The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1859-03-11
How Mcrcv is Made.

There appears to eHlst considerable Il
mount OF miSconccption as to the manner in
which money is madc-not in the Barnum
! sense, but literally. Many persons imagine.
Tor instance, that CONS are, as it were sol
dcred together in two halves, and that the
hcad is struck at one press and tie tail at
! another but this Is quite mistake, the i'm
prcss'ons being given to II plain disc Of met
al, o. "blank," and the cigo milling at =,
single blow. lny",s of uoi,l or silver are
hrs, thown into melting pots and r,!uced to
! tlu'dI'y. After this, they are cas-, into bars
OF various sizes. pr"porionate to tho kinds
of coin t" hr produced from them. Thr,.
bars are next passed forward to rolling, mills
ofgreat power 1--WE speak here of the Emo.
lish Mint) Eliminated, or drawn out hv pres
sure to il state of att"mutv, marvcIousIv III.
iercnt to the rigid form III which they Irf,
the moulds. The bars, IN fact, are converted
into ribbons, flexible as the wiuI Of b,,lc
qun; and these, being beautifully adjusted
III thickness for the pieces TO be obtained
from them, are passc,! to n set of nunchipr
presses, where they are perforated honey
rombc'l-tro, cn, 10 emil. The discs of
metal thus obtained are blank .ovcre;ons
very much resembling sianIllr:, brass hu,
tons, or blank sixpcnceS, as it may happen
TO be sovereign or s:ypcnmy "rihbon>" which
are being dealt with, and are then carried
forward to the wei Ching machines. These
select the sheep from the ..pa's-l!.. Erl,r
andthe heavy from the me,ium, or standard
blanks. The accepted canrl:.tcs for coin
age are now takcn to the markinr room
whilst the rejected are doomed to the pur
ca'o'v OF The crucib!c again. The mark
my inac'in's raise partially tie protecting
edges OF the future coins, which, ar. then :,
gam submitted 10 a fiery ordeal in the s:.a..
OF IN annealiny oven. This operation sof
tens and tempers them. They are made
as Young ladies arc said TO be -Su>ceplibIr
to Impressions, and are then s;ckci, or
blancled, in weak solution of sulphuric
acid. This gives them bright surface,
and removes all impurities. Driving is the
next process, and this is preformcd over Il
hot iron piate-a la muffin anil crnmpe.
Inc blanks are how ready to receive ,h.
image and sup"Iscription" of the Ouccn-
God bless her. This finishing touch is sivcn
IN the prcss-room. THO pieces ar. now
weighed cut to Il number olboys, who AZ
tend and feed the presses with them. On
. one side oftic presses, blanks are put into
tubes, and Oh the other they are thrown ON,
COINS. They get, however, Il mighty hard
squeeze in The mid He PASSAGE between two
beautifully engraved head and reverse dies,
aud are, ut the same time, prevented from
expanding unduly, by means of a collar of
steel, iiucd or m!lled, or It's inner circumfer-
en'ir, which encompasses each individual
piece, at the moment the dies strik,: it,
The outer circumference Of the piece Of gold
or silver becomes thus serraicd, or niic,l.
at the instant OF coinage. The finished SOY.
crciyn or sixpcnccS, or whatsoever coin,
; may be inproccss o! manipulation. now t,lin-
bic out from the presses in rapi, and oils.
tcning succession, AM slide down inclined
planes into tr;vs placed there to catch them.
lhey are eX :"oi ON the surfaces aud
edges to aSccri;.n if they are perfect,
ani then sent out into the wide, wide
world, TO do their mission of good or evil,
AS the good or cv:! dispositions of their Dos.
sesors may MISUNDERSTANDING -1rti=an.
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MANUFACTURE OF CAKrErs.-An cx.
animation OF ordinary velvet carpets shows
that the back, instead Of presenting the same
pattern as the iront-which the ingram does
lis apparently web OF nothing but hemp.
The process OF making velvet carpets in this
way is OF comparatively new invention, and
has contributed more than anything else to
! the great reduction in the price OF such
iabrics. In these carpets, the wool is all
| worked upon the front, and the hemprrl
threads all thrown upon the buck hence
they can be manufactured at IL greater
economy than kidderminstcr carpets. in
which, though they also have velvet sur
face, the thread is carried from bacls to front
aud from front to back. The latter des,
| criptlon Of fine carpets are necessarily mad,
! OF fine wool, and consequently arc much
| the sottcst, wear longer, and do not whiten
| III the seams. But on the other hand. they
cost considerably more, nor can thew be
made with so many colcrs, being woven on
Jarquared loom. The finest Europcan
carpets arc made at the Gobelins, Paris, to
which the famous manufactory Eor the
Savounncire has been transported. The
royal Wilton carpets arc also very bcauti
ful. In these, the pile is raised higher
than in the ordinary Wilton. All Wilton
kidderminster and velvet carpets have the
pile cut In the imperial Brussels the pile
is raised above the ground, and the. pile OF
the figure cut, but the ground is uncut. In
the ordinary Brussels, the pile is left uncut
both in figure and ground. The costly rugs,
exhibited at carpet stores, on which the
figures are deliueatcd almost rs delicately as
in a painting, are not woven; but the
threads are laid horizontally, one by one, as
straw in an ostler:s cutting box, SO that their
ends:f form the pattern, andstbey arc then
pressedstightly, and the surface shaved even
Wnskinyton .Stafss.
AN ELEPHANT SroRy.-Apropos to ele.
plants, my friend Mr.. Neil, the engineer,
told me capital story OF one. A mcna-
gerie came once upon time to Lavington
near Devices, and at nightfall they turned
the elephant out into grass field to eat his
fill. The beast found out that there were
t.urnips not far of, so he got through the
fence and made terrible havoc among them.
In the eariv rporninV Jabo,ar ,o,,.r,o.