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

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companies of Home Guards to keep property and life safe, but there was no serious disturbance. The arsenal was guarded day and night.

At Tarrytown a guard was also formed, and procured a cannon to overawe the mob, so that all was peaceful along the Hudson River. On the same day -- Wednesday -- there was very nearly being a serious disturbance in the town of East Chester, at the village of Mount Vernon, which illustrates the character of the ignorant prejudice, that culminated in such excesses as were committed in New York City.

A mob of men, from the quarries at the village of Tuckahoe, actually set out from that place, gathering recruits from the villages near them, armed with sticks, stones and any rude weapon they could lay their hands on, and took up their march for the village of Mount Vernon, with the avowed object of " burning down the houses of all the Kepublicans in the place." These ignorant men were probably excited by the accounts given in the city papers, of the way in which the same vengeance had been meted out to well-known Republicans in the city, one house having been actually burned down " because Horace Greeley once boarded there," as reported by Tribune, Herald and World.