Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — Valuable Treasures. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Treasures.

Uncle Sam has some very valuable treasures of gold in the National Museum. They are of great worth intrinsically, apart from the historic interest attaching to them. Among these are three massive caskets of solid gold, each as big as a four- pound candy box. They are gifts to General Grant from the cities of London, Ayr and Glasgow, respectively, containing the freedom of those towns. There is a gold card of invitation to a ball, which was sent to the hero of Appomattox by friends in San Francisco. It was enclosed in a silver envelope with the address engraved on the outside and an ordinary two-cent stamp affixed. Also there' is a gold cimeter, sent by the Emperor of Morocco to Thomas Jefferson, as well as many gold-hilted swords with solid gold scabbards. Two of these were given to General Shields by the States of South Carolina and Illinois, as tokens of appreciation for services in the Mexican war. Congress purchased them from the General’s family for SIO,OOO. — [Philadelphia Ledger.