Evening journal., 1898-05-31
THE ISSUE OF CONFEDERATE
MONEY.


It is pleasant Ito hear tina. though
the COnfederacy has been dead these
tlhiIty-three years, some of its nObes. CT
bonds Gre wolrth their face value Those
parJlcuiar issues We're prinNad by a
great engraving and puinting house in
Now York, and wlsre put fUllh whi1a
Montgomery, Ala, was the seat of gov
eminent Of THE Confederacy.
We presume that no great. .G1anitity
of this paper was delivered. Certain
loya.is'.s cf THE Noruh made livery fhct
for the printing company in question
when they found that THE company
had done work for the rebels" and
they caused the printing TO be stopped
Hence Thls rarity and consequent high
price of specimens of the issues in
question.
There was no steel plate printing es-
tabtshment withln THE bounds of the
COrfedeTacy. and the beet our govern
ment could do was to make "a contract
with HOyer & Ludwig, photographic
here, for THE printing of their notes
and bonds This firm long occupied
THE upper flccr of the Ibui,ding at Tire
southwest corner of Broad and Ninth
streets. From There it moved, we
think, to the upper floors of THE Bosher
bui'd'mg which occupied the Let upon
which the Chamber Of Commercs has
since erected it's imposing Ihcme. At
AMY rate, bhere was lithOgra phic es-
tablishment in THAT ibuigdinlg whsn the
war closed
For THE last year or two of The WAR
/ however, most Of THE Confedracy' S
engraving and printing was doEs at
Columbus, S. c. Numbers OF the art
lists. engravers and PRINTERS were
brought from England, running lthe
biOckads OTHERS, however. were citi-
J zens Of Richmond or of Baltimore.
One of THESE Ric'hmondeIs was AT-
thur Dabney, who in May, 1864, hav-
/ ing a furlOugh TO visit his home here
GeN in with THE Richmond Blues, who
4 were returning from a campaign IN
1 South Carolina. The Bluks founid tlr
l enemy occupying the turnpike bebwesI
Petersburg and Richmond and with tht
1 entire regiment were ordered to attack
Dabney was in The Blues ranks as Z
1 volunteer, and was alhe first man kill
ed on that victorious day.
At the close of the war only the frac
tiOnal notes we're being printed hers
For these the Confedlaracy had accumu
lated a la.ge stock Of pink paper, tina
was destined n'sver to be used as de
signed.
This paper and the presses. etc, wer'
all seized and confscated by this Fed
Cral authorities, and the building 81
the corner of Ninth and Main socl
thereafter became newspaper office
First it was occupied by The Replb-'
and afterward by 5he EXAMINER. IN
editors and reporters of both mos
1 Journals for long TIME had dealt Gu
1 to them as copy" paper some ot Vh'
| paper that had been bought for THE 80
l cent Note issue Of the Con1e'deracy. Til.
| prgesworlI on those notes was doneon I
fine double-cylinder press, which lhav
ing come into the possession OF the Ex
/ aminer was disposed of by THAT pape
1 bo the Charleston News and COurheer.
Not only was The work cf pnlndinl
| most of our notes and bonds transfer
4 red from Richmond to Columbia, bu
1 our Treasury Department establirhl1
/ in that city a bureau. where hundred
| of Young wcmen were ymp,oyed /,
signing the names OF THE treasurer AM
register Many Of These women wen
from Richmond and ielmained in Co
1 Mlmbia until the war was over Arr
here it may be remarked that ii wa
the Confederacy that first instituted i
| Richmond the practice of omploy.n
women clerks. Previously. Sc was dh
rarest possible thing to see a girl og
| cupying clerical position. IoiohmOn
Dispatch.