Mills and the Hon. E. G. Sutherland, both of White Plains, from the Second District ; Judge Robert S. Hart, Uriah Hill,

s William S. Tompkins and James M. Baird (afterward ! Register of the county), from the Third District. I The following gentlemen had been selected as al- ! ternates: William Radford, James Parker, P. L. Mc- Clellan, Abraham Hatfield, William L. Bard, Henry E. Bird, Frost Hortou, Columbus W.Seeley, Drs. Benjamin Brandreth and William P. Woodcock, and the Hon. Jacob Odell. The assemblage proved to beoneof the most august in the history of the State. The call and the resolutions passed had in view the urging upon the government of a conciliatory course, the non-enforcement of its authority unless attacked, and the adoption of n)easures of compromise.

Perhaps the effect of this action in New York and of others at the time, was the longer restraining the arm of the government until some overt act against its constituted authority should be committed which would unite the whole people in rebuking secession and disunion. A resolution offered by Judge Hart, of this couaty, and passed by this convention, looking to the possible necessity for further deliberation and action by this body, makes the more clear how, by the precipitancy of the South, these wellmeaning and persistent efforts for conciliation were rendered ineffectual.

We present now, from the several censuses of the State and General Government, a view of the growth of the County in the number of its inhabitants from the beginning of the Colonial period to the year 1880.