Tims it will be seen that, as in the case of the Fort Sumter excitement, a serious action had taken place on Saturday and that the people had all Sunday to think over it. In the first case the result of the thought had been in the direction of patriotism ; this time it was to be different, owing to the difference in the character of the individuals composing the two crowds. That of IStil was raised down-town among men who were, for the most part, well educated and self-supporting, actuated by a sentiment in which nothing personal was contained. No matter what its object or action, the crowd which, in April, 1861, compelled the hanging out of the flag, was "a mob " to all intents and purposes. Its action, however, was marked by no single instance of violence, and it required no act from the persons at whom its anger was leveled beyond the simple " hanging out of the I'nited States fl.Tg."

The mob of July, 1863, was of a very different character, and it began its work in districts high uptown, then chiefly occupied by squatters' shanties, pigs and goats. The men composing it were animated by no sentiment beyond escaping the draft in some manner, they knew not how. Their general ignorance made their action, from the first, one of unreasoning violence, quickly degenerating into murder, arson and rapine of all sorts.

Briefly catalogued, the first day's work was the burning of the jirovost marshal's offices, the destruction of the lists (under the idea that if they were once destroyed the draft could not be enforced), tearing up railroad tracks, cutting of telegraph wires, mobbing of individual soldiers found on the streets, murder of some of them, resistance to the police accompanied by murder, burning of an orphan asylum for colored children, burning and sacking of many j)rivate houses, hanging of negroes wherever they were to be found by the mob, attack on the counting-room of the New York Tribune, rescue of the same by a charge of police under Captain Thome.