The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-05-09

M0NEY.-Sirahge Is IL vii sp1eaI
10 those Who sre more accustomed q
seiiFI life than 10 silent speculation.
AssyFis. lsays Mr.. I.andseer.l with hef
immense hosts. and her spacious and
magnificent cities. had no money; EgyPI
l-npulent. popalous, mysterious and
ahundanI Egypl-hsd no money; ancient
Persia. before the age Of the FIRST Darius.
had no money; The early Hebrews. and
even during The most prosperous period
Of The age NJ solomon. and down 10 ihe
time OF Judas Maecsbrus. were without
money; Etruris, from first 10 last, was
without money; Rene Vas without
money 10 the time Of SefFius Tnllius. and
The Greeks Of The heroic ages we're equal
~ destitute Of money. Among al those
nations, gold aud silver, when used in
barter, WAS weighed out by the scales, NJ
when Abraham purchased The cave ol
MsehPeish. he /" weighed 10 Ephron the
silver which be had named in ihe audi
enee Of thesons Of Ilslh;" moreover. there
was ancienlly no money in Arabia, or the
riches Of the patriarch Job would not hare
been estimated BY his esmels, oxen. and
she asses; and there was none in Greece
down 10 the lime Of Homer, who no
where mentions or alludes 10 il, but, on
The contrary. by informing Us iha, the
srmor Of Dicmede cos, only nine oxen.
while that which 6iaucus generously gave
in exchange for IL, cost one hundred.
shows lhatcaItle, in their larger purchases.
were mado the current measure OF vaIue.
IL is from this circumstance, too, Of oxen
and asses being al the time the ordinary
and known signs Of property and current
measure Of value, thai we find them
specially mentioned in the tenth com.
mandmeni: and the virtual prohibition Of
coseIousness derives local inIelligibilily
from the no,orieiy Of the fact.
The invention Of coming was not only
q very curious adaptation of engraving
10 The purposes Of society, but an i'm
porisnt event in the history Of the world.
IL is not, however, known when or in
what country money first became the SUBJ
sIiIn!e for cattle and unsismped bullion,
ss the general representative of property
and the measure ofTalue. Mr.. Laadseer
is Of opinion that the Darics issued BY
the first Darius are the Oldest Persian
coins that we're ever minled in that En-
pire.
There is, however, reason 10 believe
that Darics were not the very first coins
which the world had beheld. Monies.
quieu is Of opinion that the I.ydisns
frat found on, the art Of coming money.
By others, the invention is attributed 10
Phidon Of Argos. But the arts Of die
and OF the miniage Of money
were, no doubt, Ike mos. other arts.
progressive. That ingo.s ofbullion were
in Commercial use, that stamps were
applied 10 them in order to save lime and
The constant reference 10 the scales, and
lhs. barter was thus facilitated in Western
Asia for ages prior TO that OF Lycurgus.
are not only facts very supposable and
credible in themselves, but may be |
from the circumstances Of
u stamped ingols" being alluded to in the
Hebrew and Arabic versions Of the book
'f Job. Thus il may be seen how
possible IL is for very numerous and ex-
ensive communities to arrive at national
md commercial prosperity, and to attain
popular happiness or comfort without
money, without even the knowledge Of
hat which 10 modern habi,udes and TO
iome modern philosophers appears to be
% indispensable 10 every purpose Of life,
md slmos. even 10 existence itself. India,
Persia. Assyria. Judea. Egypt. Rome,
he nations Of Asia Minor, including
Tyre and its dependencies, all arrived at
utilization and comfort, without the
:uTrent use Of cash, and carried on their
Extensive mercantile and manufacturing
Transactions merely by barlering com.
rodisies in kind-bullion being reckoned
mong those commodities. These nations
gerc popuIous almost beyond crediblity.
nd transported their produce. msnufsc.
nres, and other merchandise in ships of
Fire and Tarshish from Cphir, and the
imost Indian isle, (which is believed 10
ave been CeylOn, 10 Gaul and our own
;assi,erides.