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The New table of currency.

--The N. O. Delta, of Wednesday last, has the following humorous article under its local head:

The old table of school boy days, "ten mills make one cent: ten cents one dime; ten dimes one dollar," is played out. A dime or a dollar, in hard spelter, is a sight good for diseased optice, and a five minutes survey of ten dollars in specie would cure the most hopeless case of Asiatic cholera, But we have a new table of currency, and it is published here free of charge, for the benefit of those who choose to cut it out and paste it up for reference:

10 omnibus tickets make half a dollar.

5 Schelke's beer tickets make a man drunk — if invested in "lager"

10 Krost's beer tickets make one city shinplaster.

1 handful of shinplasters (with the pictures worn off) make a man cuss.

10 half dollars make a fool of a poor man.

25 beer tickets (Schelke's or Krost's) make half a cinq

40 beer tickets, 10 omnibus tickets, 1 handful of shinplasters and nary half dollar, make an honest man steal. If they don't, we should like to know what will.

The Daily Dispatch: November 7, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. November 7, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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