Show A curious industry A very curious industry was established in 1861 in new york city and lasted to the end of the war it was the manufacture of confederate money A regular business was done in this remarkable as it may seem A man mad who has twice been in congress since the war from a northern district made a fortune out of the stuff it could not be told from the genuine the only difference being that the northern ar article bicle was rather better than that made in the south plantations were purchased with it and one of the finest anest places place s in mississippi was bought and paid for in confederate currency that cost the people who used it only about twelve hundred dollars in gold eold |