The Ottawa Free Trader

A Premium Uniform—Recently Mrs. White of Selma, Alabama, went through the lines to Lexington, Ky, and being a sister of Mrs. Lincoln, was permitted to go on to Washington. On her return several weeks ago, she was allowed to carry nothing back, save a uniform for a very dear friend of hers who was battling in the Southern cause. The uniform arrived in the Confederacy several days since, and on inspection all the buttons were found to be composed of gold coin—two and a half, five, ten and twenty dollar gold pieces, set in the wooden button and covered with Confederate cloth The gold thus brought through is valued at between thirty and forty thousand dollars—all sewed upon a uniform The above is a remarkable instance of woman's ingenuity.