Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-01

STATES VINO are more or less wearfed
of party politics than there have been
for sixty years.
THE NEW NICKEL.
It's Possibilities in the Ways OF Mis-
taken Identity.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Overlapping any interest in flooded
Mississippi valley cities, abundant
railroad horrors, consuming caravan
s%aries, collapsing coal mines or the
Phoenix park informers, Is the Int snse
interest felt in the new five. cent
nickel. This is largely because 1t has
been repeatedly declared In kilograms
from Washington that the new nickel,
easily and economically gilded, could
be readily passed for a five dollar
piece. Of course, therefore, every
N wants a few-not necessarily for
fraudulent purposes, but as a mean
Of innocent experimental amuse-
ment. Certain misinformed BON
temporarles, writing with ro-
mantle bravery and impetu.
osity on the sub act of which, by the
very nature OF things, they could
have known the very least, to-wit, the
subject of money at large, have almost
of necessity made, at least, two very
glaring errors. The first of these is
that the treasury department has not
provided for this coast as for the
eastern states a similar system for the
transportation by the government, at
its cost and to any Designated point, of
standard silver dollars. The fact Is
that the same provision was made, Is
now In existence and Is constantly
made use of for such transportation
here. Business men desiring any sum
in silver dollars sent from here to any
point on the coast. from Cape Flattery
to San Diego or '4rom the Sierras to
the sea-" deliver a check for such sum
to Wells, Fargo & Go. Wells, Fargo
& Go. deposit the amount In the sub.
treasury and receive its order on the
mint for the amount, and the mint
forwards to the place mentioned the
sum demanded by the express COM
pany and pays the company's charge.
THE NEW COIN.
The second error is that there Is nc
provision for the receipt here from the
Philadelphia mint by any person re-
quirlng them of the new or old nick.
oil currency without the payment by
tho onol;oank of tba ,ost &c trapunorka
tions. BY treasury regulations Of
February "a, 1881, anyone In any
place In the United States desiring
any Of the small coinege of the United
States may obtain 1t in sums of either
500 or any multiple of twenty by send.
ing to the superintendent of the Phil
adelphia mint a p~ostofice order or 9
check payable to the order of the gu
permit ,ndent for the sum desired,
The coin will be sent him by registered
mail at government expense. One
San Francisco firm hont for and
have received 800 In the new nick
ELF. This is probably the only
receipt of them yet In San Francisco.
The fact having become known, the
firm was beset by brobcrs, who sole
as temporary curiositieB any of the
, coins which they succeeded in obtain
ing from ten csnts up" an tallors "a!
in their advertisements of infinitesi
mally priced trousers. The nickel Il
exactly the circumference and thick
ness of a five dollar piece, and Its OBJ
verse side Is the evact counterpart o
the diverse side of the gold coin, bear
Ing in relief, the head of the Goddess oil
/; Liberty, surrounded with the regula
ton patriotic halo of thirteen stars
J There the resemblance ceases. Tn
i, nickel's edge is smooth and not milled
as it the edge of the five dollar piece
/. and its reverse side has In relief
, large Roman "V" surrounded with
wreath. When this is sufi ,iently
|, gilded, it's edge corrugated, and I
{ carefully deposited or q oounte
"heads up" It's resemblance to a five
dollar piece IL certainly startling.
. GLDED NIoKELs.
One of the tellers of the Bank O
. California has o nickel that has bee
n thus operated upon, and he Is for
time In possession of a fund of anus
ment In ascertsinlng practically tn
number of people who could be de
ceived by 1t. The die with which tn
new nickel is minted was submitted
Secretary Folger's predecessor, bu
: was rejected by him for the reason
now urged against the coin minte
I with 1t. But Mr.. Folgsr deemed tn
o obisc.io O not we'll founded, henC
" the present currency sensation,
New York irp, part of whose bus
ness It Is to GID ANAL coin to be sol
70 for kcepsakes ana other affsctlonatel
T. useless purposes, wrote the departmeI
ID iuquiring ii the gliding and the sale
the new nickel 30 guided would |
a. considered unlawful. Although
}, fact there is no Law sgainI
" any such ingenious industry, sti
a. the department had become suf
ciently appalled, at the twln.like r
" semblance of what it had brougl
20 forth to the high.priced halt-eagl
: that it swiftly wrote back that al
- such work would be considered illeg
y, "of the deepest de-" as the poetic
W ex senator from the eleventh might
this connection say with considerat
@ point. Here in California, whe
even the most enthusiastic loyal
a.. would not consent to an adoption
" the greenback, and where me-
~, g. dolIa. o;aoa. nuo IL