The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-01-18
NUMBER 8.
THE CONFEpERATE GOLD.

Richmond Banks covered into the treasury
is now presented by VIM. A. Isaacs & Co.,
of Richmond, who in 1871 purchased tho
claim. The assets of the Jank of Virginia
and the Farmers Bank of Virginia were
sold by order of the United States Court in
1871, and the coin and bullion covered into
the treasury were considered as part of the
assets. The history of this coin and bullion
is quite interesting. On the day Richmond
was evacuated by the Confederate forces
the coin and bullion, amounting to about
.--rs~..v.uiS SeSu 10 Ixuusss 5nsS
vile, S. G. From that place it was trans.
ported in wagons to the town of Washing.
ton, in Georgia.
In May, 1865, the banks obtained from
General Patrick, then in command of tho
United States troops at Richmond, per-
init to bring their property back. Several
OF the officers Of the banks went to Wash
| ington and started back with their treasure.
When. about eighteen miles from Washing
ton, 1T is stated. they were met by rowing
band of ex-Confederate soldiers and relieved
OF S25O,OO0. The remaining 100000
was safely carried to Richmond and deliv-
cred to the banks. OF the stolen $3.50 900
about $4,000 was subsequently, recovered
and taken back to Washington, Ga. In
July the agents of the banks made another
attempt to remove this money, but General
Wild, in charge of the frcedmen's bureau,
objected, and said he would take possession
of it for the benefit of that institution
They then appealed to General Stcadman.
in command of the department of Georgia.
who overruled General Wild. By the ad-
| n /, Al,
to Augusta as a safer place than Washing
ton General Wild, however, sent word to
Secretary Stanton and others about it.
Just as the bank officers were starting from
Augusta, with permit from General Terry
and safe conduct from General Steadman,
a special treasury agent arrived with orders
from MIR. Stanton to transport the coin and
bullion to this city, where it was placed as
a special deposit in the treasury The
banks then made application here, and after
full consideration President johnson, upon
the advice of Attorney General Speed, Or
dered the Secretary of the Treasury to turn
linn L Szfs fedssrer sS delayed x Saipass xisp as
order, and went down to the capital person
ally and procured the passage of a Joint
resolution through both Houses, ordering
treasury. The resolution was referred to no
committee, but passed both Houses the same
day it was introduced. General Spinner
then immediately sent the bullion to tho
mnts to be coined, in order that all trace
OF lis identity might be lost-BaH. ,Sm
EFFETs OF BREATHING Foul AIN
The air VIC breathe, which great English
physician calls gaseous food may become
impure to the degree of being indigestible
to our lungs and utterly unfit for the per-
iormance of functions which are quite as
Important as those of our solid and fluid
victuals. Dull headaches, nausea loss of
appetite and of the sense of smell, and the
sadness produced by the unsatisied hunger
OF oxygen, arc only incidental and second
afy evils; the great principal curse of tho
troSlodytc habit is its influence on the res
piratory organs. In 1853, when Hanover
and other parts of northern Germany were
visited by very malignant kind Of small
pox, the great anatomist Lagcnbeck tried
to discover "the popularity of organic struc-
ture which disposcs one man to catch the
disease while his ncighbor escapes / have
cut up more human bodies than the Old
Man Of the Mountain with all his accom-
plices," he writes from Gottingen in his
semi annual report, "and, speaking only Of
my primary object, | must confess that
am no wiser than before. But though the
mystery Of small pox has eudcd my search,
my labors have not been in vain they have
revealed to me something else tho origin
OF consumption. am sure now Of what L
suspected long ago, viz that pulmonary dis
eases have very little to do with intemper-
ancc or with crOtic cxcesses, and much less
with cold weather, but arc nearly exclusive
ly Gf we except tuberculous tendencies in
hertcd from both parents, | say quite cx-
clusivcly) produced by the breathing of
foul air. The lungs of all persons, minors
included, who had worked for som, years
in close workshops and dusty factories,
showed the germs of the fatal disease, while
confirmed incbratcs, who had passed their
days in open air, had preserved their rospir-
atory organs intact, whatever nroads their
cxccsses had made on the rest of their sys-
tenn. If should so into practice and un-
dcrtakc the cure Of a consumptive, should
begin by driving him into the Deistcr Ca
densely wooded mountain range Of IIano-
vcr) and prevent him from entering house
for year or two."-I0pultr .Scicncc
"Soak" is the only japanese equivalent
Of "baptize," and the japanese Bible con-
scqucntly reads, according to a religious pa