Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1875 — A Remarkable Career. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Career.

The Faris correspondent of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette relates the history of a remarkable careet: In 1863 Count de Susini Ruisco came to Paris. He was a Spaniard by birth, but long domi ciled in Cuba, where he owned a cigar manufactory ; La Honrader was its brand, and it is said to have been and to be still famous all the smoking world over. Count de Susini Ruisco was master, of an income between SBO,OOO and SIOO,OOO a year. Such an immense amount annually renewed was of a truth Fortunatus’ purse, and ’twould have proved such in reasonable hands; but, unfortunately for Count derSusihi Ruisco, when he reached Pans he fell into the claws of those adventurers, those parasites, who are on the watch for wealthy prey. He took a mansion on Boulevard Haussmann, which was open to all comers. All the harpies of Paris flocked there. I include in this expression niit only the mere adventurers, but men of station who have not means enough to gratify all of their desires. A wealthy American gentleman who went a good deal into French society told me he was obliged to cease dining at Case Anglais to end the annoyance of paying for the dinners of people who would wait daily at the restaurant’s door and force themselves on him. These people were Dukes, Princes and Marquises. At dinner-time it was next to impossible to enter Count de Susini Ruisco’s mansion. Tom, Dick and Harry went there, and next day brought rag, tag and bobtail with them, who in turn brought their friends. Can you imagine. I will not say thAatisfaction, but the patience, with which any man could see unknown face after unknown face flock around him, especially if they came to devour his substance? Vanity finds food in strange objects. Count de Susini Ruisco was eaten up by vanity, and he blazoned his weakness on the walls of his house. He had thirty or forty foreign decorations and they were hung each in a separate carved gilt frame in his diningroom, which contained, moreover, an immense genealogical tree, which bore the De Susini Ruisco’s family high above the flood, and almost to the gates of Paradise. Count de Susini Ruisco’s parasites were not satisfied with eating his dinners and stuffing their pockets full of the best cigars (the more impudent knaves carried oft-un-der their arms a whole box); they borrowed money of him. A scamp named Bureau managed to borrow to the tune of $600,000. I am not mistaken —dollars, not francs. The rascal Hueelmann squeezed nearly as much out of Count de Susini Ruisco by attacking him in one newspaper, showing him the attack and ■wringing money out of him to repel the attack in another newspaper. Isn’t that thoroughly French ? Of course no estate under heaven could bear such drafts upon it and not end exhausted. In six years the Spaniard who had entered Paris with an annual income of SBO,OOO or SIOO,OOO had neither money nor credit enough to' buy k fifty-centime dinner in the Palais Royal. How he must have regretted those evenings when, supper ended, he and his giddy companions would throw out of the window everything on the table—linen, glass, porcelain, silver! How he must have lamented that feeling of power he possessed upon entering Paris with so princely an income! No sooner did he find his money gone than he wanted it back again. Guided by knaves around him he brought out the Compagnie Francaise des tabacs, whose object was to deal in tobacco, to sell cigars of the Honrades brand, and to sell patents of the tobacco-machines he owned. The capital consisted of $1,500,000 in shares of SIOO each; half of it was paid up (in reality not a single cent had been paid), and soon afterward bonds were issued. It may seem strange to persons ignorant of the gullibility of the public when they hear that of 28,000 bonds offered 200,000 were taken, and yielded to these adventurers $1,240,000.’ Just think of it: a million and a quarter of doftars given away for worthless bits of paper! This maney soon was dissipated, the bondholders became clamorous, the aid of the judicial authorities was invoked. Their investigations led to the arrest of Count de Susini Ruisco, and to his arraignment before the criminal court. Judgment has been reserved till next week, for in this court there is no trial by jury. What do you think of a man who reached Paris with SBO,OOO a year incomp, and who is branded as a common swindler in the ‘ police court ?