OK, I obviously don't understand something here...
I saw at Clearwallet that I had the ability to "send" my recently acquired XCH to my VIA wallet. ...So, I sent 500 XCH to see what happened.
I guess I expected to see a separate entry in the wallet showing 500 XCH. Instead, the wallet converted the 500 XCH to just .0012 VIAcoin.
I certainly didn't expect this "send" feature to reduce the 5 VIAcoin worth of XCH (5 via = 500 XCH) down to .0012 VIAcoin. Pretty glad I didn't send ALL of my XCH to my wallet. (A 99.98% devaluation is pretty harsh.)
I will translate drak's dev speak for you.
Basically, your Via wallet doesn't know anything about XCH coins. Only the clearing house wallet does. So, if you add a watch to the clearwallet for your Via wallets address it will show your XCH in all their glory.