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are made current at q much higher value
than the metal they contain. In China,
Syce silver is the principal currency, and
is merely ingot silver of o uniform fneuess,
paid and received by weight. Spanish dol
lars also circulate there, but only after they
have been assayed and stamped as proof
that they are of the standard ineness
As Asia Minor produced gold, its earliest
coinage was that metal.
Italy and Sicily possessing copper, bronze
was 6rst coined there.
Herodotus says the Lydians were the first
people known to have coined gold and sill
yer They had coin at the close of the
ninth century B. c.; Greece proper, only
at the close of the eight century B. c.
Servius Tullius, King of Rome, made
the pound weight of copper current money
The Romans first coined silver 281 B.
c., and gold 2O7 B. C.-Eoran on Money.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01

FACTS AND FREAKS OF CURRENCY. -
Many things have been used at different
times as money-cowrie shells in Africa !;
wampum by the Indians; cattle by ancient
Greece.
The Carthaginians used leather as mon
ey, probably bearing some mark or stamp.
Frederick H., at the seige of Milan, is
sued stamped leather as money.
In 1860, John the Good, King of
France, who was taken prisoner by the GEL
ebrated Black Prince, and sent to England
until ransomed, also issued leather money,
having silver nail in the centre.
Salt is the common money in Abysinia !;
Goldfish in Iceland and Newfoundland.
"Liviug money" slaves and oxen, passed
current with the Anglo, Sazons, in payment
of debts.
Adam Smith says that in his day there
was village in Scotland where it was not
uncommon for workmen to carry nails, in
stead of money to the bakers shop and the
ale house.
Marco Polo found, in China, money made
of the bark of the mulberry tree, bearing
the stamp of the sovereign, which it was
death to counterfeit.
Tobacco was generally used as money in
Virginia up to 1860, fifty seven years after
the foundation of that colony.
In l64l, the Legislature of Massachu-
setts enacted that wheat should be received
in payment of all debts.
The convention of France, during the
revolution, on the proposition of Jean.Bon
Saint Andree, long discussed the propriety
of adopting wheat as money, as the meas.
ure and value of all things.
But the metals best adapted and most
generally used as coin, are copper, nickel,
silver aud gold; the first two being now
used for coins of small value, to make
change, the two latter, commonly designa-
ted "the precious metals" are used as
measures of value and legal tenders.
On the continent of Europe, a compost
tion of silver and copper, called bullion,
has long been used for small coins, which
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-02-01

A Progressive PEOPLE Nothing it,
lustrates the progressive character of our
people more fully than the financial anon
ally of broken bank being as good as a
sound one This is undoubtedly true; for
however numerous may be the failures of
national banks, their notes are just as good
after the failures as before; every dollar Of
their circulation being secured by one dol
lar and ten cents in United States six per
cent gold bearing bonds, or their equivalent
iu other bonds, deposited in trust with the
United States Treasurer, to secure the
same. Considerable apprehension has been
excited in the minds of those who are ig-
norant of the above facts, by the reported
failure of large number of these national
banks. These failures have been grossly
exaggerated, but one or two having been
reported to the Comptroller of the Curren'
oy at Washington.
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Nnmprpns Geaalng.
MEAN TO MARRY

Bv JOHN c. SAXE.
When do mean TO marry: Well
IT'S idle 10 dispute with fate;
But if YOU choose TO hear me tell.
Pray listen while fix the date.
When daughters haste with willing feet,
a mothers daily toll 10 share;
Can make the puddingS that they cat,
And mend the stockings which they wear
When maidcnS look upon man
As if himself they would marry,
Anduot aS army soldiers scan
4 sutlcr or 4 cemmiSSary.
When gentle ladies, who have got
The offer Of q lovers hand,
Consent 20 share his ''carthly lot
And do not mean his lot of land.
When young mechanics are allowed
TO find and win the farmers girls.
Who don't expect TO be endowed
With rubicS, diamonds and pearls.
When wives. in short, shall frcClygirc
Their hearts and hands TO aid their spnllScS,
And live aS they were won't 20 live
Within their Sires' one story houses.
Then. madanl-iC I'm not too old
Rejoiced 10 quit this lonely life,
III brush my beaver, cease To Scod,
And look about me for wife.
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A CURIOUS RELIc.-Our attention was
arrested yesterday, by medal or coin of
the ancient and happy days of gentle peace.
1t was quietly resting in show case some
where on Middle street-we have forgotten
the exact locality. The courteous owner
permitted full and thorough examination
of the relic, and its peculiarities are indel-
libby impressed upon our memory 1t is OF
solid silver, circular In form, and about an
inch in diameter The thickness IS about
that of a piece of leather. Upon one side
is bird surrounded by something like SUD-
rays and underneath the bird are the quaint
words, in some forgotten language-''quar
lol." On the other side beautiful young
woman represented in sitting posture,
with a stick in one hand. Upon the upper
end of the stick there hangs what appears
to be uightcap and upon scroll connec.
ted somehow with the box or seat she occu-
pies appears the name, "L. 1. Berty." p
That is supposed to be the name Of the
lady herself, and doubtless the medal or
coin formerly belonged to her. We asked
the gentleman who was so fortunate as to
possess it, what he supposed its intrinsic
value to be, and were astonished to hear
that in former years they could be bought
at SO per dozen, or rs cents apiece.
1Ne,obern Times.
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his line, with and dispatch, and at prices current
here thirty years ago.
TIME-KEEPERS Of all kinds, and cscapements, which
Of the better qualities and when thoroughly REPAIR
WORK for their good performances for the space of ONE
YEAR, If well used. and their ownership remain unchan
gcd. TERMs-CASII, OR BARTER.
E. A. CRENSHAW.
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Selettea gHistellany.
TOO GOOD TO BE LOST.


[The following lines were written on th
back of five hundred dollar Confederat
note.
Representing nothing on Gods earth now,
And naugh In tho waters below 1t
As pledge Of the nation that's dead and gone,
Keep II, dear friend, and show it
Show Il to those who will lend an ear
To the tale that this paper can tell,
OF liberty born, Of the patriots dream
OF the storm-cradled nation that fell.
Too poor TO possess the precious ores,
And too much Of stranger 10 borrow,
We issued to-day our pomise to pay,
And hope TO redeem on the morrow.
The DAYS rolled and weeks became years,
But our Golfers were empty SILL,
Coin was rare that the Treasury quaked,
If dollar should drop in the till.
But the faith that was In us was strong, indeed,
And our poverty well discerned;
And these little cheeks represented the pay
That our suffering volunteers earned.
We know ii hardly had value in gold,
Yet as gold her soldiers received II;
1t gazed in our eyes with promise TO pay
And each patriot soldier believed II.
But our boys thought little of the price or pay,
Or Of bills that were over due;
We know II II brought US bread to-day,
1t was the best our poor country could do
Keep it, it tells our history all over,
From the birth of Its dream to the last
Modest and born of the angel Hope,
Like the hope OF success Il passed.
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A G A I N

ALL small Cutlery, Surgical instruments, Metallic Wrl-
ting Pens, &C., &C., will be GROUND, POLISHED, or
otherwise put In good WORKING ORDER by the subscr
bcr. TERMs-CASH OR BARTER -
E. A. CRENSHAW.
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YET AGAIN..

SOME matters required will be MADE, and Surveyors
Compasses will be REPAIRED, and their Needles MAG
NETIZED together with other Mathematical InstrI-
ments made and repaired BY the subscriber.
TERNs-CASH, OR BARTER.
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IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY,
YORK DISTRICT.
Partition of Real Estate.

R. L. Lindsay, Applicant John Doste Elizabeth Dos
ter, William Doster James Black and wife, Jane; Ellen
DOster, Snah Dostcr Robert DoSter and Lawrence Dos
ter children of Martha Doster deceased Alcester Doser
Join w. Doser, Mary c. Doster, Margaret A. Doster,
G. B. Doster, Felix Doste Albert J. Doser, and Ran
W. Robson w. Z. Robson, e. D. Robson, John Robi-
SON Mildred Robson, Robert r. Robson who has since
died leaving his heirs atlaw, his father Clark Robi
SON and his brothers and sisters herein named David s.
RUSSELL and wife, Margaret E.; William brennan and
wife, Martha: children OF Margaret A. Robson, formerly
Margaret A. DOser, heirs-ataw Of Enoch Doser, de-
ceased. ,
tappearing my satisfaction that John Doster Ehzaoe
Doser, William Doster James Black and wife, Jane aa
w. E. Robson, defendants in above stated case, iu
pear and object the division sale OF te rea ese vi
Enoch Dosler deceased, bsioLe me sn pay VI hp'
'-''' VI '''" |'A7o"' W" j. A. BROWN, o. Y. D.
January4 Su
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MOREOVER.

SILVERING by luna conea, and PLATING with Sll-
yer, and GLIDING with Gold, together with LAQUERING
on Metals, will be done by the subscriber.
TERMs-CASH, OR BARTER. -
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AN OLD BUSINESS RESUMED.
THE Subscriber hereby

THE Subscriber hereby
informs the PUBLIC,
that he has resumed his
old business Of CLOCK
and WATCH MAKING,
together with the repair
ing Of JEWELRY, and
the Engraving Of DE-
SIGNS on METALS, At
his place on CONGRESS
Street, No. IS, Yorkville,
8. C. He Is fully pre-
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PROSPECTUS OF
"The North Carolina Guardian"

"The North Carolina Guardian"
The undersigned will issue commencing the first day
Of January 1866, In the city of Charlotte, N. C., daily
and r-weeky newspaper under the style and title Of
THE NORTH CAROLINA GUARDIAN,
which shall be devoted especially the dissemination Of
the latest news and the guarding with eagle eye the In
teests of the State under the Constitution and In conform
ity with the laws OF the United States.
There will also be issued from the office, weekly
paper under the style and title Of
THE CATAWBA WATCHMAN."
The terms for the DAILY GUARDIAN will be, for one
year, 81 six months, S4 three months 250; any less
The TRI- WEEKLY GUARDIAN will be supplied to
subscribers at So twelve months; 50 for six months
T5 for three MONTHS and 10 cents per month for any less
time.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
Ordinary advertisements occupying not more than ten
lines Zone sQare) will be inserted In either of the above
publications cents for the first insertion and
fifty for each subsequent insertion Larger adver
tlsemens In exact proportion Liberal discounts VIII be
made for contract advertising.
THE WEEKLY WATCHMAN
will be furnished subscribers s. per annum, single
COPY and TO club Of five for 81 so club Of ten for
Sl2 So and 10 a club of twenty for S20 with an extra
copy the getter up Of clubs.
All orders should be addressed 10
j. e. BRITTON,
Editor and Proprietor "Guardlan,"
Charlotte, NJ c.
December IA IS
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THE STAMP ACT.

ONE OF THE TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATES.
There are probably but few of the readers OF this paper
who know the details of the Stamp Act Yet there no
law State or National the provisions of which are more
important to the people, Here such Of Its proceedings
mink Us will prove most interesting and important to
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GENERAL REMARKS.

Revenue Stamps may be used ndiscnminatey upon any
Of the matters things enumerated In schedule B. e1cep
proprietary and playing card stamps, for which special
use has been provided.
Postage stamps be used In payment of tho duty
chargeabe on instruments.
II Is the duty of the maker of instrument to a1 and
cancel the stamp thereon. II he negects 10 do so, the
party for whose IL Is made may stamp II before Il is
used but in be legally used without stamp
and used after the Both OF June 1854 and used without
a stamp afterwards be efectually stamped. Any
failure upon part Of the maker of instrument TO ap
propriaey stamp it, renders him liable to penalty Of
hundred dollars
Suits are commenced in many States by other process
than writ, viz: summons, warrant publication, petition
&C.. in which case these, as the original process severay
require stamps.
Wrs of seire faclas subject to stamp duty ohg
nal processes.
The jurat of affidavit taken before Justice of the
Peace, Notary Public other officer duly authorized
take afdavi Is lred to be certificate, and subject
stamp duty Of cents, except when taken In suits legal
proceedings.
Certificates of loan in which there shall appear any
printed written evidence Of amount Of money to be
paid on demand any time designated are subject 10
stamp duty as "Promlssory Notes."
The assignment Of mortgage is subject to the
stamp duty that imposed upon the original instrument
that is to say, for every Of five hundred dollars
any fractional part thereof Of the secured by the
mortgage, the time of its assignment there be aI
ed stamp or stamps, denoting duty Of fifty cents.
instrument the stamps which the instrument Is liable
under the law may be affixed and cancelled by one of the
parties.
stamp affixed must answer to the value of the
interest conveyed.
No stamp required any warrant Of attorney accom-
panyng bond note when such bond or note has af
liked thereto the stamp stamps denoting the duty
quired and whenever any bond note Is secured by
mortgage, but one stamp duty required such papers,
such stamp duty being the highest rates required for such
Instruments either of them In such case note or
memorandum Of the value or denomination Of the stamp
affixed should be made upon the margin or In the ac-
acknowledgement Of the instrument which Is not stamped.
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-14
From Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 13.-The second meeting
of the National School superntendents con.
vened at the House of Representatives this
afternoon, President Birdsley Grant Northrop
presiding. An address of welcome to the State
was delivered by Professor Hass, of Indiana.
Among the distinguished delegates present
we're j. w. Buckley, Superintendent of Schools
OF Brooklyn; W. Colby, Superintendent of
Freedman's Schools of Illinois; Isaac l.. Goode-
now. State Superin tendent of Kansas; ]. B.
Wickersham, State Superintendent of Pennsyl-
vania. j. Sarmiento, Minister OF the Argentine
Republic, read paper before the Association,
which was received with applause.
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H u UROPE.
BY Atlantic Submarine Telegraph Cable.
NEWS TO MONDAY, AUGUST 10.
The United States Naval Ofilcers in
St,Petersburg, and q Grand
Russian Ovation.
RUSSIA.
RUSSIA.
The Untted states Naval Officers in 81.
Peteraburg-Grand Ovation.

ST. PETERsBURG, August l2.-The United
States naval officers made their official entry
into the city yesterday Saturday, August III,
and had grand reception. Fifty thousand
people turned out to witness their entrance.
They were welcomed by magnificent ovation,
with music, cheers, the display of flags, and
thousands OF handkerchles waving in all direc-
tions. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
Hon. Cassius M. Clay, our Minister to the
Court OF st. Petersburg, gave brilliant enter
tainment at his hotel to the diplomatic corps,
the heads OF departments, and distinguished
citizens, in honor of the naval officers. A ball
and supper was given by the Yacht Club, which
was attended by the beauty and grace of the
city. All the public buildings were dressed in
Union colors and brilliantly illuminated which,
with the fireworks, tended TO produce very
lively sensation. Altogether the affair was a
splendid tribute 10 Amenca.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-14
Colorado,s Last Appeal.

Mr.. William Cornell Jewett has just handed
the following manifesto to our reporters:-
WIGwAM OF THE JOHNSON CONVENTION, PHILA-
DELPHIA August ID, 1S66--Senator Doolittle:-
/ informed Senator Cowan that both you
and the President we're wrong in not having APP
pealed TO the people for legitimate repre-.
sentation to day, in place of as now, public men.
Unless you adjourn under transfer of power
to the people for future convention, your
Conveuton will prove powerless, and you will
have brever lost position and power with the
people. who must soon assume power or see the
republic destroyed.
/ now tell you further. You have again done
wrong in allowing Wood to withdraw, and If
Vallandigham withdrHws, or be voted out of the
Conventisn, the people must deem it a proof
that your Convention want no sentinels of
liberty in their midst.
WILLIAM CORNELL JEwETT.
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Frank Leslie's Newspaper and Harper's
Weekly are represented by strong force OF de-
signers and descriptive writer's.
FULL OFFICIAL LIST OF THE NEWSPAPERS REPRE-
SCENTED.
The following is an official list OF papers re-
presented, according to the seats they occupy;-
The New York News, %, a. 25, gallery;
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 26, n, gal
lery i; Philadelphia Age, Is, 20, gallery
/; German Abend Post, gallery q; Ohio
State journal, gallery /; Pittsburg
Republican, gallery 1; Louisville Journal, gal.
lery /; Pittsburg Chronicle, gallery l; Philadel-
phia Star, seat 30 OF gallery 1; N. o. Picayune,
gallery l; Boston Journal gallery 2; Cincinnati
Gazette, gallery l; Western Associated Press
seat, 81 of the gallery; Boston Advertiser, seat
80 of the gallery; Boston Transcript, seat 80
of the gallery; Boston Post, seat 81;
Jersey City Times, "a; Boston Herald, 30; Boston
Traveller, So; Evening Express, 3s; Boston Com
mercial 80; Philadelphia Inquirer, seats 40 and
Al, gallery l; Phila. German Democrat, ~ and 43;
Campaign DIAL "A; Associated Press, 8, 8, 1S, ID /;
sutton's Washington Reporters, 6, 7, 10, l6;
New Orleans Crescent, gallery Il Washington
Republican, As, gallery 1; Buffalo Commercial
Advertiser, gallery L; Chicago Republican, as;
New York Nation, gallery l; Baltimore Tran
script, AZ; Chicago Journal, 4s; Philadelphia
United States Gazette, German, gallery 1; New
York Herald, 10, IL, IL, gallery l; Wheeling
Register, gallery l; st. Louis Democrat, 49;
Cincinnati Enquirer so, gallery l.
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Oontin,,ed from n,e First Pooe.1

y
and our people free. The Democratic party for
three full generations was the guardian of American
liberty, and preserved inYlolate this rlch legacy
Which was bequeathed TO us through the DlOodY
testaments of noble generations of glorious men
who willingly offered themselves in sacrifice TO
secure t. This legacy must not be squandered or
more to accomplish than your Convention csD or is
expected to do 1t stands an unbroken army arrayed
against tests and test Oaths other than those pre-
scribed by the Constitution and against those mon
strous retrospective test Oaths which were never
written in the English language, muca less adopted
by deliberatve body, until they were forced upon
the country by the present Legislative mob called the
Congress Of the United states.
Ihe resolutions of 1883 were the great exposi-
tons of Democratic truth. They have been revived
by Kentucky in her late glorious election, and by
OF the people of the United States are Democrats
To them we look with hope for rescue. Their votes
cast or true men, is the only solution of our evils
s,ncereiy trnst your Convention viii do well its
specific work in such a manner as will meet the
hearty approval OF the general Convention Of the
Democratic party, when It may assemble to receive
your co operation. Inasmuch as l think your Con-
VentOn can best sustain the President under the
have concuded 10 abandon the DemocratIc oT0api.
zation. among whom am not included, must re-
speciuly return to you my certificate of appoint
HENRY CLAY DEAN.
The next item of excitement was the with
dTawal of Vallandigham and his Democratic
colleagues from Ohio. This was done in view
of the fact that his presence was acknowledged,
On dll biuSpf w DS luupOilOiC dnu lnOAPC'
was probable that he would not have been
suffered to enter the Convention as delegate,
even if he had not voluntarily retired.
Among others whose absence has created
great deal of talk, are Alexander II. STEPHENS,
OF Georgia. General Dix, Judge Russell, James
T. Brady, and "Sunset" Cox, OF New YORK;
General G. W. Morgan and Hon. George H.
Pendleton, of Ohio; Frank Blair, Of Missouri;
Hon. A. j. Kuykendall and General McClernand,
of Illinois; General Custer, of Michigan; General
Couch, Hon. George Ashmun, and John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts, Senator Guthrie,
of Kentucky; Hon. William G. Rives and Hon.
A. H. Fl. Stuart, of Virginia; Emerson Etheridge,
of Tennessee: Hon. William A. Graham of
North Carolina; and eX-President Burnett, of
Texas. Stephens has been here, but for some
unexplained reason he has travelled back to
Washington, where he is now supposed 10 be in
consultation with the President.
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Teleprnnh Annointment.

New York, August lathe patrons of the
telegraph will be glad TO learn that General
Marshall Lefierts has accepted the appointment
of Engineer of the consolidated American aud
Western Union lines. General LefTerts' long
experience in the telegraph business of the
country, and his standing as a gentleman Of
science. and as an electrician, render his
connection with the great lines an important
one to the Press and commercial public, and
this is still more STRENGTHENED by his position
as Engineer OF the Atlantic cable