Down with the Black Republicans," though, among the news items, appears the drilling of a company in White Plains, raised by Captain (afterwards Colonel) Janies J. Chambers, in which complimentary notice is given the men.

The news of the attack on Fort Sumter, and especially that of its surrender, as is well known, produced a great change of public opinion in the city of New Y'ork, in favor of the administration of Mr. Lincoln, and of an ett'ort to put down the Rebellion.

The bombardment of the fort began on Friday, April 12, 1861 ; the place was surrendered by Major Vnderson on Saturday, 13th, after an attack in which one man was wounded -- none killed -- on the side of the United States forces. The news was published in the papers of Sunday, the 14th, with the head-line, in the iVcff York Herald, " Dissolution of the Union," and the j)eople had all Sunday to think over the news, and the comments made thereon by the opponents of the administration. The exasperation of feeling produced l)y the news itself was intensified by the way in which these comments were made, and especially by the call made for a " peace meeting " in New York City. The Herald, in the same issue in which the surrender of the fort and the " dissolution of the Union " was announced, stated that a " preliminary meeting " had been held on Saturday evening, at which steps were taken to call a great mass-meeting, to " force " the administration to surrender, and desist fi-om Mr. Lincoln's expressed intention to " coerce the seceding States." Westchester County was represented at this preliminary meeting by some prominent officials, who held to the extreme Democratic doctrine of " States rights."