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Los,ing's History of the late War.

LOssins's History of the late War.
George W. Childs, Of Philadelphia, has Jus
published the first volume of Benson j Los
Sings = Pictorial History of the Civil War in
America" Ii Is finely printed and thor
uughly illustrated volume ot six hundred anu
eight pages. /, begins with the Presidential
Conventions OF 1860, and ends with the bat
tie Of Bail Run. lt contains four hundred
and six illustrations, insisting OF portraits oi
prominent men, which are, with one or TWO
exceptions, very faithful and characteristic,
aud Ot pictures OF remarkable objects and of
uniforms, arms, equipments, badges, &c, &c,
many Of which are already Things OF the past.
while ali are Illus -TatIve OF the manners and
customs OF the day or the passions of the
hour.
Ii Is not needial TO speak OF Mr.. Losing
industry, Zeal OF sklIi. Ills I" Field Book oi
the RevOiuuOn," which was said Dy Euro
pe.u critic 50 be the most interesting aud Gu
history ever written OF an important
war, established MIR. Losing fame tor tn T
Ouguness of research ind skill IN the US OF
MS material, both with pencil and pen.
For tbe present work Mr. l. JssIng o. gan to
collect his materials the year 1850; and he
has not only gathered, himself, Whatever came
II hIs hands, Out d5 II was taken for granted
that he would write a history OF the war,
friends the army and 10 al parts of 1ne
country have zeaIou7ly helped hIm. More
over, nc has taken pains 70 speak with IL
actors IN all the grear scenes OF the war, anC
JO obtain from them, wherever 1t was possible,
the accounts ut eye-wItnesses and partlcl pants
and Oi the leaders. lis Hl- a.,o nad access 20
sources II OthcIaI information and the d ter
imitation 10 DO nothing hastily, but Wal iOI
the fulIcs ct Information, while Ii has KEEP bis
work back longer than others, has given ham
the advantage not only oi greater correctness
AMI greater mInu5eae=s OF detail, but oi con
siderable mass of INFORM .tlon, documentary
and nsrGatIg-;, never before made public. For
instance, IN treating Of the plot or conspiracy
Ot tue sOCrherU politicians which led 10 the
Wal, The captures Oi papers and documents
made by SaeTmaD end otner generals tn
last year of the war, to which Mr.. Lossln4
mas had access, enables him t. expose, more
thoroughly than has been done before, the
ex-ent aud duration OF this plot against the
Union.
The work Is to BE- completed IN three vol
umes OF about SIX hundred pages each, aud
viii contain al least two thousand IiIustra-
tIona, representing AtLle field, iurts anu field
works memorable places having d connection
with marches and sieges; camps cOrFec5 por
traits OF all prominent actors, loyal and reDsI
arms uniforms and accDutrements; accurAt6
piius OF all the land aod naval battles, from
official records Vessels vi OF every KIND
used by both partI ; headquarters OF officers
prisons ami other bun dIngs made memorable
by the VAT tic-sImIlles Ot important dOcu-
merits and aur1gra aph letters, &c.
We ext iacC below few passages of interest
from Mr. LossIngs pages:
The TREASON IN BUCHANAN CABINET.
Howell COBB, ot Georgia, Buchanans Sec
retary vi the Treasury. seems to have been In
the plot against the Union even before MIR.
Lincoln Was elected DO early as the Ist OF
November. 1860, Tresco;t, the Assistant Sec
retary of SAFE, wrote to the editor of the
Charleston Mercury as follows
" WASHINGTON, November l, 1860
DEAK RHkTT II received your letter this
mornIng- lis my views opinIops OF the
Administration, / can OF course say othing.
As 10 Mr.. GIBBS views, ne is willing that /
should Communicate them to you, in order
that they may AID you IL f0rmins your own
judgment; but you will understand that this
Is coIfideu tIal-thai Is nei her NJ Cobb nor
myself mus be quoted the source of your
intOrma1IOn. | viii not dwell on this, as you
will, On a moment . rejection, see the em Dar-
Tassment which might De produced by any
authorized statement oi hIs Opinions. L viii
only add, by way OF preface, that after the
very tuliess and ireest conversations with him,
leel sure of his earnestness, eingleness OF
purpose and resolution in the whole matter.
-
Tor Resistance that upon the election Of Lin
coin, -orgIa ought to seceds from the Union.
and that ste will do That Georgia and
every other state should, far secession,
act Tor herself, resuming her delega ted pow
ers, and thus put herself IN position to consult
with other sovereign states VINO take the sau1e
ground. Alter the secession Is eff 5cted then
will be the time 10 consult. But be is of
opinion, most strongly, that whatever action
"A ~, IL 10
h OF March, not before. That while the
action determined on should be decisive and
Irrevocaolc. its initial .oint should be the 4
OF March. lie Is opposed TO any southern
conventIt n. merely tor the purpose of consul
tatIon. Ii s,u5hern convention is held, 1t
must be OF delegates empowered TO act, whose
action is at once binding on the states they
represent.
Bat he desires me to impress upon you
his conviction, that any attempt to precipitate
the actual issue upon this administration will
be most Observation-Disclosures to produce
differences of opinion and destroy unauimity.
He thinks it of great Importance that the
cotton crop should go forward at once, and
that the money should be in the n nds OF the
people, that the cry of popular distress shall
not be heard at the outset Of this move.
My own opinion is, that 1t would be well
to have discreet man. one VINO knows the
value of silence, who can listen wisely, pres
ent In Milledgeville, at the meeting OF the
State Legislature, there will be there an
outside gathering of the very ablest men OF
that state.
And the next point, that you should, al
the earliest possible day OF the session of our
own legislature, elect y man as Governor
whose name and chaIa will co1ciiiate as
well give confidence to all the men of the
state 1t We do act. | really think this halt
the battle-a man upon whose temper the state
an rely.