Confiscation of Georgia property by the U. S. Government in order to Coerce the State to return to allegiance.
--The Atlanta (Ga.) Confederation, of the 16th, contains the following: ‘ On the 6th of April last, Mr. E. W. Holland, President of the Bank of Fulton, sent to the U. S. Mint, at Philadelphia, gold to be coined to the amount of $1,195.96. Mr. H. has long been a patron of the Philadelphia Mint — having sent gold there for coinage for the last thirty years. The following letter has been received in reply to an application for the coin. Our readers will see that the Fulton Bank will never get it, if it can be had only on the terms laid down by the Secretary of the Treasury: ’ Mint of the United States, Philadelphia, June 29, 1861.
Sir:
--Referring to your letter of the 15th inst. to the Treasurer of the Mint.
I have to state that the Secretary of the Treasury, to whom I submitted the question of the payment of the Mint certificate held by the agent of the Adams Express Company, for a deposit for coinage, made by him in behalf of the Fulton Bank of Atlanta, Georgia, directs me to inform you that the same may be paid whenever the authorities of the State of Georgia return to their allegiance to the United States. Sir:
