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

I provocation, is .shown by the fact that they spared the rash little drummer-boy, who actually rode into the

j midst of them in uni/orni.

( His horse was struck by a few stones, but they could not have seriously intended to hurt the boy, or they could have done so when they had him in their power, through his own ignorance of the duty of a scout. His name was Joseph H. Porter, and he afterwards enlisted in the Thirteenth New York Cavalry, from New York City, and served to the

I close of the war. His statements are corroborated, as to the behavior of the rioters in Mount Vernon itself, by Mr. Donald Ferguson, of Mount Vernon, Mr. A. B. Kitson, one of the Home Guard, now a resident of Boston, Mass., and others }

iThe above account of the part taken by the draft rioters at i Mount Vernon has been obtained with considerable difficulty, on account of the lapse of time since the events occurred, and the indisposition of most citizens of the' place to speak of what they considered a disgrace to the village, i The main facte -- that a mob was organized near Tuckahoe, with the I object of riot and areon at Mount Vernon ; that the mob actually marched to the villiige ; passed through First (or Front) St., and retired without , doing any damage of consequence ; and that their arrival was signaled ' by a rash little clrummer boy -- seem to be fully established.