Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Cents Going Out of Date. [ARTICLE]

Cents Going Out of Date.

A Pike’s correspondent of the Boston Journal s-iys: “The smallest coin I lure seen in circulation here is a quarter, though dimes are said to he taken at some counters. Haltdimes, three cent pieces and coppers are myths. In Eastern Kansas, (us through the South and West generally;) the cent is never seen, except at the post offices, or preserved as a curiosity. Three cent pieces there, in most localities, pass for li a I -dimes: but. at one point on l lie Missouri river it was discovered that one of the merchants, a Jew, every time lie visited St. Louis, brought back a large quantity of three cent pieces, realizing upon it a profit ot 66 per cent. The indignant popula’ion, determined not to Le bled upon both goods and currency, put coppers into circulation, and so brought three cent pieces down to their lunest value. In New Mexico eight dimes pass lor a dollar.” A Young Congressman. —The Louisville Journal states that J ,lin Young Brown, me in tie i elect from the Filth District ot Kentucky, will not be qualified bv age to take his seat at the first session of the present Congress. Th Constitution prescribes that no person can be a member of the House of Representatives who is under twenty-live years of age. , . Fort Wayne Republican says, that arrangements for a balloon ascension at that place, by Mr. Barrister, are so tar completed, that the 30th has been fixed as the day for he a seen sion .