Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-30

New METHOD MAKING MIRRoRs. The editor
OF the PrattsviIe Advocate has been shown by Rev.
H. l.. Hill, the inventor of HuLotyping, method of
svering glass; which he considers OF great practical
value in the manufacture of mirrors:
| I" Mr. Hill took small glass, such as Daguerreans
use, Tor covering their pictures, and in forty seconds
it was trans ormed into perfect mirror-Perfect in
every respect. We kept eye upon it the whole
lime the process fully explained, and the result
| cannot be exceed. Out Of some three hundred eX-
perments which MI. Hill has made, he has
| tailed in making perfect mirror.
In this mode of 'silverng glass; there is not par
tice of the usual arnagam of tin foil and quicksilver
bat ii is composed wholly of pure and unaduterated
silver. The discovery was made while he ex-
| permenting glass, with view Of ad apting it TO
heliochromy, never dreaming of its beautiful apPli
cation to the manufacture of mirrors. The invention
did net cost him hours study, and he has already
had liberal offers for the right manufacture, toge
er with the knowledge of doing The expense Of
manu- featuring mirrors by this and durable meth
cd will not think, exceed half the of c1anu-
featuring the kind used besides they always
perfect, and no art of man deface them without
breaking them 10 pieces. We hazard nothing that
1t will create entire revolution in the of max
ing mirrors, and that, in few years most, there
will not be mirror of the kind used to be found
in the county,"
SILVER CHANGE. The vexaton and annoyance TO
which almost every person In the community has
been subjected by of the premium on silver
coin will soon be done away with. The Directors Of
the Mint have made arrangements for prompt exc
cution Of the law of Congress-, and will soon furnish
abundance of silver change. In mosI parts of the
country silver has been at premium Of five per CT,
and never would have shown itself in general crcu
laIion SO long lis value much enhanced
over that of the increasing paper currency. The
Cincinnati Commercial states that the Kentucky
Banks have already shipped 100000 to be recoined.
Large amoants of silver held by the banks in the
large Giles and interior banks OF the States, which
are finding their way TO the Mint in Philadelphia.
There are besdes millions of dollars laid up in shot
bags and old stocking legs, which have been secure.
y hid away in The desks of good housewives and
Flooding farmers in all parts of the Union, which
will soon be sent to the Mint and sold for the appre
ciated price, and put again into circulation, there
is longer any reason for their continued secusion.
VALUE OF CoMMERclAL PAPER. A cashier of
one of the State street Banks in Boston was asked
by member of the Legislature day or two since.
what the proportion Of bank losses in compari-
with loans? For what length of time 90 asked
the cashier. The time placed at Eve years, and
the cashier referring his books, found that the bank
had loaned from fifteen TO eighteen millions of doi-
lars during thar time, and had lostbut t91 %. This
is only evidence of the strictness with which
mercantile paper is borrowed, but is strong testi
mony 10 the value of the old system of banking.
l. Boston Courier.