Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-04-04

a room where the notes of the bank, recel
we'd the day before, were now examined
compared with the entries in the book, ano
slowed away. The Bank of England never
issues the same note second time 1t re-
ceives, in the ordinary course of business
about 100000, or 100000, daily in
notes; these are put up in parcels accord
ing to their denominations, boxed up with
the date of their reception, and are KEPT
ten years, at the expiration of which perioc
they are taken out and ground up in the
mill, which saw running, and made agair
into paper. If, in the course of these ter
years, any dispute in business, or lawsuit
should arise, concerning the payment o.
any note, the bank can produce the identi
cal bill.
To meet the demand for notes so con
stautly used up, the bank has its own paper
makers, its own printers, its own engravers
all at work under the same roof, and il
even makes the machinery by which the
most of its work is done. A complicated
but beautiful operation is register, extend
ing from the printing Office to the banking
Offices, which marks every sheet of paper
that is struck off from the press, so that the
printers cannot manufacture single sheet
of bank notes that is not recorded in the
bank. On the same principle of neatness
shaft is made to pass from one department
to another, connecting clock in sixteen
business wings of the establishment, and
regulating them with such precision that
the whole of them are always pointing tc
the same second of time. In another room
was machine, exceedingly simple, for de-
tecting light gold coin. A row Of them is
dropped one by one upon spring scale
If the piece of gold was Of the standard
weight, the scale rose to certain height
and the coin slid off upon one side of the
box ; if less than the standard, it rose lit
tie higher, and the coin slid off upon the
other side. I asked the weigher what wa:
the average number of light coins that came
into his hands, and, strangely enough, he
said it was question he was not allowed
to answer.
The next room l entered was that in
which the notes are deposited which are
ready for ISSUE "We have thirty.two mil
lions of pounds sterling in this room," the
officer remarked to me ''will you take a
little of it ?" told him it would be vast
ly agreeable, and he handed me million
sterling, which l received with mauy thanks
for bis liberality, but he insisted or my
depositing it with him again, as it would
hardly be safe to carry so much MONEY into
the street. very much fear 1 shall never
see that money again. In the vault beneath
the door were director and a cashier,
counting bags of gold which men were
pitching down to them, each bag contain
ing a thousand pounds sterling, just from
the mint. This world of mouey seemed to
realize the fables OF Eastern wealth, and
gave me new and strong impressions of the
of the business done here, and
the extent of the relations of this one in
stitution to the commerce of the world.
Governor Houston's Appeal to the
People of Texas.
The following is the conclusion of Gov.
Houston's appeal to the people of Texas
The Governor, it will be seen, with com.
meudable prudence, proposes only peaceful
efforts to maintain his authority:
You have withdrawn Texas from her
connection with the United States. Your
act changes the character of the obligation
I assumed at the time Of my Inauguration
AS your Chief Executive, l am no longer
bound to support the Constitution of the
United States. If your act did not relieve
that obligation, it was nothing. If this is
not the result of the action of the people,
the position of the officers of the State Gov.
aud especially that portion who
are members of this Convention, has in.
deed been an anomalous one. Have they
still been acting under their oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States
AS your Executive, no matter what my
views may have been, I am bound to reflect
your expressed will. | have endeavored to
do SO. Were asked to support your Con-
I might waive my objections to
the source from which the oath came. I
am called upon to swear to support the Con.
stitution and laws of the Confederate States,
which | have never seen, aud as your Chief
Executive to reader my allegiance to that
Government, when you have never in any
manner or form declared your desire to be.
come annexed to the same.
Fellow. citizens, in the name of your
rights and liberties, which l believe have
been .rampled upon, | refuse to take this
OATH In the name of the nationality OF
Texas, which has been trampled upon, |
refuse to take this oath. In the name OF
my own conscience, and my manhood, which
this Convention would degrade by dragging
me before it, to pauder to the malice of my
enemies, when by the Constitution the
privilege is accorded me, which belongs to
the humblest officer, to take my oath of Of
fee before any competent authority, refuse
to take this oath.
| am ready to be ostracised sooner than
submit to usurpation. Office has no charms
for me, that it must be purchased at the sa.
cri6ce of my conscience, and the loss of my
selfrespect.
I love Texas too we'll to bring civil strife