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.

The Home Guards, as I learn from one of the surviving members, I first organized on Tuesday afternoon, and elected William M. H. Barker I their captain. They expected an attack in the night, and threw out pickets towards Scott's Bridge, at the foot of Eleventh .\venue, in Mount ' Vernon, the main body remaining at Iloole's shop, in the village. The j pickets remained out all night and came in at daylight on Wednesday morning, when the whole force was dismissed, the danger being judged

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Froji the Riots to the Close of the Wak. -- The suppression of the draft riots in New York City, the capture of Chattanooga, and the general advance of the Armies of the Potomac and the West, in the spring of 1864, had their influence in Westchester County to elfect a change in the conduct of the leading papers. In Yonkers, in particular, this change was judged so necessary that, on the 7th of May, the editor of the Herald, of that town, formally resigned his place, and the Herald passed into the control of a stock company, known as the " Yonkers Democratic Publishing Association," under which the paper (which seems, from the farewell of the editor, to have been in a far from flourishing condition) was carried on to the close of the war.