Pierre C. Talman. A telegraph operator on this day tried to put an instrument into a store at Hunt's Bridge, near Mount Vernon, but the proprietor was intimidated by a message from sympathizers with the mob, that, if the instrument was not removed, the store would be gutted. On this, the second day, there was a complete reign of terror, though no violence seems to have been committed in the county beyond the acts chronicled above.

On Wednesday evening a meeting was called in the town hall, at Tremont, which was heavily attended by the people of West Farms, Morrisania and the vicinity. This was presided over by Mr. John B. Haskin, and is fully reported in the New York Herald of Friday, till which time the notes of the reporter seem to have been crowded out in the pressure of other news. It may be remarked that the Herald reports of the incidents of the week seem the best to be found, the facts being given fully, without attempt to color them in either direction. The Herald report is here used, --

" Mr. Haskin, in biking tlie cliair, said that :

"They had met in a crisis wliich required the greatest coolness and judgment on the part of tlie people. He hoped that the proceedings would be characterized, hereaftei', as the c*>nduct of honest and lawabiding citizens. That it wiia not their interest to uphold the -Administration in the odious and unconstitutional Conscription .Act (cheers), but there was a way to test it, in the courts. In his opinion, the act of 17!l2, providing for calling out the militia, was fully equal to the present emergency in the history of the Rebelliou. That the men who made the Constitution passed that act, with the express object of giving power to raise the trooiis necessary in emergencies.