j march into Mount Vernon. They came down the [ White Plains road, w here it runs into Fourth Avenue, I Mount Vernon; threw stones at windows in First Street, at the corner of Fourth Avenue, and in Fourth Avenue itself; shouted, flourished sticks and yelled; I but after marching a little way down First Street, turned back at the bridge over the New Haven track, known as " Scott's Bridge," and went away, dispersing j to their homes.

Thus ended the last actual attempt at violence in the county of Westchester, of which any trace exists. The Mount Vernon affair is mentioned in none of the journals accessible at the time of writing, and the facts have been collected with considerable diiH- culty.

Two of the ringleaders of the mob, who marched at their head in Mount Vernon, were recognized by one of the witnesses, but it is not necessary at this late date to mention their names. One is since dead ; the other was, for several years after the war, a town official and one of the best-natured of men at ordinary times. The whole history of the little fracas shows the state of excitement into which the more ignorant people of the county were worked by the inflammatory appeals of the papers opposed to the war, and how nearly the county was disgraced by bloodshed. Men, who at other times would not have harmed a kitten, were frenzied with imaginary wrongs and ready for any violence, short of actual murder. That they were not ready for that, save under strong