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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway.--ten Dollars reward. (search)
Failure of Auguste Helmont's borrowing mission. --During the late session of the Federal Congress, Auguste Belmont, the agent of Rothschilds in Wall street, was induced by Secretary Chase to make a trip to London on a borrowing errand. The object was to see whether a good portion of the Federal loan, which Congress was about to authorize, could not be "placed" in the European markets, under the influential patronage of the Rothschilds. M. Belmont has been in Europe for six weeks. He had the misfortune to be followed over by the news of the Bull Run disaster, which reached England by the next steamer after that which converted himself. Mr. Chase certainly took a very efficient step for the success of his loan. He placed its European negotiation in the powerful hands of a firm which has given currency to even more worthless Government paper than that of Lincoln. He chose the smartest financier in Wall street as the interceder with the Rothschilds, a man holding no less in