. R. Company waa amended aa * followa: "That tha Fraaident and Director* of ^ WeeUrn N. C R. R-, ahall hare power to ' eonatruet the road from tha mouth o( Swannanoa (Aebeville, Fd ) to the Paint Rook ' (Tcnneaaea Line, Ed.) the Tennessee guage," in Ao. '* Tha Tenneaace guage la the earn* aa the * South Carolina guage. Aa aoon a* the road *r from Aalterille to Taint Rock la und?-r_ ra etood to be "a fixed fact," the intereat of ^ Wra'ern North Carolina and of the Western T N. C. R, R. Company would prompt them V to releaaa tha reetrietion on tha guage of f the Oreanrille and French Broad R. R. " Our contemporary thut aeae that the * " Croaa Charter " trill epcrate al a cliehnel 1 of gi eat wealth to the city of Charleeton, r* ae giving an outlet along the direction of I the old wopon rood by rail for the trene* port at ion to Charleaton rla Gr*en villa or Spartanburg and Columbia of the raat re 1! aourcea of North Caroline, Tenneaace, Ken. ,n lucky and even tha more diatant Staler.? n Tha greet North weet will pour her raat *' producte, diverted from the Northern marte m into the lap of Charleaton, and we hope t- t I II *L.i -I? ?lit .1 ?- ?t hmu uviivtv ! ! ? >no win inu? vt vnimta to spring phceiils-like, Into Ik* great tapo"l rinm of the South. 0 W? may odd that we are quit* surprised that our eentemporary should regard tha ram arks of Col. Tovbmm "eonfnsed" or '' " unintelligible." By reference to Mitchell's 11 Universal Atlas, it will ba aaan that, pro sntnptiaaly at I*ait, tha looatlon of tha C?>' lumhia and OreenvUla Road is vary - pa1 auliar," forming about tha angle prefteotad ^ by a full-drawn how with a portion of tha N string hanging down. i * " C?<1 Town?a" (as reported in ths En'* Urprise) " rosa and addressed tha mealing, giving a brief l.iitory of the brat efforts to P connect Cbarlaaton and tha Wast, tha etnp'' ping of the road at Columbia, tha aobee. qunit building of tha Greenville and Co* lunibia Railroad, it* peculiar location, sow''' neciing Greanvilla with Columbia, wliila it C (tha route by Greanvilla?En.) afforded a %traiykl track in tha direction of Aiken and r* Augusta, thus giving to GreenvilU the prospect now about to be realised, of a thorter corf better route to ChWhtton thah by Columbia, and alao a railroad 'co'rtne'clioVi nearly direct with August*, and eonaequently, with all Southern Georgia; Florida and tha South west gsnarally. He showed clearly that tha location of tha Greenville and Columbia R. R., waa really a moat for* >a- tunata one." A<\ Ac. N?w, Ihle language ie in clear and intailigibla to us. and ware it used li by any other, than our liberal and highly toned contemporary who ahoutd call it it "confused and unintelligible," wo should ve be inalined to suppose that lie did not with an to understand. To any one at all eonvera ad ant with tha mallet, and with the sio of tha trip, tha remarks of Col. Townee are 'clear I Tk. A.W.I. .r i!. i-l Ill pMiiwii, wiiwib vi mi remnrii 1,1, should ba taken together. He oommenofi U *'7 history of the ettefapt to eonnect Charteston #$tl? the greet Welt? that title ltlt enterpVUa we* greatly emharrAksed by th? the poealler loeition of the 0. A C. R. R.?l.'At, )nd that while the loeetion wee peculiar it hai 0| lnm?l out to bo at thie time fdrtnnate, l[i. * ft?V GfaenVille.) befcsus'a Ihit portion of th< |e<j roed t6 Vhe Vend taming eert end nnothr' ,m. road from the bend to Aiken, wouid form i , m straight traek from Iforrfstown, Tenn.. t< # i Aiken; whereas, had the road been hnili ate ''T Laurens, the plain route to Ash* villi ;,H and Morrletown, Tenn., would have beer lj,g via Spartanburg, leaving Greenville mnii l(r ilist a nee to the West?as a ros.l to Aikei tl,e from Greenville would have almost present i qI *d a right angle with Charleston. Aiken i but a short distsnee from Augtsla. C?1 nr Townes than shows that as anon as tha " air |{y Una " root# i# built? thara will only remaii . to the distenoe of twenty Ave miles as a ga ij, between Greenville and Charleston, aa tha j?g ia tha dUtanee from Ninety-Six, on tha G -to A C. R R , to Lott'a on the Alr?Liue roat to Now, whether thie line wid he a short* lfM and battar route (from Asheville) t ?nd Charleston than by Spartanburg and Coluir n bia, we era not prepared to disease, bu fer. Certainly coining from a citi* n of Orstr ted il h* said to be " uoiulelll .w ll U generally euppdaed that a railroa lrj Iron Morrietown, T?nn., lo connect wit jifj wn? of the South Carolina rondo wool i I. injure Ibis plaee?of that wa ddfibt, bat w wn nhnll highly favor aa enterprise which look to the development of the hidden wraith i our Sunay Rduth?ae wo regard that rail af| r jade are Intended for the benefit of th 0,4 ptople and not moivty to build up t6woe< en heft atoakholdei 0. Un, [SolUbfr, Old North Stale.. Ktto Aaa H?eey, the daughter of Oapta the Cc'V died recai.t y 1a Culobeetef, EngUad, i -uo M Of 10t? *38 .. , " . * , * , 1867._ _ i TM toWof Hdtlnchild. ft. fttttt o ni Nittorf?Tk* ? Iltd 8k it Id" ? TAt /Vwvr mnd WtaUk a/ lka ft&krckiid* ? Tktir operat'vni witk Amtrieam bond*? Tk? Ruiknkildt i?d ikt Pvju. tim mid ssibld. Cojm with me to tbo eastern ptrt of tk? city?tbo olJ town?wboro you will discover scarcely u ilgo of modem architecture. Tbo street* aro narrow; tbo hn?m loan towards each other from opposite sides of tip bkfy, V 1 if they were friends about to fall into each othore arms. It is the Jews' quarter. Tbo door ways are crowded with women and children?all bearing the unmistakablo features which, the world over, characterise this blstorlo people?rejected of God, despised of nterf, persecuted as no other nation has erelr been. Scattered every where, yet retaining their nationality, endowed with a rlta'ity which has no parallel In the human race. We turd tfAVrn the ^uAengasse, t\ie Mialley, from the chief thoroughfare of the modera town. In this street, one hundred and , twenty four years ago, llred a dealer In old clothes, who had a red Shield lot a sign, which> in German, reads jlof* Sckild. It was in IJ43 thai a child lu bora to this Israelite. The name glren to the boy was Anelem Meyer, who also became a clothes dsffclbV httd a Mwn broker, succeding to the business of tits lather. By degrees he extended his business, lending money at high rates of Interest during the Wars of the last cent'hr^, managing bis affairs with such skill that Prince William tbc Landgrave made him his banker. When Napoleon came across the Rhino, in 1800, this clothes dealer was directed to take care of the treasures of the Wrinoe, amounting to twelve million dollars, which ha invested so judiciously that it brought large Increase to the 6WIAer, and especially to the manager, The banker died in 1811, leaving an estate estimated et $2,000,000?not a f e'ry large sum these days?hut he left an injunction upon his five sons, which was made binding bj an opth given by his sons around his death bed, whic^ has had and still has a powerful influence nm on the world. The eons bound themselves by an oath to follow thvir father's bailnoi together holding bia property in partnership, extending the boaiaeea, that the world nigbtknowof i but one house of the red shield ! (Rothschild-) The sons wcro true to their oath. Nathan went to Manchester, England, as early as 1797, but afterwards mnvef) to London. Anslem remained at Frankfort, James went to Paris> Solomon to Vienna, and Charles to Ntplw, the fire brothers thus occupying great financial centers. Nathan, in London, amassed money with great rapidity, and the same may bo said of all the others, the wars of Napoleon being favorable to the business of the house. Nathan went to the CoVilThent to Witness the operation's of VfehlAgtbo Vn \As last caihpatgn igalnst Napoleon, prepared to hct with the utmost energy, let the result be as it might, lie witnessed the battle of Waterloo, and, when assured of Napoleon's defeat, rode all night with relays of horses, to Ostend, went across the channel ia a fishing smack?fur it was before the dag# of stekitt?'reached tondoh in advance of all other messengers, and spread the rumor that Wellington and Bluehcr were defeated. The 20th of June in that memorable year was a dismal day in London. The battle was fought on the 19th. Nathan Meyer, of the house of lied Shield, by hard riding; VeacWoJ tendon at midnight on the 19th. On the morning of the 20th the nows was over the town that the cause of the allioa was lust, that Napoleon bad swept all before hlin.? England bad been the leading spirit in the struggle against Napoleon. The treasury of Qreat Breatain bad supplied fnnds to nearly all of the allied powers. If tbeir cause Was lost, what hope was tbore for tha future 7 Bankers iAew from door to door in eager 1 kilts to sell tbeir stocks. Funds of every do' scriptioh lent doWn. Anselia Meyer was be teiged by men who had ftinds for sale, but hb ' ?u not in the market, he had no desire to ] i buy. lie too had stocks for sale*. \vhat Would they gIVe? Dht meanwhile he had s scores of agents purchasing. Twenty-four hours later Wellington's messenger artir I td in bnndiA; the trtlh Was known. The ^ aaliOn gave rent Id its joy; up went the funds pouring, it i! said, Are million dollars into the ( coffer! of this one branch of the bouse of tho t' Red Shietd \ B Though Frankfort U comparatively a small | city, thotigh II Has no Imperial court, it is still t a gloat ioMj centre, solely because that hero is the eentral house of the Rothschild and other hankers. , The houso of the Rod Shield is the greatest banking houso of the world?the mightiest o' all time. Its power is felt thb WUtld over?in the Tuilerlcs Paris, in the imperial palace at n St. Petersburg, in the Vatican at Rome, in the P Bank of England, in Wall street, and by every New England Areside. The house of the ^ Red Shield, by the exercise of its Anancial I. power, can nlake A difference in the yearly acir count of every man Who leads these words of ? mine I Though Anslem Meyer has been half I- a century dead; though several of his sous t have gone down to the grate?the honse Is the same. The grand children have the spirit ol i. the children. THe children of the brothers have Ititdttditrrled, And it is one family anima j ted by d com hi on purpose, that the world sbal ( Know ODiy one rta meta. J AMERICA!* ROROS. ? Tbe house, At an early stage of the Ameri [a can va#; ieok hold of the United States bond* ,( Utrdaa; bad eonfidenoe la America. Kng land strove for oar rata, bat the people of tb< Rhine believed la the star of American liber >r ty, Fifty yeafi tf peace bad been lon| enottgb to bring wealth to this land, and * with every steamer orifets Were sent aeross th Atlantic for investment hi American eeeuri n ties. It ia supposed that Oarmaay kolds, a fcl the praoeat time, about three hundred and Aft; . milhops of Waited States heads, aad it is sai is minor i rir' " isjnrn tia. it Ihat titer* have been nq leu thhq fifty million dollar* profit to the banket* of .Freakfort on American aecuritles alnoe 18031 The great banklng-bouec* here Hake little how. The transaction* of the Rothschild* artiount to Million* a day, and jret the o^etitions are conducted as quietly as the business of a small coontlng-houeo. You can purchase any stock her*. Passing along th? strut I noticed honds of the Stat* of California?of aovsrel Bliiu. -<* Ik- " - ? - i,nm wi uio VOliN filMMi tonAa til batch', Ausilan, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, French?boodaof all loads? of States, cities, town* and companies. The report of tho Frankfort exchange are looked at by European bankers with as much Interest atfthat of London or Paris. Eriangor, the banker, who negotiated Vhk rebel cotton loan, and who fleaeed English sympathisers with tho South oat of fifteen million dollars, has a house here, lie has Just now taken hold Of the floW Tunisian looD*, hfik his management of the rebel loon has brought discredit upon his house. The power of the Red Shield Was fblt by Prussia last summer. The Prussian Goverinment demanded an Indemnity of a great amount, twenty-lire million dollars, I believe, from the City of Frankfort, The head of th* house of tho Rod Shield lulorttted Counk felittirk that if the attempt was made to enforce that lery he would break every bank ia Berlin ; that he hod the power to do It, end that he should exercise the power. Prussia hod won a victory at Konnlgrats; she could sweep away oil armed opposition) bfit here, Ik the perron of one man, she had mot an adversary who hod tho power to humble her, and the declined the contest. A much loWe'r "sum wok agreed upon, which was paid by the otty. tan HOTUSCUU.DS ASD TDK rOTB. tot Bltet'A ec'pldrles Ito taw's feaVe cursed by tbe Pope, and persecuted by the Roman Church. There is no more revelling chapter of horrors in history then that of the treatment of tbe Jews at tbe hands of the Pontiffs. In kit lands Where the Ronftatt Religion is dominant, the ehildrofi of ksrOel have been treated with barbaric rigor?allowed few privileges, denied all rights, looked as a people accursed of God, and tot apart by divine ordipatioh to bo trampled bpo'A by the church, kn Rome, at the present day, the Jews ere oonfinod to the Ghetto ; they are not allowed to set up a shop in any other part of tho city ; they cannot leave tho city without a*permit; can engngo only In certain trades; tbey arc compelled to pay enormous takes intd the k*apal treasury ; they arc subject to a striugeut code of laws established by the Pope for thtir special Government; tbey are i&pHa6ned and fined for the iuost trivial olkohoet.? They cannot own any real estate in the city I eennot build or tear down or remodel aoy dwelling or change their piaco of bnslnaoe, without Papal permission. They are tn abject slavery, with no right whateWr, exoe^t upon tlie cracious eondcesenslon of the P?n? Io fo.r t timet they were unmercifully whipped and compelled to listen once a week to thd clWwiaH doctrine ef the priest*. But time la bringing oranges. Tbe.Pppe Is, in, want of money; and the houao of the red shield baa money to lond on good security. The houte ia always ready to accommodate Government*-. Italy wanta money, ao the sella her fine aya. tern of railroads to the Rothschilds. The Popo wanta money, and he sends hia Nuncio to the wealth^ house or tiio despised race offers them socurity on the property of tho chiitbh; tho Compagne, and receives ten hiillion dollara to main lain bis army and Imperial State. That was in 1805. A year passes, and the Pontifical expenditures are five millions thofo than the income, and the deficit la made dp b$r Iho Rothschilds, who take a second security i*l d higher rato of interest.? I Another year hsa passed anA there It & tblhl great annual vacuum in the Papal Treasury 6f six millions, which quite likely will be filled by the same house. Tho firm ean do it with a* liluch enso as your readers can pay their subsertpitlnn to the Weekly Journal. When will iho Popo redeem his loan at the rate he Is going? Never. Manifestly the day Is not far dhtant when these represbntatiVee of the persecuted raeo will tiiVe rtil tiib ttrallablb proper* ty of the church in their posseiaioh. Surely time Wotka wonders.?Cor, Iforton Jouma'. s_; The Cost of Negro EnUneip&tioilThe Washington National Intclllgeiteer exposes the fearful cost of negro emancipation. It sajs emancipation of the blacks has been enforced, but at what coat f Pr< scribing able generals and exalting Incapable tools of power Two years of (jisa>Ufs In hattlel Htlnareils 6f thousand* of the live* of white soldiers, and of thoae permanently maimed and aiek. Mourning in every household of the land. The rank* of labor invaded, produotiod diminished, end prices made exorbitant. l)i afta instead of v< bin'leering. Foreignets instead of htttive* fob aoldlera. Cap'lcioiis and wicked military ftrresU ' and iinptisbiifiienU without cause or law: KxceeeiVo duties fostering elnss niohopo1 lies. A paper enrreney displacing gold, nnd having a value, lis opmpared with the letter j I of only two end irtirve to one during long i periods. An Infusion^of deep demoralisation in the I form of luxnrv. viae end af-ltne dmftner tl.M people. Division of the people In opinion in re* spect to the war. Profligacy, corruption, and tyranny Id the administration of the general government and that of the Htatee. Every form of fraud upon government; hy 9 which a mon.-troua ahoddy aristocracy it a* - barn created. I Fraud and force at the polls, o Disregard of the constitution, laws and # tba judicial ofHc , with its judgment*. Subsidies bv ed upon eittea and towns to enforoa tha draft, with debts contracted in * the sams regard. y The deetMictit n of the ahippinj ntcn vt d with commerce.