Lincoln, on account of his "frivolous nature " and "buffoonery." On the 21st of May, 1864, the celebrated forged pr )clamation of Joe Howard and the suppression of ihe copies of the World and Journal of Commerce, which contained them, are noticed, with much outcry for the " liberty of the press." The split in the Republican party, threatened by the nomination of Fremont, under the inspiration of Gratz Brown (who afterwards ran with Horace Greeley, in 1872, on the Democratic ticket), is noticed, with unconcealed hopes of a favorable issue for the Democracy.

The cry of " corruption" was thus raised in the same issue of the paper, --

" The stench of official corruption in Washington at this moment is ranker than tliat even arising from tlie tliuneanris of niiburied bodies of horsesand men, that strew tlie suil of Virginia. Tliere may have been

over for the time. When the mob really came, the few men wlio were at the cartridge factory and elsewhere were not regularly organized.

The route of the mob to the village was down the extension of Fourth Avenue, and when they bad made their short march they went to Gould's Hotel, where they consumed a great deal of liijuor. They were dissuaded from fightiug by prominent citizens of the place, among whom the names of Judge Stevens, Judge Pemberton, George (iould and Darius Lyon are mentioned, as the men who really saved Mount Vernon from a bloody riot.

As the rioters came along, they pressed into the service every man they met on the road.