Benjamin Wood in Congress, and laid on the table bj' Mr. Washburn, of Illinois. The editor asks, " When will the war end?" and says that " another administration must come in before peace is likely to be restored to the country." In August the editor indignantly repudiates the assertion that " the anti-slavery feeling is spreading at the North," but admits the " apostasy " of several Congressman, who are voting with the administration to prosecute the war. It glories in the fact that Mr. Haight, the member from the home district, is still /)pposed to the prosecution of the war. It further glories in the fact that the Democratic State Convention has refused to join the Rei)ublicans in nominating a " Union State Ticket " of both parties, united only in prosecuting the war.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTEE COUNTY.

This refusal is justified by the radical difference on the subject of slavery. August 16th begins the bitter controversy on the suspension of the habeas corpus, when the sheriff of Kings County tried to get out of Fort Lafayette the Baltimore police commissioners, confined there under an order of General Banks, for treasonable action in Maryland. From this time it seems that the Republican papers, recently established in the county, are beginning to "strike back," for the editor is very indignant at being classed with the Yonhers Herald and Highland Democrat as " three penny-whistle, traitor sheets." He indignantly asks, " if all the men opposed to the Mexican War and that of 1812 were traitors ?" and answers :