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Latey, John Lash (editor) : The Illustrated London News. No. 1107. Vol. XXXIX. Saturday, September 7, 1861. AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

(London: George C. Leighton, 1861)

400 x 280 mm; magazine, disbound from volume XXXIX, without wraps (as issued), and contained within a film fronted bag; pp. [231-262]; several woodcuts. Regular light browning; some soiling and fingering throughout; some glue remnants to stitching. News in this number includes much on the Queen's visit to Ireland and on the installation of Lord Palmerston as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, with several illustrations on both subjects, and the progress of the American Civil War, with information up to the 23rd of August, as reported in Canada, and including the declaration of a new state by the western counties of Virginia. There is a plan of the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, and of adjacent Manchester and Springfield (p. 261). Some excerpts: 'THE CONFEDERATE STATES. The new cotton crop, about the destiny of which there is so much uneasiness in Europe, is now being picked. A letter from a well-known South Carolinian in Virginia, dated the 12th ult., says of the condition of the army, "The supplies of clothing are not enough, and the destitution of the soldiery in clothing and food is terrible; many applications are made to us by men in health, who wish to escape sickness, for an extra pair of drawers, socks, or undershirts. It will require every nerve to be strained by you and ourselves here to meet the exigencies of the fall and winter should the war last so long." The Governors of several States have issued proclamations, addressed to the female part of the community, begging them to employ their time in knitting socks for the army, and calling for a subsidy of blankets. The Charleston Courier says that the measles is sweeping through the army, and that over 3000 are ill. Half of the colleges at the South have suspended operations, the students having enlisted for the war. WESTERN VIRGINIA. On the 20th ult. the Wheeling Convention passed an ordinance creating the new State of Kanawha by a vote of 50 to 28. The boundary, as fixed, includes thirty-one counties of the Trans-Allegheny region of Virginia. A provision was incorporated permitting certain adjoining counties to come in, if they desire, by the vote of a majority of the people. The ordinance also provides for the election of delegates to a convention to form a Constitution. On the 24th proxximo the question "For a new State" or "Against a new State" will be submitted to the popular vote. Attorney-General Bates highly disapproves of the policy of dismembering the State of Virginia, because it countenances a policy of revolution and runs counter to the Constitutions of both the State and the nation. The Administration desired that the loyal people of Western Virginia should continue to maintain the fiction that they were the true Government of Virginia, so that the Federal Government might seem to be fighting under the additional sanction of the State Government.'

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