Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-08-09
ght in reference to banking, currency and

taught in reference to banking, currency and
! finance.
The vast annual increase of the monisd iE.
stltutions of the United States, and the iR-
innate connection which subsists between
their financial operations and those ofEuropc,
are becoming every day mere and more oh.
Jects OF interest, on both sides ofthe Atlantic.
There were on the lst of January, 1897, in
the different states and territories of the Un-
ion, hundred and seventy.seven incorpcra.
ted banks, having one hundred and fortv.six
branches, dependent CT one another, each Of
which issues notes, anC consequently contri-
butes towards the mass Of the paper currency,
which will soon exclusively FIJI the entire chan
nels of circulation; and It is evident that
knowledge OF much Of the statistical informa-
ton which Is connected with their expansions
and c"n:ractions would be highly beneficial to
every section Of our country, as well as to
merchants and capitalists abroad. a knowl-
edge, also, of the state of pecua;ary Affairs in
Great Britain, and on the continent of Europe,
from which we have obtained so many loans,
and to which we may again, after the resump.
ton gf spcc1e payments, look for additional aid
IN the various enterprises requiring capital,
in which our different states have embarked,
would seem to be essential TO all our nonied
institutions, and to large body of our citizens
, and public men. Indeed, without broad
view the condition of the currency in both
quarters of the wo:ld all great financial en-
terprises must be conducted in the dark; and
when this is the case, it is easy TO perceive
what disasters may follow in their train.
In undertaking this work, the advertiser
has no political party ends TO answer. Mat
ters which concern the happiness and well
being of the whole community are of too high
;; Importance to 0e made the sport ofparty war.
fare. Banking. currency, and finance belong
; to science, and not to party politics; but, ne
/ vertlIeless, where governments and legisla-
5 lures so far forget what is due to science, and
commit the imprudence Of forcing her into the
political arena, it compo.is with the plan OF
D this work to condemn their conduct and ex-
pose their ignorance whenever betrayed, let
) the offenders belong to whatever party they
D may.
5 The editorial department of the publication
! VIII be placed in competent hands, ard orr
. ginal communications may be expected from
y several gentlemen who have studied financial
" subjects. AS to selected matter, the publisher
: trusts there viii be presented to the intelligent
n inquirer after truth collection of statistical
i documents, historical records, and scientific
D arguments, which will be worth his perusal,
9 as may be seen from the following table of
proposed
0 CONTENTS.
U !. The Financial Register viii contain the
annual report OF the Secretary OF the Treasu-
: ry on the finances, and the Directors of the
! : Mint on the coinage, and such parts of the
4 Presidents Messages, and other public docu-
O mcnts and acts of Congress as relates to
O the finances, banking, the currency, coinage.
O and collateral subjects.
2. Abstracts from the annual commercial
} statements, showing the extent Of the com.
5 merce and navigation ofthe United States.
10 8. Abstracts from the reports annually made
6 to the different state Legislatures on the con-
dtion of the State b;~ks, sufficient to show
a their actual condition
. 4. An account of the debt of the different
2 states, and Of their investments IN rail roads,
= canals, &C.. as information may be acquired.
~ 5. Weekly quotations of the sales at N. York
< and Philadelphia the principal stocks, local
and distant, sold in those markets, as also. bills
of exchange, foreign and domestic, as well
. as the rate OF interest of money in the mar
/. ket.
!. 6. The latest and mos: authentic news of
n the state of the money market in England and
;. ;. France, together with all such cesrelativc
! matters as are connected with eaphSl and its
! employment, the prices of British stocks, Am
= erican securities, cotton, and other great sta
,, pies of the United States.
q 7. Statements ofthe condition ofthe banks
[ of England and France as they may appear.
v 8. Such other statistical information con.
nected with finance, banking, currency, ex-
change, &c. as may render the work valua-
bic for present and future reference to
r statesman, legislators, bankers, capitalists,
merchants, agricuituralist manufacturers,
and private citizens.
In addition to these practical and statis.i.
! cal subjects, the Register will contain
Q A copy of the celebrated report of the Bull
lion committee, made TO the British parlia-
|, ment in 1910. in which the question of res
Z 'o-ation to specie payments by the Bank of
England is amply and most ably discussed.
= A history of tie South Sea bubble, of the
Mississippi scheme, and of other commissions
in the pecuniary concerns of Europe.
! A history of the currency and effects of the
!: suspension ofspecie payments by the banks Of
V the United States in 1914, and of the various
: panics and ruinous pressurcs for money which
G have occurred since.
Treatises and essays on banking, currency,
exchange, the relative value gold and silver,
the iInpol;cy Of usurv laws, and other subjects
of k:u.'reG ature, original and selected. :.
All :ho essars Of 'hn Examiner including
two ruh':che in December last, and which
har" no: appeared in pamphlet form, and those
vhicn N " hereafter appear.
Acompiete history Of the late money crisis
ai4- as Consequences, as they may hereafter
be j., .icp.G, - seiTe for future use.
TERMS.
l. The Finance al Register will be published
erery Alternate WeGuesdGu on a super royal