The doings of the men who went from the county to the field, their sufi'erings and losses, will be best told under a later head.'

Home Affaie.s, to the Election of Governor Se\"mour. -- A history of the county during the war, which did not take notice of the bitter political divisions within its limits, would be a farce ; but it is important, in stating the facts that appear, to bear in mind the pre-existing prejudices which had made them possible.

The prime cause of the divisions was the near neighborhood of the city of New York, on which the j county depended for mental and moral aliment, and I whose opinions and passions it reflected. As in the Revolution, Westchester County became a sort of debatable ground, where both parties raged. The reproachful terms of " Whig," " Tory," " Cowboy" and " Skinner" were changed to " Abolitionist," " Copperhead," " Nigger- Worshipper" and " Traitor." Families were divided, churches rent into factions, and actual fighting was only saved the county, during the draft riots of 1863, by the fact that the ] rioters did not get their courage to the fighting point till it was too late to do an\'thing.

The most prominent factor in the feeling, as shown in the comments of the Eastern State Journal, already quoted, was intense dislike of the Republicans, rather than active sympathy with the Secessionists. At the time of Mr. Lincoln's election the majority of the voters of the county honestly believed, with the Eastern State Journal, that all Republicans were designing knaves, who earnestly wished to break up the Union.