The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-10-09
A Short Chapter about Money.

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1t arose in the degree of desire by which
ono thing was more wanted than another.
The most desired commodity was taken In
exchange. Barth, in Ncgritia, was whole
day exchanging. to get at some particular
article. lie found marrow strips Of co,sn to
be money. In South Afrioa lances are this
medium of exchange. They have one ad-
vantage-thcy may bS kept Without spiling.
That is a requisite. We all want ice in
Summer, but it wonld hardly do to make it
a medium of exchange. Clapperton speaks
of blocks of salt used for money in the into.
rior of Africa Prescott, the historian, of
coooa beans in Mexico. This money. first
suggests itself aud grows naturally out Of
the state Of things. Peopls don't come to g
gcther aud say, let us adopt money II
comes unto us. 1t is also not merely an
cxchangcable hing, but it is used 20 value
other commodities. II is not measure Of
value, taken in the abstract sense, for there
nre two things to be valued the money and
what it buys We notice the motive of
acquiring il, oftener vanity than utility,
though the latter is not excluded. Dnrbar.
Gus people seek ornaments, but commonly
of some lasting material, as the metals. For
centuries money was weighed. The Jews,
who Ind TO coin. always weighedit. This
survives, in the names OF pounds, ounces,
ivre, nina, all derived from weight Tie
first coined money was private money.
Bechtler, German, for u time carried on
private coinage in Rutherford county,
aNorth Carolina. His coins were stamped
with his name and the denominations they
circulated freely in Georgia. North Carroll
M, and South Carolina, aid Tennessee.
In addition to these faots, stated by DR..
Lieber, we may mention an incident which
came under our observation:
Amerchant from the South brought to
Philadelphia the sum Of $1,000, ia Bech-
tiers coinage; il produced between one and
two dollars premium on the whole amount;
showing the accuracy Of the assay and
valuation Bechtier, on his death, was
succeeded by his son. The establishment
of the mint at Charlotte superseded these
works.t The business was conducted by the
Bechtlers, from ,he beginning to tho end
with the entire confidence of the commni-
ty Ns d. tftit
Coinage was nec 'ssity from the difficulty
OF weighing and assaying metals. Money!
common coin, was developed during the
formative period naturalization, in the
Middle Ages, when the languages arose, and
after literature. the law. 1t is never so
difficult to convince people in matters Of
law. politics, or theology, as it is to change
their habits. This problem was in REFORMS
of currency. to. change tho money in the
minds of market-women. Fifty years after
the change by the revolution in France, 10
needed m ediot of Louis Philippe to enforce
It, Even IN our oYn country, with our coy
venient dollars and tcents, are we not STILL
in the different States, thinking inconveni-
emily in shillicgs and pence. Just so with
the use Of therinometers. People would no.
hp cold In ri do
Reaumur they would freeze aud thaw only
by their accustomed Fahrenheit. Still the
tendency TO uniformity went on, just as with
dEess. which had drawn the habits Of mod.
can nations to . resemblance, while Spar.
tan goes 10 Athens was known at once, by
the difference of his garb, and nobody, now
a-days, can distinguish gentleman from
ST Petersburg in Tint way, and thus society
would 60 on till the work Of differentiation,
if the word can be allowed, shall be complet.
ed The Century. =
I.;uUMANiTY ORA FREEpMEN's BuhRAU
AoENT.--The San Antonio (Texns) Ledgee
gives the following:. "During the lato unu-
sual wet seasons, one;of the agents in this
city, belonging to the educational branch of
the Bnrcau. in ordor to obtain. possession of
u room occupied bya poor negro woman.
with three or four children, procured dray,
thrust her aud her helpless little ones out Of
dray and deposited ont upon the open field
the new Episcopal Church. There
she was in the rain and mud, unsheltered.
uncared for, with one of her children sick
and she weak and destitute. In that for
lorn condition, they were seen by ohnri-
table lady ia former slageholder) had
the desired relief promptly furnished But,