They flattered them artfully with assurances that their opposition to the draft was all right; appealed to their self-respect in the most ingenious way, and the appointment of the committee ended the whole matter. The county was quiet thereafter, the more so that the same day, the return of the troops from Pennsylvania and the report of fierce fighting in the city, in which the mob was getting the worst of it, had a tendency to kill the idea that attempts at violence were to be made with safety.

In other parts of the county the disturbances went no further than aimless tumults, which resulted in no actual bloodshed as far as the facts can be ascertained. Mr. Thomas J. Byrne, the county enrolling officer at White Plains, was fired at on Monday evening as he was driving home, but returned the fire with a revolver and got away safe. His house was visited by a mob on Wednesday evening, after dark ; the enrollment papers burned, the house sacked and his wife and two children forced to take refuge in the house of Mr. Edward Haight, for fear of violence. Mr. Byrne himself was away from home at the time or the consequences might have been more serious. -- New York Herald, summary of Friday. On Wednesday the Hudson River train was stopped at Yonkers, the rails having been torn up between that place and the city, so that the Canadian mail had to be taken to New York on the boat. The citizens of Yonkers formed two