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Bank .Note Eagrapiag. We do not know when we have been more gratlfed than with a visit to the bank note engraving establishment of Messrs. Casiear, Durand S Co. in William street, near Wall street. We had no idea that this art had reached to such perfection. But what will not human ingenuity accomplish when stimulated by a,i incentive sufficiently powerful to draw forth it's resources? Yet there are painful reflections associated with the fact that the mind of man should thus be put to the rack, as 1t were, and enlisted in the service of sordd cupidity. That for the sake of multiplying the insatiate thirst for gain, the noble faculties of the intellect should be perverted and prostituted to the humiliating offices of discovering ingenious artltlces of mechanism to detect and render inopera- tive the subterfuges of depravity. The principle of engraving adopted by the artists alluded to, to prevent the contrivan- ces of fraud and counterfeit, is that which we believe is generally known, of transfer ring the intricate lines first made by the burin to plates of metal, and thence again to rollers, from which last the impression is again transferred, on tho same principle as in cotton printing, to the steel plates, from which the final impression is taken.

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