Men who had been waiting, sick at heart, in view of the quiet way in which the government was apparently submitting to destruction, realized that the end of submission had come at last, and that public opinion might be invoked to repel the snicide of a nation. Then came

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the sudden outburst, in the city, of a popular anger, which filled the streets, in five minutes from the first rush into the open air, with a dense crowd of excited men, whose only purpose seemed to be to make every Democratic newspaper in New York " hang out the flag." They were roused at last.

The Two Years' Volunteers. -- When such a state of feeling showed itself in a city which had cast a heavy majority against Mr. Lincoln, it may well be supposed that in Albany, where his friends and partisans were in the ascendant in the Legislature, it would rise still higher.

Such was the case ; and the singular anomaly was presented, in the history of that stirring time, that the President's demand found itself far behind the popular judgment of the needs of the case. The call was for seventy-five thousand militia for three months' service. It arrived on the 15th of April. On the very next day the New York Legislature passed, with an unexampled celerity, and the Governor signed, a law providing -- in addition to the quota assigned to New York State under the call (thirteen thousand two hundred and eighty men) -- for thirty thousand volunteers, to serve for two years. The law authorized the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, comptroller, attorney-general. State engineer iind surveyor, and State treasurer, or a majority of them,' to " accept the services, and to cause to be mustered into the service of the State," the volunteers named, " in addition to the present military organization of the State, and as a part of the militia thereof" It further provided for pay and allowances, the same as then prevailed in the United States service, to the force to be raised, and that the men should be " liable at all times to be turned over to the service of the United States, on the order of the Governor, as a part of the militia of the State, upon the requisition of the President of the United States."